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TWeaK, in You liar!

My washing machine over-estimates at first, it drops nearly an hour after it gets going. However, it will underestimate later on.

Also, it does this thing where it beeps that it’s starting, doesn’t do anything, then unlocks the door for a few seconds, then locks it again and actually starts. That’s been a life saver for catching that one sock that got left behind and didn’t make it into the drum.

MNByChoice,

Exactly. It is critical to learn what the machine means when not under time pressure.

DaddleDew, in I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.

And whenever you want to search for information about something the result page gets flooded with AI generated garbage pages with misleading titles and that provide bullshit information.

MonkeMischief, (edited )

Top result Top ten results are always things like:

"You are right to question these days indeed, ‘why is the Internet enshittified and Ai is stupid’? Certainly, the world would like to know and you are not alone in wondering why is the internet enshittifed and Ai is stupid.

Today we will be looking at 17 ways the enshittified why is Ai stupid and internet.

[Table of contents (?!?!!)]

  1. What is an internet? "
Xerxos, in oh no Germany what is u doin

It’s simple: Germany always does what Israel wants.

You know, because of our history.

There are many people (especially the older generation) who think we as Germans can’t say anything bad about Israel no matter what they do.

tagoth,

I do not think anyone expects Germany to say anything bad about Israel. The problem is that they went on to defend what Israel is doing. Germany did not need to speak, yet they chose to in favour of Israel.

Siegfried,

I think it is understandable, but it is also a little sad. Germans are good people and they are carrying a pretty big bag on the back. Israel will end cleaning from palestinians gaza and in 2 years nobody will care about what happened.

greywolf0x1,

What is understandable about germany’s actions or inactions to the ongoing genocide?

Siegfried,

I understand that after everything they did, a big chunk of the German population is reluctant to move a finger against israel.

QuantumSparkles, in Mmmm bezos

I’m ootl with the Dale Earnhardt lefty and anti-capitalist memes… can someone explain? Maybe I’m just not wording it right but googling hasn’t really brought up an answer

ImplyingImplications,

It comes from a Facebook meme page called “The Ghost of Ol Dale Earnhardt”. The creator said he was frustrated with alt-right people posting fake quotes on pictures of Southerners that made them seem like facists, so he decided to post fake quotes on a Southerner that make him seem like a communist.

I find it weird, but Americans love claiming that dead people support their cause. Like how Martin Luther King is both a progressive and conservative icon depending on who you ask. Same with the founding fathers.

GBU_28,

Not a uniquely American phenomenon

CollisionResistance, (edited ) in Housing is a Human Right, Hording unimaginable sums of Wealth, is not.
@CollisionResistance@lemmy.world avatar

They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor

-2pac

Keeponstalin,

Preach 🙏

Limit,

When the rich wage war its the poor who die.

-Mike Shinoda

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

– Plutarch

CE 45 - ~CE 119

This has literally been said by people for at least two millennia.

RustyNova, in 🧙‍♂️

Nah. It’s a great joke

EmpathicVagrant,

Honestly, though. Like that’s how I know I invited the right people to the event.

zammy95,

Agreed that it’s hilarious, but I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that if someone interrupts the portion, the officiater has to go through like… a whole process legally because of it? I don’t know if that matters realistically if he knows too and is cool though

iAvicenna,
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

one %99 percent of the attendants may not understand

zcd, in I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.

Not to mention sites blacklisting VPN IPs

Sheeple,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Try making an account without any of the 3 “approved” email addresses ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

“you’re using a sub domain, get out of here you terrorist!”

Neato,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

What are the 3? Gmail, Yahoo, AOL?

LinkOpensChest_wav,

Microsoft (Outlook/Live/Hotmail) instead of AOL

humorlessrepost,

I’ve never had a single issue with protonmail

LinkOpensChest_wav,

I haven’t either, but then there are a lot of popular sites I don’t use because they require an account.

FlyingSquid, in I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe it’s time we all go back to living like it’s the 80s. Watch OTA broadcast TV and read more books and call people on the phone instead of text them. And use computers to do taxes and word process and play simple games.

lolcatnip,

Have you seen broadcast TV? It was enshittified before the web even existed.

teft,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Why? Did you not like 8 minutes of ads in a 30 minute block of TV? What are you? A communist? /s

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I know, but at least it’s honest about it and you don’t have to pay a fee to watch it.

ClamDrinker, in I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.

Lets be real - This isn’t going to change on it’s own. The only way for it to change is if everyone collectively took a stand against it. Which simply just won’t happen. The most reasonable thing to do is to focus your energy on collectives that actively reject such practices. Oh hey, you’re already in one: Lemmy, good job. As long as we work together to create a small corner of the internet that remains true to what the internet should be, we can grow it and create a better internet in the long term.

zip,

Amen, ClamDrinker! Thanks for speaking the truth.

