Im on Lemmy specifically to not have ads.

That seems to be a topic a little orthogonal to the current one.

Nevertheless, how should Lemmy sites remain online? Is it the ads you hate, or the algorithm that prioritized revenue over your experience? If you hate the algorithm, that’s understandable; but if you want to use a service without kicking anything in - viewing interspersed ads or paying a subscription - that suggests some hypocrisy that I’d rather not assume exists.

So what kind of subscription did you negotiate, and can we sign up as well?

Exactly: cross the floor.

seems unfinished

We keep electing wolves in sheep’s clothing who win our votes on fake promises to help us then turn against us and double down on policies that make life more difficult and increase our level of misery.

You’re expecting a perfect candidate. This is not how politics works. You need to reject the worst party at every turn until they’re dead, and the window shifts a little more toward “dispensing collected resources as per the wishes of the people” kind of management. It’s not gonna happen overnight.

But if you’re suggesting it’s all fucked regardless of whom we elect, then I suspect you’re in one of those areas who get gaslit a LOT and are used to politicians immediately going back on everything after the election. Lougheed wasn’t the first and he definitely wasn’t the last. I bet you don’t have a coastline.

Right now, voting is more “harm reduction” than “great strides”, even if the latter’s required. We’re just not getting that kind of leader, so our choice is between “harm reduction” and “faux-ristocracy”.

At least we can protest the one we got over the idiot idea of the week.

I do partially blame minimum wage as that lets companies openly collude on underpaying workers too (well we only legally have to pay X so we’ll pay that much).

To argue that it’s at fault because shitty owners pay only so much diverts from the fact that we needed a law to get them to even pay that much.

Review the conditions and wages before we had laws about them.

False. I’m a decade out and I’m mostly still enjoying the learning and the challenge of it all.

Do what ya love and you’ll never work a day in your life.

[Edited to correct sleepy-eyed typing; sorry]

This assumes everything is valid on the external. If one slop cluster feeds off another - a slopveyor? - then there is nothing external for the validation hall-monitor to compare against. They’re trusting another model’s output as if it were gospel.

YSK: as a mass noun, ‘spyware’ doesn’t need the indefinite article. We don’t say “a happy”, for instance, and we heckle those who say “a software”.

birdwatching

Written by the BBC, who can’t seem to find the hyphen key?

spend

Was the site built by coke-addled used-car salesmen on their break?

Define ‘good’. Everyone wants something different.

But the moment after showing LPs had this trope, it suggests album purchases – which had this trope.

I bought Finger Eleven, wanting an album of Paralyzed. I bought Mezzanine, wanting 10 tracks of Dissolved Girl.

In each case I got something else which eventually grew on me for the artistry it was, but in the moment I felt hoodwinked.

Anything container-free? We like iso27002, here.

setup

set up. “Setup” is a noun that lost its hyphen.

everytime

every time. Otherwise it’s not a word at all.

Ooh, good deal.

Who’s hiring immigrants for less. Equal pay, my dude.

Never underestimate polyestre’s dreams.

Yeah, very true. If we don’t strike first. We’ll never get to.

But we don’t strike when Marlaina Smith’s people gut healthcare and workers’ rights, so what makes you think our unions will strike for this? Sometimes I feel they’re impotent now.

We didn’t choose him because he was good for us.

We chose him because he was the least worse. It was a choice between the second-worst candidate and the worst.

Always remember that. And let’s get a better candidate for next time, so we have someone we want to vote for.

Too many sentence fragments. Stopped reading when I realized it wasn’t writing.