Yep! My windows 10 is not hooked up to a real Microsoft account. It tries to force me to create an account every few months, which I laugh at.

I made the mistake a few years ago on my win 10 gaming tower and creating an account to play Xbox live, and suddenly, I was getting that garbage one drive shit.

Dropbox has a policy about two years ago that all of your data will be shared with AI, no opt-outs.

I immediately cancelled my plan and dropped to the free service, which I use to backup photos of my poop.

I’m actually 3.5 middle schoolers in a trenchcoat.

Because it’s easier for these psychopaths to believe that there’s a cage of children in some random pizza restaurant basement rather than believe a billionaire has a group of children in their mcmansions.

Asbestos. Lead. Microplastics.

They’re not to blame directly, but they’re letting their shit thoughts run wild.

Guy avoiding giving eye contact to the thing he got off on… A woman’s armpits.

Oh my.

Would be cool if they were trained in de-escalation.

It’s the whole point of the Defund The Police movement, as every time a cop showed up, they only amplified the violence and threat.

Someone off their meds, get the cops called, and now you have a dead person.

Ah to be a bootlicker.

Phase 1: “They have a criminal history/illegal.”

Phase 2: “They threatened our boys in blue!”

Phase 3: “They should have complied.”

Phase 4: “Well they shouldn’t have been there.”

Phase 5: (leopard ate their face)

I was contributing to SO in 2014-2017 when my job wanted our engineers to be more “visible” online.

I was in the top 3% and it made me realize how incredibly small the community was. I was probably answering like 5 questions a week. It wasn’t hard. For some perspective, I’m making like 4-5 posts on Lemmy A DAY.

What made me really pissed was how often a new person would give a really good answer, then some top 1% chucklefuck would literally take that answer, rewrite it, and then have it appear as the top answer. And that happened to me constantly. But again, I didn’t care since I’m just doing this to show my company I’m a “good lil engineer”.

I stopped participating because of how they treated new users. And around 2020(?), SO made a pledge to be not so douchy and actually allow new users to ask questions. But that 1% chucklefuck crew was still allowed to wave their dicks around and stomp on people’s answers. So yeah, less “Duplicate questions”, more “This has been answered already [link to their own answer that they stole]”.

So they removed the toxic attitude with asking questions, but not the toxicity when answering. SO still had the most sweaty people control responses, including editing/deleting them. And you can’t grow a community like that.

My American healthcare:

• Its so much more expensive under Trump. It went from $250/month for my family, to now $1100/month.

• My kid hurt themselves and we were in the urgent care waiting area for 2 hours. Then a professional looked him over, said they’ll be fine, and gave us some expensive pain killer pills.

• I have to schedule my appointments 4-6 months in advance.

• I had to get a referral for some health services and after two weeks, they finally had a slot to actually start scheduling the appointment. Then they asked about my insurance and told me that they are out-of-network, and recommended another practice. I now have to wait another few more weeks, just to hopefully be seen.

My cousins live in the south. They chose that area because, in their words, it’s “expensive” where I live.

Last week, they vented about the housing prices and groceries. Their house market is now the same price as the housing in my “expensive” area. But their area also has federal min wage at $7.25 an hour. Where my city is double.

Sorry, stupid question because I don’t pay attention to embedded hardware stuff. Not at all trying to be offensive or start anything. I really am ignorant.

In the software space, many FOSS run for-profit to keep the open-source version funded.

What’s different in this situation?

I was there and I went from not knowing anything about U2 to absolutely hating it all.

Until I expanded my music tastes, I only had rap and hip-hop in my playlist. And suddenly this Bono guy just shows up? 🤬

Not many people are bringing up that the US invaded a country and not only kidnapped a guy, but left a trail of bodies.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-attack-venezuela-death-toll-rises-80-civilians-and-military-personnel-1

I’m so glad that so many fast food chains are disappearing in my city. There’s so much local cuisine here.

Compared to when I was in the Midwest, where there was a dozen of each franchise.

Kinda came to say this. I’m all for having fun bashing AI, but we’re literally on the internet of which also has CP on it.

Their most idiotic name ever was whatever the Xbox branding bullshit was. It was so bad, customers didn’t know which one to buy.

A year of promise to release a heavily edited version of the docs to obscure all the Trump connections with Epstein.