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Dad wolf "The boy ain't right." and as someone who's part of the human race that loves to destroy each other while also destroying the planet even faster... dad's probably correct.

Also: we're still not going to pay you, but treat you worse. And if you quit, and the people after you keep quitting... we're going to have to replace you with PAID moderators... and if you play your cards right and we forget who you are, you might be one of those paid mods, so uh... shut up and get back to work for free!

Wow, why do execs keep thinking of this bullshit? They never stop and think, "Wow, I would hate to see this and it'd make me use an adblocker or move to any other platform which is NOT doing this, which is ALL of them right now."?

Same with Youtube and its 30 second unskippable ad trials (which I always would respond to by exiting the video AND out of the app on Roku). Plus the ad agencies who don't stop and think, "Hey this would make me HATE this company and boycott it out of spite rather than buy their product, and it gives ALL of my competitors free advertising because now people forced to watch this will search for our competitors and buy their product just because they hate us now"

I've done this, and found out that the competitors don't need to advertise because they have a better product for a lower (or the same) price. They also have tons of word of mouth advertising going on both on the internet and in real life.

If they just asked their own friends and family if it was a good idea (with those who would be honest) they'd find this shit out REAL quick. Hence the existence of books like "Your ad ignored here".

Kind of disappointing for me for 1 reason. When I heard of Google Glass, I thought it might be great for the niche application of having it start recording when you're looking at your kids or pets in case they might do something cute. Because by the time they're already doing it, by the time you've brought out your phone (or other camera) to record it, it's already done.

High-ish res camera glasses that you could start recording with via voice command or a quick button touch would have been a godsend for me to record my dog or various neighborhood dogs and cats doing cute things before they were totally finished with or almost finished with them.

Yep, I honestly don't know why it's popular outside of making voice chat parties with text / image sharing as a backup.

As a community communication tool, it's a big mess. Just a glorified version of IRC which is hard to follow and search. The lack of archiving just makes it that much worse.

They warned us even back in the 70's that it was bad, then it'd suddenly get worse all of a sudden with little to no warning as things snowballed, but of course the oil execs just tried to shut up their own scientists and block them from influencing congress instead of listening. Even though they were warned that the threat was "Existential".

For me it's more like: me upvoting my old comment because I forgot I wrote it because I think "Hey, this guy's being reasonable and not yelling at people and stated both positives and negatives about a subject while trying to present a balanced view."

Then a few seconds later, looking at the username and realizing, "Oh hey... that was me."

Alternatively: "This was useful advice and solved my hardware problem, upvote" and then realizing it was also me, but I'd forgotten that I once knew the solution to that hardware (or software) problem.

Edit: although to be fair, in both of these circumstances (particularly the second) I'm talking about the entire internet in general rather than kbin / lemmy.

Yep, Softbank seems to have a gift for investing in stuff that fails. Kind of sad to see, I heard that it and Masayoshi Son were decent at business at first.

TLDR: He doesn't forgive anyone who sins, he forgives those who repent. Repent not meaning "feeling sorry" as many seem to explain, but actually meaning "to turn away" which means changing fundamentally as a human being. From a bad person to a good person.

Someone who doesn't change and act good most of the time isn't repentant, so isn't forgiven. So basically, you prove it with your actions and how you live your life, not with just words only. By this measurement, Republican "Christians" aren't repentant and so aren't forgiven.

Not a Christian anymore, but I used to be for a very long time. Sidebar: "You will know a tree by it's fruit" AKA you'll know what kind of person someone is by what they do. Anyone who's even skimmed the bible (especially the new testament) would easily understand that most conservative "christians" aren't Christian at all, but rather like the Pharisees (phony religious types) that Jesus constantly argued with and condemned.

Other note: Sikhs actually live the way Christian claim to. I could easily make a "hard to swallow pill" meme which said: "Sikhs are better Christians than actual Christians are."

Rather than doing this, they should work on the reasons WHY people are using adblockers. Some totally unrelated to ads, like those huge end-cards that block the video that you're still trying to watch. I use adblockers to remove those.

You used to be able to turn their predecessors off, but the new ones? I haven't found a way to turn them off without using ad-blockers. Even with Youtube Premium (which gets rid of the ads) I STILL have ot use U-block origin to get rid of those damned end-cards.

Because lemmings are cute. Lemons are just something you squeeze the juice out of to make lemonade or just lemon water to clean your liver.

What situation are you being put into? Does it involve Mike the Situation? Is this New Jersey?