This is a great link to share with people who are like “I gotta use corporate social media, that’s where all the people are!”
If you start actually reaching them with a message the corporate fools don’t like, they’ll just shut you down. The only winning move is to GTFO
Y’all live in some barbaric states that haven’t already gone to mail-in voting as standard.
You’ve had decades to do it. Your state is a real shithole if it can’t be bothered to enable this.
The USA had the largest sustained series of protests in human history in 2020 about specifically this issue and vanishingly little was accomplished in terms of actual police reform/laws changed.
I’ve voted consistently in every election for my entire life and the government has never done a single thing I wanted.
Like, people should vote, but it’s not magic.
Many of us through our 401k are the shareholders demanding returns.
So do you have shareholder voting privileges?
A 401(k) is a magical process wherein one person invests in the stock market, but another person retains their shareholder voting privileges.
I like the caps being attached because it means you can’t lose the cap. It didn’t even occur to me that it might have to do with littering
Some local hero installed Quake 3 on every terminal in my high school hahaha
Over here on the other side, I minmax’d “buddies” over “home theater equipment” so now whenever I have someone over to watch a movie it’s on my fucking laptop lmao.
Dude. I wasn’t joking. They make tape for this. It’s all over amazon. Search for “headlight filter tape.” We’re talking like $7 and 20 minutes of your life to have a lower chance of getting in a wreck. So do it!
Imagine responding to one of the most wholesome people in the entire video game industry with “this is bullshit”
Real “Hans, do you think we’re the baddies?” moment
Yes, cause working during a global depression is going to be so awesome
Skill issue. I was long term unemployed and it was the most fun I’ve had as an adult. I leaned into my hobbies, built a boat, and became a published author. People who just wanna drink all day will do that whether they have a job or not 😂
AI is not going to help them survive, and the attitudes people are expressing in this thread are part of why.
The Amish use plenty of modern tech (vaccines and fridges for insulin are great examples). They merely reject modern tech when they perceive it divides their community. They aren’t afraid of technology, they resent technology that isolates people. We could learn from this.
They shared an opinion, businesses typically value customer feedback, get over yourself
Why? Isn’t the small business supporting a big AI corporation? So a big corporation is getting supported either way?
Small businesses aren’t inherently cool and good, many of them would prefer to be large corporations, they just don’t know how to get there.
Because in addition to already running your own business, you should also be a ad exec and a artist.
That’s what running your own business is. You do as much as possible by yourself so you don’t have to share the profits. What would these people have done before AI? They would have had to figure it out. And their solution—whatever it was—would have been more tasteful than AI slop.
Personally, I have been for years. IME physical flyers, wheatpasted signs, and generally networking in person has always gotten way more people to come out to political events than social media does. The main exception was twitter before they added algorithms in ~2012.