Por que no los dos?

It’s been a while, and he sincerely mourned her near daily for years.

There was never even a hint of impropriety at any point, and I know they were both really concerned about the family perception.

It’s still weird but they seem pretty happy together and frankly there isn’t enough happiness in the world to begin with.

Until we drop First Past the Post voting for Ranked Choice, we will never be free of the regressive portions of the democratic party.

TO BE CLEAR: This isn’t a ‘both sides’ argument. Only one party tried to overthrow a legal election by force.

That said, voting blue is only necessary because we realistically have no other choice under our current voting structure.

This isn’t reddit. You don’t have to do that.

Burn it all the fuck down.

A government that doesn’t take care of its people is a government begging to be ousted.

I love this personally. The admins had a vision for the future that was not based in any form of reality, but rather the same wealth extraction tactics that have collapsed so many other services.

Anyone who remembers the Digg exodus, there are reflections of that in reddit’s stittastic new policies.

Just more proof that enshittification isn’t a slow erosion of quality over time but rather direct actions taken by a profit-seeking leadership.

If you go back now and look in older technically complex threads it is a wasteland of [Deleted] and various account scrubber script Lorem Ipsum as a good chunk of decent contributors have left and burned their accounts.

Good.

Looking forward to the day that they don’t prop up google anymore.

The only platform regressives embrace is built on the pillars of bigotry, hypocrisy, and self-centeredness.

They will say anything to turn the situation to their advantage, and there is no truth in them.

WoTC might not sell its DND IP but Hasbro could easily sell the entirety of WoTC to Tencent if they wanted to.

My father is in a relationship with my deceased mother’s sister.

I don’t know how to feel about this.

Firstly: Ew

Secondly: He’s really old and has never been able to take care of himself, so I’m glad that someone is there with him and my aunt really is a kind and sweet person who also is single and both are really too old to date, so maybe it’s a good thing.

Thirdly: Ew Ewewewew EW ew

It’s true, been fucked for years now.

The profit motive rots everything it touches

Tencent owns Larian

Tencent already has Larian and they did a great job with BG3 so what’s your issue?

As long as they don’t try to turn it into a microtransaction hell like only being able to play the classes you bought in their store, it’s going to be no different except Tencent has a ton of money for funding.

There’s a school of thought that youtube style content isn’t good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.

Mainly it’s because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.

I’d love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.

It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.

But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.

A rare example of people profiting during the dotcom collapse, I tip my hat to you!

I think you are mistaking infiltration for ‘getting spread out too far’.

Nearly all of what you describe can be most easily attributed to planted agitators.

Also on a side note:

A friend of mine’s dad legit did win a million dollars in one of those popups. It was really early in the advertising days and I guess they were trying something.

Anyway he paid off all his kids’ houses and bought a nice fishing truck.

I doubt it will ever happen again but I was personal witness for it happening at least once.

That said, even after watching that I have never, and will never willingly click any popup.

I would argue that the fact we are nerds means we will more often than not be right, but be unable to say it in an ego soothing way to the gorillas in suits that actually hold the budget decisions.

audio ads sampled at max volume that multiplied every time you tried to close them…

They are the reason people started making products like ublock, and why for most of the 90s I browsed the web with javascript off unless I trusted the site or needed the service for the moment.

Now nothing renders if you do and you need 3 extensions just to not constantly be mobbed by ads

Well that’s a relief. I got kicked from lemmy.world for a similar sentiment.

Was worried the infection was inescapable.

If you were able to block us, we wouldn’t be able to tell you when you are breaking the rules or provide feedback based on reports of your comments.

Summarizing my other post below:

I have been online since the late eighties and participated actively in hundreds of forums.

And in all that time, the number of meaningful mod/admin replies as compared to just blatant abuses of power, arbitrary justifications, and self-gratifying pontifications has been so vanishingly low that I find in all circumstances it is better to be unaware of their posts.

Same goes for appeals or feedback. Vanishingly small numbers of actual circumstance changing interactions as compared to countless arbitrary justifications, concern trolling, and outright propaganda.

I know you are thinking ‘But here at Beehaw we are different’. And you may indeed be.

But in my experiences, in the long run, the chance of this being true approaches zero. This universal for nearly every online forum. The only place I have seen avoid that in the long term is somethingawful and that’s because they charge for accounts. For free account forums the tendency will always be towards enshittification.

If my natural communication method, which I have taken decades to refine and improve, breaks the rules of a forum in such a way as I am to be banned, then I really have no business being in that forum to begin with and whatever justification the mod picked out of a hat for my banning is kind of meaningless to me.

I am not needlessly acerbic, I do not pick fights, but I do respond harshly to hostile replies as noted above.

And of course most mods will just remove of ban both participants, ignoring who the aggressor is because that is the nature of hierarchy to be radically out of touch with those they have been privileged to administer over. I am fully aware of how protected bullies are in this world and really don’t want to waste any energy reading about an authoritarian’s opinion on my method of discourse.

Let me be clear: The ONLY site I have ever been banned from was reddit for posting ‘Punching nazis is a moral good’, and please tell me now if this is a violation here and I will just delete my account and leave.

Me blocking an admin does nothing to degrade the experience of others, and serves to greatly enhance my own.