TheSaneWriter

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[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They may be gross, but so is having rotten corpses sitting in the open. By getting rid of those corpses they are doing us a solid, so turkey vultures are cool in my book. The only animal that's profoundly not cool is mosquitos, they're a worthless species.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've noticed the most idiotic dogs are also the happiest! The dogs that are unwilling to be more playful or dumb are often nervous or reserved, so I'm sure George is living his best life!

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

They let me use a Hotmail address for my first account, but I made it when I was a kid and when I tried to change my birthday they banned it. My second account was made using that sign in with Google feature.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's extremely common, but there are still a few sites left that won't force you to log in. YouTube is one such example, though of course it has its own problems too.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, I haven't visited Twitter since they added this. I have an account, I just can't be bothered to log in.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks God, very cool!

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, why'd you go and cause all of climate change? Not cool.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

I'm not surprised at all, income data is really useful when doing targeted advertising. This kind of sale should be illegal of course, because our tax data should be sensitive in the same legal or medical data is, but I don't think Meta's going to see any consequences for this.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago

It's because they claim that they don't actually do any deliveries, they just maintain the tech platform that connects independent contractors to delivery jobs. They do this for legal reasons, because if you think about it all jobs technically just connect people to tasks that they complete.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I mean, you're technically right but that also isn't a helpful mentality. No one individual can single-handedly stop climate change by living in a more environmentally conscious way, we have to come together and implement systemic solutions in order for things to change.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thanks humanity, I'm sure that this will cause no long term issues and we can just keep using the same economic and political systems while not worrying about it at all.

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I live in a Capitalist nation. The ultra-wealthy have held disproportionate control over mass media here for as long as it has existed, and ultimately whether Zuckerberg or Musk win their stupid competition over microblogging honestly won't impact me one way or another. Obviously their right-wing beliefs impact me, and their messaging will generally make politics in the U.S. worse, but this is a genuinely a case where they're both bad and I'm not sure who's worse, so why take a side in the Threads vs. Twitter discourse when I use neither? I like Mastadon as an idea and I think it has good features, but microblogging generally does better with more centralization because it puts all of the influencers, celebrities, and politicians in one place, and normies seem to find Mastadon's federation confusing, so it hasn't taken off.

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