TikTok gathering data and selling it to whoever is a problem but it’s not the problem.

The problem of TikTok and many other social media is that it drains our energy and motivation. It’s like digital weed, creates the feeling that there’s no reason to change things. We can just consume things.

Oh, there goes that neighborhood.

No, actually…

… but seriously, the Internet is so different from real life that no comparisons make sense. Opinions that would have been uttered by the craziest village idiots in a local gas station 30 years ago are now distributed and magnified by the social media machine. In the past, you could see with your eyes, hear with your ears and even smell with your nose which people you really really should not listen to, but in the internet, those people look exactly like you and me.

And it’s all sapping your energy and time, the most precious resources you have.

That’s why blocking is fine, even whole instances if they are shown to be crazy enough.

Also, I would like to point out that the creators of the clients for the first community platforms (usenet) recognized early on the importance of shutting people up (killfiles).

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.

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Warren Buffett maybe? At least I haven’t heard him be much of an asshole.

Gabe Newell is a billionaire and as far as I know awesome.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

Yeah that’s a good one. Especially the first season, but the second ain’t bad either.

Yes and it’s awesome.

• Frieren was awesome but it’s so fresh I’m not absolutely sure it’ll keep being that

• Severance season 1 (follow-up seasons upcoming, not sure if they can keep up with the extremely high quality of S1)

• True Detective season 1

• Madoka was great, thanks to tight storytelling and the best soundtrack I’ve ever heard

• Kino’s Journey – somewhat similar to Frieren but 20 years prior

• Chernobyl (2019)

• Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

• Firefly

• Twin Peaks, especially seasons 1 and 3, but season 2 and the movie might be needed to fully appreciate

Yes, Monopoly the game exactly illustrates the modern world. The goal is to get a monopoly of the proletariat because that’s much better than any alternative for super obvious reasons.

That might’ve been the plan all along.

It’s like a good C++ that is actually able to replace it. There are lots of places where a good C++ is useful. Like everything that needs low latency and low resource usage.

But it’s not an easy language, so (I’m guessing) people who see everyone loving it but are unable to learn it start to suffer some sort of cognitive dissonance. If it’s too difficult for me to learn, that must be its fault, not mine.

PHP is Russian. Used to be huge, caused lots of problems, now slowly dwindling away. Its supporters keep saying how it’s still better than the competition.

The person you replied to said that

All fascist ideologies will use the argument of “Protecting the children”

Did they? Did you just make a reverse strawman fallacy?

Hey don’t blame me. You’re the one who used the A-word in a place filled with OCD nitpickers and in a discussion around CSAM.

Time to close all the fascist schools and put the kids back in factories as Marx intended.

And I’m thinking “hold on, there aren’t 2.7 trillion people here”

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My iPhone is repairable and supported until 2028.

You seem to imply that to use a fairphone means using a phone you don’t like