FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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ISPs will only be aware of the site you're visiting though, not specific content. So they know you're on reddit.com for instance, but not what sub. They'd know you're at neocities but not what personal site (i think). That's why the likes of lemmy.world are so important. Non commercial space to talk that ISPs can't snoop on.

True. I since found out Assad will be in the same region as some 4 or 5 other failed Russian stooges (Georgia, Ukraine etc). I guess Putin does need to keep that appearance up. Until he runs out of stooge states hes trying to deal with that is... can't be many left. Belarus?

How are you going to cha-cha if you can't even count?

Industrial accidents, yes. Some gruesome ISIS stuff, some cartel stuff, yes. But "weird fetish shit", no

I've been on fora and social media for almost 30 years and have managed to avoid ever seeing this video. AMA?

Ah that makes sense

Just so sad isn't it? Could have been one of the great cornerstones of the Internet, a lightweight even handed open discussion site. Instead it's being whipped into another dopamine addled, page view grabbing ghoulish bullshit machine. Why do investors spoil everything?

Do you support prison/ police abolition?

No

Just start ignoring it. There's a simple ad free Internet out there, you just need to start using it as your go-to.

Putin will trade him in whenever it's profitable for Putin.

Can't even tell what could possibly be gained by removing /r/random? As in from a ghoulish profit driven soul draining point of view. Is it that they literally want to remove any sense of carefree random discovery? It's not like it makes much of a difference? Surely they want people to stumble across new things to be interested in. Or is it just that they don't want any competition for some 'AI' driven suggestion panel.

Enshitification certainly, but this one doesn't even make sense.

It used to be bad enough when time was running short and you could see that others had finished writing already. Imagine now you're the only one clacking away, feeling self conscious as time comes to a close.

As if being bot and astroturf infested wasnt bad enough now "search" is actually going to be Reddit spoonfeeding whatever sanitised corporate sponsored crap it feels like

Lol no thank you

I resisted the urge to post the text of the article here because the article is actually all about the simple clean and open approach that made the web good at its genesis. You couldn't get anything further from the ad infested, tracking, AI garbage and hot take nonsense that the modern web is infested with right now.

Visit the site, read, bask in its glorious simplicity. Go and do likewise.

When people trade their time or skills with each other locally there is mutual benefit and all the value of that trade naturally stays in the community (because it often doesn't involve cash, and even where it does it's off the books). Once someone spots these kind of good things (unofficial homework club, meal sharing, unofficial community kitchen etc) and tries to make it a more organised co-op so that more people can be involved, the co-op now has to register all its activities and pay taxes, which has the effect of removing some of the value from the community. If it's an area seeing underinvestment from local government (as many poorer areas are) then there's a great risk that's a net-negative for the community even if the co-op is doing a "good thing". There's a critical mass at which the local community receives a net benefit and I wonder if many good ideas ever make it that far.

See: tax treatment of co-ops in the UK. I'm sure there are parallels in the US.

There's lots and lots of low level community support, bartering and exchange. But once a good natured soul tries to organise that into something... taxes!

They don't say whether he's actually alive lol

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he's dressed as a cop pretending to look for himself

It's ok, I convened a kangaroo court similar to his here in my lounge while his plane was in freefall and we concluded we should entrust him to the care of gravity.

Honestly makes me wonder why Russia has gone to this enormous trauma to secure a warm sea port. There are knock off battery powered home cinemas on AliExpress with stronger projection capabilities..

It's in times like these I like to think of a certain aerial disaster from Aliens.