You know, I cannot wait to be off this god forsaken world. Death can't come enough. What's it gone to, when the very people we're to "trust" are thrown into their own chaos like this.
What good is justice when we have assholes like this guy? A convicted murder is on the stand, guilty as charged but..."YOUR HONOR...I...I HAPPEN TO NOT LIKE YOU AND BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE YOU, THIS GUY SHOULD BE SET FREE AND IN FACT, I WILL SABOTAGE MY CASE TO MAKE SURE HE IS FREE!" fuckstick comes up in defense.
I don't recall there being a item limit. Which is unfortunate because the people who have boatloads of carts and their carts already loaded. They're the most fucking slowest ever that they even give old people a run for their money. Slowly raising items to scan. Slowly putting them in bags. Slowly paying. Slowly moving the fuck out of the way as they try navigating a heavy cart with all of the junk that they'll barely like as soon as it gets home.
Lemmy's admins is partially at fault here. Like, you go into the Fediverse to give users refuge from the burnout and dissastifaction as to what they have seen and experienced on bigger social media platforms. Where distrust is at an all time high.
And then you go and decide to host your main announcements over on a platform where people have stirring feelings of contempt for the platform that is centralized. You are going to alienate your audience.
You really like spamming that "slippery slope" term, don't you? It's like your ultimate go-to for feeling like you're superior. Just wait until you use it in a context where you'll look like a dumbass, one of these days in where it doesn't fit.
That'd be like giving an alcoholic a pint by the end of the week to reward their alcoholic behavior that they'd want out of.
That'd be like giving money to a gambling addict as they promise to 'pay you back' for the loan you've given them.
My point is, enabling people's worst habits is always a bad idea.
And how can you guarantee for certain that after awhile of these AI-generated CP crap, that they eventually wouldn't want the real thing down the road and therefore, attempt crimes?
On one hand, it's a great sigh of relief to not see so many communities contaminated with shallow interactions that are harbored by typical Redditquette behavior.
The other hand, it's depressing to see so much wasted potential. I mean, there was supposed to have been a big revolution, wasn't there? The fediverse did gain a large chunk of users. But, most of the time, it was treated like a temporary vacation resort or some airbnb to most users that are "so tired" of reddit. No, they were only tired of reddit because it was both the cool thing to do and it was for a short period.
But they can't escape the crack, they know it is addicting. The karma farming. The alt-account abuse. The drama. No, they want it all back and can't fathom a part of social media where none of that is existent, save for a bare minimum. Hell, millions of people still somehow use Twitter today even though Musk has done a wonderous job taking a daily dump on it.
People really are afraid of change.
I feel a lot more contributory towards other platforms not Reddit. On Reddit, I just feel like I just say things until I hit walls. Those walls being, being confronted by shithead mods, dumbass trolls or feeling claustrophobic from where I can post because of the karma.
"He came up with a simple solution: getting the lane lines repainted on that pesky curve — which of course, didn't actually address the underlying problem."
This is why Musk is not a technological genius or a technological thinker of any degree. If he was, he would've had a spark of a thought in that shallow brain of his, that says there could've been a more broader approach to tackle things like unpainted curves. Like thinking how the software could identify what's a curve and what isn't.
No, his solution is to just go around and repaint every curve possible.
Did he die recently or something? That was what my immediate thought was. Because I'm sure the only way to have changed his mind at all is if he were dead.
I wonder how many of them are from North Korea? Because, living under a dictatorship in NK must be really dehumanizing.