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Yeh I don’t understand it either. I’m from Australia. Driving into a desert sounds like a pretty dangerous thing to do, no matter what the weather forecast is.

Nice.

Just visited a moment ago to check if I received my Place awards for placing FUCK SPEZ pixels. Couldn’t access my profile page without turning off adblock. They just keep giving me more and more reasons not to return.

Firefox:
Tools/Settings/Privacy & Security/Permissions/Autoplay/Settings/Default for all Websites: Block Audio

Extraordinary. 🤨 This is the sort of news I browse the internet for. Wonder what all that’s about, then …

Can you buy medicine from the pharmacy with online payment? Could not these products all process under that payment system?

I even heard it in his voice.

It’s a heat/cold powered cycle … once the temp regulates the same everywhere, there is no more cycle.

Netflix wanting to get paid for their service and content is reasonable.

Sure, it’s reasonable, and why I started subscribing in the first place. But if I pay for four screens, I expect to be able to use all of those four screens, no matter what address they are being viewed from.

I have several hundred “Bricks” which is some cryptocurrency from r/FortniteBR … It’s stored in my “Vault” but I dunno how to use it or what I can buy with it. I dunno if I can sell it, but I remember them specifically referring to these Bricks as crypto when they came out, and they are earned by posting content and comments.

the value seems to be entirely in the packaging.

How true and how ridiculous is that?! At least my Pop Vinyls & Star Trek Hot-wheels collectibles are still functional toys if they are ever removed from their packaging.

They say they are expected to accept contracts that were designed for the old business model while the industry structure and technologies have changed. Here’s some video of the speeches & demonstrations.

I think a time will come in our dystopian future where it will be trendy to have a performance by a real actor or a traditional painting created by a real artist … that will be the gimmick, so to say.

Give 'em an inch and they’ll take a mile.

If you haven’t done so yet, I would recommend watching a documentary called “The Social Dilemma” if you are able to find a copy (it’s on Netflix).

I used to watch a lot of controversial/conspiracy/right-wing stuff because I wanted to keep tabs on their crazy. Eventually it all became way too toxic and bad for my mental health but I needed to fix my Youtube feed. There was lots of unsubscribing and channel blocking, but mostly watching of lots of trivial videos was what helped to clean it up.

I don’t think downvoting helps, but upvoting does. The algorithm knows people will engage more with content that makes them angry/afraid … don’t let it know when you feel that way.

Maybe scroll through a lot of shorts and then like and subscribe to videos & channels that are less innocuous, or completely trivial (like cooking tips, makeup & fashion for older women, celebrity gossip entertainment, comedy, feel good compilations etc). If you haven’t already, definitely subscribe to Daily Dose of Internet. Youtube also seems to like pushing Lo-fi, meditation, and binaural beats (especially at night) … sub a few of those.

Block those channels who have Rogan or Tate or similar in their video titles. Unsub from the likes of Dr John Campbell & Russell Brand. If she likes news and current affairs, try to find world news channels that are more highly regarded but less likely to be “ultra left” channels that she would recognise from her anti-browsing. Channels like Reuters, AFP, or maybe news stations from other countries (like ABC news in Australia, or CBC and Global News in Canada). Block “Rebel News” and unsub from “News Nation”, or anyone else that pushes clickbait headlines. Swap her subscription from “Sky News Australia” (block) to simply “Sky News” - The Australian one is made by NewsCorp (Murdoch) and targets the American right-wing audience, while the other is a legitimate UK news channel which is not owned by Murdoch - she wont notice the subtle difference in the logos, but the content will be dramatically different.

Also, I would recommend a channel called The Why Files … he does videos on conspiracies, lays out all the conspiracy evidence, and then also lays out any debunking facts. He treats the subjects seriously, so watchers don’t feel stupid for believing something, but then does a great job of presenting the debunking facts as well, so viewers get a really balanced presentation about controversial topics.

I hope this is helpful. Good luck.

P.S. If you haven’t done so yet, I would recommend watching a documentary called “The Social Dilemma” if you are able to find a copy (it’s on Netflix).

I thought the algorithm responds to downvotes with more of the same content because negativity drives engagement. I very rarely downvote because I don’t want YT to know what I don’t like. I do however tell it to completely block rage-bait channels. This works for my home feed but not in trending.

I never realized the storylines in Detroit were that short.

quick Google search tells me average play-thru time is 12hrs and completionist is 32hrs, so I dunno what I was looking at. I’m 5hours in, so it remains to be seen whether it’s gonna take me 32hours or 64hours minimum. 🤣 You’ll have to forgive me, it’s the steam sale so I’ve been looking at lots of games. Not that I need any more because I’ve probably only ever touched a quarter of my library, if that!

someone said all the hoops would keep the idiots out,

Yeah I liked that take as well. That layer of jargon really is a fantastic filter.

get my head around the fact that I had to also join any instance I wanted to respond to

Wait. What? Why are you doing that?

Don’t worry, I hear ya! I’m currently 4.9 hours in on my first run of the story game, Detroit. People in the reviews say it is a short game and they have less than 3 hours playtime … but I don’t wanna miss any narrative or clues! haha!

I joined Mastadon in December and that’s when I first tried to understand it all. I researched a server to join and it was right confusing … what if I picked the wrong one? Then I pretty much abandoned the account because I didn’t understand how to stay on my own server while browsing around (also didn’t help that I’d never used Twitter either, so I didn’t actually know what I sposed to be doing lol).

Then the whole reddit debacle happened and I signed up for a Lemmy & Kbin. And there was all the jargon again. But I think because I was actually jumping ship from reddit, this time I wanted my move to have staying power. So it was unusual for me to “skip the tutorial” but I was getting so frustrated with the jargon, while I could see others were already having conversations. And it was through the participation that the jargon finally defined itself. I even use my mastodon now, as well!