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Using the B word is class reductionist. Please say "Person of Means" /s
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
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Are they truly persons of means if they don’t use said means to enact change in the world?
Oh they'll enact change, alright. Just not the kind you'd like.
That’s because they’re evil.
That's why they could become rich in the first place
There's no such thing as a billionaire without blood on their hands.
That's what the M in billionaire stands for
err, try that again maybe?
In that case, they're persons of ends, and their end is to justify their means
First in line when the revolution comes.
Person of beans
Largely because their wealth is speculative and they require those ads to keep the charade running.
Some of them oscillate between billionaire and millionaire, so just call them person of means or "leech"
You joke but why don't we apply that human rights knowledge and integrate billionaires into society? Of course there are huge power issues. Why does this make dehumanization suddenly acceptable?
Instead of letting Forbes compile a list, what could be a good start for interactions?
Blots and blood eagles.
And for the more squeamish Car bombs private jet edition.
Ads should not be called "served". Food is served, something you actually want is served. Ads are pushed, shoved even.
New and frankly awesome perspective for me. Thanks. It should be outlawed as coercion.
I’m gonna start calling it pushed
Every time Windows goes against everything I ever told it to do and opens something in Edge (ugh), I get a popup telling me they "protected me" by removing the AdBlock extension, even taking the gaslighting as far as suggesting that I probably added it by mistake 🤬
Please consider trying linux. Although I‘m having my fair share of issues using ubuntu desktop atm, I have a complex setup and am insanely thickheaded and entitled because I‘m a linux server admin. So, a windows user who switches to a clean linux mint install should be ok.
Fun fact: a ton of games work wonderfully on linux now.
I've already switched to Lubuntu on my ancient laptop and for just streaming/watching media in vlc, browsing and sometimes torrenting, which is all that it can really do with the ancient hardware, a lightweight distro such as that is many times better than Windows was. It's several times more stable and also quite a bit faster than it was!
As for taking the plunge on my main, though, that's a whole different kettle of ballgames. Being able to run every game, including ones from "less official sources", more or less effortlessly is my main priority on that one and afaik not even the gaming-centric distros have gotten THAT far, especially with Nvidia GPUs, which is what I have in the main..
Tell me about it… I researched a ton but the problems with nvidia and the emergence of better and better amd drivers (and I think now intel as well) for linux was pretty hard to get so I ended up with an nvidia gpu and I hate it a little bit. I mean, it works but I assume it would have been a lot easier. Lets hope nvidia gets the hint at some point (like microsoft did by making shit more repairable).
Anyway, good for you. I just switched on my main and so far its pretty good, games wise. Tbf I run everything on steam rn. I haven’t tried the other stuff (blizzard stuff, far cry, etc). I am not opposed to „alternative means“ but I happen to be happy with the reduced price games on steam etc.
I would absolutely try and dual boot for a bit at least. :)
You can check if the games you regularly play work on Linux with protondb.
I have seen that recently. Thank you very much.
Is there a way to see the list of unsupported games? That's the 20% of the data I'm interested in.
Not that I know of. From my understanding is that most games work but any sort of anticheat ~~spyware~~ software won't work.
Sadly a ton of games is just a small portion of the many games people like to play
Yes, of course. Still, nobody plays all of them and the number is growing massively thanks to steam deck. So people should consider it and make an informed decision.
I noticed something odd about Craigslist, some years ago, no advertising. I looked into it and saw the website is run by the non-profit Craigslist foundation. Natch.
just started looking for a new job for the first time since around 2008.. am i correct to assume that absolutely NOTHING is real any more? not just craigslist (which is funny to think i'm looking for a job there to begin with, but fuck i've checked everything). i've sent out so many resumes, and i think it's all just fake posts collecting data. how does anyone apply for a fucking job these days? i can't even find reputable postings for call centers any more.
haha can't get me here dumbass.
I just deleted my Reddit account and will delete my Twitter too as soon as I get my data export.
Unfortunately, I'll have to wait for Instagram, Facebook & WhatsApp until most people I know will move to a Fediverse alternative too.
Or just don't use them? Especially Instagram and Facebook.
Yeah exactly. I just use it because of friends and family but I have 0 posts on it. Just checking it every day to see what other people do
Watched an interesting thing a while back about how home color choices used to be all vibrant and change with generations and whatnot. But they've been muted greys and black tones for so long now because ads are supposed to be eye-catching and all that jass. So most people don't decorate that way because we all subconsciously just want a break from all these fucking ads.
5 minutes? Hah, that's a funny joke! It's probably closer to 5 nanoseconds. Those greedy dirt bags would literally force the Internet to serve forced ads with the death penalty given out for blocking them if they could.
Ublock origin my beloved
Laughs in Blokada system wide ad/tracking blocking!
That's why i use a Private DNS.
With my adblocker and custom dns they haven't served me an ad in years.