This sounds like a fever dream interpretation of the Halloween episode of Community Season 3, Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps.

Go watch it if you haven’t already, great stuff.

Oops, I blocked all the blue people. I found it massively distracting on my Lemmy client.

Jesus christ that is the most Trump way to say it as well. I was ready to crosspost this until I saw it was already where it belongs :)

As a moderator and admin for countless Discord communities, yeah, I’ve seen some vile shit.

Pretending that it doesn’t have an impact doesn’t help in the long run. Secondary Trauma is a thing. Create a workflow to distance yourself from the content, plan breaks, and please talk to someone (qualified) about it.

https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33166

Judging by the tags, is this originally a Mastodon post? Trying to figure out how all this works

For sure. Giving refunds because services have not been provided is really detrimental for profits! It’s unfair.

It would be piss easy to prove your phone is always listening to you. Stop being obtuse.

I’ve said this elsewhere but it would be piss easy to prove. I think it’s weird that we’re talking about how something can be true because it hasn’t been disproven, but not that something can’t be true because it hasn’t been proven.

Of course a researcher is never sure something is 100% ruled out. That’s part of how academic research works.

My eagerness stems from being tired of anecdotes presented as evidence supporting a weird privacy conspiracy. This takes away from the actual issue at hand, which is your digital footprint and how your data is used.

It was an ad partner’s pitch deck, not much to do with Facebook itself. And it didn’t really explain how it would be listening anyway.

Besides, if they were recording, processing and / or transferring audio, that would mean there’s data usage, battery usage, etc - stuff that’s easy to prove.

The truth is a lot simpler (and scarier) and you will find that in the links I provided.

If they actually prove something, I’d be happy to give them a watch. 40 minutes of some dudebro’s podcast with a phone in his hands doesn’t count

No, they don’t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtfU9AsUmc4

Again, no, they don’t: https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

If you don’t trust a 4 minute YouTube video or an independent (?) study, try a Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/q1u71q/comment/hfhynid/

Epic timing, I want to dive in and see if I can mirror setting up Discord communities in the most painless way possible. This seems to be a great step in the right direction. Imagine a place… where you get the best of both worlds and we can leave Discord behind.

The former first daughter

Is this really a thing? I know about “First Lady” and I think that’s fine, but “first daughter”? That’s kinda whack.

Listen I love NMS for what it has become, but of course they would say that. They know that (the veil of) personal investment in their userbase’s woes is good marketing. What would the answer otherwise be? “fuck your save, start over”?

And if they can’t fix it, they can at least say “we tried”.

I unironically want this

There’s definitely some sketchy stuff going on, but in general, reviews are mostly an opinion. A lover of the original versus a hater of the original will probably not give the same score to this game. It really depends on the reviewers history, preferences, ability to investigate, empathize with other demographics / types of players, patience, endurance, willingness to forgive bad gameplay/graphics/story/music as long as the gameplay/graphics/story/music is good, etc.

Don’t think every nerd has ADHD. or they other way around. But I don’t disagree with you

you know, you’re right. And I thought of making a similar comment. But it doesn’t really matter for the punchline, except us nerds are peeved by the inaccuracy. In Oracle of Seasons, he goes “Oh keeper of the essences! I have awaited your arrival! I give you this!”, so imo that’s close enough

So wait, you want the fascist to get elected so we can genocide harder? Or where else would this be going?