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Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days
Just another person seeking connection, community, and diversity of thought in an increasingly polarized and team-based society.
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Suddenly, I miss the old days of Android. I suppose it’s back to CyanogenMod or whatever it is these days
Regulatory capture seems about on par for Google these days. I suppose I’ll be switching back to OnePlus for Android devices; that’ll be about it for Google stuff in my home.
Like about how that… doesn’t actually change anything that was said?
Right, so anyone adopting such a “buy for a month and binge watch” strategy can still pay ~75% more and not receive a ~75% increase in value.
Nothing is changed.
Well, when the price increases by ~75% and the value does not increase by ~75%, this sentiment isn’t exactly surprising.
Yarr intensifies
I see we can mark off “double down on wartime economy boost” on the recession check list.
We’ve known how to meaningfully address this for ages - with the side benefit of actually improving lives - and neither party is willing to pursue it as it lies outside partisan wedge-driving around various bans.
The lack of Google/Microsoft enshittification is a huge draw.
“safety”
Why can’t my queer ass think guns are awesome like c’mon
This exact combination has begun to break brains over here in such a manner as to be exactly like the old r/Politics that made r/liberalgunowners so lovely.
It always amazes me the extent to which people with such absurd reductionist hyperbole seem intentionally unaware of the extent to which there’s an exact mirror of oversimplification on the other side.
The Politics@ communities seem to be doing their best to bring that back to the right, but yes, outside of that it’s leftist to a lovely degree.
It’s not just that Reddit migrants tend to bring shitty content but also shitty behavior - dogpiling, partisan circle jerking/navel gazing, etc. all make for a terrible discussion experience.
In the survey conducted last month, just 41% of Republicans said that gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable, a 15% drop from 2022.
So, 59% ambivalent or against.
Given 73% of red team adherents strongly believe in God therefore have strong religious adherence, we’re still trending better than expected.
Of these, given the outsize skew toward red team from Evangelical Protestant and Mormon groups, it should be unsurprising a party with a strong representation of outspoken religious bigots is skewing toward bigotry. Disappointing, sure, but unsurprising.
Independents who say same-sex relations are morally acceptable has remained steady in recent years, with 73% expressing approval in 2023 compared to 72% the year before, according to Gallup.
Independents showing a detachment from a given team’s trend change is always good to see.
Overall, 64% of Americans still say that gay or lesbian relations are “morally acceptable,” including 79% of Democrats and 73% of self-described independents, according to the Gallup poll.
Americans have come a long way since 2001, when just 40% of respondents to the same poll expressed approval of same-sex relations.
And we’re still trending far improved from where we were in the early days of the acceptance movement.
Isn’t paying to remove ads a fair deal?
If the price were reasonable, community practices especially regarding monetization and moderation were acceptable, telemetry-tracking javascript minimal, etc. then sure.
But… we’re not there.
No. PiHole is effectively ad-blocking via DNS; the name is a play on black hole and Raspberry Pi.
Well, this certainly explains my difficulty with YouTube over the last few days. Ironically, the piped instances still seem to be fine…
This might just be enough to push me primarily over to Rumble. There are fewer and fewer reasons to use YouTube and more and more reasons not to.
You can summarize by thinking of vertical scaling as “make machine bigger / more powerful” with horizontal scaling as “make more machines”.
That would be several steps up from where BSG is.