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That's a good point about the 'liveness' of the tweet I didn't think about. I'm not on twitter so most tweets I see are screencaps, taken at the time of posting usually probably, for all I know tweets I see could be fake altogether hah. This feature is great for their business in more ways then, it makes it look like they care about the truthfulness of what is spread on the site, but still allows for uninformed propagandizing.

The people don't want to do the simple thing of quitting, but that's because through their manipulative actions places like Reddit have become essential in some people's lives. I don't blame the people addicted for creating cigarettes, I see it similar to that. There are many well researched techniques companies like Reddit use to keep people using their services. It's a bigger issue than the people addicted, but I do agree with your general point.

His primary genius has been in marketing himself, for a little while long ago I actually thought he might be one of the fabled 'good billionaires'. But I think it's hard to live as a fake self for years, he's probably much more self-satisfied and validated now, showing his true self as a massive asshole.

An annoying thing about authoritarians and right-wingers is that the context doesn't matter. People trying to have a rational discussion care, but reactionaries trolling on twitter are trying to inflict damage.

I was about to say "at least people will see him as stupid when he says shit like this" but anyone still a fan of him think he's playing some kind of grand scheme or whatever, ruffling feathers but still genius.

Proper pizza is greasy as fuck, if you haven't had pizza dripping with grease I am worried for your range of pizza experiences.

I wonder how many Youtube users today ever used it when it used quicktime player, you could actually pause and buffer the entire video, it wouldn't ever jump into an ad, it was the glory days. Aside from the fact it took a few minutes to load at times ahah.

I wonder how many people have an ad tolerance like me. Those ads are fine for most people but I get so annoyed by even that. The entire concept upsets me. I don't want to be told what I'm supposed to want, ever, by some corporation unless I ask them.

These major corps are pulling some absolute bullshit all the time with this kind of stuff. People are frustrated with the rich in general, but I think they don't even comprehend the amount of fuckery that is pulled on us all.

One example, I have an android phone from 2017 that still works great. Luckily the company that made it doesn't go hard on planned obsolescence seemingly, but I was curious about replacing it, and new comparable phones are more expensive than mine was, have more bloatware preloaded, and lower specs to top it off. To be fair though they do have incredible new cameras.

When someone shares an opinion online, it's like people think it's supposed to be an argument to win and you are wrong, it's annoying as shit. I get irritated seeing comments like your first one get downvoted lol.

It's awesome that so many people are using things like the services you mention, but even in the most basic old-school way that I dl things to watch I find it monumentally better than trying to deal with Netflix or whatever other service. I can have the full file, no buffering or compression, with all the settings of VLC no matter what the media is. And with my internet speed I can download things more quickly than I can even get snacks ready.

This is the communist worker propaganda poster of the future