Reddit refused access to API, and people left reddit.

Lemmy.world is refusing access to the pirate instances.

By your logic, people should leave Lemmy.

How often are they just bursting into flames for no reason?

Ok everybody. You heard them! Everybody talk about discuss.tchncs.de! Let’s ALL form opinions and talk at length about them!

Unclear if AI bot, or insane person having a stroke.

I get the rest of them, but why is “gay republican” there? I’m not saying he isn’t, but why is being gay one of the insults?

Shoo! Shoo away from my garden, bird!!! SHOO!

People want access to the defederated instances, on lemmy.world.

People don’t want to switch.

I have a different conspiracy theory.

I think they’re planning on the reduced human population that’s already underway in America.

See, the boomer generation at it’s peak was bigger than Gen-X, the millenials, and Gen-Z combined. But, people die. And the youngest boomers are 70 years old.

The next 30 years will see a massive population collapse, and we’ve already entered the collapse of the work force of that generation.

Which means for the next 30 years, everybody else is paying for the boomers social security. But when it comes time for our time on retirement, we’re not going to have the same support they did. Boomers will be dead, Gen Z is statistically having less kids (and I get why, but it still means less social security income).

So their plan is to regulate all the work to AI, and take all the profits. The problem is, it’s a really stupid plan. It doesn’t matter how advanced AI is. It will never fully replace humans. Which means the concept of work will always need to exist. And the end result is, I think they’re preparing to figure out how to get AI to do enough of the jobs, and then enslave the people to do the rest.

Because nothing has changed?

I don’t care how advertisers feel. I’ve been telling them for decades that their ads have zero effect on me. That it just pisses me off.

When I go into a grocery store, I have a list. If it’s not on that list, I’m not buying it. The list was prepared weeks ago, and added as I run out of things. Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads. I’m not paying attention. Even though you paid money to show the ad, I still didn’t see it. What difference does it make if I’m alive? Either way I didn’t see the…uh…what were you selling again? It was a commercial for Jesus? See, this just shows how little I pay atttention to ads. I saw the superbowl, and I’m fairly sure one of the commercials was for Jesus. I’m unclear how one would buy Jesus, but that was the ad.

Tell ya what advertiser industry. I’m going to do your job for you. I’m going to make sure every single person pays attention to every ad you ever put out. Are you ready for this? Here we go.

The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They’re bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning “OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!”

Remember, tittys are still bouncing. You put the product in the center of the screen.

You just made a billion dollars!

Found the appropriate response.

Hold on …

Are you saying all software hosted on github is infected with copilot? Or am I misreading the situation?

Yes, but you are the minority.

I dated a girl over the summer, and we were watching youtube videos in bed.

My phone has revanced, and it kills all the ads.

Then she shows me one of her videos.

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

And thats just how most people watch it. They just watch youtube, with the official app. Ads and all, and are fine with it.

So even if all the fediverse minded people quit youtube in unison, it would still be less than 1% of their viewership.

These people writing these stories are probably ultra rich, and go to fine dining resteraunts. They probably pay $300 a meal for what you or I might pay $11 at the grocery store.

Then they think if THEY paid $300, then surely the non-privilaged must be paying $600. And they’re doing it several times a week! Such splurge!

Meanwhile we could buy these things every day for a month for what they pay for 1 meal. And the quality realistically can’t be all that much different. They probably assume they’re eating a chicken thats twice as good, at half the cost.

But they don’t know who we are! Say that name! Say it loud!!!

LEEEEEEEROOOOOYYYYYY

JEEEEEEEEENNNKKKKIIIIINNNNNSSSS!!!

Least we got chicken…

No lies detected.

Do it, do it, do it, do it!

We need legislation with teeth

He said, while living under a dictatorship.

That’s about the size of things, yes.

This is what people don’t get about the world around them. Everybody likes to point at laugh at WWE and say “THAT SHIT IS SOOOOOO FAKE!!!” as if it’s audience is unaware.

I like to point at the government and say WWE is more real than the fake shit called “politics”. The difference is, most people think politics is real.

Just like how people in the early 2000s people thought Paris Hilton was a dumb blond bimbo. She went to HARVARD!!! But she played a character of a dumb blonde bimbo on tv. So now people think it’s real.

Humans are dumb.