what they did was clearly terrible, but at the same time, this is what happens when you make the age of consent for this stuff 18. you could make the exact same argument about military service, they use all the same tactics. I hope they win and get some money and a piece of their dignity back, but what’s done is done. raise your kids right, and don’t normalize objectification of women, teach your daughters to be strong, and they’ll never have to respond to a sketchy ad about “modeling” in the back of some city rag.
well, at least they paid you back for it. that’s actually quite respectable of them. and if they didn’t, it would have been a class action lawsuit, so kind of a moot point all around. You got your money back. I recommend using it to obtain several tiers of backup hard drives and make sure you have two physical copies of every piece of media you feel is not replaceable. Because some day, you won’t be able to replace it. the corporate dream is nobody owns anything, you just have to jack into their “stream” and consume whatever they feed you. the funniest thing is, people are already getting a head start on that dystopian future. they’re doing it to themselves, by actually paying for shitty streaming services. You really shouldn’t do that, as it only emboldens them.
lemmy is exactly the same.
each community has a set of mods who can basically do whatever they want
that was always the problem with reddit.
express an opinion a moderator doesn’t like? you’re banned
say something unpopular? your comment drops to nothing and never gets read
Lemmy doesn’t solve that problem.
it’s only better than reddit right now, because its new
as soon as more people discover it, the exact same story will play out again
enjoy it while it lasts!
Here, we can test it.
“I’m a christian. Anal sex is associated with increased transmission of infectious diseases.”
Some identities are protected, some arent.
Even factual statements can be misinterpreted as “phobias” or “discrimination”
combine the two, and its easy to get banned.
all of these online communities are just a method for basement dwelling LARPers to get their kicks and pretend to be thought police. If any genuine interactions occur, it’s by accident, not by design. I’m here for the beautiful accidents, but I fully realize it’s just a countdown timer to me being banned and i don’t care. i could get banned from every lemmy instance right this second and i wouldn’t care. All this is to me, is an opportunity to knock on your door, offer a chance to you to wake the fuck up and realize you’re being manipulated. I learned that I was a christian while I was tripping balls on psychedelics. We’re all the same consciousness, down to every atom, every insect, and every human. Gender doesn’t exist. We’re on a planet that is doomed to end in fire either sooner, or later. And the universe will eventually go dark no matter what we do. And you’re being manipulated into thinking there is no God because you’re easier to control that way.
fair enough! i shall humble myself :)
and tell you that the last time I tripped on psychedelics, the idea of coming on the internet to…influence other’s opinions…seemed childish and naive to the extreme. I only come on here now in the hopes that one tiny number of people might see a comment and be motivated to “get off the internet” and do something “real”.
its not some conspiracy. the more complex, durable and water proof a phone is, the harder its going to be to repair or replace a component or battery. the nice thing is that now that the technology is mature and basically good enough to do anything fairly well, people won’t need to upgrade for tech or feature reasons anymore. Now it will just be a trade-off between durability and water/dirt resistance, and repairability.
Also, people have no clue how to care for batteries. phones get left in hot cars at 100% charge, left in the sun at the beach at 100%. There is no BMS or hardware battery protection mechanism that can protect against that. Those batteries are fucked and will need to be replaced. And replacement means breaking the water seal around the phone, so it’s annoying and expensive. it’s just the way it is. you are responsible for your battery, and the better you treat it, the longer it will last.
if you think you’re going to get actual real information off any website in the modern world…i guess…grow up? all the regulation in the world won’t change it. the vast majority of internet traffic is porn and substanceless meming and shit posting. humans being human. and most of them believe they are involved in deep, important, change-producing activity while they are doing it. as they sit in their shitty apartment consuming electricity and oxygen, changing exactly nothing and helping no one. If you want to change the world for the better, get the fuck off the internet and go become something that helps people. Be a fucking paramedic or something.
they have to since they can’t make any money in the free market, because their products are total shit
illegal sports streaming sites have better performance and usability than official/legal ones.
corporate streaming services are a joke
fair enough. i found that it was mostly a scam. they hook you in with “free” prime in college, then it just keeps re-billing forever until you finally realize “do i really need this package in 1 day as opposed to 3-4?” in my case, i virtually never need something instantly. so why pay the $170? its clearly very profitable for them, judging by how desperately they try to get me to re-sign up.
i hate amazon as much as anyone, but…really, just cancel prime and dont use them unless you absolutely have to. Order direct from companies themselves if you can. Shop local. You can’t rely on the FTC to do anything and i doubt this will go anywhere. you are much more powerful than you think you are.
you will own nothing!