counter-point: some people exist who like showing off skin and that’s easier to do if it’s not fucking freezing out there

you’re gonna make a lot of people very upset with your attitude. you’re supposed to be against LLMs because (checks notes) idk something about electricity consumption (which is not actually that big) and water consumption (which is not actually that big). and of course making artists unemployed (which btw they largely already were, and you can still donate to them via patreon, just as you could before, just that now there’s more competition in the field, which is somehow bad, because for some reason art is only good if some human suffered through the process of making it. suffering builds character or sth after all, amiright? /s)

i wouldn’t say “all” but some. i’ve gotten the compose key and some edits to my xkbmap working with it.

Just seeing all those thumbnails with the shocked face and stupid arrows makes me want to scratch my their eyes out.

Where are the random forums, personal blogs and the virtual world that used to exist.

they’re right here actually

the scythe was peak technology, actually

Even the simple process of returning a product to a store is now a lot more frustrating than it used to be, because the person running customer service absolutely refuses to interact with the customer.

i kinda assume that businesses give out the guideline to hesitate when taking back objects, as they lose money that way (lower net revenue).

the good news is that none of this seems to matter at all somehow. people carry on with their lifes as if nothing bad is happening. what the actual fuck.

have you tried turning it off and on again?

i would just pick an answer at random

oh very interesting. i’ve been wanting to get into the details of how federation actually works, and i wanted to figure out why mastodon<->lemmy federation does often not seem to work. but i guess that’s a deep rabbit hole too!

just post them in some science or health community, depending on how close it gets to everyday-people’s lifes

it’s an alternative to natural birth. the lady basically gets cut open by medical professionals to take the baby out. it’s actually routine in many places of america

I think if we had more open tech (and we will) we could build the tools we need to better organize.

You know, when you print a newspaper, you still have to think about what to write …

so, this might be kind of a risky comment but please bear with me

i mean the problem starts within yourself, and i don’t mean that in an “you’re not doing enough” way. the problem starts because we can’t even define what a solution would look like. i believe that as soon as we have a better way of doing things, we will. the problem is just that in today’s america, there is no significant vision for a worthwhile tomorrow. and that’s the actual crisis. if you think that i’m wrong, please do explain how you imagine the future of the country in 40 years.

and i don’t mean “go back to how it was in 2000” or something. that does not work. the crisis is an economic crisis, first and foremost. there’s mass automation, already since the 1970s. more and more jobs are being removed, and if new branches of economy stagnate, then we’ll eventually run out of jobs. that naturally creates a mass unemployment phenomenon. what do you do about that?

when you’ve answered that question, we can think about all the other problems too. :-)

people talk about “safety” vs “privacy”, but privacy is safety in an oppressive regime.