How is “gamer” defined? Someone who has played video games? Did they also hire 2000 “readers?”

I completely ignore them, there is no reason to waste time with skinner boxes.

The laws only matter in as much as the company wants to make money. Otherwise yea, no company or individual has any moral or legal obligation to abide by any law and that government has no (legal) way to enforce laws on anyone outside of their jurisdiction. Ultimately companies are voluntarily abiding by laws because they do not care about anything except making money.

There are a lot of 2026 cars that don’t require a phone app. They may have other shitty internet connectivity features, but they dont’ require an app. And the next time I buy a car i will 100% not be getting one that requires a phone app.

Why would you buy anything that requires and app, let alone a car? I haven’t bought a new car in a while, but if it requires and app, I’m not buying it. I bought a pergola, and originally they said I could use an app to turn the lights on. But I made them install a switch instead. Maybe consider unlinking your life for important/expensive purchases?

Nah that influencer is just chasing clout. He sucks. The flavor of the week is Flock, next week he’ll find something else to grift about.

That has been my go to for a long time, but then you get people upset and demanding mods censor words and view points and of course advertisers pumping real money to people in exchange for hosting content. So it makes a mess of things :/

Hell yea.

Ultimately the paradigm of mass shipping millions of tons of cargo across the ocean needs to stop if the environment is something that anyone wants to pretend to care about. As far as the cargo that is shipped, Cars are certainly the worst.

I’m so glad I quit facebook before any of the other services came out that apparently people “can’t live without”, and I’m perfectly content living in ignorance.

Safe spaces for queer people existed before social media and before the average politician knew what the internet was.

Only amongst people who don’t understand it. Though I admit many self-identified leftwing people, especially in the US, think “I’m a liberal” means “i’m a good person.”

Proud to have made the list.

But what good is this power if you cannot wield it?

Linus is Liberal as a pejorative.

It looks like chatgpt can generate pictures taht aren’t real. This is obviously a problem because

Shared computer? Clear Browsing Data on Exit.
Personal computer? irrelevant annoyance.

Yea car-culture is garbage, but not sure what that has to do with metal-detectors and security theater grifting.

An app that isn’t complying with any local law is the only app that you can’t actually lose. So if they do the right thing, humanity gains. Unless you want them to comply with the law?

No ethical consumption under capitalism, yadda yadda.

There is almost nothing you can buy that doesn’t have people like the Saudi Princes involved especially if you are talking about electronics. Though I am glad that people are bringing these kinds of consolidations to light.