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  • Frankly, whatever secret sauce it is that makes social media popular is also what drives them to be such shit and be so shit for society. I like Lemmy way more than I like Reddit, and even though I have to go back to Reddit from time to time to fill the needs of my niche interests (which can get no traction where there are not mobs of participants in the greater whole) I never ever look at my interactions there and go "I wish Lemmy was more like this."

    It's a conundrum.

  • Not sure if serious, but there's a million ways to do this, some that require importing thousands of lines of code and none of which are guaranteed to work in all possible circumstances. But here's a simple one.

  • You've got the right idea, that video is spot on. I quit software for "work" in 2010 and moved to a job working for myself (self directed) doing work that I felt mattered (purpose driven) and that was work that required constant self improvement, both mental and physical (mastery). I'm no longer behind a desk, I meet new people every day and I am much happier. I also write more software now than I ever did at "work," because I write software with the express intent of supporting my self-employment endeavors - and not for anybody else.

  • The banana hanger in the background is such an odd but... appropriate addition.

  • Nobody said they are. However, "a great fediverse alternative to Facebook" does not mean, in the minds of most people who might read it: "you could host a website that would serve as a great fediverse alternative to Facebook."

  • our backpack

  • There likely needs to be a very public message sent out to these billionaires along the lines of "stay in your lane... or else." The kind of incontrovertible message that everyone will understand when they see it. But it's probable that they've already got a similar (albeit conflicting) message from some other... billionaires that specialize in that art whose name ends in "estration."

  • July 4, 2012. The day the Higgs Boson was discovered. Everything since has done nothing but get stranger and stranger. I won't even say it's all just gone to shit. It's just to me, everything since has been... increasingly unreal.

  • I have... lots of media available on a local Plex server, several thousand movies and tv shows, continuously growing, never getting smaller - more than you can say for streaming services. I have an OTA DVR for local stations so I can watch sports on the weekend and maybe some PBS content. I pay $0/mo for all of it.

  • I mean, they knew. They named it the Star TAC after all.

  • Translation: I did whatever the fuck I wanted to do and now I've worked out that I was a shithead. It therefore follows that it was these external things that made me a shithead. Nevermind that countless other people have experienced the same things as "essentially harmless fun." I, of course (having been a raging shithead) am in a position to know better.

    The logic is flawless.

  • Try sorting results by 'price low to high' and then watch as it completely ignores you - no - laughs in your fucking face - as it gives you results in whatever goddamn order it so desires.

    It might make it easier to give it up if you can fully realize that Amazon is now 100% in the business of fucking you over.

  • I wish this worked for me. I don't get paranoid or anxious, but it just doesn't relax me at all. I basically feel no actual body effect, except my heart starts racing. Like, for hours. My eyes get like in the picture, but it's not cute, it's painful. I also get ravenously hungry. Like if it wasn't for my racing heart and bleary eyes I couldn't focus on anything else but shoving shit into my mouth. I get confused of course, which - duh - but I can't even focus on enjoying the daze because of all the suffering.

    Guess I'm stuck with booze on the holidays.

  • Why would this be a wake up call for the music industry? This shows they are operating at peak efficiency!

  • You fuck one android...

  • Well, I mean... not much better.