Libra00 @ Libra @lemmy.ml Posts 0Comments 141Joined 2 wk. ago
Oh I know, but it used to be at least - on the small scale - somewhat mitigated by the fact that most people were basically decent and not trying to fuck everyone else over. I remember as a young child in the 70s that my mother shopped at a grocery store that wasn't much bigger than my house is today, a little mom and pop operation that had been open for 40 years and run by an old guy, his wife, and a couple of their kids. They knew every customer who came in, knew each others' families, and were actual acquaintances or even friends instead of merely friendly with them. Nowadays I couldn't even tell you how to go about finding a grocery store that isn't the size of my neighborhood and owned by one of maybe 5 companies. Monopolies certainly existed before, but I dunno if it was people, regulations, or what, but there was a while, when I was a kid, that at least the ground-level experience of it wasn't nearly as bad as it is now.
I mean we keep signing up for services because they're convenient or fun or interesting and every single time they start cutting corners, worsening services, being more invasive with ads, and charging more and more for the 'privilege' of doing whatever it was you were doing there. Why do we keep falling for that and then being surprised when it ends up in the same place as the last 12 platforms or whatever?
You liked him as Shane? I really disliked him in that role, dunno what it was.
Every day these people wake up and choose to exploit others to become even richer instead of building houses or paying off medical debt or whatever is a day that they choose evil.
Concurrent: at the same time - if you eat two cookies at the same time you're eating them concurrently. Cumulative: accumulating/growing over time - If you eat a cookie now and eat a cookie later you've cumulatively eaten 2 cookies. Bonus points: wouldn't it have been a lot easier to google 'define:
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' than to make a post here to get other people to answer for you? You'd get the answer a lot quicker the other way, too.Jackbox. Each one has several party games, everybody can play on their phone, and it's lots of fun while being fairly simple.
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That'd be a hell of a thing. I'm with you on that one. Too bad this country is by, for, and about the rich and we don't really.. do consequences for the rich.
No, I use duckduckgo which is powered by Bing's API. Hence why I said other privacy-focused search engine.
I looked at it briefly, the only free option I saw was 100 free searches, which will not last your average user anywhere near 30 days. Shit that might not last me 3 days depending on what I'm doing.
No, but companies are made of individual people who get more or less greedy with time, like most other attributes of people. Which is why I said 'people got greedy'.
Capitalism - and I am the last person to defend it - didn't used to be like this, or at least not as bad. shrug I could probably tolerate capitalism if, say, no company was allowed to employ more than say 15 people.
Streaming was different for years and years. But then people got greedy.
They want the old cable TV days, but worse, and filling their pockets instead.
There's a word for that: enshittification
Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.
Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}
Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?
Indeed, this is like the techbro approach to nuclear reactors, which seems like the worst of all possible worlds: all buzzwords and bullshit hiding barely-concealed scams about shit that can absolutely kill you.
I haven't, dunno anything about it.
What's the alternative? I guess you can use chatgpt or whatever as a sort of search engine? shrug
Is that something built into the browser? i dropped Brave when I heard Google was forcing the adblock-gimping shit in Manifest V3 into Chomium. Also I was never entirely keen on their crypto-hawking bullshit.