Frog-Brawler

How do you plan on destroying religion?

What’s the solution to the problem?

Abuse, yes… sexual abuse, no. Psychological abuse is a better fit for this.

You have evidence that I’m wrong, correct?

LMAO… “bribes”… no, I have no evidence of “bribes.” I don’t have any evidence of a financial incentive either, as very clearly evident by my phrasing starting with “I bet…” I’m simply relying on 40 years of not having my head completely up my own ass to make some inferences about things, and if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. I think you’re being intentionally obtuse. None of this really is impactful, but you sure seem to have an agenda.

I wouldn’t call that a good reason to team up with Meta, but I would call it a plausible. Everyone does not want to federate with the largest social media company in the world, I can promise you that. If you like federation, you’d probably like it to not be engulfed by megacorps (unless you stand to profit from it).

I think I’ve logged in for a collective 15 minutes. I deleted it about 45 minutes ago.

Are you truly incapable of acknowledging that large bags of money motivate people to do unpopular things sometimes?

I really don’t care about Mastadon as I haven’t used it much, but I couldn’t really think of a good reason for federating with Meta.

Yea I was really confused to read that. I’m on Kbin / Lemmy significantly more than I log in to Mastadon (I think I’ve opened that app 5 times in the past year), so now I guess I’ll just delete Mastadon.

I bet he’s getting a big bag of money.

All fair points, but 2 unexpected vet bills in one year has a high stress tax as well.

Admittedly, I don’t have a cat, but I would have thought they’re more expensive than that. My parents had / have cats. A vet bill is like $150 a pop.

I think I’d want one of those self-cleaning litter boxes as well (if I had a cat). Those start around $600, right?

When I say “useless,” what I mean is they’ve not tried any of the products themselves, have no opinions at all, don’t know how anything works, don’t know about the warranty, don’t know about competing products, and appear generally inconvenienced by my desire for an interaction with someone that might be able to provide some insight etc.

I say my local comic shop is one of the few places left that have retail employees that I go to that are useful because I get recommendations of more books to read based on what I’ve bought from them previously. Dude at the counter nails it almost every time he gives me a recommendation. Works out for them too because I keep buying more stuff.

I feel for the people working retail, but service is so bad at most retail locations where I live that I avoid it every time I can in favor of going online somewhere. The only good retail experience I have left is my local comic shop. Best Buy, Target, Home Depot, any pharmacy, any grocery store…. Everyone working there is borderline useless aside from the folks that stock the shelves. They’re not knowledgeable at all, nor are they empowered to do much of anything. If they were empowered, the pay would be too low for them to give a shit. I imagine endless strings of dickhead customers and low pay will make a retail employee jaded over time, but if all things are equal between retail and online, I’ll wait 3 days to get it online. I hate dealing with retail employees.

We’re in a viscous cycle at this point with little hopes of redemption. They probably think I’m an asshole before I open my mouth; and I assume they’re useless and victim to a horrible education system before they open theirs.

That means the issue is the culture, not photoshop.

X. I can’t think of a tech company that’s done more harm this year.

I have one, “get great parking, 70% of the time.”

Haven’t interacted on anything more than a superficial level. 15 years ago when I was in a band and playing shows, I encountered a lot of Warlocks. 90% of the time they were awesome. That 10% of the time was coo-coo-nuts-bullshit. There were two “guards” outside of a bar I was playing a show at that looked goofy as shit to me, but I didn’t inquire and I didn’t care. They had some crazy looking dude inside at the bar and I just stayed away from all of ‘em. Never had an experience more negative than that one, but again, 90% of the time they were actually solid people to be around.

I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷‍♂️

Kicking causes your legs to fall off.

I lost interest when I realized I don’t care if you’re fucking up, and I don’t care if you think I’m wrong either. I don’t want to argue with you. Waste of my time. Like I said earlier, have a good one.