I've been reluctant on getting chromebooks because I know how much Google loves to encompass everyone into it's always-online, data farming ecosystem. Well I know that some select Chromebook models allow Linux to be installed on them to the point of telling ChromeOS to fuck off....
Look at this fucking mess with these bots and lonely losers with too much time on their hand. They've all taken a dump on multiple instances and magazines....
That's sounding like a feasible option. I've thrown myself back into Lemmy itself because I can't take the constant breaking of Kbin and seeing so much potential just trashed about in instances like this.
I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....
In a show of solidarity, the students plan to deliver petitions with more than 1,500 signatures to the two universities this week.
Petitions. Don't. Work. Especially with 1,500 signatures, because Starbucks will just scoff at that and carry on. Really dumb move, guys. If this somehow works then fine but historically speaking, has petitioning ever worked?
“As a company, we respect our partners’ right to organize, freely associate, engage in lawful union activities and bargain collectively without fear of reprisal or retaliation — and remain committed to our stated aim of reaching ratified contracts for union-represented stores in 2024,” he said.
Except the part that you guys elect to omit, is that you've purposefully allowed stores to unionize and then you've went to shut them down. You're full of shit, sir.
The raise management was referring to is an automatic pay hike workers already get each year, Gillespie said.
They might not, they may, we'll see. I did look at the article again to note that there actually had been a couple of successful victories already with other universities where they would not renew contracts with starbucks. While it is likely that Riverside might join those victories, I'm a half-glass empty kind of person saying that there's a chance it might not.
Trump is claiming broad immunity for actions he took in office, including efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results for which he faces prosecution.
Okay, I wish some people would stop going with the hyperbole that the moment people did something like this, it'd equal instant chaos. Not to say it wouldn't happen, but the fact that people always project it as immediately happening, is getting old.
That turned me off from the video. It's about as bad as a video I once watched, that toyed with the matter of what would life be without the government. And in that video, it went totally batshit with how there would be no water, schools would be poorly maintained and everywhere else would be post-apocalyptic. Like, what the fuck kind of scenario does that have to do without a government? There's more variables at play with that kind of scenario than being without a government. I digress.
But for the subject at hand, I've thought often about this sort of thing. I think if we stopped working, things would just be majorly inconvenient. I can realistically see stores being shoplifted because after a while, people see no point in waiting and getting off because there would be no one monitoring the cameras because everyone staffed at the store wouldn't be there anymore.
I just find it hard to imagine officers, nurses, doctors .etc just giving up working because those are civic essentials we can't really go without. A doctor midway during surgery just throwing their arms up and saying "fuck it"? No, I find it a little unrealistic. They'd be a murderer by negligence and I think that's something they can't live with.
I can mostly see lots of retail workers, lots of fast food workers, lots of office workers, lots of construction workers .etc abandoning their jobs more that'll affect those industries and making an impact. It'll just make things incredibly inconvenient and frustrating.
Now, what I'd want to see is people completely stop paying taxes every year. Millions of people, no longer paying taxes. Does it dare the government to arrest everyone or what? That'd be an entertaining thought.
I don't want to be filthy rich because I think I'd do a lot of dumb things more than I would doing charitable things.
I just want to be paid enough so it doesn't feel like I look at how little I have left to play around going "eh, I'm okay with this" when I know I'm not okay with this in the back of my mind.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was running out of options Monday as he pushed ahead with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down, but even including hardline border security provisions wasn’t enough to appease the far-right flank in his Republican House majority....
I'd be siding with Republicans if they had propped up plans to rebuild a newer America with stronger legislation if they really think the government we have now sucks.
But for decades, it is all about self-serving bullshit as they allow their religious beliefs and other insane ideals govern how they think which in turn, decides how they govern over others.
Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he will not run for reelection, ending a storied two-decade political career that included the 2012 Republican GOP nomination for president and a term as Massachusetts governor....
"While the jury is still out on whether Meta’s new Threads will be a Twitter killer"
Excuse me while I laugh out loud at that line. Yes because the best options people have are a reckless out of touch sycophant or a data farming sycophant. What wonderous choices...
Yes, Decentralization is the future of social media. Because we're fucking tired of all of these platforms, controlled by control freaks with lots of money and a very skewed perception on how it sees their audiences per platform. This isn't a trend. This is a movement. A movement to escape from these decaying platforms. It's not really that hard to see.
And quite frankly, Mark of all people, should stay the fuck away from the idea of decentralization. When he is part of the problem that has lead to us to go to the fediverse route. What does he know and understand with the fediverse, when he's the catalyst as to why the fediverse is more on the spotlight than ever? He is the opposite of decentralization, because all that he cares about is more people he can farm data from and sell under the table to manipulate.
If that community will behave similarly before and after using said theme and extension, then maybe it's the community. Great example shown here from the "helper".