Dagwood222,

Or people could stop thinking small.

Back in the day, the GOP was completely controlled by Big Business. A guy named Jerry Falwell saw how Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy had gotten him elected and jumped in. He organized his people at the grassroots level. If there was a local Republican club that got 20 people at the average meeting, Jerry’s church group would show up with fifty. At the start, they were getting dog catchers and county clerks in, but eventually their power grew.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority

Dagnet, in Me Too, me too...

“How about I just heat the plate instead dipshit?”

ultra,

My plates always stay cold lol

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

But why’s it gotta be hotter than the runaway nuclear reaction at Chernobyl?

CookieManTheGreat, in I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.

The Youtube thing is breaking EU rights and they are going to trial them

This shit can be avoided by DNS blocks, Revanced, ublock (Firefox)

Fuck that all.

Custoslibera,

It’s gotten real bad for me just in the last week.

Videos load really slowly, constantly stops when I play a playlist of videos.

I have had ad blockers for over a decade now, it’s never been this bad.

CookieManTheGreat,

Youtube itself, even in a completely blank Chrome browser, runs like i have 20 downloads running and simultaneously stream 4 animes its a absolute disgrace to humanity.

ChonkyOwlbear,

I’ve been using NewPipe since I found out about it. Ad free YouTube with no slow down that I can see.

Stoneykins,

Really? My main reason for still trying to use adblockers instead of NewPipe or another frontend is that every one I’ve tried is slooooow. Is there a setting I should change or something???

tpihkal,

Same

grue,

Alternative interfaces like NewPipe, FreeTube, etc. work fine for what they are, but I prefer using a web browser because I actually like Youtube keeping track of my watch history and its recommendation algorithm works (reasonably) well for me.

All the alternative interfaces have privacy from Google as a primary design goal, so they want you to import your subscriptions and let them keep track of what you watched locally, but the consequence and downside of that is that it doesn’t synchronize across devices (e.g. FreeTube on my Linux desktop and NewPipe on my phone). At least not without a bunch of extra effort on my part manually importing and exporting, anyway.

TragicNotCute,
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

The slow erosion of my enjoyment of YouTube inspired me to get Plex set up and start rewatching some classic shows I love. It’s been a great experience. No ads, no wait times, just entertainment.

NotJustForMe, in Housing is a Human Right, Hording unimaginable sums of Wealth, is not.

I haven’t read up on official human rights. Who made them? Did someone bother to ask most humans?

This is a Sunday-morning coffee post, not a detailed world-view. Feel free to ask, but refrain from shooting things down. It’s not like I’ve spent hours on this.

How are they defined, human rights? I’d say anyone in my way to spread my genes keeps me from being a human.

As a pragmatist, I’d say breathing and eating, and perhaps warmth and caring are human rights. We can’t do any of them on our own after being born, and without them some really crappy humans emerge. Breathing should be top tier. Anyone disturbing that should be under heavy focus. Can’t do anything without air.

After that, once we are fairly independent, doing things to keep people keeping me from growing up and procreating should be my right.

Killing someone else would keep them from doing that, so not being killed by other humans seems like one. Killing others would disqualify me from being human, and I would give up my rights by that act. Straightforward stuff.

Mix in social structures, and it becomes complicated.

Being homeless? Build a commune somewhere. Why insist on being near that techno-tribe with internet. It’s nothing but a tribe, has nothing to do with survival or being human. Having modern amenities can’t be a right. Other humans invented them at some point.

Which leads to something no human should have a right to: owning land. Because owning land keeps humans from realizing their purpose and keeps them from being free to be human.

Housing is a right? That’s ridiculous. That’s a technological achievement from other people. So is monetary wealth. How can those be a right. If nobody came along inventing them, nobody would have them. Can’t be a right. At all. That is just the consequences of capitalism and ownership of natural resources.

Grayox,
@Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar

Let me spell it out for you bub, i want to: Abolish Private Property

NotJustForMe,

You do? I wonder how that would work. Can’t see it, personally.

Grayox,
@Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar
rando895,

Probably important to point this out: private property is not personal property.

E.g. An apartment building rented to tenants is the landlords private property. They have exclusive rights to the decisions, especially economic ones, regarding the building and the profits of the rent.

A car, book, house, pizza, are all your personal property so long as you don’t owe a lender anything for them.

