Edit: just added this to the post because commenting on my own post is stupid

I’m aware of BeD, which is the inspiration for the post.

But I’m not talking about radiation poisoning, because we’d know if spending a day in a banana plantation was fatal.
I’m wondering about increased risk of cancer form long term banana plantation exposure.

Almost certainly. But I’m not going to eat thousands of bananas in a day.

Folks here are like “everyone uses it. Eventually all gamers realize it’s better”

Me, having never even heard of this in my 30 years of gaming: 🫣

I bet it’ll be great for people who are willing to sacrifice their personal data and the environment.

Because I mean, it’ll learn your tastes and create hyper-personalized videos for exactly your tastes.
But theyll also have a hyper-specific record of the kinds of things you like. How many people gonna give it access to all their chat histories and shit. God can you imagine the potential for leaks (pun intended)?

In my experience when I try to have a nuanced take, people (intentionally?) misinterpret my nuance and use it to put words in my mouth and build a straw man.

Also hot takes are just way more entertaining, and what is social media if not a new form of entertainment?

Not too far away yet.

There is a squid games reality show which is based on a game where they kill people, and they pretend to kill them in the show so it’s being normalized.

And Mr beast has his gameshow which is similar, where they treat the contestants inhumanly just for the convenience of the production.

Also the cops can do whatever they want with impunity.

By the end, judy is BFs with the biggest mob boss in town, who she knows kills people.

Is it still an underpass if you’re not passing anything?
Is it still an overpass if you ain’t over shit?

You’ll never see me say this, CSIS

I mean, where is the line between what is and isn’t a drug?

Sugar affects how you feel and is habit forming. Seems on par with caffine

That’s a level of pedantry not even I would touch

Depending on how hardcore you are about it, you can’t.

Are you getting up in people’s face to tell them not to use it, or are you answering why you choose not to use it?
Are you extremely strict in your adherence? Or are you more forgiving based on the application or user?

There are two general points I like to make:

1. Big companies are using it to steal the work of the powerless, en masse. It is making copyright strictly the tool of the powerful to use against the powerless.
2. If these companies aren’t lying and will actually deliver what they say they’re going to deliver in the timeline they stated, then it’s going to cause mass unemployment, because even if (IF) this creates new jobs for every job it destroys, the market can’t move fast enough to invent these new careers in the timeline described. So either they’re lying or they’re going to cause great suffering, and a massive increase in wealth inequality.

Energy usage honestly never seems to be a concern for people, so I don’t even try to make that argument.

Ah, ok. Yeah.
If it was symbiotic, it wouldn’t be called a parasite, typically, so yeah.

It’s not good, but also it’s too late to do anything about it.

I think you can safely remove most parasites, if that’s what you mean?

How much yo momma weighed

What am I looking at here?
I picture of some dude and then a picture of him 10 years later? What’s the point?

I mean, you don’t have to be on here. Go make your own instance with blackjack and hookers.

It’s not really surprising that self hosted decentralized open source platforms became popular with the Linux crowd, and it’s not really surprising that the Linux crowd are leftists.

But they were nice enough to let you use their work for free so you can make your own little part of the Internet that has the things you want

I kinda feel the opposite.

Self censorship is when you refrain from engaging in certain topics, not when you do blatantly obvious word replacement. Censorship is about preventing the dissemination of ideas, not the dissemination of words.

Someone repaint them as clown shoes, please