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9point6

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  • Why aren't tall people also wider?

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  • I am both

    I look more like a scaled up person than a conventional tall guy

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  • Well I'd lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we've got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

    Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

    That allows you to also do the "screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know" kind of angle.

    Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

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  • You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

    The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that's basically just Facebook.

    In order to get them to move you'd need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you'll need to get their friends to also move. It's called the network effect and it's why it's incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

    Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they're watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol' "oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago..." And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say "yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I've been using friendica instead for a bit now" or something like that

    Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

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  • How giving up on homeownership could be changing young Americans’ lives

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  • Bezos post telling people to give up on the idea of owning anything

  • Hindu extremists try to shut down Christmas in India. Right-wing vigilante groups disrupt church services and tear down festive decorations across the country

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  • Yeah I was gonna say "I wonder why the Torygraph is suddenly paying attention to events in India..."

  • grease rule

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  • Oh I wish we had a service like that in the UK, at least my council has finally started taking plastic recycling that isn't bottle shaped

  • How much are you willing to inconvenience yourself to save money?

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  • Honestly not much generally, life is for living, I'm privileged enough to be in a decent paid job that affords me that luxury. Though if I'm on a run of not saving for a few months, it's time to find something to dial something back a bit, because that's a sign I'm potentially living unsustainably

    I learned the hard way when I was younger that living financially sustainably should be priority one, every month you live unsustainably is at least a couple of months it'll take to climb out of the hole. And once you're pretty deep things take their toll on your happiness

  • To what extent do you think the prevalence of medical conspiracism in the US is due to the privatization and financialization of healthcare?

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  • Significant enough to talk about

    Desperation forces rational people to act irrational

    If you can tell yourself you don't want something because you believe it's bad for you, when the real issue is you can't afford the treatment, it hurts less emotionally

    Particularly if you happen to be in America where everyone is propagandised into thinking everything bad that happens to them is a personal failure

    Thanks to the internet, conspiracies get wings, and now we have American-originated conspiracies making meaningful impact in Europe

  • UK police arrest Greta Thunberg under Terrorism Act

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  • Sure, and I was responding to the line that weirdly blamed green peace for something they had nothing to do with

  • UK police arrest Greta Thunberg under Terrorism Act

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  • My reaction was to do with your insinuation this has anything to do with green peace. Which it categorically does not

  • UK police arrest Greta Thunberg under Terrorism Act

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  • Green Peace went militant and lost a ton of support.

    What the actual fuck are you on about

    This law came from the Tories silencing protest against genocide to appease their donors

    The London Met are frequently caught being fascists who abuse women

    And now we've got the least left wing labour government of all time happily not doing anything about it

  • grok_irl

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  • Oh man, Google "Anthony Joshua Vs Jake Paul KO"

    And pop that on loop on the biggest screen in your house

  • We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero

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  • I feel sorry for anyone with a brain that's had to sift through only a tenth of that

  • PC and smartphone prices could jump as much as 8% as memory shortages worsen

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  • 8% feels like a pretty low estimate that's probably based on the high end where the margins are high enough they can absorb some of the cost.

    I'm already expecting the cheapest options are probably going to roughly double in price

  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled

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  • Ahhh that makes a bit more sense but a cool bit of trivia at least.

    I know the shield uses the same processor as the switch 1 (or something very similar), so I wondered if there was a chance of an actual native port, but then I guess we'd have also seen a switch native version in that case

  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled

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  • I'm sorry there's an android version of Twilight princess?!

  • This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

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  • Is this the link you intended to post?

  • YSK about Psyllium husk

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  • Oh really? I've been having it the same time as my vitamins, should I space them out then?