So no private property might look like:

The people who live in an apartment building own the building collectively and have the full right therein, but the individual units are each their own personal property.

lemmesay, in I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet.
@lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I’ve come to the same terms.
other day I decided to open reddit.com and noticed that almost every other (re)post was from a bot. even the top comments were from bots.
since then I’ve added reddit to my growing blocklist.

I now spend more time on feeder, an RSS reader app.

the_post_of_tom_joad,

I haven’t been to reddit much since the api fiasco. If it’s not too much trouble can you point me to some obvious bots so i can get a feel for what that looks like?

lugal, in oh no Germany what is u doin

I heard a newspaper opinion piece in the radio here in German that clearly didn’t know the difference between genocide and holocaust. I mean, c’mon, read a book before you publish a newspaper!

kamenlady, (edited )
@kamenlady@lemmy.world avatar

There were lots of genocides in our history, but only one Holocaust and there always will be one Holocaust, even in future history, where more genocides are bound to happen, sadly.

I am German, though raised mostly in Brazil, Colombia and the USA. The Holocaust is still THE genocide in recent history. “The Nazis” is a beloved trope in the media, in order to unmistakably portray pure evil, never able to redeem itself.

Being raised in different countries, made me create very little nationalistic feelings for any country. But still, i feel the weight of what was done in WW2 … How could we do this, especially the apathy in the population. Come on, from a certain point, everybody must have known, what Hitler’s plan was.

We all know this, but there is no answer as to how this could happen, since Germans are not like this. How could we be ok with this and, as records show, proudly stand by it? It’s something looming in the background of germany’s daily life.

Nobody wants something like this to happen again, but the uncertainty of how it was possible in past, makes it really difficult to even deal with this.

This surely will change as fine passes by and future generations won’t have the Holocaust as something that happened to their parents generation.

To publicly say that Israel is going bad things, specially genocide, is something no german will be able to do easily.

The commitment given to Israel by Germany and also the USA, was a noble and only correct action in the past, but to be real, became a fucking mindmelting Problem now.

If this would be happening 200 years from now? Germany and USA would be going into this, without the much too recent WW2 baggage.

urshanabi,
@urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Why does it appear what your saying is, the novelty and or uniqueness of the tragedy of the Holocaust is and for some short time will be, the awfullest and worst loss of human life in recent history? Where do you get the audacity to make a claim like that, do you realty think without asking others throughout the world you can even begin to make such a claim? It’s because you’re german and feel really bad and learned from your mistakes and of course are sorry and this gives you a keen insight over others who are not part of a culture or society where genocide is even on the table?

I for one cannot accept it prima facie. Why would my proximity and knowledge of awful terrible events be the demarcator between whether it is or is not the worst?? Why is the convenience of checks notes it happening within the lifetimes of my immediate ancestors a useful metric besides convenience?

It’s this disgusting platitudes and preposition of “having a keen insight” also called smugness or knowing better or speaking platitudes which foments the stage and discussion for such idealistic rhetoric, devoid of trivial empirical claims, which increases the preponderance of having your voice and others like it anywhere near the centre of the stage; where, what do ya know, it’s been for the last century-and-a-half.

Let others from cultures who have no genocide on their hands speak, you and your ilk have been tolerated and have said more than enough. You’re given an inch and take a mile.

TheSanSabaSongbird,

Congratulations on writing the most pompous, pretentious and condescending pile of shit that anyone is likely to see all week. Get over yourself.

urshanabi,
@urshanabi@lemmygrad.ml avatar

nice, that’s what i was going for; appreciate the validation cde

Sanctus, in Housing is a Human Right, Hording unimaginable sums of Wealth, is not.
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

The idea that you should put complete freedom above all else has been a disaster for the human race. No, you cannot do whatever you want. No, it does not mean you are a prisoner.

EvolvedTurtle,

Not even We have just enough freedom to feel free But not enough to where we have to pay to litterly live

I can’t even afford van life tbh

Potatos_are_not_friends,

“But me not being able to say the N word is literally infringing on my rights!” - people who scream free speech

Sheeple, (edited )
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Capitalism is not freedom anyway. There is a reason we anarchists reject capitalism. We know better

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Anarchists are their own brand of stupid.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

The Human OS is not ready to be without borders unfortunately. One day, after the last smog-filled breath of air is forcefully exhumed, and all the world’s treasures fail the last baron of wealth, we will be ready. As long as our hearts are wholly material, the world will stay the same.

OurToothbrush, (edited )

We literally didn’t have borders as they exist today until a century ago lmao, they literally solidified around the formation of what we consider modern nation-states.

The human os isn’t ready for a borderless world my entire ass, the issue is the systems currently in place.

stevehobbes,

Humans have built societies with rules for forever.