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
Where and who am I calling names to? What's this preemptive judgment of yours? See, you're behaving exactly similar to the behaviors I've talked about.
Maybe it's you that should get over yourself, you know, heed your own advice. The internet deserves to be a place to interact without the likes of you. infesting it. You just don't like that idea and feel you've got to be the center of some attention somewhere.
No, I'm not going to be told that I'm on the "wrong side" of anything just because intolerant people inhabit where I'd like to interact with. Why is it so hard for people like you to ignore others?
And no I disagree, the only way to prevent toxicity is for a moderation team to give a damn and maybe for the toxic users to realize that they won't be tolerated. I've never understood this stance where the "best" way to deal with something is to just find your own gathering. I don't have a following and I don't want to develop some following so I feel like I can talk. Everyone should have the privilege to talk where they want without the pressure of being antagonized.
The problem isn't the other people. The problem is the individuals who get confrontational and pose problematic behaviors. Not the other way around.
Who says I'm trying to change the entirety of human behavior?
What standards?
I've been hopping an awful lot from platform to platform at this point, trying to find this "comfort". You and other people have been encouraging this idea of isolation which isn't healthy on the human mind, just so you know, so you're coming off as blatantly unhelpful.
Changing people's behaviors isn't my goal, infact, I am having difficulty finding this invented problem you've made about changing people's behaviors. When, all I've said up and down, that I've noted of said behaviors and that I advocate we should not welcome it. Where are you getting this concept, besides inventing it, that it is about changing behavior? You can't change an asshole's behavior, they're going to be assholes regardless. All I'm saying is to reject it and make them unwelcome because they have no place in ecosystems where we're all trying to collectively be contributing and civil whereas, they're not.
I'm probably some of the few people who'll actually be glad to be moderating large communities. The problem is that, people wouldn't like how I handle things because god forbid I actually move and act to resolve problems. Than letting it sit there and just remain untouched like I see so other instances of moderation do.
I really don't see the purpose of karma and why places like Lemmy and Kbin feel that they have to implement. Karma isn't my concern, it has only been my concern when it comes to Reddit because they tie karma directly to your account to where it affects how much you post and where. If that doesn't happen at all in either Lemmy or Kbin - why have it at all?
Quite frankly, karma systems across all walks of all social media platforms is it's own disease. Even if it serves no purpose, it has a hold on many people to think and act in reflection to how much karma they've accumulated. I've noticed the more karma someone has, the more narcissistic they become, the more that they feel they've above someone and feeling untouchable. Why, because their count outnumbers yours. People with low karma count don't really care, because unless you're on Reddit, no affects. However that routes back to my earlier point.
You must have a very distinctive description in how you define what stalking is. I'm going by the universally agreed definition of what stalking is. This is, on all accounts, stalking and they knew that.
I can't quite care. Because, I know very well that I'm not the one who threw the first stone in the first place. But everyone still hasn't grown up past the phase in their childhood where they can't take accountability for their actions, so it MUST be the person they're scapegoating because that person is addressing the shit they refuse to owe up to. It's very childish and I'm ashamed to know so many self-acclaimed "sophisticated adults" behave like children, still.
You're making it sound like I'm running for some office, which isn't the case. Might want to tune down the dramatizing tone a bit.
Why should I have to be hopping because people decide, mind you, to be intolerant? It's a you problem, not a me problem, as hard as a fight as you're trying to win in making me believe otherwise. You're spinning so hard.
One of which was committed. They directly linked an entirely different post and asked if it was me. That's entirely stalking. I know you're trying so hard to be righteous in everything but, learn to be wrong for once. It's embarrassing how desperate you are to paint me as the villain and to make yourself look virtuous. God, I can feel the entitlement levels from here.
But I'm done with you, because you're clearly unreasonable. Blocked.
If you were in my scenario, you'd totally be saying it different but just because you're on the outside of it, you're pretty ignorant. Therefore, you should shut up. :)
Do you just love living a life, where you think you know everything and place people in some little organizer that you define people as, personally? Because you're doing exactly the same thing as you're claiming as to what I'm doing, just to make yourself look better and righteous.
That's the kind of mentality I see all around Reddit as also. Nobody is accountable for their own behavior, it's always the other person's fault and it's always the other person who is the toxic one. Somehow. Someway. Despite condemning evidence to the contrary for all to see, how it's all of the people pegging rocks at them. It's exactly how it is in school, with bullying, only it's amplified online. Does it make you feel superior? Does it make you feel better? What is the precise reason do you feel, that you have to behave this way?
I'm pretty confident it is some insecurity within you that you shroud so well, but I can see the cracks already just by your reply alone. May I advise that maybe you should take some time outdoors, instead of like, making up characters out of baseless assumptions to satisfy your pseudo intelligence?
Yeah I'm sure you've got it from my stalker, who has defenders that say he wasn't...stalking? Huh, funny how people have such a deranged difference in what means what to them.
