TangledHyphae

@TangledHyphae@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Strangely enough, things tend to work out better without having expectations and letting the chips fall where they may. YMMV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I went out on a first date with this woman recently and we just split the bill 50/50. It was a refreshing change of scenery. I think that should be standard so that nobody has any expectations on either side. As time goes on you can figure out how to allocate cash flow but first dates should never be 100% on one gender, unless one of them are rich (in my opinion at least.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The older you get, the more you value your time and energy (mental, emotional, physical, etc.) At least it seems that way for me and people in my age range. I did actually meet a woman recently and actually enjoy every minute spent together so I’m gonna take that fork in the road and see where it leads. Another part of aging, I no longer have high hopes so I just go with the flow. If it works out, great, if not, totally fine, life goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You an elder millennial by chance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, seems like these are all from the 70s/80s/90s era basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know that term existed, it’s the one that told me about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It only summarized the behaviors of the mods/admins, not the reddit userbase at large. There’s probably Venn diagram between the two but not exactly 100% the same. And things like shadowbanning (listed in the response) are not actions of the users, or political ideologies of the users either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave it a list of actions and behaviors by admins/mods on reddit, and asked it what the political ideologies would be considered. That’s what ChatGPT spat out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad part is I find a lot of helpful random material (information about cellphone providers, accounts, all sorts of random edge cases in different domains) and still want to look at the threads, and find a lot of help that way. So I just switch to a VM that’s on a VPN just to check those. Sucks but some information doesn’t exist anywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know a site is good when its mascot makes you feel intense uncontrollable rage deep in your soul.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The sad part is I still have a lot of random subs I enjoy, fringe stuff like r/OnionLovers and r/slowcooking, r/frugal… and subs like r/frugal immediately delete any comment that brings up politics in any way, so there are a few decent subs left with non-batshit insane mods but they are becoming extremely rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Observing reddit from a distance (anon accounts, anon email address, anon VPN) it’s very clear that it’s like watching the Titanic sink or the fall of Rome at this point. It’s become a complete cesspool over the last ~5 years but progressively worse at an increasing rate each year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth I use PIA and have never been shadowbanned or banned using any endpoint in any country on new accounts there. I use throwaway non-gmail email accounts to segment each account so they can’t track between them, all on different VPN endpoints per account. It’s sad that this is what it takes to prevent them from stalking me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hilarious that you made me curious enough to look up RDDT’s stock price today, down 9% today alone lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the modern web⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on my 5th permban now I think. Some of them were because I logged in with an alt on the same IP by mistake so they flagged it and banned those too. I didn’t violate any ToS, they just didn’t agree because (I asked ChatGPT to summarize the behavior of reddit mods/admins):

  Woke Authoritarianism

  This refers to the enforcement of progressive or “woke” ideology through authoritarian means, such as:

  • Censorship of dissenting views
  • Cancel culture (public shaming and professional consequences for opposing opinions)
  • De-platforming (banning people from social media or public forums)
  • Forced ideological conformity (e.g., requiring adherence to specific beliefs in workplaces or academia)

  Thought Policing

  This term comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and refers to the control and regulation of people’s thoughts, often through fear, social pressure, or punishment for wrongthink. In the modern context, it can include:

  • Policing language to ensure ideological purity
  • Monitoring people’s statements (even from the past) to punish deviation
  • Enforcing conformity through intimidation, cancelation, or ostracization

  And a followup response:

  Authoritarian Leftism – When left-wing ideology is enforced through censorship, suppression of dissent, and ideological purity tests.

  Neoprogressivism / Woke Authoritarianism – Some critics use these terms to describe far-left movements that use de-platforming, cancel culture, and corporate-enforced speech restrictions to control discourse.

  Cultural Marxism (controversial term) – Some argue that elements of Marxist thought, particularly in cultural institutions, are used to enforce ideological dominance. However, this term is often misused or overgeneralized.

  Techno-Authoritarianism – When social media platforms and tech companies enforce ideological conformity through bans, shadowbanning, and algorithmic control.

  Soft Totalitarianism (coined by Rod Dreher) – Unlike classic totalitarianism (which uses force and violence), this is a modern, decentralized form of control through social shaming, cancel culture, and corporate censorship.

  ChatGPT seems to have hit the nail on the head, I didn’t even know “Woke Authoritarianism” was an actual term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Jesus did literally walk into temples and flip tables over and kick people out for bad behavior, so this isn’t far off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never had anything softcore-adjacent even, mine are filled with magicians and obscure shorts that are not sexual in any way, at any point in history. They seem highly targeted toward my viewing history at any given moment in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just 2 people.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *Anecdote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, it’s been so long since I tried any nintendo emu. I just bought a new wireless gamepad, I should really try yuzu soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree generally. Here lately I’ve taken the plunge and compiled everything from source (Linux). While tricky on some, (dependencies mostly), the outcome is unusually stable. More stable than expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that on Dolphin?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That all looks absolutely horrific, but clearly they have some customers somehow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true, because smart TVs have shitty processors, and consoles do not. Consoles are made for media, smart TVs have shitty embedded software on slow hardware, comparative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  All my smart TVs have existed without wifi or connections to the net themselves, only the devices that connect (Nintendo, Playstation, Roku, etc) . It’s easy from that perspective, all depends on what you want and need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD**⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never had any smart TV complain (yet) that I have never once connected wifi. I am guessing there would be lawsuits, that a physical device requiring internet and requiring you to connect it just to function, would get sued in a class action of some kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the weird thing about that:

  Sargento Colby Jack at Walmart, 34.7 cents/ounce

  Kraft Singles at 31.1 cents/ounce

  That’s an egregious example because you can find better sliced cheese (store brand) for much cheaper than Sargento even, but still disturbing to see how expensive those singles really are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh lame, that must be fairly recent (last 3 years?) I only used them once and switched to TaxAct right after that experience, which I assume is even worse as smartphone-only. How do you even import P&L transaction sheets in a phone? That seems insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, I have pay for the paid-versions of them because of the 3 different types of retirement funds, w2, 1099*, HSA, stocks, futures, and crypto across multiple exchanges. It is a nightmare to manage in any software ultimately, no matter how much I pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tax time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you looked into TaxAct or CreditKarma? Both seemed pretty good (compared to turbotax) when I tested them out.