fonix232

Up until the last sentence, you were correct.

Of course it’s a money/power thing.

I’ve been saying this for a long time - the prevalence of paedophilia within the ultra rich circles is simply too high compared to the average population to mean that they’re all “true” paedophiles (and by that I mean the clinical definition of paedophilia, attraction to children pre- and peripubescent). No, it’s a different sickness altogether, a special flavour of narcissism that also drives their constant greed.

At the end of the day, there’s very few of the actually rich who didn’t get there by having this specific kind of narcissism, the constant want for “more” - let it be money, power, influence. And what is the ultimate feeling of power? If you said “getting away with the most heinous of crimes”, you got it right.

Yeah, I’m actually arguing here that most of these rich fuckers aren’t raping kids because they’re actually attracted to them, but because they’re getting off on the power play aspect on it. I’d even argue that there’s another aspect to either the Epstein trafficking ring, or maybe a separate one (after all you don’t put all your eggs in one basket), specifically geared towards not the “rape games”, but “murder games” (I can fully see people like Peter Thiel spending their free time with a nice relaxing human hunt…).

So just to get back on topic… Yes of course it’s about fucking power and money. Again, you don’t get to that level of riches without having that constant urge to own more and more, to feel more privileged than the “plebs” by getting away with murder and rape… So of fucking course this ain’t gonna be limited to one party. One party will be over-represented but these fuckers can’t stand not being in power so obviously they’ll infiltrate any and all political movement that even remotely has the potential to grab power.

Okay I’m drawing a blank on this, who is she?

Edit: Jesus what’s with the downvotes? You guys do realise that not everything revolves around US politics and not everyone will be familiar with every single “famous” person you consider well known?

You’re never too young to dye.

In fact, fuck societal norms, go crazy, try some funky colours! Do a half-length bleach to platinum blonde, add a green or turquoise strip, do frosted tips but instead of keeping them blonde, dye em copper red… The world’s your oyster.

Or just keep the gray patches, chicks dig it.

Double the vibrations double the fun 😘

This is big

Donald Trump to Bill Clinton

Plus, family and friends won’t care. Oh no, you were horny and did something dumb? Ain’t nobody can say they haven’t done anything similar. Shit happens.

Besides, nowadays revenge porn laws are super strict - any image/video released publicly would be taken down quite quickly, and it wouldn’t stick around to haunt you. At most your mum will get an eyeful of yer cock and it’s not like she hasn’t seen it before, or would do anything with it besides delete it and block whoever sent it.

This is the point where you’d enable push notifications (if Fediverse apps had them), then put your phone on vibrate and then use it as a… personal massager.

*paedo

Meta sold Quest headsets at a loss to cover the market. Valve sold the Index for profit.

And beyond the aggressive pricing, the one major benefit over other miniPC makers is the extensive support.

I have a Minisforum mini PC. Took Minisforum over a year to release BIOS updates that were finished in March 2024… and against all CS promises it still hasn’t fixed the initial discrepancies (advertised as the only 8945HS mini PC that can go over 57W due to their improved cooling, and the only Ryzen 8000 series APU that can handle RAM at 5400-5600MT/s - still can’t get power over 57W and even though I have compatible RAM, it refuses to clock over 4800MHz, and there’s no option to configure it either).

Meanwhile Valve is still dropping improvements on the Steam Deck, 3.5 years after release.

Based on the specs it is a bit bumped up Ryzen 7000/8000 series (Zen 4 arch), with a beefed up GPU (sounds to be about two 780Ms soldered together with a bit of overclocking).

I wouldn’t be surprised if MS wanted a mid-generation upgrade to the Xbox but the current economic situation put a damper on it before the hardware could fully materialise and AMD ended up with a practically ready for production APU they couldn’t sell to anyone before Valve strolled up.

Oh I fully agree with you. Marketing in general is one of the most evil business segments - only a notch above phone scammers, really. All of it is edged out not to actually market a product but to sell it to you no matter what. Doesn’t matter if you need it, or if you can afford it, or if what they say about the product is true or not, the goal is to sell sell sell. Nothing else matters but taking your money.

I feel incredibly split on ads.

On one hand the incessant need to market things can be actually positive, offsetting service expenses, allowing things to be cheaper. Streaming is a perfect example of this, as people don’t seem to realise just how expensive it is to maintain the infrastructure for it compared to traditional cable infrastructure, not to mention keeping the apps maintained and bugfixed etc., and then we haven’t even talked about things like content licencing fees, residuals, and so on. Residuals alone mean that a single user can stream enough in just one month to “spend” their whole annual subscription fee on a single actor’s residuals (this is technically unlikely, as one would need to stream a singular TV show or movie 24/7 for 30 days, but still possible).

And obviously people want to pay less. The least possible, that is. Netflix at $5.99 was a steal. Disrupting cable, globally. But that price was also only possible because of various venture capitalists investing heavily in Netflix, which allowed them to pay for the service mostly from that money, and keep prices low to acquire more users. The recent hikes (all the way up to what, $20?) are the result of venture capital drying up, as Netflix went from a market-shaker startup to revenue generating machine. Which is the point of capitalism, isn’t it? Take an ide and make profit/revenue off it.

So how do you offset these increases? By involving a third party who’s willing to pay you, in return for inserting their service into yours, essentially providing your userbase to them. This would mostly be… Advertisers. Marketing.

The problem is that advertising is a cutthroat business, with intense (and incredibly dumb) KPIs to fulfill. For which they need targeting, for which they need data. And this constant crusade for absolutely pinpointed ads that result in the most sales is what’s making it such a disgusting business. It’s not enough to shove ads in your face, those ads HAVE to be perfectly tailored to you, and for that, every smidge of information will be utilised against you.

And this is where I’m torn. On one hand, taking these fuckers’ money to make services we do want, more affordable, is great. On the other hand, them wanting to know literally everything about us, and weaponising it against us, is fucking disgusting.

Not really just short form, it’s more of a take on video feeds rather than just the limited length quickcontent Vine was famous about.

Obviously the focus is still on short(ish) content format, but I see more and more people transition to longer videos to deliver content. On YT/Facebook most videos I see nowadays are 10min or above.

Actually, no, the initial limit was precisely because of SMS character limits - Twitter in the first few years had an SMS gateway where you could send a text and it would be posted under your account.

Obviously later on it was an arbitrarily kept limit, but the limit itself, even doubled, makes it a horrible platform for any kind of debate.

The whole idea behind Twitter (character limits etc.) was obviously a bad idea from the moment texting became obsolete thanks to IM services.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

On a more serious note, I feel the same.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually do like my job. I’m working with people I like, I like what I’m actually doing, and I’m not waking up with dread every (or really, any) morning. I can’t even complain because I’m getting paid well, great benefits, tons of time off (so much in fact that my manager had to force me to take Fridays off until EOY just so I use up my base rate PTOs), great bonus situation, lots of options to travel, management is generally good as well.

But every single day, I just feel exhausted after work. Even when I’m WFH, or have little actually exhausting tasks to do… I’m just exhausted. Tired. No energy for anything but running a quick bath, or shower, reading for an hour or two, then sleeping.

In fact this lack of energy has been so bad recently that I’ve taken to inserting a workout+cooking+everythingelse hour in the middle of my WFH days just so things get done.

Fedisniper strikes again. When will this terror end?

Of course it’s a losing battle. Remember what Sartre said:

Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Conservatives around the world for the past ~30 years (if not longer) have been slowly adopting fascist methods and talking points. And for the past ~10 years, conservatives and fascists have formed a Venn diagram of a circle.