atrielienz @ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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Perhaps this is why they purged so many dead accounts.

Glad you and the pup are ok.

Protests have to do more than that to be effective. This issue is already incredibly visible just because of the news media covering the ban. People already know. So the protest doesn't get people's attention.

But a good protest provides a lens through which to put the average person in the shoes of those people who are detrimentally affected or trying to effect change.

It also usually inconveniences the institution being protested against, and the people not personally involved to incentivize them to help with a movement.

This doesn't really tick any of the boxes of a protest from what I can tell but I've seen the word protest used to describe it several times.

I'm happy to listen to what the aims of this protest are and what they hope to achieve. Nobody yet has given me much of an answer.

You're actually one of the few people who have bothered to respond who even seems to know that visibility is an important component of a good protest.

It's a bad form of protest, because it doesn't do what protests are meant to do, but okay.

Protests are supposed to inconvenience the institution and other people not involved in the situation so that they empathize and push for change. This isn't a particularly good protest if it's not doing those things. It doesn't seem to be inconveniencing the supreme Court, the federal government, or people who don't use tik tok so ...

That's reasonable. I use it because I got used to it, but I fully understand why others don't. I miss the 2 button nav that came out right after 3 button nav but before we went full on gesture controls.

So it's not useless and maybe some of you will use it!

It would be more useful to me with the new navigation. But I also only know one person with an android phone who still uses 3 button nav.

I absolutely hated this change (My SO deliberately set his profile pic to something heinous on purpose to mess with me), but yeah. I'm not sure it's like ground breaking or anything.

That will get banned too if the bill goes into effect.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/dlss-3-added-proton/

You may want to update what you said because they will soon do so.

Having never used the air B&B app or website I don't know if there is an option that differentiates the two.

When you buy a hotel room, don't you vet the room to make sure it's what you want? Same applies here. If you contact them I'm sure they'd happily explain the accommodations. If not, give them a bad review and move on.

Yeah. I don't disagree with that. But I think it's rather more about (from what I can see in the original comment) not the techcrunch media coverage, but the idea that techcrunch runs lots of articles about meta and Facebook, not all of them aimed at the problems with the platform and there is no cohesion (in each of these posts), explaining each time they have before given info on leaving Facebook and the important events that lead them to do so.

The article doesn't really start off with a "haven't we been here before", or anything acknowledging what came before. Perhaps that's their complaint.

Can you give some hard examples of what you mean, and a contrast of what you would expect from a non-american please? I'm reading through this post and I don't know what you're seeing. It's not clear to me given what you wrote so it's hard to pinpoint which behaviors you're referring to.

A lot of the things you bring up (about guns and walking safety at night and sending kids to school) doesn't jive and sounds quite a bit like media washing the entire country. Like. Yes. Guns are legal and lots of people have them. I don't see guns on a daily basis and even when I lived in a particularly crime prone area for the most part gun violence wasn't my main concern.

The thing about corporal punishment of children is that what's legal and illegal varies by state but it's not outright outlawed to spank children (and I was absolutely not spanked, but beaten as a kid).

But there's a reason the public hasn't broken out in violent opposition of the government as a whole (the liberal majority I mean) and it's twofold. Americans don't generally want to have to do violence to force change. If we did there would be a lot more Luigi's, Trump shooters, and BLM founders out there advocating in public for violence against the system and the people who uphold it.

Additionally, people don't want to get involved with that if it means that it will significantly detrimentally affect their lives (which in a lot of cases is very much true). Living in between the "eat the rich/guillotine" idealism and the realism of making it day to day is hard and it doesn't allow a lot of fertile ground for empathy and perhaps that's what you're seeing.

People have too much still to lose for a civil war to be particularly viable. They haven't reached a level of desperation that will allow most of them to commit indiscriminate violence against the system. But also, the education system has been decimated and so they don't think they understand the system well enough to effect change and that goes hand in hand with not getting involved in politics, lobbying, or playing the long game to indoctrinate liberals in a similar fashion to the way conservatives have been indoctrinated (but for the opposite view point, meaning incensing them to make change via a more long and arduous process that has lasting effects). We didn't see Roe v Wade get dismantled overnight. That was the result of decades of conservative movement. We haven't been actively and cohesively trying to counter that with our own movements.

I'd also like to add that the vast majority of people live in cities where nature isn't easily accessible and time isn't given to them to enjoy it. I work something like 60 hours a week. Some people work more than that. The system is directly designed to keep people tired, poor, ignorant, and just desperate enough to continue to participate in the system. So yes, we are disconnected from nature in a lot of ways.

The Cambridge Analytica thing happened in 2018. I think the point is that Facebook has been a bad platform for awhile now and these recent articles don't do justice to their history and appear extremely inflammatory as a result.

I got there by other means, but thank you.

Paywalled. Only let's you read part of the article.

He's not just any hobbyist. He's a professional. A literal engineer according to the article.