You also have Brian Johnson’s blood transfusions and it wouldn’t be a stretch that Musk’s children are all potential organ donors.

That was my theory to why Zuck was so interested in his Metaverse. Every billionaire is planning some sort of post-life or extending their lives one way or another. The same way kings and emperors of history have.

Well, the suit is by a minor, so their name is being withheld and this is from January 2025, so the reddit AMA was probably a different school shooting survivor.

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.

Zuckerberg: They “trust me”.

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.

John Carmack is another one. For all he’s done, his net worth is only 50 million, but he spends his time developing new tech. I wouldn’t say Carmack is well adjusted, but he doesn’t seem to think making the lives of other people worse will make his life better.

Advertisers and investors are drinking the same coolaid. It’s the customers of those advertisers that need to be questioning their ad space purchases.

I could imagine it if they were filled with spyware and rf sniffers. Not the regular spyware that google and apple have, but shit that spies on everyone around you. They just aren’t that competent.

All you gotta do is throw in some heroic 3 Percenters to make it the perfect Pratt film.

I’m going to have to check my mother’s phone.

Perennial plants don’t provide the same nutritional yields. Annuals put all their energy into making fruits/seeds that can be harvested. Things like potatoes or onions don’t put all their energy into seeds, but they do put a lot into their roots and that’s what’s harvested.

We need more biodiversity, but we can start by not having brain dead landscaping dictated by office suits.

They did remove their “Do no evil” guarantee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYrQr0auPDM

If I have to choose between buying into a US run surveillance state or buying into a Chinese run surveillance state, I choose to buy neither.

You could, idk, maybe not buy prepackaged surveillance camera that rely on someone else’s computer to work.

especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down.

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I have politically active friends who are supposedly privacy minded blasting their takes on facebook and complaining when they get banned for inciting violence. Most people are terrible at this and the algos the feds use probably aren’t that great. I’m more likely to get grabbed randomly.

I’ve always isolated my username from irl stuff and I don’t make any social media posts from my irl stuff. You’d have to be very interested in me specifically and I’ve always tried to be slightly less noisy then the background noise.

now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality.

The fuck does this mean? How is my experience not reality? What else are my opinions suppose to be based on, if not my experience?

Reddit was showing signs of introducing a more algo based experience, so I fucked off. They would hardly be the first website I left because of shit like that.

I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn’t worth the effort anymore.

A lot of lemmy users are ex reddit users and have reason they switched. I switched because it started looking more and more like twitter.