snownyte

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[–] snownyte@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

From what I understand and not trying to read any of the answers to this.

For the large part of the picture, it's about marketing. To market specifically to you that is based on where you've been, what you've bought before and what your interests are. So they know that you don't want to buy or subscribe into things you've no interest in at any capacity. So why not try to goad you into it by using things you're into because of the data collected that's filtered from your interests?

That's probably the only not-so worrisome thing I can think of. It's just a giant distraction and tool to get you to spend and subscribe.

A lot of people don't like to be tracked and having data collected because, we feel it isn't anyone's business in what we do. So, why should it be the business of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, Firefox .etc to be concerned in what we do?

Aside from marketing, it'd be a lot easier for all of them to pinpoint exactly what we do to feed data to authorities for easier prosecution. Which depends on how you look at it, I just think that if you don't want to attract the attention of authorities who've been given a tip on you without you knowing, don't be a criminal.

All in all really and I'm starting to derail my own explanation, it's a big wiry issue with privacy.

To put it plainly, it's largely for marketing and we really feel it isn't the business of corporations to know what we're doing, if we're knowingly not breaking any laws. Also now that I've thought of it, harvesting so much data increases risk of security breaches that hackers can take. Which means it's going from bad hands to worse off hands because now hackers can just sell our data around in the black market and we wouldn't even know it.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

But would it have been enough? I feel like he’d hate the world we built.

He definitely would have. He had a very strong distaste for the system and for him to see the world become this manufactured when he tried being a part of the tide that worked against it. I think he'd honestly be finding a new reason to kill himself over.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Device.

This was an industrial band project that only released one album in 2013. This was made during the time Disturbed was on hiatus and David Draiman got to be a part of something new. Would've been nice to have seen what a second album could've been.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Point still stands though.

If nobody finds your shit funny, they don't find it funny. It isn't because they're a "snowflake" or that they "don't get it". Not everywhere and everyone needs to hear your shitty jokes because you feel you need to "lighten up" the world.

People just want to amuse themselves and blanket it as if it's supposed to be some positive contribution. Who're you trying to fool?

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup, he's already been working around the clock to make an even more scummier administration. I think he even wanted Vince McMahon involved too. Just more cushy jobs for people he finds friend in, through his fractured world perspective.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Calling it, they won't do shit to him. If they do, I might have some faith.

But after two impeachments, he practically gets away with nearly everything.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don't really know where you're getting the idea that nobody can joke anymore on serious matters. I see it all of the time, go look at Reddit for example and browse r/news. There's always at least 50 people making punchline jokes on otherwise serious matters.

The problem is when people expect their jokes to fly in the faces of communities that explicitly state that they don't want that crap around. Then when the people who joke around are offended, in come cries about freedom of this and freedom of that. Dude, it's one community, cut it out and go elsewhere. Not everyone should have to tolerate your low-hanging fruit kind of humor.

And a lot of the time too, is that people absolutely DO NOT know when something is stepping over the line. It's the fault of the individual for not making the line apparent, but when they do, there's a point where joking is not warranted.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

God damn, seems like everyone tried so hard to be AVGN all of a sudden.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I would've loved to have a paypal alternative if so many damn services would adopt them.

And no I'm not talking Google Pay or Apple Pay. They're just as bad.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

If PayPal is doing it, so fucking will they too.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 19 points 5 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised, because it's happened before, that the Internet Archive has been attacked legally by copyright firms for what is hosted there. Like music, games and books in particular.

So it's likely that it isn't suits attacking Internet Archive for this reason, it's presumably a mixed batch of copyright trolls and spiteful shitty human beings with too much time on their hands.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Someone is really trying to recreate the Burning of Alexandria. Can we be certain that Internet Archive and Wikipedia (as awful of a shit place that can be) are going to stand the test of time at this rate?

 

Trump is claiming broad immunity for actions he took in office, including efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results for which he faces prosecution.

 
 

An attorney for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, had urged the eight-person jury to “send a message” with its verdict.

 

Teenagers' mathematics and reading skills are in an unprecedented decline across dozens of countries and COVID school closures are only partly to be blamed, the OECD said on Tuesday in its latest survey of global learning standards.

 

Best Buy will reportedly stop selling physical DVDs in-store and online beginning in 2024, according to CNBC and other media outlets.

 
 

I hate it when people on social media, dare ask questions when you know they're fishing for personal information/ammo on people to exploit. Like asking for people's dark secrets. Why do you want to know? Is there a fetish to this? Nobody is going to be dead serious, they're just going to give softball answers and why should they trust you, random stranger online?

And I hate money-based questions. Unless I am given a large sum of money or if any of the money scenarios where I am given money comes true, I'm not going to answer these questions because I'm tired of fantasizing about something that will never likely happen in my life. You ask what I'd do with $10,000? Give it to me and I'll show you. Otherwise, don't ask.

 

In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like something.

And now they've been trickling in numbers, these incredibly toxic users that behave as they would on Reddit. The reckless shitposting, derailing open civil discussions with unfunny and irrelevant jokes. The downvote brigading and banding together to get you banned. This exact thing has happened to me on Lemmy, that I had to leave because the toxicity was gradually building.

We should reject Reddit toxicity in general, tell them they don't have a place here or anywhere. They know where they can dump their shit in, but they feel that because they've made mountains of it, that they've got to come over to other places and do it all over again.

I left Reddit because the toxicity levels have gotten unbearable. I really am yearning for a place where I can talk in and not be antagonized. I'm sure others are too.

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