I’ve met people who hold the same opinions and express themselves in exactly the same way. Simultaneously denying that something is said while also recognising his tendency to twist things.

So I wasn’t giving the benefit of the doubt. Sarcasm doesn’t work on the internet if there’s real people out there saying the exact same thing.

But yeah in hindsight, hopefully that was just that.

This doesn’t really answer any of the questions, but again, I’m not going to hold you accountable for their actions. Thanks for trying, at least.

He never said that, stop lying on the internet

Transcript:

You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.

Bush: Whatever you want.

Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

He lives rent free in your head

Commenting about something Trump said under an article about something Trump said is quite relevant. In your own confident words: stop lying on the internet.

Yup, that’s how niche the Steam Deck is at the moment. It’s ~37% of 2% of all Steam users.

Then again the user numbers on Steam are insane. Would be nice to compare it per region.

Isn’t it potentially a bit self defeating for them to close themselves off in a closed forum?

Not when that closed forum acts like a circlejerking echo chamber where their cult leader can spew whatever he wants without consequences.

I won’t shoot the messenger, but I need to know: what is the “institutionalized sex trafficking” you are referring to and how does it fit with being an important issue when you look at Trump vs Harris?

Only one of them is in pictures with Epstein for a start. So how do they flip that around? Or are we talking Q stuff like pizzagate?

Also important to know: why would Harris be the largest potential obstacle to be capable of addressing it?

I’ve found the perfect method to take a break from Factorio is to apply Satisfactory and a dash of Techtonica.

I say break, because there’s no stopping Factorio. I’m afraid it’s chronic.

This sounds like a fever dream interpretation of the Halloween episode of Community Season 3, Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps.

Go watch it if you haven’t already, great stuff.

Oops, I blocked all the blue people. I found it massively distracting on my Lemmy client.

As a moderator and admin for countless Discord communities, yeah, I’ve seen some vile shit.

Pretending that it doesn’t have an impact doesn’t help in the long run. Secondary Trauma is a thing. Create a workflow to distance yourself from the content, plan breaks, and please talk to someone (qualified) about it.

https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33166

It would be piss easy to prove your phone is always listening to you. Stop being obtuse.

I’ve said this elsewhere but it would be piss easy to prove. I think it’s weird that we’re talking about how something can be true because it hasn’t been disproven, but not that something can’t be true because it hasn’t been proven.

Of course a researcher is never sure something is 100% ruled out. That’s part of how academic research works.

My eagerness stems from being tired of anecdotes presented as evidence supporting a weird privacy conspiracy. This takes away from the actual issue at hand, which is your digital footprint and how your data is used.

It was an ad partner’s pitch deck, not much to do with Facebook itself. And it didn’t really explain how it would be listening anyway.

Besides, if they were recording, processing and / or transferring audio, that would mean there’s data usage, battery usage, etc - stuff that’s easy to prove.

The truth is a lot simpler (and scarier) and you will find that in the links I provided.

If they actually prove something, I’d be happy to give them a watch. 40 minutes of some dudebro’s podcast with a phone in his hands doesn’t count

No, they don’t: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtfU9AsUmc4

Again, no, they don’t: https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

If you don’t trust a 4 minute YouTube video or an independent (?) study, try a Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/q1u71q/comment/hfhynid/

I think the problem is that people think the memes are created by the person uploading, as if they chose to censor it.

Someone is just sharing a funny they saw on Instagram, there’s not much more to it.

Epic timing, I want to dive in and see if I can mirror setting up Discord communities in the most painless way possible. This seems to be a great step in the right direction. Imagine a place… where you get the best of both worlds and we can leave Discord behind.

Yeah I don’t get why they would want to risk this. Go remake/demake some game by a company that won’t try and kick you in the nuts.

Listen I love NMS for what it has become, but of course they would say that. They know that (the veil of) personal investment in their userbase’s woes is good marketing. What would the answer otherwise be? “fuck your save, start over”?

And if they can’t fix it, they can at least say “we tried”.