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Zink

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  • How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?

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  • Wilhoit's law:

    "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

    In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • I never left!

    I think I'm just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think "that's a youngster's game."

    Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn't broken!

  • OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation

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  • Can something be enshittified if it never went through the good product and downward trajectory phases?

    OpenAI was enshittibegotten!

  • grindset

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  • I was coming to the comments to make some kind of comment about how the chill vibe of this meme is the reason I brought nature to me and built a pond in my yard and etc...

    But your comment was at the very top. My "keep those damn fish alive" sense kicked in. So my train of thought took a hard turn towards "holy shit is that a mink?? RUN!!!"

    Or replace mink with a similar cute little murder machine species. I haven't dealt with them, fortunately, but I've heard the stories.

  • Belief

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  • Ouch, that line sure as hell would work on me!

    But I'm not just an American who watched his show. I'm local to his area and I've been to the actual studios at WQED multiple times, on top of all the show artifacts I just saw the other day.

  • European lawmakers will study a ban on 'loot boxes' and addictive features in video games

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  • It was probably organized by corporations to slow down EU

    Cries in red white and blue American tears

    The owner class, their paid shills, and their useful idiots had half the population convinced decades ago that all regulation is bad and that government entities literally cannot do anything correctly.

    I started believing some of that stuff when I was young and thought that people in the media argued in good faith. Plus I was more accepting of the cornerstone conservative axiom that money and "progress" are the marks of good people and good societies rather than silly nebulous concepts like "being alive is a positive experience for as many people as possible."

  • Belief

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  • I found myself among some Mister Rogers quotes and artifacts yesterday, of all possible things.

    So just for today I'm gonna push back on this one a little bit. I think the goodness is out there, but unfortunately much of our society is kinda designed to separate us from our humanity and mental peace.

  • Signs like this could be found in the late 1800s/early 1900s, explaining this strange new technology.

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  • I avoid it whenever possible by setting my indoor lights to mimic the natural local light.

    You use your electric lights to help counteract all that electric light exposure you get all day?

    Are you thinking of something more specific, or are you rocking some kind of sweet adjustable gas lamp?

  • Signs like this could be found in the late 1800s/early 1900s, explaining this strange new technology.

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  • That hit me like a much much worse version of the XKCD comic about somebody's workflow and "please add an option to re-enable spacebar heating."

    "I am set in my ways and find that my routine maintains my humours most divinely. Please just re-enable sleepy time CO, sandman soot, and funny fumes."

  • Gen Z men are moving away from MAGA in droves, polls show

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  • It reads to me like it's meant to take down the "the left wing in America is still right wing in most of the civilized world" assumption that's buried within the political alignment graph.

    And I think there's also a potential disconnect where one party could be thinking "american democrats = right wing" while the other is hearing "individual leftists in america = right wing" which world be a lot more likely to elicit a response.

  • something I'm confronted with too, visiting family

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  • Nice. Jellyfin fan here.

    Sometimes it's like I'm living a double life because I'm married to a normie and we're active in the local community where normies of course abound. I got my piracy over here, and I pay for a couple streaming services over there as long as they actually get used, but I still take steps to keep ads away.

    It's wild when my wife will just turn on the radio in the car when her phone isn't connected properly, or throw on some live TV stream (whether pirated or a plan somebody shared with us), and it will play minute after minute of ads that don't bother her.

    On the car radio it usually doesn't take long before some annoying local dealership ad comes on that repeats the same loud annoying crap they did 20 years ago and I have to turn it off.

  • something I'm confronted with too, visiting family

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  • I love it, and now that you've said that I am going to be keeping mental notes to see if I have such an option. Fortunately, buying gasoline is a pretty infrequent thing for me.

    I would also love to know where that habit lands you in the greater population's percentiles when it comes to avoiding advertising. I assume most people reading our comments are already the 1% because it's Lemmy, lol. (my usual is Linux + LibreWolf + ublock origin at both home and work)

  • something I'm confronted with too, visiting family

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  • I think most of the population has simply been conditioned to accept and even expect advertisements to be a normal part of everyday life.

    Maybe it's a situation where ignorance is bliss, to not have ads pull your attention away from what you're doing, and not feel like they are violating your personal space and resources.

    But that's also part of living modern life on auto pilot like The Shareholders prefer. Work, consume, engage with content, repeat!

  • Can't just be me...

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  • Ouch.

    On the plus side, I'm sitting here in middle age after spending several years putting constant daily effort into reverse engineering the instruction manual for this weird AuDHD scratch-and-dent brain I found myself with, and I have a son in elementary school who acts EXACTLY like me.

    It gives me a unique satisfaction and adds a dimension to my relationship with him, being the one person on earth who has any understanding of his day to day issues and preferences. I hope to make it an "it ends with us" situation for all the related mental anguish as well as the loud angry conservative environments my wife and I grew up in.

  • Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Nigeria

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  • Killed 'em with kindness like I have never seen!

    That's an excellent user name as well, for what it's worth.

  • something I'm confronted with too, visiting family

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  • It's ultra-processed!

    Jon Stewart made a point in some video not too long ago about how modern media presents us with a constant drip of ultra-processed speech and how it manipulates and harms our brains for our short-term gratification but the long-term benefit of others who don't give a shit about us. It is much like engineered ultra-processed food in that way.

    Thinking of advertising through that lens, hell that industry has been at the bleeding edge of all kinds of manipulation and shady data gathering for decades! Ultra-processed speech and ultra-processed advertising are basically a package deal!

  • ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems

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  • Yep! The most expensive equipment they might need is a magic smoke compressor, if that.

  • That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

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  • In near future Black Mirror USA I could see that being a real diagnosis but one of the checkboxes is that it only applies to rich patients paying cash for VIP boutique healthcare.

    Anybody who needs to use health insurance or receive any kind of government benefits would never be exempted from any of the tried and true methods of control.

  • With how the republican party works in 10 years their presidential candidate will be an open pedophile and they will say they defeated wokeness.

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  • The Democrats really suck. Our FPTP 2-party system is really some bullshit. However, it is really difficult for me to buy into the validity of the slippery slope you are describing when the people around me keep voting for the option that is #1 worst by a whole fucking lot.

    And the further that #1 worst keeps surging and lapping #2 on the evil-dex, the further their psycho supporters seem to like it! We'll see if the pedo shit can finally reverse that.

    This would be a different conversation if we'd elected democrats over and over to avoid republicans and somehow still got dragged to the right. At the end of the Obama administration, for instance, there was the concern of the bait and switch.

    But no. He gets impeached a couple times for betraying the US in different ways after being openly terrible for years, and dozens of millions of people still turn out to vote for him. He tries some light coup and all the daily otherwise career ending craziness, and they turn out to vote for him AGAIN in HIGHER numbers.

    The fact that the democrats are the good cop capitalists to the republicans' bad cop capitalists is definitely a problem, yes. Any of us who get to vote in the US should be keenly aware of that. And there are multiple things we can try to fix in parallel. But sometimes you have to fix things sequentially too.