Dieinahole

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Stealing wages is theft. And a far more insidious kind of theft.

Fuck, real people can’t do that

Buddy.

JC Penny, some years ago, tried to change their pricing scheme, from the typical “$29.99 +tax” to flat “$30, tax included”

Their sales dropped so hard they reverted in two months.

Americans are born, bred, raised to be fucking stupid, and forcefully shoved into shitty educational systems that make them that stupid. The design of American cities is built for people to be stupid and isolated.

There’s a reason other countries refer to the people that live in them as citizens, and we get branded as consumers.

There’s a level of respect from the top down that is sorely lacking

Well fuck it, I’m voting for taylor swift

Ah, here he is.

The reason for warning labels on everything

Dumb used to mean mute. The phrase meant deaf and unable to speak.

Of course, not being able to communicate leads a lot of people to think someone is stupid, and I imagine that’s why dumb is now synonymous with it.

I once met a lady with some severe disabilities, no idea what, in a powered wheelchair at a bar. She couldn’t talk, and had a massive keyboard she would sort of flail at until she spelled out the words she was trying to say. It audibly spoke for her.

This lady has two college degrees, writes books, and does art to help promote the concept that disabled people are people too.

Pretty damn impressive. Her and her husband’s main gripes were how infantilizing most people are to them. And how expensive good wheelchairs are, lol

8 miles isn’t too far to bike! I used to ride about that to commute. When I started, it took me around 40 minutes to get there, and an hour and a half back. Slight incline one direction.

About six months in, I was down to 20ish there, and less than 40 back.

Winter sucked pretty bad, someone got me gore-tex mittens though. Still had my eyelashes freeze

So you’re saying you Want your experience here to be dominated by ads, lies, and propaganda?

That’s exactly their goal

Well I can’t afford to pay for that much server traffic, can any of us?

Where will we be when meta own all the servers?

For some reason I can’t dowvote this, so: this is a fucking stupid take

So when they steamroll this place so hard you only get their side of the story, what then?

The fuck is wrong with you?

If you like meta so much, why are you here?

Do you understand what corporations do?

I’d rather not build a bridge to the land of festering pustules to begin with

Please let the door hit you in the ass on the way out

Xmpp’s popularity isn’t the point.

The point is google intentionally killed it

Just think:

Meta has literal billions of users.

The entire fediverse has about 1.5 million.

Less than a fraction of a percent.

Why in THE FUCK would meta notice, or care, at fucking all? The entire fediverse of traffic ported over to meta wouldn’t budge their advertising bottom line.

But, it’s a comparatively small group of smart people, having conversations, and profiles they don’t have tabs and near total control over.

There’s news about cop city and gaza I have seen here that I’ve seen NOWHERE else.

Don’t let them control the narrative here

I really don’t think that’s the case.

This is a nice little place, meta barging in Will fuck it all up