lamentforicarus

I disagree that carrying a child to term is low effort. It absolutely wrecks a woman’s body. Really what you should respond with is, “I didn’t ask to be here. I didn’t consent to being born.”

Honestly, check out some of the smaller games as well. Botw and Totk and other Nintendo-based games are amazing, but I’ve found a lot of indie games fun (e.g., Cult of the Lamb, Hollow Knight, Oxenfree, Spiritfarer, Gris, etc.). The smaller games also get deals the most.

I thought Christianity is like that because it was based on Judaism, and Judaism is like that because the Hebrews kept getting killed. Hard to keep a people if they don’t reproduce and you are constantly enslaved or at war.

None of this is ever going to change until regular people start voting for their own betterment, at least in America. There are more of us than them, but half of us are trapped in the idea that we’re going to be millionaires someday. Or apathy.

By that thinking Bill Gates has done nothing but harm, yet he has done leaps and bounds for health research. They’re one of the few reasons malaria is even getting research money. He’s probably a narcissistic ass, and I’m sure he’s partially supporting the foundation for taxes/clout, but he’s actually saved the lives of people. If they want to spend their millions and billions on helping people for clout, then go for it. It’s better than whatever the fuck Musk is doing.

This is basically me, although I started a few years ago. I always plan for 12 a year but usually go over. I do use my phone though. I check out books from the library using Libby. I’ve found having a book on my phone gives me an excuse not to browse social media before bed. I’m hoping to get into Discworld soon, but I find it a bit daunting.

I just got The Book That Wouldn’t Burn and am reading it next. I’m happy to see the world-building and characters hold true to Lawrence’s usual level.

I agree but they shouldn’t be assholes about it. Don’t rag on someone making less than you.

I don’t think anyone truly believes the site is ending from our actions. It is more to trash the place on the way out. Reddit will make a clean sweep and everything will go back to their perception of normal, except a whole lot of active users will have left. It will sustain itself on bot reposts for a while, but in a couple of years the place will be boring and lack the humanity that made it great. People will wander off and end up where the humanity is, which might be the fediverse but maybe not. Everything is currently up in the air, but the shift has started. It’s like how everyone used Facebook until they didn’t. Sure, some people still use it, but a lot of people moved elsewhere.

I wish there was a way for all users to grab their data back and agree to sell it back to reddit if they want to profit from it. They truly do not understand that people are mad because they are trying to profit off of free labor.

This is absolutely false information. Third party business associates are considered covered entities under the Privacy Rule. The hospital signs a contract with a collection agency and thus that business can now access your health information as an institute of the hospital. You don’t need to sign away your rights if it is considered an essential activity of the hospital, which billing and payments are. Also, it’s HIPAA.

And you aren’t being treated anywhere without signing a privacy HIPAA notice.

I don’t believe at all that I have any privacy on the internet. As someone in the US, I pretty much assumed I lost that when Bush signed the Patriot Act. My dislike of Meta joining has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with their love of destroying good things for the sake of profit. I have no desire for yet another thing to become a corporate bullshit farm. This is honestly my last resort. If the fediverse is dismantled for profit, I’ll just stop any type of social media whatsoever. It’s not worth it to me.

I think charging to use the API is fine, but it was definitely overpriced to the point that it was obvious they wanted to nuke TPAs. They need all that sweet user data to sell to others, and they can’t get to that with TPAs.