Thank you for this; best thing I’ve seen all week.

FB is ostly AI, and right wing content.

Sure but it wasn’t always; it’s been nearly a decade (if not that) since I’ve stopped using it. A lot has changed.

Maybe I read it wrong but (to me) the meme makes it sound like Google’s taking the local data (that’s supposed to be forgotten, once you close the browser window) and sending it over to Google for them to, I dunno, run analysis on.

If they’re saying that Google sites (like YouTube, Google search, etc.) were collecting data when I visit them (as, unfortunately, sites do), then I’d say, “Well, duh;” but this makes it seem like they were exporting your local data off to their cloud which, like, they could obviously, technically do but wouldn’t very much be in the spirit of how Incognito mode was portrayed.

I realized sometime in the last year that Lemmy provided me all the usual community groups I needed and actually content I wanted to read (I never really used Reddit to just browse, outside of the sub.s I’d joined).

And I’ve been using Mastodon since, like 2020 or something (never was a fan of Twitter, though).

Also stopped using Facebook though that’s probably more due to burnout and falling out of touch with a lot of the people in my life. Facebook really did make navigating socializing and keeping in touch both easier and less energy intensive and it is, for me, a good example of how social media can be good rather than this nebulous Garbage™ that people seem to emotionally brand such a large classification as. Shame about it being owned by one of the worst human beings (but it was also always going to end up as shit – in the end –, so long as owned by a corporation); since I’d already dropped in using it, I just opted to stay stopped.

Still use YouTube as there isn’t a real viable alternative yet; itching for the day they’re is.

And still use Tumblr, as most of those I socialize with are on there; though it has built up plenty of its own enshittification over the last few years. If I ever finish my Fediverse clone of it, that’s where I’ll be sprinting to.

Have people stopped saying “cheese” for photos…?

I expect it’s just a taste thing; water tastes fine but, like, it could taste more interesting if we added a bit of sugar or flavor to it (I was a huge justice fan).

For my own end, it was an easy way to keep my emotions/mood simulated or engaged against my depression that was low effort and easy to supply; that said, I switched entirely to water last year and, now fully comfortable drinking nothing but water and being fairly averse – previously –, I can’t say the previous reasons really make that much of a difference for me, now. Maybe it’s just having drank to my non-water content, already, but drinking nothing but water’s been pretty great and removes low-key health fears I always had.

Guix

Well, – you see – a colon can never follow quotation marks, in traditional typography: only ever two hyphens~

You and me both, swelter; you and me both…

Perhaps closer to what you’re thinking of? https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

I’m always surprised more people still don’t know about it but FuriLabs does have an offering which I’ve heard does this pretty well: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

And some more info. (albeit, 9 months old): https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1fa1ljn/furilabs_flx1/

It is using Halium but, otherwise, it’s proper GNU+Linux with decent spec.s.

That movie is so good, regardless expectations. One of my absolute favorites.

Weird; I mean, I know it’s anicdotal but I’m 5’6" and I’ve never had anyone so much as even mention my height (maybe when around other men when I was younger once or twice but the bulk of my friends have always been more women such that I don’t truly remember).

I guess it doesn’t really contribute to the thread but I was just genuinely surprised at such a difference of experience.

But people who limit their choices to strict deterministic traits tend to completely skip right over awesome people, and then they wonder why they’re partners are so terrible.

True as Hell, though.

“I hit and abused you because i was overwhealmed because of you”

She never outright said as much but I always assumed my mother did the same for similar reasons (considering me and all my siblings have anxiety and depression, I suspect poorly self-medicating, on her end, but I’m not one to armchair diagnose); there was just too much…vigor in the punishment for me to think it was proper formation that was at the forefront of her mind.

Have you tried biking? I like it because it’s so easy to zone out with (and easier on the knees than running).

You can buy a cheap standing bike and watch shows or read books; and, if you go outside to bike, you get the benefit of the sun and trees. If they have rentable electric bikes, those can make the exertion part easier (and, if it feels like cheating, it’s still more exercise than you’d’ve otherwise been getting; plus studies have shown that some people, with electric bikes, ride for longer periods than those who don’t because they’re having so much fun).

It couldn’t be going worse, Keith.

You’re talking about a black art form, with DJ Khaled doing what every hypeman in the history of the genre has done since its inception; there is no context where saying he’s being inappropriate in what he’s doing is not racial.

I promise you, your appeals to “race-baiting” (of all things) as a justification of what’s going on are not putting you on the political side of the spectrum you usually associate yourself with.

I doubt this will be sufficient to not sound like anything I’ve said before but I sincerely and genuinely believe you lack context which you aren’t willing to hear.

For real; I hope it’s mostly just one instance. I haven’t been paying attention to instances but it feels shockingly widespread on Lemmy (but, given lemmy.world’s size, it could just be that).

Thanks for backing me up and keeping me from feeling crazy.

Ah; I thought you were approaching and conversing in good faith. My mistake.

If you’re unfamiliar with the tone policing of “not following proper decorum” (and that’s exactly what “he doesn’t need to be shouting his name on every song” is; it’s not a debate about whether he can: it’s an assertion that that’s not an appropriate way to behave for the setting), then you should probably familiarize yourself.

But, as a person with lived racial experience, I am very much not reaching.

I mean, I’d find it hard to say he’s not, at all, an entertainer?

Like, I feel most people know him from seeing performances of him. He, essentially, performs the role of hypeman, a lot of times.

I certainly wouldn’t disagree he also acts as a business man but I think he does a lot of entertainment-related work, as well.