Wasn’t there just an article about how Mozilla is claiming ublock origin shouldn’t be supported anymore and another one claiming they’re starting a focus on ads?

I feel like we’re entering a really shitty time for the Internet… Tie that in with Microsucks Recall feature and computing in general is going to suck…

I don’t want to go touch grass!!

Oh you mean one of the only two reasons I use this fucking thing? Ad blocking and privacy?

You’re shitting on both. That’s like… Idk, Craftsman making tools out of plastic and removing the lifetime warranty… Wtf do I even need you for then?

I’ve been learning a lot of things about him on Lemmy recently that seem to be confirming a suspicion I had when watching a star talk episode.

He had a guest that was just this tiny guy sitting close enough that Tyson was able to touch him, and boy did he do a lot of touching… Felt really odd and I always wondered if he was actually not so cool and yet another one of “those guys.”

Obviously this post isn’t all that bad, but definitely a strange thing to want to repeat so many times lol

THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS BOUGHT A RAINBOW!?

I’m impressed.

THC believe it or not, straight to panic attack.

It actually is a trigger. CBD on the other hand… That’s my godsend. It will squash my panic attacks almost always.

I used to be able to smoke “regular” weed as long as I made a blend of CBD and THC, but within the last month that’s gone now… Could be 90% CBD and a sprinkle of THC and I’ll still feel like I’m having a heart attack…

Anxiety sucks. :(

I’m going to go with “the like isn’t reciprocated.” Lol

Nintendo:

MOAR! MOAR! MOOOAAARRR! IT IS NEVER ENOUGH!

I have the luxury of renting someone else’s garage, living in the upper portion of it and paying their entire mortgage for them…

I was just coming to say that! I get the “best” of both worlds, Excel sheets to track production while I sit in this shitty factory and breathe God only knows what!

Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!

Very cool stuff. Between this and fucking Microsuck Recall it looks like I won’t be using the Internet at all in the near future…

Very fun.

Fucking Corpo pricks.

Is it possible to be a traitor when you’re a capitalist shitbag?

They only have loyalty to themselves and their bank account. Quite literally the world could burn (due to their business) for all they care.

if it was opt-in, no one would do it!

Which should be telling them that not only does no one want it, but maybe just maybe we already paid for your fucking TV. Either raise the price or stop being so fucking goddamn greedy to the point that you force us to make the government force you to stop.

Of course the bought and paid for US government won’t, but hopefully EU governments will.

Unfortunately what I really think is happening/happened with “woke hate” is manipulation for political gain as you mentioned with propaganda.

These people couldn’t care less before, other than the religious zealots that would crusade against anything “gay.” The political right (I really believe this started in earnest in the US) found a pressure point to use that puts them in direct opposition to what their political adversary aims to achieve (acceptance of all people for who they are). As it stands in the US the right operates almost entirely based off of “whatever the left aims for, make it appear evil. Always oppose all that they do.” as opposed to having specific goals of their own other than “shower the wealthy with benefits, remove all barriers to retaining the entirety of profits.”

Steve Bannon recently aimed their manipulation at what he described as “rootless white men” through the lense of gaming and societys affect on games/movies. Ever since that started there’s been an “explosion” of “this game woke?” discussions in Steam discussion fourms and in regard to movies. Before this manipulation these people just wouldn’t care and if anything you’d just see the odd person here or there complain about 2 guys kissing in a specific scene or something. They are made to be even more angry now because they’re made to believe it’s an affront to them and an attempt to manipulate them and society… Which is “funny” because they are being manipulated, just not by gaming/movie media.

It’s not just that, it’s the AI bullshit they’re adding too that will absolutely have forced data scraping eventually since we’re “using their product.” They’ll have some bullshit excuse like “we don’t take your browsing data, just the data of any interaction with our AI product for training purposes.”

This is actually perfect in that enshittification is exactly like death: it comes for everyone or in the context of technology, everything.

There is no popular product or service that doesn’t eventually get the enshittification treatment to squeeze more blood from the stone.

Opt-out is crepuscular nonsense!

I’m not totally delusional! I know she’s a hallucination, I mean how else would I be with someone who loves me?

Could be, but in my experience that phrase is never followed by something good. :/

Yeah, it’s short for “miss me with that independent shit, pay up!”