Have you considered that plenty of people probably find your advice stupid and condescending regardless of saying the word “airpod”?

Or that the word airpod was also unnecessary since you already said headphones?

Apple defaultism is pretty dumb on its own, but it’s hardly the biggest problem with your comment.

Nah. I’ve had a domain registered with them for years and I just got the email too

Thanks for picking up where the summary dropped the ball

What kind of monster doesn’t like lower decks‽

Did he break the warp barrier in the first 18 minutes?

Tom. Gotta be Tom

FWIW I home at midwest.social. It’s not strictly for the Midwest US but you’ll see a lot of stuff for that region there. It’s also left leaning and I think the only instances they’ve defederated so far have been for extremism.

I’m also using jerboa on my phone and from my inbox there’s a speech bubble button which lets me make this response from my inbox.

I don’t know if either of these things will help you but I figured I’d offer them just in case they did.

No worries. Lemmy feels way more casual than Reddit anyway and I got notifications for months old comments there from time to time

Running both Windows and Linux

Yeah but what if I’m not dual booting?

Which also makes me wonder if climbing the ladder works the same throughout society. Can the apprentice still learning to forge a bat’leth kill the blacksmith and take over his business? Is that murder or did the p’tah have it coming because he couldn’t defend himself anymore?

Fighting the very laws of reality sounds way more challenging than fighting that dude over there.

But what about boring jobs. Are there Klingon janitors? Klingon repairmen? Klingon construction workers?

There have to be Klingon chefs, right? Isn’t replicated gagh inferior? Is blood wine just blood or are there Klingon vinyards?

They didn’t always have replicators so there must have been Klingon factory workers

A political party makes up parts of the government and uses their ads to whitewash their own actions within the government.

This division is not at clean as you’re trying to make it

Does it count when a major political party, that does that all the time, uses the money it pilfered from that government, or is that different somehow?

What about that the only reason they’re not doing it directly from the government account is because of the safeguards against that kind of thing they haven’t pulled down yet

Are children and young adults really more impressionable than Fox news, and thereby Facebook’s, audience?

I also don’t know that I agree with “targeted mostly at children and young adults”. There are very large parts of TikTok that would be wholly unappealing to your average kid. Not to mention that American social media started out very much targeted at children and young adults. Or have we already forgotten what the main demographics of Facebook and myspace used to be?

The problem with whataboutism here is that these conversations pretty much always involve TikTok and rarely other platforms until it’s brought up in comments where it can be dismissed as whataboutism.

Either they’re all a problem (it’s this one) or none of them are. We need to stop drawing arbitrary lines between offenders. It’s just giving a bunch of shit bags freedom to continue being shit bags.

I’m not saying you can or that you’re expected to. Just like a single rain drop doesn’t make a flood.

But if every rain drop got discouraged from falling because it can’t make a flood all on its own we’d have been in droughts earlier and more often.

As far as likelihood, I think we’ve been approaching a revolution of some kind or another for a couple decades at least. It could be a violent one like the French Revolution, or a cultural one like the Industrial Revolution. Time, events, and people will make that determination, but the visible unrest with income disparity grows more obvious on a pretty regular basis.

Are they going to go just because you say they have to, or will action be required?

Assuming it’s action does that happen with apathy or do you have to care?

Caring a “whole awful lot” does not start and stop with green initiatives by the people.

The “do you care” flow chart boils down to two directions:

• No > then it doesn’t matter
• Yes > then what are we going to do about it

Which branch gets to what you’re talking about?

The Lorax which is really the most applicable one here.

If you haven’t read it I’ll also suggest The Butter Battle Book if you’re interested in morality that boomers retroactively want to have not taught their children

Well if no one does anything it won’t be better should reincarnation come around.

I think Dr. Seuss has some pertinent wisdom here.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I doubt anyone will want to see Tucker on X past the first couple minutes of hilarity.

But I’m old and I think they call that Molly now

That’s a very big part of it.

When fucknugget wanted to start a company he had plenty of credit either on his own, with his name, or both. If he blew 50k in an attempt he could try again next week.

If I blew 50k I’d be homeless.

It’s way easier to high stakes gamble when you won’t notice you lost.