cerebralhawks

You don't believe it's ever happened?

I don't know why the CSS isn't loading on this CNN link, other than maybe because the link is 16 years old. (Probably older than the waifu in question.) But here you go: https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/16/japan.virtual.wedding/index.html

Rest of the world: Yeah, we know. Except, it wasn't just in Poland.

X is owned by a guy who supports fascist causes in Europe. He used to support one in the US until they had a falling out. He did the Nazi arm gesture (albeit with the wrong arm, IIRC). Then (or perhaps before) he got rid of a bunch of content moderators.

We know exactly where he stands and what he stands for.

That said, there are still good people on Twitter. My wife and a bunch of her artist friends. I keep telling her, it's bad news up there, it's supporting a bad dude... but this whole community is up there and they won't move. I'm not sure what it will take at this point.

Honestly all social media is kinda trash these days.

Facebook has literally had people killed. Some anti-government rebels were using Facebook in some third world country (I forget the name), and Facebook gave their location data to the government. Volunteered it even. Guess who stopped using Facebook. Wonder what happened. Oh yeah, and you know what Mark Zuckerberg calls his users? "Dumb fucks." Literally. Can't make this shit up.

Reddit was built on CSAM, they even sent one of their early moderators a physical award for running a subreddit with upskirt shots of underage girls. (He was very publicly outed. Guess who didn't even protect the guy who helped build their empire?) They also tried to falsely accuse a third-party app developer of blackmailing them, but the guy recorded the conversation. A bunch of people rebelled but they all came back around. I myself got banned for suggesting stiffer penalties for child abuse, and I lost the appeal (I figured maybe an AI tagged me but a human would overturn it, but no). So I figure they did me a favor.

I think it's mostly the same people who use all these services, from Facebook to right here on Lemmy. And in any group of people, you have a few bad apples. But I think you have to look at the people leading it. What they stand for, how they see the world, the kind of world they want to make.

Honestly wish you'd written this comment without the profane hyperbole. Because it's correct. You didn't need to be offensive — the truth stands on its own; hell, you didn't even need the links — but here we are.

I think it's an interesting solution to a growing problem (the industry of meat). But I've never had "fake meat" that tastes like real meat, though I don't actively try a lot of them.

I remember when the Impossible Burger came to Burger King. I got one of each, a regular Whopper and an Impossible Whopper. The regular Whopper was the typical Burger King sad burger, the same taste you expect. The Impossible Burger tasted like what I imagine a well used ashtray tastes like. To simply say "it tasted burnt" doesn't cover it. I took a couple bites and threw it into the trash.

I think vegetarianism and veganism are noble causes, but they aren't for me — I say, eating an omelet with pepper jack cheese and turkey sausage. I'm also a bariatric patient, so I need 80-120g of animal protein a day. Vegans will say "um no actually you don't..." but before any wanna start, I'm gonna take the advice of my medical team over some people on the Internet with an agenda who won't lose a wink of sleep if I get sick. I'm not the one. I can't be the one. But I'll root for you from the sidelines (and offer a bit of an olive branch — ahead of chicken and turkey, I find fish to be the best protein).

Replies are more valuable, but I'm finding the replies to be not much higher quality than Reddit, which is a bit disappointing.

That said, for every 10 replies, you may get a good one, and that one is worth sorting through the rest.

The three people who replied before you said they don't get the sponsor plugs.

When I had YTP (I had a trial, it was like 3 months for $1), I got the sponsored segments. So either those other people are lying, or they don't understand what I'm saying.

So you're using SponsorBlock as well, or you're watching videos without sponsors.

Friendly reminder that when they redact information, it's because they fear that the information they're keeping from you is worse than you think it is.

In this case, believe them.

I mean, 16GB was the standard for how long? So yeah, it makes sense.

16GB might be the be standard for VRAM…

They might target, but sometimes they buy information too.

For example, my wife and I use Visible. It's Verizon but cheaper (and it's owned by Verizon). They also sell your number to scammers. So we get a lot of scam calls and voicemails. We just ignore them. Reporting them does nothing because the carrier is who you report them to (on an iPhone) and the carrier is the one that sends them. But I do it anyway. Most of them come in when I'm at work (and without my phone) anyway. So yeah, so they know who we are (name, town we live in). We just don't engage with them.

It really is. The DS9 story is done anyway, and Garak was the most interesting person on the station by far.

I’m thinking a limited series formatted like Luther. Short seasons, high quality, but spy stuff instead of cop stuff.

Like an agent? Actors and sports players have them. People who get paid in the millions. So they can hire people to act on their behalf to get them work while they sip martinis by the pool.