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The tiny percentage of users of these apps doing this will have their outlier data completely ignored. Colossal waste of time and energy.

Not when there is no imminent threat, and there is no such thing as "defending" yourself before any "offense" is attempted. See: https://lemmy.world/comment/13417359

clicking on a weird video and you permanently scar your algorithm.

It's trivial to delete individual videos from your watch history, even moreso if you just saw it. Doing so makes it as if you never clicked on it in the first place.

Yeah, what kind of dumbass strategy is this? Is OP trying to keep losing elections?

LAMF != selfawarewolves

It's not LAMF unless the consequence they're bemoaning is precisely the thing they intended to impose on others, not expecting it to be imposed on themself, too.

It's very obvious said Trump voter wasn't seeking the ACA to be taken away from only certain others (they clearly recognize that it doesn't work that way), so no LAMF.

Republican or Democrat, the biggest spender always wins.

Derp.

They're not employed by me. Wages are between them and their boss. Any more from anywhere else should not be treated as anything other than the optionally-given gift it is.

Tipping culture essentially amounts to legalized wage discrimination.

Both 2024 and 2016 were total punts by the Democratic party, elections that could have easily been won in large margins, but defeat pulled from the jaws of victory in a way that seemingly only they can.

People know if they live in battleground/swing states. And still, the fact is that despite Trump getting FEWER votes than last time (which is an election he LOST, by the way), he WON this time, simply because millions of blue voters in those key states decided they'd rather not vote at ALL, than vote for the Democrats' candidate.

There is no excuse for the results of either of these elections, honestly. It's fucking embarrassing.

If you truly believe that it is naive or ignorant to have a problem with any individual hoarding

Well, here's an example of the ignorance I was referring to: no billionaire is "hoarding" anything. Their net worth comes from the value of their investments, investments into businesses that function within the economy. And investing into a business, and in turn owning a piece of it, is absolutely not "hoarding" that piece. To define it that way would be to define that owning anything equals "hoarding" it.

Ownership and hoarding are not the same thing. The fact that I have something you don't doesn't mean I'm "hoarding" it. That is a ridiculous notion.

so much wealth that they could solve just about any problem where money is the limitation

You have zero perspective on just how costly those problems are, nor the fact that there is almost no major problem that an injection of funds can fix all by itself.

The US government spends more each and every year than the net worth of every US billionaire combined. Over $1 trillion (which is ONE THOUSAND TIMES the amount of wealth that 'qualifies' someone as a billionaire) was spent last year on welfare programs alone.

It's just not as much as you think it is, in the grand scheme of things.

I don’t think we can have a meaningful conversation.

Until you become more familiar with the facts of the matter, I definitely agree.

Billionaires should not exist.

You're going to have to come to grips with the fact that there is always going to be someone with the most wealth. And in an economy that is constantly creating new wealth, the peak will also be constantly growing.

This is an incredibly naive and ignorant sentiment.

The left has TONS for men. You think men thrive under the patriarchy?

The fact that you're using the word "patriarchy" already contradicts the first sentence, lol. Your whole paradigm rests on a foundation of "all the bad stuff is ultimately male-caused". It's your version of original sin, except that ironically there's actually a path to redemption for religion's original sin. Your version can't be redeemed--you'll always see males as the enemy. Your worldview literally requires it.

The left has TONS of one specific thing for men and boys: contempt.