In the US children get shot and killed at school on a monthly basis and all the government can think to do is age-gate porn and ban books

API pricing is such a shitty obnoxious dogshit practice that is now of course becoming standard because of course it is. internet barely costs money come the fuck on make a quality product

It used to be a respected standard for developers and hosts to be somewhat open and friendly to 3rd party devs, because ultimately they’re customers and they’re helping recruit and retain customers, they should be treated with respect. just because it’s innovative and disruptive to invent the machine gun doesn’t mean it’s good

contacting my representatives is exactly as useful as writing a letter to santa

this is insane. why can’t we vote for them not to be able to do this? isn’t this a democracy?

awful ethics aside what a disgusting waste of processing power. software already barely runs

i try to put in the disc, hit play, and just walk away so i miss all the garbage and the paragraphs warning me about prison time. kinda kills the mood

i remember growing up I’d literally get a buzz off a good thread or from reeling off a good post. it felt so incredible being able to communicate with people across the world and be taken seriously, evaluated on the merits of my words rather than dismissed due to age or race or anything. and most of all, it felt like this special secret between you and other dorks. now everyone has phones in their pocket. going on twitter is like going to mcdonals.

CCTV, or shared on social media

going to lead to a horrifying amount of false positives but i’m sure that’s not really a downside to them

i literally never use cash and i’m uncomfortable around strangers. i do at least think there should be a proper social safety net and no one should be there rather than blaming them directly

fuck why can’t i live in europe. almost every day i have the opposite experience where a well meaning midwest person tries to be friendly and my brain just…stalls and does something like this

this is a great post, thank you.

We may never find out. If mollusks do experience emotions, there’s a chance their emotions are nothing like ours. We explain emotional responses through happiness, fear, anger and all that stuff, but who says other animals feel the same? Perhaps sea creatures have an emotional spectrum comprised of degrencre, humber, nage, and dorcelessness, but we’ll never be able to understand those, let alone recognise them when animals express them.

this is exactly what i mean – isn’t it just so much more interesting and hopeful and meaningful to think about it this way than immediately drawing the line and saying shit like “we cannot just run around and play pretend because it makes us feel cozy.” or “To suggest that a mollusc has an ‘inner life’ is unscientific and goes against our current understanding of living organisms.”

we’ve developed this consensus at 2023 AD after thousands and thousands of years of complex evolution – clearly we are at the zenith! we have no more to learn!

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meh. who am i, a fuckin executive? i don’t care about graphs

frankly, it feels like lemmy has both grown and gotten worse - it attracted enough attention that there are now morons, bootlickers, corporate simps, and dickheads posting now, and upvoting each other’s posts

i absolutely disagree. the way insurance works is you all pay into it and they use that money for claims. it’s literally our money.

do you think they’re above doing that

there wasn’t even a dispenser lol felt like i was going crazy

well good thing they’re a professional company with professional engineers, glad they’re taking the easy route

i bought it because i was at the store and thought ‘damn a bedroom tv would be nice’ and it was black friday. it’s only 32" i hope it fits on the table, and if not i can rig something up, but either way, god fucking dammit these new legs are terrible design because now i have to think about this instead of them just having a damn stand in the center like everyone used to

was sort of what i was thinking

TVs were like this for years… https://www.lg.com/us/business/hospital-tvs/lg-26LD360L

???

posting here is nice cause there’s less competition