maybe an unpopular opinion: fuck capitalism and corporate greed and all that, yes, but would you rather that space be used for a cemetary or housing? I don’t mind my bones being put somewhere with a shit view if it means living people don’t have to see that shit.

this is what is known as “a feature, not a bug”

It CAN BE amazing in certain situations. Ceo tomfoolery is what’s making generative Ai become a joke to the average user.

genuine question: do people use twitter to catch up with folks?

As much as I hate it, I still occasionally use fb to message old friends, and instagram to keep up with friends. twitter… used to be for following celebrities but i’ve gone off that since (and if i wanted to, i can do that on insta).

I know the general narrative is “Google bad”, but this seems like a healthy thing?

First of all, if this is a way for employees to report privacy incidents, that’s a good thing.

Second, given the enormous reach giggle has, the fact that it has “thousands” of privacy incidents collected over many years isn’t a large percentage at all.

Nothing sparks romance like legal documentation and state sponsored matchmaking

Don’t don’t be evil

we need some sort of global tax for the rich but governments are incentivised to NOT make it happen.

best option is some sort of support agent work which allows remote, but you need steady hours.

if she really can’t hold steady hours for whatever reason then fiverr is the next best option. or look up things like gaming where you can sell in-game currency or resources for money

Remember when presidential scandals were about the guy wearing a tan suit instead of a dark colored one? Pepperidge farm remembers.

I don’t really remember what the names of Google apps are anymore. I just know there’s an app I can use to tap to pay, and I have a custom icon for that app (since all of Googles app icons are so similar it’s confusing).

Once they deprecate one app and move to the next, I’ll just change the icon on that.

This is in nobody’s interest except the shareholders of weapons manufacturers.

You forgot about a country called Ukraine there buddy.

I gotta say, of all the conflicts going on in the world, Ukraine/Russia has got to be the one with the clearest “good” side and “bad” side. Pick another conflict to be edgy about.

“It’s your responsibility to make sure our products aren’t nonsense. All we want to do is to make money off you regardless.”

This is a feature, not a bug. It’s designed to wean you off using twitter.

Should companies work on improving access to services and making sure paying consumers get a better experience?

Nah, let’s spend more money paying lawyers to go after a few people, that’ll show em.

Damn those DEMONcrats wanting to over-regulate everything and stifle innovation! Small government forever! Er, hold on-

i love that response, it’s the polite way of saying “this ain’t my problem, someone else can deal with your crazy”

ok your post was so incredulous that i went down a bit of a rabbit hole here… jesus i don’t know whether to laugh or cry at everything.

good summary btw. and the craziness goes even further… my favorite bit of “lore” is the fact that sovcits who operate a motor vehicle for non-commercial purposes can claim to be “traveling” rather than “driving” and therefore do not need a valid drivers’ license or valid plates on their car. MY SIDES

Spamming user+1@gmail, user+2@gmail takes absolutely no technical knowledge whatsoever - anyone can do it with 1 gmail account.

Spamming user1@domain, user2@domain etc requires 1 of two things:

1. you can sign up for multiple email accounts using a third party service. You’re going to run into trouble with Gmail or other big providers if you start creating accounts en masse.

2. you create your own email server. this requires someone with selfhosting knowledge and some basic coding (or rather server config) experience.

“we’re very sorry… that we got caught. rest assured we will do everything we can to ensure… that we do this more subtly in future”.