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Honestly, Lemmy posts aren’t terrible if you curate them from a wider pool. It means I’ll catch topics that I might not otherwise because I don’t like getting wrapped up in social media. I look at it more as something to scroll through that’s customizable. I don’t comment a huge amount and I very rarely post on any of my accounts.

I’m also not at all shy about using the block button on this account, though, and it’s been a better experience. If there’s something showing up in my feed that I’m not interested in seeing, it’s easy to filter it out. Blahaj has a good mix of defederations so it’s a good start on its own, and Piefed is great for being able to block communities, instances, and users. If I’m remembering piefed correctly I think I also have some title word blocks set up too.

If I want to see more I can always switch to another account, but I find I generally like this better.

There definitely is a lot of petty argumentative one-upmanship in the comments, and a lot of what seem like just hired trolls, but it’s easy to avoid the comments and it’s easy to not engage with people.

Well, I assume people who do it think it’s fine. I can also always check from another account if I get curious.

I don’t know how this wasn’t more obvious to me! Her face is clearly a clitoris!

Here she’s been a sort of fertility deity in Christianity the whole time and I had literally no idea until you said this!

Cartridges and online updates for PC games literally are from two different time periods. The entire premise is false.

A long time ago? Honey, updates weren’t even a thing until like 20ish years ago. They definitely weren’t a thing at the same time that cartridges were common.

Doooo iiiit!

Definitely not AI.

My brain read “weight loss jabs” as like fat shaming.

What do we do with a man who is bigger Than John was when he did his ad blocker thing?

Consoles are normally sold at a loss if I remember correctly. Companies tend to bet on people buying enough games to make up the difference, because generally people do. Most people aren’t sitting on a console with only 3 or 4 games for it.

Barry! We’re Barry, Barry!

Fines in general for large companies need to be adjusted to their profits rather than just being unrelated big looking numbers. A $1 million fine looks like a lot, but if the company made even $3 million from the behavior that landed them the fine, they’re still incentivized to play dirty. If the fine if is a tiny fraction of the profits, as they so often seem to be, it’s even less effective.

Want an effective fine? Figure out how much being crooked made them and charge them double. Create an actual incentive for businesses to be fair in their practices. They’re definitely not going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts.

Better yet, start going after C-levels if the behavior is egregious enough.

If SAG hadn’t gone on strike, Netflix would also have been making agreements with actors to use their voice and likeness without actually offering future work too. Was SAG wrong to push against this?

Just because someone makes a deal doesn’t mean it isn’t a toxic business practice that’s bad for the industry or the people involved in it. People also agree to work for subpar wages, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push for higher minimum wages.

You know what we need in a world of increasing authoritarianism? Franchises that initially satirized fascism before being a reason for their fanbase to fetishize it

Well, Eugene Cordero and Jason Mantzoukas were both on the Good Place, so not really so much of a coincidence.

I like winter apart from the parking restrictions.

Neat!

Ceramic non-stick is pretty great. I’ve used cast-iron and it’s fine, but it’s kind of fussy when it comes to cleanup.

Assuming you’re an adult, there are a few Conan Exiles D&D roleplay servers and also some Neverwinter Nights 2 servers if you’re looking to get into D&D but don’t have anyone to play with. It’s also a good place to meet people to play actual D&D on like roll20 or Tabletop Simulator or whatever.

But also, it seems like there are some people here who would probably play a game with you. You might have to run it though. It’s much easier to find players than DMs.