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I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

Except the casino can refuse to pay out for any reason at all

Ah yes, the nuanced thinking of a 5 year old - everything is black and white and everyone who doesn’t agree w me 100% is evil

This has the same energy as someone who says they want to drive a car less because it has seatbelts installed.

Like fine - its a useful tool that might prevent you being scammed which just displays information you can easily ignore- better run away.

steps down with a golden parachute, all the richer.

We need real consequences for greed that is ruining everyone’s lives.

Yeah the quality of my Healthcare is decreasing

I’m not on twitter and never was, but I’m not silly enough to think billionaires don’t shape my world in a million fucking ways with their unilateral decisions. Elon here has a HUGE one recently in deciding to disable starlink during a Ukraine offensive.

Trying to assist his rich buddies with fucking with the union is a lower tier crime but still its fuckery that affects a lot of people.

Then we’ve got other rich asshats selling state secrets for money.

Billionaires are a liability and everyone needs to realize it.

Somewhere an Elon fanboy is explaining why this is peak free speech

really good points. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I find the forum format the most comfy, but I’m the techy one so I think you’re right that others would probably prefer chats

I also got into disc golf over the pandemic. I hope the sport sees a lot of growth. I like that courses don’t require much upkeep or forest clearing

zulip could work I think. Hadn’t heard of it / considered it before now.

What I’m envisioning is smaller communities that aren’t open to everyone like school / family / friends based communities.

After making the above comment I started reading about self hosting a lemmy instance with the idea that I might run one for my relatives and I to share photos, plan vacations, help w homework etc

Yup, incentives at publicly traded companies are way out of whack and its killing us all slowly

hmm, I have watch history off. Is that why it keeps suggesting him so much? Im getting the ‘defaults’?

okay ‘chemically’ vs psychologically is the distinction I was looking for, thanks.

Although if we give science enough time maybe they will arrive at the conclusion that its the same mechanism, ‘psychologically’ addictive just means a dopamine addiction as far as I know. Its still a chemical.

What Im realizing is that they still win even if the product gets worse. They don’t care about the product. They care about the short term gains that come from fucking around with their bottom line expenses and then presenting that to shareholders as value gain.

Modern day capitalism rewards nothing of value.

I thought we had generally agreed that anything can be addictive?

And this link is broken for me. Anyone else?

because conservatives believe everyone thinks like them and are just scared to admit it

just need to preserve this line because its so spot on

as if rich people care about how much they pollute

May the next iteration of the internet include more people journeying to smaller communities that fit them, and less scooping everyone up and exposing them to as much outrage as possible to addict them.

Ideally all social media use goes to near zero