This happens, and it sucks for the parent and for the customer.
I haven't been to whataburger since i've been yelled by a parent behind the counter because their kid wouldn't leave me the fuck alone and I had the audacity to be kind about it so obviously i'm a pedophile or something.
The only way this would be ok is if openai was actually open. make the entire damn thing free and open source, and most of the complaints will go away.
I'm the type to beat my head against a wall until the wall breaks. Then through that hole, I lead my friends. Fewer and fewer of my friends follow me through such holes. Last time I did such, I brought all my friends to discord (and now I regret it). It is hard as fuck to convince normies to adopt a new platform. If they're not already invested, it will take a serious investment for them to give half a shit. I was able to get some people on discord by promising them that I was running a dnd campaign (I was at the time, but it fell apart shortly therefafter), and those people haven't been on discord since.
How do I convince them that lemmy is the future? I don't think I can. Fundamentally, lemmy is objectively better than reddit (not for features, but because lemmy won't ban you for mentioning green mario and other similar administrative bullshits). I wasn't able to convince them to use reddit back when reddit was good!
The infrastructure is there, and most of the features are there, but the content comes from content creators and they're not here yet.
For example, we have grimdank, but we don't have vezimira and emmawatnot. We have users who repost their content, but they're not posting here directly.
The thing that I am still struggling to wrap my smooth brain around, is that I have an account on a widely federated lemmy instance. Allegedly, I should also see content from mastadon and other federated services. How do I do that? How would I even phrase the question so that a search engine could provide useful results?
actually, imma ask chat gpt. if it spits out anything usefull, i'll report back.
give me a good rss reader, and I'll give you my list of feeds. I haven't checked on them in years, since google reader shut down.
EDIT: As promised, my list:
note: these are bookmarks, not rss links, because, you know, google reader doesn't exist anymore so I can't just export a thing. Everything on this list had an rss feed back when I bookmarked it. No particular order.
Shows that I'd use an rss feed to keep track of aren't on their own websites anymore, just youtube (and sometimes nebula or floatplane, or whatever). You didn't ask for youtube channels, so they got cut from the list.
Some of the comics just don't exist anymore, their sites gone. LoZ Demon Road and Ask Mr Dragmire are notable examples, gone likely for obvious reasons.
Several NSFW comics that I followed through e621, because google reader could turn their link format into an rss feed, i'm excluding because not actually rss.
Several minecraft blogs that aren't relevant anymore (like The Word of Notch or Bukkit News)
Imma be looking at other comments for things to add to my list!)
there's only a couple of companies that run every drug store in the us. both cvs and walgreens each own over a dozen other names that they operate as depending on where in the country you are.
same thing with grocery stores. Kroger and Safeway also both own over a dozen names that they operate under.
I believe rite aid is owned by walgreens.
A long time ago, i woked at a savers (thrift store), which also operated as a dozen other names depending on region. Makes me think that maybe someone could make a bot that could identify a person's geographic location based on the brands mentioned in their comments.
This happens, and it sucks for the parent and for the customer.
I haven't been to whataburger since i've been yelled by a parent behind the counter because their kid wouldn't leave me the fuck alone and I had the audacity to be kind about it so obviously i'm a pedophile or something.