TheFriar
@TheFriar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Like magic 1 hour ago:
Isn’t being able to read it the problem? Like, we read it how it was written, so you showed us we can read by writing something incorrectly.
- Comment on Researchers find high levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in Beethoven's hair 2 days ago:
Eh, I take it more to mean we need to be investing way more lead so we too can be musical geniuses
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
I hope there is a bunch of really sarcastic positive reviews, listing everything they hate about the game as if it’s what they really love about the game.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 week ago:
Funny, so is your mom
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
It’s crazy how wrong it feels typing that, right?
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
Beef Adders are the most dangerous and delicious snakes
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
most women I know are between 25 and 50 years old
Oh, so you only hang out with FEMALES AFTER THEYVE HIT THE WALL AND ARE NO LONGWR VALUABLE AND THEY PROBABLY ARE MANIPULATING YOU WITH THEIR VAGINAS EVEN THOUGH THEIR VAGINAS ARE POINTLESS AFTER 20
(I literally felt gross typing that. Even though the people who genuinely think that way would probably say, like 17, not 20. Yuck.)
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 1 week ago:
That’s why I only have sex surrounded by landmines. And I put one up my ass because I’m not GAY DONT TOUCH MY ASSHOLE
- Comment on To resurrect her reputation 2 weeks ago:
She’s a fucking moron. “It’s gotten to the point where you can’t express support for Jewish people without it being seen as a slight against Palestine.”
What.
Fuck you, you genocide-supporting hack. There’s supporting peace and then there’s supporting Israel. Antisemites will always find a way to shoehorn their hatred into any opportunity they can find. That doesn’t make hating what’s happening antisemitic, you fuck.
- Comment on Whistleblower who accused Boeing supplier of ignoring defects dies 2 weeks ago:
So weapons manufacturers are murdering people they don’t like. Good to know.
- Comment on Anon envies the AVGN's power 2 weeks ago:
What was wrong with the women they cast? Good comedy actors. I get SNL isn’t for everyone, but they all have talents that exceed that show.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
This happened to me! I thought I was buying the newest gen. But then…games I was trying to buy were “not optimized for your console.”
I’m still not sure which one I have. I think I have the ONE S. But the games I’m looking to buy are “optimized for X|S series,” but…don’t work on my console. I’m moving to PlayStation soon.
Also, I have a feeling all that news a few months ago about how they’re gonna stop support for Xbox and may not continue to make games for it or will shut down the console division or whatever cannot have helped sales. I don’t remember the articles exactly. But the impression I was left with was Xbox was on its way out. Why would I buy another if they’re unsure of its future?
- Comment on Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on To Overtake Someone 4 weeks ago:
How did she not slow down when she saw they were about to crash? So stupid. Anything could’ve happened and she was not prepared to react
- Comment on To open our eyes about AIPAC 37 years ago 4 weeks ago:
This does kind of veer off into antisemitism though. The “Jew run media” part is…no good.
Yes, the Israeli lobbying power is too great, yes, they use antisemitism as a cudgel to quash any dissent, yes the country is in lock step with Israel all the way, yes there are laws that seem to infringe on the first amendment that only serve to cover Israel’s actions. These are all problems, but when you throw an antisemitic trope into that list, you taint the entire point.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
I’m talking about the arrangement of how companies have worked since the deregulation 80s. Multiple huge bands have tried to change the monopoly Ticketmaster/livenation hold in the industry. And most bands that aren’t global phenomena are beholden to their record labels, who are beholden to Ticketmaster. Blaming the bands is pretty shitty. They’re about as powerless as we are, honestly.
Also, ISPs famously have divided the country up and all collectively decided to stay out of each other’s territories for the most part—and they are all running on OUR lines that are public. They supply the “last mile,” but we are still paying them to allow us access to our own infrastructure.
