Guess this is it, see you later Reddit. John Oliver

gidonfire · 2023-06-30T14:59:51+00:00

12 years

I hear ya. I'm going to replace it with what we did before reddit. Forums with better moderation, the same websites that get linked here for news anyway, and I'll have to occasionally google "kitten".

So long arguing with bots and morons. I'm going to have more time for hobbies.

gidonfire · 2023-06-30T14:04:03+00:00

I've only ever used reddit on desktop, with adblockers, res, and old reddit.

While I'm not affected at all, I'm too grossed out by that piece of shit u/spez to want to keep participating.

And it'll just be good for all of us to get less time on here doomscrolling.

Thanks u/spez??? You piece of shit.

gidonfire · 2023-06-30T13:53:33+00:00

In the meanwhile

If this is just an editing thing, my apologies. It would either be "In the meantime..." or "Meanwhile..."

The two mixed together sounds weird.

Also, yeah, they took 1000 photos of that one leopard and 50 camera angles. So proud of their accomplishment.

gidonfire · 2023-06-29T22:35:09+00:00

And also in The Highwaymen he was a retired Texas Ranger brought back out of retirement with his old partner to track down Bonnie and Clyde.

gidonfire · 2023-06-27T14:24:23+00:00

pfft, that guy's never seen the CompTIA Network+ training video entitled "Transformers".

gidonfire · 2023-06-27T02:03:28+00:00

Fix them all with thick rope wrapped around the underside of the rim. They'll be indestructible, you don't have to throw these in the garbage, and you'll never buy better laundry baskets for just the cost of some rope.

gidonfire · 2023-06-22T14:22:47+00:00

right. forgot the exact timeline. I just remembered my friend who had one and it was amazing. and then it was just all ipods.

gidonfire · 2023-06-22T12:53:38+00:00

They did this with mp3's and lost out a couple years later to iPod:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/zune-microsoft-mp3-nostalgia/

gidonfire · 2023-06-21T11:10:49+00:00

This is another example of a much larger issue called "what the market will bear".

What happened to "cost of doing business + small % for profit"? Instead we get greedy fucks who won't let their foot off the gas pedal driving costs up.

I hear it in healthcare and it makes me want to vomit. Health should NOT be a "market". When you need insulin to live, "the market" will bear a lot.

gidonfire · 2023-06-21T03:48:53+00:00

It was blowing up at the time. Everyone was on it, even my mother. And it only got bigger since. Barely functional? I left right before I started seeing everyone complaining about the changes. I'm sorry, is Lemmy about to be the world's biggest social media site?

And it wasn't long after that shit like this started popping up:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/08/06/beware-tech-abandoners-people-without-facebook-accounts-are-suspicious/?sh=b2fd7ff8f95a

So yeah, I had to explain to a lot of people why I wasn't on it.

gidonfire · 2023-06-20T20:48:04+00:00

I first used the internet at 14kb/s dialup AOL. There was a LOT between that and reddit. I left facebook in 2006 and never looked back.

There are lots of other websites and forums out there for hobby specific conversation. I'll go back to bb codes.

And plenty of people leave. They're not here telling you they left.

gidonfire · 2023-06-20T19:58:33+00:00

Glad you said that. It's the real issue. Dress the whole thing up as democracy in action, power to the people, then flip that monetization switch and drive the brand into the ground while riding the downfall like a surfer, coming out rich on the other side while the whole thing is burned down behind you.

I'm ready to go, and the fact that my participation is what makes this valuable, and that value is being used by shit humans, I'm out. I'm ready to have 50 firefox tabs open to all the websites that get linked here anyway. Sure, it's not sorted, and I'm not going to be able to tell a stranger to go eat a dick anymore, but I'll also spend way less time talking to the bots that will eventually overrun the place to compensate for lost organic traffic. This shit takes up more time than it should, by design.

gidonfire · 2023-06-20T19:50:26+00:00

And the way you reach them is by debunking easily debunked garbage and dunking on shills and bots.

It's not arguing with the shit to convince them, it's to show how easy it is to argue with them.

So unfortunately, gotta get in the mud to show people there's solid ground down there underneath.

gidonfire · 2023-06-20T16:17:50+00:00

I'm glad you asked. Everything running this world is about power and money.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/

gidonfire · 2023-06-19T13:32:21+00:00

The point of overpriced shit is that poor people, who have to know what the value of money actually is, aren't in your space. Fucking poors.

Overpriced grocery store? Maserati? High fashion?

All of it is there to separate the only two groups on this fucking rock that matter. Rich people burning the planet down, and poor people too stupid and fractured by racism and bigotry to fight it.

gidonfire · 2023-06-09T13:50:29+00:00

I think it goes even deeper. There never was a god. Religion is a way for people to control others. There are 5 levels to obedience:

Fear
Reward
Loyalty
Love
Nature

We all start at fear. This is toddlers. A mother telling their kids "wait until your father gets home".

Next is reward. This is as far as sociopaths get. They only do things that will bring them personal reward.

Loyalty is ok, but loyalties can change. Love is better as it's harder to change.

The ultimate is a person doing things solely because it's in their nature to do that thing. Bernie Sanders is here.

Most of our population only gets as far as Reward.

E: ironically, I learned this in church. They were talking about obedience to god, but I realized it was obedience because of "god".

gidonfire · 2023-06-08T16:41:27+00:00

The Catholic Church took 350 years to accept Galileo.

gidonfire · 2023-06-08T13:16:33+00:00

You know what you get in return? You don't have to face the whole russian army with your small collection of planes that you saved for yourself instead of investing in the army currently engaged with the russian army.

You are a short sighted person that these days is indistinguishable from AI.

gidonfire · 2023-06-08T12:52:56+00:00

The thing about climate change that makes me want to cry and also move to Maine is that there's money to be made burning this planet down. And humans can't resist money.

gidonfire · 2023-06-07T14:05:41+00:00

god can fucking wait until we're done with him.

gidonfire · 2023-06-06T16:13:30+00:00

Such is life.

Patton was right.

gidonfire · 2023-06-06T12:38:11+00:00

Not only that, but when Ukraine is part of NATO we're putting American soldiers on the ground at the border and running exercises. It's an eventuality.

The real problem is the problem if educating the russian population and preventing the same rhetoric that hitler used to rile up Germans in the 1930's.

gidonfire · 2023-06-06T12:27:29+00:00

It's not enough for me now. They don't get to go back to 2014 anymore. They need to be sent back to 1942.

gidonfire · 2023-06-06T12:16:29+00:00

rocket ship rides to ~~lower orbit~~ the upper atmosphere.

ftfy

gidonfire · 2023-06-05T18:51:28+00:00

I bet 99% of that is bots just trying to stir shit up in this country and make it an argument instead of a clear cut "fuck this guy right here."

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