You're overshooting the problem and I really doubt you care about me so drop the act. You didn't even read a single word of what my post was about, so you're just like the few here who're running off baseless assumptions, twisting contexts and regurgitating through your own filter to come to the conclusion you've made.
KBin does not have the perfect blocking tool. A perfect blocking tool would be is if nobody saw my profile and I wouldn't see them replying that includes a string of what they'd be saying, that's adding fuel to the fire on purpose. That to me, is a flawed tool that needs to be fixed.
I don't need such advice as that's what I've been trying to do. But again, the blocking tool is insufficient. All users, I believe, deserve tools to lock their own threads and block. But, that's be "bad" according to some, well, boo hoo. They wouldn't tell anyone that they'd do the same at any given time if they found someone they didn't like.
And I'm not fooled either, I know now that I have stalkers who're going to follow me in every way. Just like they did referring to that Lemmy post, because it's not stalking when they do it, but stalking if someone else did it. And I do presume there's going to be spiteful engagements, forget about the downvoting, because that doesn't mean anything on here.
However, I'm forever going to be the demonized one, despite the huge contrast.
I never said anything to the likes about how Reddit is out to get me. That's the picture you and every other insecure idiot that's been projecting all of this time. I make a little PSA and you guys interpret it as conspiracy. Makes me think that there's a mix of conspiratards in here too. That's not a me problem, it's you problem. But you guys just refuse to accept that reality, which places you in a different realm than where I'm at.
That's how it's been in my experience. The blocking ratio just amped up more than engaging. This whole thread is probably the most invested I've ever gotten in a long time, probably just out of morbid curiosity meets trying to find an understanding in something I already know what to expect based on previous experiences. Otherwise, the blocks have been trickling more now. Anytime I start having to have block parades on any platform, I just know that my experience on any platform is going to be limited.
You can't even rant and vent about anything on there anymore. There's like a group of self-proclaimed curators going around that is judging what's a validated rant or not. There's just a lot of stupid characters people play themselves up as on Reddit and even on other platforms like this one. They must live incredibly boring lives to go the lengths they've had to act like this, while still proclaiming the people they're targeting, are the problem.
a few thousand people coming together to make the entirety of r/place say "FUCK SPEZ" at the end is insane but we all know they're just gonna go back to using reddit in like 20 minutes
I've got an HP Chromebook 11 G4 coming to me soon and I want to install Linux on it ( kbin.social )
I've been reluctant on getting chromebooks because I know how much Google loves to encompass everyone into it's always-online, data farming ecosystem. Well I know that some select Chromebook models allow Linux to be installed on them to the point of telling ChromeOS to fuck off....
Yeah um...what future... ( kbin.social )
Look at this fucking mess with these bots and lonely losers with too much time on their hand. They've all taken a dump on multiple instances and magazines....
Can KBin not like, freak out at any turn when surfing on it? ( kbin.social )
I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....
Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity, US court rules ( www.bbc.com )
The former president loses a landmark legal bid to shield him from charges of election fraud.
UCLA, UC Riverside students petition to remove Starbucks from campuses, they want the licensing agreements suspended until the company ends its union-busting campaign ( www.dailynews.com )
Is it just me or are 9-5 hours naturally the most stifling?
for me at least, 8 hours any other time of the day is less bad than the constant awful grind of 9-5...
Supreme Court sidesteps decision on Trump presidential immunity claim in federal election interference case ( www.nbcnews.com )
Trump is claiming broad immunity for actions he took in office, including efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results for which he faces prosecution.
Rudy Giuliani hit with $148M verdict for defaming two Georgia election workers ( www.nbcnews.com )
An attorney for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, had urged the eight-person jury to “send a message” with its verdict.
What If We Just...Stopped Working? - Second Thought ( www.youtube.com )
I'm not asking to be rich. ( lemmy.world )
[Analysis] Speaker McCarthy is running out of options to stop a shutdown as conservatives balk at a new plan ( apnews.com )
WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was running out of options Monday as he pushed ahead with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down, but even including hardline border security provisions wasn’t enough to appease the far-right flank in his Republican House majority....
[News] Utah GOP Sen. Mitt Romney won't seek reelection in 2024, marking end to decadeslong political career ( apnews.com )
Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he will not run for reelection, ending a storied two-decade political career that included the 2012 Republican GOP nomination for president and a term as Massachusetts governor....
Is decentralization the future of social media? | Engadget ( www.engadget.com )
Meta’s adoption of ActivityPub could expose a lot more people to the power, and perils, of decentralized social networks..
Maybe it's fine to leave some people behind... ( lemmy.ca )
does anyone regret deleting their Reddit accounts during the failed protest? ( kbin.social )
just curious if anyone regrets going nuclear...
Be wary of spiteful Reddit users ( kbin.social )
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...