I’m just saying, there are so many examples of this. Airlines are the same. Greyhound busses. Trains. Search engines. Google. Credit reporting agencies. Big movie studios. Capitalism is beyond fucked up. Ticketmaster is one small part, and their lobbying power keeps their control. I buy plenty of tickets through smaller distributors like Dice. These are all pretty similar situations. You technically have some choice, but you’re route, your band, your internet, your cell phone carrier, your search engines…a lot of them have pretty much cornered a huge share of the market through power brokering/lobbying/VCs funding them. Look at ride shares. VCs drove the price down by operating at a loss for like a decade+. And now that they took over the market, they have all the power.
Your problem isn’t with the bands trying to make a living. It’s with capitalism.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
In the presence of whom
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
Well, you’re also then leaving the bands you love hung out to dry.
No one is fuckin happy about it. I don’t like record labels and their practices either, but you have to end up supporting them when you support the artists. Capitalism is the problem. And it’s pervasive. The Ticketmaster problem is also present in ISPs and cell phone companies. Did you forego both of those things to make this comment?
- Comment on My phone is not for phone calls 5 weeks ago:
I feel like just responding with a “what’s up?” forces that too, without outwardly saying “…before I answer, why?” Then if they do call and you don’t want to talk, you can ignore it or respond with a rejected call text saying, “can’t talk, what did you need?”
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 5 weeks ago:
Dude I kept up the style LONG after it was no longer the style of the time. I put so many lives in danger driving my Volvo station wagon 75mph flipping through all of my scratched cds in a massive booklet
- Comment on How do you play classic Mortal Kombat? 5 weeks ago:
On my game gear. With 8 AA batteries that will die before I beat 4 opponents
- Comment on Receive push notifications from your rice cooker 5 weeks ago:
Umm…no thank you?
- Comment on Google to delete records from Incognito tracking 5 weeks ago:
Call me a skeptical anti capitalist shitheel anarchist but…I don’t believe there’s any point to this. I guarantee you they already synthesized whatever data they needed after all this time and “deleting” it is fucking meaningless
- Comment on Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen? 5 weeks ago:
Did I just never used to read these article summaries? Have they always been mostly nonsensical random quotes pulled and slapped next to each other without signifying who the speaker is? Every time I read one these days they seem like they make little sense and I need the full article for context.
- Comment on Rizzler 1 month ago:
Probably your beautiful cock, friend
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 1 month ago:
My point remains. So many different outlets and sites have social elements.
- Comment on Anon has a power fantasy 1 month ago:
No, my baby _loooved_heroin.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 1 month ago:
I see what you’re saying, but the term “social media” applying to just a section of a website doesn’t make sense—to me. Call it whatever you want!
I, someone who was the perfect age for every iteration of what I might call “first gen” social media (MySpace/xanga/live journal in middle school, Facebook in the middle/end of my high school career into college, Instagram in college and while I traveled), only see “social media” as personalized connection sites. Sites where you are exactly who you are, connecting with others, saying exactly who they are—basically creating a “social media self.”
THAT is social media to me. But these all pose interesting questions: is a blog social media? During xanga/live journal days, it was considered social media. Are dating sites social media? Is Chatroulette? Is Facebook messenger? If that is, is telegram?
If a site where you anonymously talk to other anonymous people on the internet is social media, I stand by what I said, everything would be “social media” these days. YouTube. Is that social media? It’s all messy, I grant you, but that’s why draw the lines where I do.
Your criteria seems different. But I, as a millennial that grew up with it, I see it as a persona-first platform where people sell themselves. Lemmy is interesting because they’re technically different sites/servers about specific things, linking with other sites/servers, where people discuss the topic of the community. The focus is the object being discussed, not the subject. Social media is subjective, I think that’s where I make the distinction.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 1 month ago:
But the point is, almost every page on the internet has a social aspect now. It’s all about engagement. Is NYT social media? They have arguments in the comment section under every article. Is healthline social media?
- Comment on Anon has a power fantasy 1 month ago:
Big horse killed my baby