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If you won the lottery, what’s the first irresponsible thing you’d do with the money?

No paying off student loans, no buying your parents a house. It has to be irresponsible but not necessarily indefensible. Great icebreaker question.

Men are logical. Women are emotional.

Such an enormous generalization and oversimplification. Very false.

Actions speak louder than words. Right now the words are many and inconsequential, and the actions are damning.

The Ford F-150 is a work truck. Doesn’t stop millions of people from using them as a commuter vehicle, even if they’re not great at it.

Hell, I used my impact driver as a hammer the other day, and I used a screwdriver as a pry bar.

Just because it’s not the primary role for a object doesn’t mean it can’t perform the role. The sale of arms to Israel is irresponsible at best and complicit at worst.

I get that ads pay for a free internet. But that doesn’t mean that 60% of my screen needs to be malware to read a local news article.

Until advertisers act in good faith, I block as much as possible.

I hope Madison is doing OK today.

Hurts so bad to get your 1 in 1000000 dream job to get sexually harassed out of it.

I feel like all gaming mice are terrible, except for maybe a few. I usually buy more office/corporate centered mice because they’re usually more ergonomic and robust. I love the Logitech MX Vertical for work, and the MX Ergo for the couch. Both have been going strong for years. But the most intense game I play is Civ V, so your mileage may vary.

Are the ads to fuel future shows, or to recoup losses from the abhorrent money pit that is Rings of Power?

For real. It’s been at least top 3, and arguably top 2, for scifi my entire life.

Star Trek has been at the top for nearly 60 years. In the US at least, you can turn over a rock anywhere and find a Star Trek fan.

I spent a decade with streaming services, because for 10 years, it was the best, easiest way to watch what you wanted to watch. I paid a fair price, and studios got a fair cut.

When every studio decided they wanted a bigger cut by extracting more out of my pocket, they intensionally fragmented the market and made me pay an unfair price for an inferior product. They haven’t innovated, done more, or produced better TV or movies, they just demand more for the same.

So, I pirate.

As long as he doesn’t throw 30 interceptions, I’ll be ok.

As a lifelong Bucs fan, I might be lightly biased, but Payton should be careful as well. How many years can you go 7-9 in a row with a 1st ballot HoF quarterback and not be part of the problem?

Can’t wait! Just hope nothing goes wrong with the turf and field paint this year.

I’d guess it’s purely to avoid litigation from Twitter. If they didn’t poach Twitter employees or IP, and instead based some of their platform on open source, fediverse stuff, that’s not a multiyear lawsuit with hundreds of millions in lawyer fees.

There’s a lot of anxiety because it’s topical. Nearly ever user here I’d wager, myself included, just flipped to Lemmy as we watched Reddit break the camel’s back.

I think what most people don’t quite realize though is why this is happening. Reddit isn’t just gearing up for an IPO, they’re transitioning to the model spearheaded by Apple: you access their ecosystem exclusively through their platform.

Every large tech company is trying to play this game. They are developing hardware that gives sole access to their platform which in turn controls the experience and distribution of their content. Apple is best at it and massively profitable, but everyone is trying it. Most already have the software>>>content pipeline locked down, it’s the hardware they can’t get right.

That being said, Meta understands that the easiest way to grow Threads is to flip Instagram and Facebook users, not Mastadon users. The easiest way to keep users is not some defederation long con, it’s to get your grandma and your spouse on their platform. The goal for Meta is to reach a critical mass tipping point, where as a society, most people agree you just have to have an account through them to be part of a larger conversation. They aren’t trying to kill federalized platforms directly, because it’s easier to skip that step and try to make every platform that isn’t their own second tier at best. It’s in their best interest to ignore everyone else and just on-board as much of their Instagram and Facebook base as possible in the next year.