modifier
@modifier@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Panama Proxima 5 days ago:
Solves the Florida problem at least.
- Comment on If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation 1 week ago:
One third of me gave up a whole weekend! If that ain’t love I don’t know WHAT is!
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 weeks ago:
Heaven as a persistent idea in modern society is just a cope that rich people feed poor people through religion. It’s a structure for us to accept our miserable earthly existence in anticipation of future wealth so that the rich can enjoy all of the trappings of heaven on earth.
It’s just metaphysical trickle down economics.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 weeks ago:
I’m sad there isn’t a heaven for them to be excluded from.
- Comment on Hmmm who could it possibly be? 2 weeks ago:
Their brown wax seems to be selling well enough. Not sure why they would change it up now.
- Comment on Religion choices 3 weeks ago:
Be aware Brody is usually a pipeline to Billy Bob
- Comment on I am two of them 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I am two of them 4 weeks ago:
Off what?
- Comment on I am two of them 4 weeks ago:
Apollo doesn’t show me post authors in my main feed but sometimes you just know a Stamets post.
- Comment on Durability of children 1 month ago:
Yeah in my experience it is both with both. Tire them out by throwing them around and then snuggle up.
- Comment on Ewwwww 2 months ago:
Just say “you should be funny more”
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
Many props to you. I feel like reddit doesn’t count as social media, but I couldn’t energetically defend that position. They are certainly engaging in social media tech bro behavior, so the distinction probably doesn’t matter at this point, but it felt different than social media before it went to shit. Now, obviously when it “went to shit” is a point in time that is highly relative to the observer, but always sometime after the observer joined, which is an artifact of enshittification.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
yeah and I gobble that shit up like candy.
I am not immune, and I don’t find all algorithms predatory - for example, I log on knowing that steam is selling me a product, but I am not the product. I just said in many ways I am successfully avoiding “the algorithm”, though the scare quotes immediately following a run down of social media networks was meant to indicate a specific type of algorithm that is meant to induce engagement or enragement (both are profitable) and change my behavior because I am the product.
I still have plenty of time for algorithms that serve me up games for that crucial 15% of my library that I bought but haven’t played yet.
One thing at a time Maxxie.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 months ago:
Found a way!
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
Me too but, sadly: paywalled. That’s how they get you.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
That isn’t an accident.
There is this insight that I remember reading about internet scams, that they are poor quality with lots of misspelling by design. According to what I’ve read, this acts as a useful filter: If you’re smart enough to pick up on things like misspellings, we don’t want to waste our time scamming you.
That is now essentially the entire ethos of the modern internet.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
There is a lot of heated debate about this. They’re saying due to COVID, that “early” can mean anything from 0-8 now, which obviously I don’t understand but what can you do? They are saying it.
I must assume from your helpful correction that 2006 is the actual year twitter came out but even then I literally cannot be arsed to look that up on purpose because, I cannot stress this enough, I very much do not care about social media, as per my comment. So if you say 2006, that is what we’re going with.
- Comment on Who needs it? 2 months ago:
Can I just brag for a moment? I feel like I am among my people, and there is a little lesson at the end.
to calibrate: White dude in my 40s, nerdy by nature but non-technical in my education/employment
Twitter - signed up in the early 2000s when it first came out, pretty much stopped using by 2011
Facebook - signed up in the early 2000s when it first got big, pretty much stopped using by 2011, deleted my abandoned account last year
Google +, I’m sure I never signed up, but I had an account that I never used. Google being google negated me ever having to contemplate whether or not I would ever use it
Snapchat - never used
TikTok - never used
Instagram - never used
Are there others? I don’t know.
Reddit was the only “social media” I ever used for a sustained period of time and the only one where I felt part of any sort of community. I left reddit in June of 2023 when I made this account and I’ve never been back.
So, in many ways, I am successfully resisting/avoiding “the algorithm” and I am a good example of high media literacy with good resistance to manipulation by social media.
But, just to emphasize why community itself is so valuable and worthy of exploitation by techbros, here are life changes I’ve made since joining Lemmy, even without any algorithms or dark patterns. Not that Lemmy is strictly causal in all of these, but the relationship is there:
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I am now making my way through TNG, and am generally more Trek-literate
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Linux, natch
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Cancelled all streaming services (honestly most ‘subscription services’) in favor of a NAS running Plex (for now, will probably move to Jellyfin), Calibre, AudioBookshelf, Immich, Joplin, NextCloud, etc, etc, etc
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Now using Steam Deck as my daily driver for gaming
In other words, though I prize my independent thinking and avoidance of Big Cloud, and though I think all of these are positive changes representing a positive influence, I am clearly impressionable. And so are you.
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- Comment on Anon watches Game of Thrones 2 months ago:
I believe you.
- Comment on Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him 2 months ago:
How can you judge the police’s handling of the situation that resulted in the killing of the son as absolutely unjustified based on what was in the article?
To start with, by not judging it in a vacuum.
I commend you for wrestling with the ethics, but be careful what you take for granted. A kid is dead, and a father is likely looking around at how police misconduct has been handled, even before a fascist takeover of our federal government, and concluding that justice is not on offer to him or his kind unless he returns some measure of balance to the scales.
This is wrong, it’s tragic all around, but stuff like this will continue until there is real justice to be had.
- Comment on Just a pic of two besties 2 months ago:
But should we?
- Comment on Just a pic of two besties 2 months ago:
I’m familiar with the move on the left, but the right hand looks like an Obama speech gesture.
- Comment on It'll be worth it 2 months ago:
We could take a walk, and you could kiss me on the veranda.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 months ago:
Based on current performance, none of the previous generations are any kind of hot shit so I say we work with what we got.
- Comment on Space Dreams 2 months ago:
This actually made me tear up. What the fuck is wrong with me?
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 months ago:
“Well I’ve been rolling down this well-worn road…”
- Comment on No Weirdos 3 months ago:
I would pay twice that for the novelty alone. I fucking love tacos.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 3 months ago:
I reject your entire premise!
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 months ago:
He is certainly one of the most likely to die in office. Just on a purely actuarial basis, I should think.
- Comment on Hydro 3 months ago:
I am just the right age for this meme.
