theneverfox @ theneverfox @pawb.social

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An iPod nano can't play over USB, you need to use the aux port

Hard to sell secrets when you keep leaking them for free too

It's probably related to our complete inability to keep secrets secret right now

Magnesium glycinate. Made every difference in the world for me - I still need my meds to perform at my best, but I can muddle through without them with magnesium and a good night of sleep

Yeah, it's definitely a real thing, it's fairly common even

But if you don't have it, you don't have it, so looking at bright lights isn't going to help you sneeze

UNSC flash clones... They come out like the original, but quickly degrade due to the process

I mean... We're in fascism times. If you have the power to do something, you can do many subtle things or one big one before they replace you

This would be a dumb hill to die on... As stupid and wasteful as it is, no one (should) actually die from it

I can only think they've decided to change course and go all in on manufacturing consent... Remove all the real users who might spot a bot and use LLMs to say whatever you like

Well I was probably streaming from my friend's Plex server (pre enshitification), which was running on a NAS probably running some flavor of Linux under the hood, and it very well could have been TNG...

So maybe the scar on my thumb is the mark of a royal lemming?

I cut a good part of the way through my thumb opening a can of beans

Because it's misinfo to reduce people bringing food to the pool. Same with the pee indicator thing... Someone must've been on a crusade

But the cramps thing just isn't true. Light exercise like a walk or casually swimming is great

You can do that...I mean consuming less is great

But only one of these things meaningfully helps fix systematic problems, but they both make you feel like you're doing something meaningful

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying live your life and save your energy for where it would actually make a difference

Collective action works, voting with your wallet is a way to make people think they don't need to organize

Cool? That sounded like it was meant as a rebuttal, but that's my whole argument.

You can't live a truly moral life under capitalism, but you can fight to change the system while living in the system. There's no hypocracy in that, suggesting otherwise is just a mid-wit talking point

Now, if we got together and organized a boycott against Amazon and you broke it, that would be a different story

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just live your life

Anyone with enough money to influence society already has enough money to influence society. Given them another $3 doesn't make you complicit

If they have problematic views but aren't pushing them on society... Well, no one is perfect.

Ultimately, voting with your wallet is a lie. Best sellers aren't the best books, they're the ones boosted by publishers and public figures. Just like the record industry - there's people who are literally choosing the winners and losers

What's the ultimate ethical implication of using ketchup at McDonald's vs buying a dipping sauce? There certainly is one, tiny as it might be. Use that energy to do good things, you'll make a far greater difference calling a senator than buying a lifetime of books

Or just sidestep it all and pirate it or check it out at a library

I loved how he kept calling people up to congratulate for records, and he'd let them speak and they all said "I love my friends" and stepped down. You could see him taken aback, like he thought they were going to glaze him

It was also wild to see him start out giving a normal commencement speech... Then suddenly it was like the meds wore off, he froze for a second, and he just started doing his normal rants. And that was like a quarter of the way in

I do find it interesting...I don't think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea

Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with

Let's say it's 2% of a game that made $100M - you're looking at tens of thousands each when it's all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it's not financial security kind of money

And then let's say the game flops or gets cancelled... Well that's not going to help much, so you can't really rely on it

So I think the idea is great, but it's still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism

I'm increasingly convinced that we're already in hell and being taught a lesson

Who gives a fuck about that, it's tied to making the executive branch immune to contempt charges for ignoring the courts, retroactively no less

And it has a soft abortion ban (and maybe birth control too?) by banning any health plan that gets government assistance from providing it

And then there's weird shit... Like indoor tanning is getting a tax cut, as well as gun silencers

Also, there's the stuff on the label... Stripping food and medical care from the most vulnerable people. Which also fucks over farmers, because food stamps are a farming subsidy

This whole bill is really, really bad

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let's them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That's the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don't want to do