MachineFab812
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- Comment on Anon wants robux 1 week ago:
My youngest son has a story just like this, but he would have been a toddler without anything to play Roblox on in that time-frame.
Damn, I wish he liked anything like beetles or stamps or whatever, even half as much as he likes the most disappointing sorts of video games, and no, I don’t mean trash games, I mean abandonware of the RFID/janky-peripherals variety.
- Comment on Anon daydreams 1 week ago:
Tohru deserves better than this. I think. I’m only on Episode 6.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for setting me straight on this.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 weeks ago:
Because I regularly reference, purge ads/trash-vids from, and occassionally search my watch history anyways. Also, selecting which watchlist to save to is an additional step of going through menus when I can just open a video and then hit the Back button. Although that’s kind-of an after-the-fact justification, as I don’t really recall how or when I fell into this habit.
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 2 weeks ago:
I mean, trans-lesbianism is right there … OP could be doing all of this, with “just good friends”!!
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, I use my watch-history as a bit of a que. Watch a second of a few different vids that catch my interest before the feed refreshes and buries them. Once I’ve saved a dozen like so, go back and watch them, or download for offline viewing.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I’m not seeing the option in the native app either. Gross.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
Get this straight: Private Messaging and e-mail are not Social Media in the context of this law, and neither are phone calls or texts. Give me an hour, and I can download enough pages of whatever I like to keep me busy for a week.
Seeking validation from strangers in real-time is bad for your mental health. Yes, even for the home-bound. That said, your argument would probably win-out in court, so there would have to be exceptions. “Adult” is still too broad of an exception on its own IMHO.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
The internet was better before ignorant takes like yours showed up. Facebook, tik-tok, and the like invented nothing that wasn’t done better previously. Are you really so addicted to all this Web 2.0 non-sense? Of course you are. Get help.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
What in god’s green earth about limitting social media usage on a daily time-us basis implies anything about targetting marginalized groups? Things that are detrimental to mental health, like excessive social media consumption, aren’t magically less-so for marginalized groups.
If anything, such media is a distraction and pacifier of sorts.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
If you read what I wrote, open source social media is also easier to consume and interact with in the manner I described. Usenet, e-mail, IRC, forums, even private messaging and group-chats are all both healthier to interact with and less demanding of our time than “services” that bury the content we want to see like facebook and the rest.
Every single on is still around and in use by the same people who built the internet and others who get more done for themselves and open-source projects than you or I or most of us on Lemmy and the more modern de-federated schemes.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
Even if they somehow limit time spent on forums, mastodon, whatever, content can be saved for later consumption, and responses composed for later posting. Instant access to the latest tweet or tiktok isn’t helping anyone but advertisers.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
Limitting time is nothing like limitting speech. If I want to write a lengthy post, I can write it off-line, copy-and-paste without wasting quota time or whatever. Same goes for reading lengthy content; Copy/Paste(or print2pdf) and save for later.
Missing the latest short-form content garbage would be a boon for those who otherwise insist on wasting their time, mental and emotional energy like so.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
Might as well call peak usage rates for electricity “fashy shit”. Excessive social media usage helps no-one.
- Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law 2 weeks ago:
Worst thing about this is it stops at “non-adults”, and puts the burden in individual services(which would be un-workable, yes) rather than ISPs(which have the means). God forbid we do anything to help society as a whole.
- Comment on Internet extremists want to make all AI chatbots as hateful as Grok just was 2 weeks ago:
Up-shot: The sooner it comes for minorities, the sooner it comes for all of us worthless fleshbags.
- Comment on UAnon has a completely relatable reaction to his country's invasion. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with your assessment per se, but ethics-wise I’m liking Chad, or anywhere else that actively takes in large numbers of immigrants/refugees.
- Comment on UAnon has a completely relatable reaction to his country's invasion. 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t come here to criticize most countries like so, but when you hit the nail on the head like that …
- Comment on UAnon has a completely relatable reaction to his country's invasion. 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Theirs remains a country worth defending, from a legitimate, external threat, and the bulk of the potential victims were both allowed to leave and given reasonable options for places to flee to at the outset.
Personally, I’m more worried about most of my friends and family being coerced/tricked to the wrong side than being victimized - merely being deported as a white person would be a win in this sick, sad, world. The contrast was literally the point of my comment.
- Comment on UAnon has a completely relatable reaction to his country's invasion. 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this is more relatable than the reasons my family insists on staying on the US. All an “decent” people’s presence does is “legitimize” the regime and lull the victims and future conscripts into a false sense of security and hope, at this point.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 month ago:
Seriously, sumone, en-lighten us, if its movie related.
- Comment on Anon dreams of marriage 1 month ago:
The powerful Magic Stone was the proposal, iirc. She saw the goblet as doubling-down.
- Comment on Anon dreams of marriage 1 month ago:
This a daydream sequence from Headhunted to Another World or … ?
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 1 month ago:
Ten years and counting for me and VPN Unlimited so far. Unsustainable? Capitalism is un-sustainable. Cheaper than paying monthly or yearly? Absolutely.
Personally, I use the VPN to do my searches, grab magnet links, and get the torrent started, then I disconnect the VPN and switch to Cell data, as that ISP has never sent me a nasty-gram about pirating.
Reasonably sure Nord is still turning a profit on my sub.
- Comment on Anon tries to save money 1 month ago:
Lifetime VPN sub. Makes it a one-time purchase.
- Comment on Anon is a fighter 2 months ago:
My money’s on the winner of this fight. As in, I would pay to see this fight, provided the money went the winner. That gorilla’s gonna bling up its habitat yo
- Comment on The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy” 3 months ago:
No it fucken doesn’t.
- Comment on Anon is surprisingly allowed within 50ft of a minor 3 months ago:
Honestly sounds like a werewolf story. She’s the pack leader and acting as bait for a trap.
- Comment on Anon is staying at a hotel 3 months ago:
Still better to know that and deal with it up-front than when your lady-of-the-night is already in the lobby.
- Comment on Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now 3 months ago:
Nicest thing I’ve seen/heard/thought about facebook in a hot minute.