And banish people outside their society.

I’m not an expert on the theory of all of this, but it seems entirely dubious that anarchy could function in any environment for long.

OurToothbrush,

Yeah, and that is not equivalent to modern borders.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Go ahead and remove their states and countries. Most people would explode. Eventually thats the way. But take an honest look around. It wont happen today

stevehobbes,

In what way isn’t it? How were the borders of the France different than the Roman Empire or Mesopotamia?

OurToothbrush,

Literally the free movement of people? Borders used to be “the zone of control of a government” and couldnt really exist as checkpoints for people moving back and forth over the border.

stevehobbes, (edited )

That feels like a distinction without a difference? The vast vast majority of physical land borders are effectively open everywhere worldwide still today.

The zone of control of a government just kicks you out if they don’t want you?

OurToothbrush,

There is a massive difference if you can practically establish who is allowed into and out of a country

stevehobbes,

So is the argument against technology that allows us to know who is who and records of who is a citizen of places?

Like, they used to record that stuff too… it was just much harder?

OurToothbrush, (edited )

They couldn’t effectively police borders, so they didn’t. Technology and population density influences the way the state works and whether they could do borders as they existed in the 20th century and exist in the 21st century.

The argument isn’t against technology, it is saying borders as they are understood here are a relatively recent technology relying on other technologies

stevehobbes,

But that’s the way borders were understood then too… it was just harder to determine who was who?

They’d kick you out and burn down your house or kill you for being an invader?

OurToothbrush,

They’d kick you out and burn down your house or kill you for being an invader?

That is a complete anachronism, unless you actually were an invader. Have you actually researched this or are you just taking your assumptions and trying to apply them to history?

stevehobbes, (edited )

Go read some Greek history on the city states and ostracism, as well as the fact that it only worked because they had slaves and subjugated women?

OurToothbrush,

Exile as punishment for a crime and keeping slaves is distinct from having a border with border controls.

stevehobbes,

Ostracism only required a vote, no crime, and no defense was allowed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism

The penalty for returning was death.

Presumably even though there were no border controls, they would kill you if you returned.

Honestly, I’m not sure what the fixation with a guy in a booth is about. Whether you get denied entry and they throw you out, or if they exile or ostracize you, what’s the difference?

OurToothbrush,

Literally whether you can control human migration between territories.

stevehobbes,

But if you can throw people out, and kill them when they come back why is it that different?

OurToothbrush, (edited )

Denying entry to random people is different than telling someone to leave?

Imagine the difference between a bar with a bouncer at the door and a bar without, and then apply that principle at a much larger scale.

stevehobbes,

Honestly, it seems the same. If a bar doesn’t want Jews in it and the bartender asks everyone if they’re Jewish or a bouncer at the door feels like a distinction without a difference.

There’s no additional liberty, the people who own the bar set the rules.

OurToothbrush,

But it makes it much harder to control who is in a space, which means in practice there are additional liberties.

NotJustForMe,

A light form was tribalism. If you didn’t go with the flow, you were expelled. With enough expelled ones, new tribes were formed. It kinda created human diversity for a while. There was only so much room on the river, so at some point more elaborate systems emerged. And the people with the biggest huts made those rules. Rules were made so that they could keep those huts. Extremely simplified.

We now don’t have places to banish people to. That’s why the cry for housing is emerging. Someone took the wild away. They should provide an alternative. I believe that’s the whole idea behind wanting the rich to pay. For some reason they were allowed to own everything. Often for centuries.

It makes little sense to people today. How was anyone allowed to walk somewhere, stake a claim, and own it forever? Even defending it with lethal force? Why aren’t we anymore?

stevehobbes,

We didn’t then either. The real issue is scale. What worked when the entire population of the human race was 100,000 doesn’t work when it’s 8,500,000,000.

You’re right that there are no wilds no, no one is getting 40 acres and a mule, and you can just inhabit a new area.

But let’s not forget that a lot of the stake a claim and defend with lethal force was literally colonialism. So many of those wilds were owned by other people, but the stronger guy with the bigger rock can kill him, take his land, take his wife.

Hardly utopia.

NotJustForMe,

Exactly the point I apparently failed to make. It never worked. Yet we are holding on to it. Just with the added caveat that the weapons are now money, and the wilds are gone.

stevehobbes,

Yes, but they’re also mostly nuts.

fin,

It’s free to be poor is what it is

Sheeple, (edited )
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Free to be poor (Includes: Threat of starvation, social shunning, homelessness, your entire life collapsing and you can be sure the state is still gonna put you into even more debt. Then put you into prison because you couldn’t pay up where you are coerced into slave labor)

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