40C is a decently warm idle temperature, is your cooling system powerful enough?
Mmm, I'm sure a pizza party will make up for them not being able to pay rent
Fair enough. Honestly both of them are rather irrelevant to me because I don't use microblogging social media platforms, so I have no stake in the fight.
Fully agreed. While it is morally positive to avoid especially unethical companies, ultimately it's not possible in all cases. As long as you try to be moral in your day to day actions and you on some level push for things to be better, you're not morally culpable for the failings of the current system.
Technically it was "Cash money" of them, that money just apparently isn't for you.
Nice try religionists. I think therefore I am.
This is the kind of person that gets Florida man articles written about them.
It always takes just a bit longer than you expect it to.
Oh, I'm fully aware. That's honestly the kicker, they could host those apps on the web and have me be able to access everything through my browser, but no, instead I have to install their stupid apps just so they can harvest my data.
Absolutely. Sunaurus's communication and the friendliness of this instance is why I came here when VLemmy went down. I have nothing but praise for the way this instance is run and for its performance.
Welcome @Matt_Glan@lemm.ee and @Aris@lemm.ee. I may be new to this instance, but I have always held a high opinion of lemm.ee and am happy to see the admin team expand!
I live in a Capitalist nation. The ultra-wealthy have held disproportionate control over mass media here for as long as it has existed, and ultimately whether Zuckerberg or Musk win their stupid competition over microblogging honestly won't impact me one way or another. Obviously their right-wing beliefs impact me, and their messaging will generally make politics in the U.S. worse, but this is a genuinely a case where they're both bad and I'm not sure who's worse, so why take a side in the Threads vs. Twitter discourse when I use neither? I like Mastadon as an idea and I think it has good features, but microblogging generally does better with more centralization because it puts all of the influencers, celebrities, and politicians in one place, and normies seem to find Mastadon's federation confusing, so it hasn't taken off.