butterflyattack @ butterflyattack @lemmy.world

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I enjoyed the soundtrack too.

I know it kinda sounds like a broken record when people say this but it's still true - the problem is capitalism.

Yeah, but when individual awareness isn't enough, how can we stop it?

Yeah I did over ten years on reddit. It was fun, but it's not been that hard to move on. Plus I'm reading more.

I used to use Facebook a lot but gave that up a few years ago. Pretty much quit twitter since it went downhill. Social media platforms aren't actually as addictive as we think they are.

I did. Said I'd be leaving when they did the API thing and stuck with it. Missed reddit for a week and then moved on. Sync for Lemmy is fine. Lemmy is quieter but there's also less bullshit.

Isn't most of that $80 billion in the form of weaponry ordered from US manufacturers? Or maybe I've misunderstood. I thought much of the cash hasn't really left America.

But yeah, musk needs to be stopped. No one person should have so much power, it makes a joke of democracy.

Get a stick and kill it!

As does my mum, who failed her test over ten times in a manual. She just couldn't get the hang of the clutch. Me, I don't like automatics, feels like I have less control.

Anyone got any idea why they are doing this? Seems a bit extreme.

Here in England there's a guy I work with who's taking six months off soon to go to Thailand. Thing is, we're working for the local authority and they're pretty good about holidays and sick pay because the wages aren't very competitive and they need to retain staff.

Yeah, right. Back in the days when we were all on forums I got to know a bunch of regulars who contributed on a local site. Eventually we started meeting up and I had a similar experience to what you're describing. I even slept with one of them that first time we all met, we'd been chatting on the forum for over a year and felt like we knew each other well enough for that to be a possibility. Now that I think about it, this is pretty much the principle behind internet dating and that seems to work well enough to have become an industry. I've done that in the past too - you can absolutely build a relationship online and people do it all the time.

"They don't speak the same language as me, but I've got faith that God will figure something out."

I feel sorry for the guy who has to search his ass for contraband.

This isn't likely, though. First there's the question of why kill Twitter? Then there's the $44 billion cost, and all the reputational damage. Nah, he's just arrogant and incompetent.

Sounds kind of like my experience when I ended up in Spain teaching English to a class of fifteen 7 and 8 year old Spanish girls. My Spanish was terrible, their English wasn't great, it was carnage. Eventually I more work teaching adults and learned Spanish but it was a messy time.

Yeah, my journey was just the same as yours. I'm reading more books now, though, so that's cool.

TBF Facebook and Twitter etc were profitable platforms for a lot of businesses for a while. They obviously weren't going to last forever though so it would have been short-sighted not to plan for them dying off.

Seems like the famous five got upgrades.

I mean, some of them are. Many of them are nazi-lite. They get upset if you point it out, though. A lot of them probably believe they are fine upstanding patriots. A few can be talked to, and some can even change, but most just dig in deeper, so the problem doesn't seem likely to go away; it seems to be getting worse.

I think maybe it requires legislation or a change in systems. It's not really feasible to rely on millions of individual customers coming together to punish bad companies, it just doesn't seem to happen effectively or make a significant impact.