I agree and recognized that. I’m more emotionally upset about it tbh. The debates aren’t for the debaters, it’s to hopefully disillusion and remove indoctrinated fears from those on the fence willing to read them. It’s oft repeated there when people ask “what’s the point, same stupid debate for centuries.” Well religions unfortunately persist, and haven’t lost any ground globally. Gained, actually. Not our fault they have no new ideas.

I won’t tell you.about civiity because

How could that do anything besides shield the sealions, JAQoffs, and grifters?

Not shield, but amplify.

That’s the point of the subreddit. I’m not defending them if that’s at all how I came across.

ChatGPT debate threads are plaguing /r/debateanatheist too. Mods are silent on the users asking to ban this disgusting behavior.

I didn’t think it’d be a problem so quickly, but the chuds and theists latched onto ChatGPT instantly for use in debate forums.

Worthless research.

That subreddit bans you for accusing others of speaking in bad faith or for using ChatGPT.

Even if a user called it out, they’d be censored.

Edit: you know what, it’s unlikely they didn’t read the side bar. So, worse than worthless. Bad faith disinfo.

Youtube 3rd party apps do nothing but deal with privacy issues and still rely on YouTube infra which means also dealing with the censorship and copyright systems. Meanwhile you’re just seen as a leech, including by creators since they get no ad rev from you watching. I adblock too, so that includes myself.

What are the viewers watching on alternative platforms with no video creators besides crypto bros and political extremists too edgy for YouTube?

Realistically I don’t see anything happening besides the usual tried and true method now:

They self own their own website so hard with repeat scandals until an exodus happens and hope it’s your new decentralized platform instead of another corpo centralized platform… which is most likely because the way I see it done is with big bags of money and contracts with creators.

Viewers can’t do shit but watch where the creators are. Up to creators to organize. I see tubers bitching about payment and copyright. Can cry me a river, if they only offer videos on a single platform.

I was perfectly fine with YouTube before monetization.

It’s just funny now.

My parents bought laptops together around 2013 that they still use today, just with new batteries and SSD upgrades.

Windows 10 was already pushing it, I had to do some funky things to stop Windows from overwriting old drivers with newer versions that broke stuff like the trackpads. Now they have Fedora KDE spin. The GUI is similar enough when all you do is use Thunderbird, Firefox, and the File Explorer.

Changing OS was still scary to them, so I just brought over a live USB for them to test drive.

Muted in the English world. I argue junk food commercials draw a lot of parallels with cigarette commercials of the past. For some reason obesity isn’t worth prevention so the advertisements are pretty gross.

Soft drinks. Coca Cola especially really loves to tie emotions and sports/holidays to sugar water.

If it was actually AI sure.

This is an unthinking machine algorithm chewing through mounds of stolen data.

Unfortunately, Canada too. Very annoying.

I’m union blue collar, but yeah there’s still branded swag and free meals/snacks during most meetings or training OT at least where I’m at.

Canadian plant, Texan ULC.

Didn’t know that :/ Hmm might switch myself then and delete my recc.

Something is, since conservatives appear to be the same organization operating globally now.

But I really think they’re opportunists mostly just dumbly copy catting each other with se exceptions.

Mind virus.

That’s cool, I hope ONLYOFFICE gets some love one day too. I vastly prefer the GUI at least in the word processor. Also open source.

note I’m only using it for writing, can’t speak to the rest of the suite

It can be a little awkward to look up 😅

Now poorly enforceable!

Every day I’m happier I chose not to have kids.

Can’t be many of us who thought the web search engine company would turn into the killbot company.

Echoes back to the Facebook leaker

There’s no bar too low except that which receives continuous ceaseless push back against people who push things like this.

There isn’t enough push back to matter. So the bar lowers.

Does AMD who makes their APU factor into this at all or is it just greed?

Zero women have tried to make one so far regardless of how many would use a new instance. So it can’t be all that in demand.

I think it naturally would occur if Lemmy grows in size. There’s not many people here to begin with.