I took the money I was going to spend on a TV and bought a 50 inch on facebook market place. Then, I got a last-gen gaming PC. Is it tedious? yes, but I can play video games and watch whatever I want without getting spied on so its a fucking win. *ads from changing the inputs and channels on your own device?" fuck you. I hope this tv lasts the next two decades.
Thanks, scrolling on lunch. Will read when home. I perfer deep reading at the computer over the cell phone.
14.8…BILLION! FOR A WEBSITE WHERE BOTS TALK TO EACH OTHER!
Yeah, I’m tired and got snippy myself. It’s late and I should be asleep. There’s a thread-bare line between keeping a line of dialogue open and being suseptible to brainwashing. It’s hard to self-regulate sometimes.
Sorry about that. The instinct to just bark at someone online is pavlovian. Trained into us by doom scrooling and positive reinforcement from having the behavior upvoted.
I wrote a paper on it actually. More people should try to be aware of how many ways they’re getting happy chemicals from comments and upvotes.
I try to keep social media (in general) framed as a casino.
I try not to lock myself into a community like that. I like data and fact supported by evidence. I tend to filter myself as needed. Federation has a tribalism problem but I haven’t seen it as toxicity present in most of the main spaces. The fringe server like hexbear…sure. I keep my nose there too. They’re funny. The smart phone and social media in general has wrecked our ability to self regulate in public digital spaces. And the algorithm broke the upvote system that used to help show a level of class solidarity between people in different backgrounds. I can’t say how much was intentional and how much we slipped into, but we all need to make an effort to regulate ourselves.
Tribalism is the enemy of progress.
Yep. I try not to do that. Discussion is good when done in good faith. It’s too bad the disinformation age also has AI agents and censorship. Man. It’s just wild. The censorship. We educated ourselves and now we have the next generation growing up in slop but not knowing their in slop. Or worse, knowing but having know way to escape it as all methods of escape are cut off. So many sides of digital enlightenment being attacked. I don’t know if we’ll escape it. Information has become entertainment. Activism is just performance.
People aren’t mad enough.
I hope you’re right though. I hope we find a way. Likely the US is fucked but that doesn’t mean humanity is fucked. Action still has inpact. It’s hard to remember that, but it does.
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I recently blocked a childhood friend on Facebook over this. They shared one of those stupid Biden stickers with a $5 a gallon price Tag.
Their point was, of course, the democrats made it worse than Trump ever did. I don’t know how this happened. How people got so turned around. Arguing with him seemed pointless. Pointing out that Biden didn’t do that. Pointing out that it’s going to get worse. Pointing out that democrats in general are just status quo bitches…
I just blocked him. I can’t fix whatever shit has pickled peoples brains.
Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they’re going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren’t even worth money anymore. They’re out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.
This is just bullshit
I got access to a bunch of pay-walled scholarly papers on Anna’s
I’m already pissy about them constantly trying to have my cc data everytime I make on online purchase. Windows asks, Google asks, ebay ask, and then my browser asks.
The answer is always no.
To ID verification, My discord is a decade old. If you can’t do math well enough to guess that I wasn’t 8 when I made it then that’s a you problem.
My birthday is 01.01.0001
Service members that voted Trump, do you get it yet?
I’m not going to give them the benefit of ‘survival mode.’ If you’re breaking even in a million dollar home you are not the same as someone breaking even in a studio.
My siblings and I have slept in a car. We have slept for weeks in a hotel room. We have been to shelters and we have lived with grandparents while mom got on her feet. We had Christmas in the back seat of a 90s Lunima. While I don’t wish it on anyone, I won’t give someone that has to reduce spending an inch in terms of hardship. Even in this economy 6 figures is manageable if you live frugally.
I suspect part of the lack of outrage is the fact that you don’t have to change your inputs much these days. If you only stream content from a gaming console with apps then you’re never changing the channel or the inputs. and if you ARE changing the channel, they could easily seem like just regular TV ads.
I don’t think the average 20 something or 30 something is channel surfing like they used to in the old days either way. If you’re changing a channel you likely know what you want to watch and what channel it’s on. So, each change of the channel is one or two ads every hour or so. because even with cable you have the cable based TV guide interface.