While I wish that were true it’s just not that simple. People are creatures of habit and the experience has to be absolutely awful to get people to break habits, especially social habits. We’re talking people will stay in abusive relationships where they get physically beat regularly because they are scared to change.

I don’t think everyone who listens to music is engaging with the music. People will be shocked that Rage Against the Machine is political despite listening to them for years.

My issue with SFV is entirely with the content that is more popular in the medium. I’ve seen SFV that promotes learning in bite-sized chunks and I’ve seen some that are entirely wholesome and uplifting. Just like some people can watch Jersey Shore, read Atlas Shrugged, or listen to mumble rap and I will consider that a waste.

I don’t think I have the right to tell everyone what they can do with their time. So I don’t support the condemnation of something just because I don’t approve of it.

By this criticism I believe music would also fit as you’re passive.

Here’s the quick and dirty of it: Entertainment is about exploiting our brain and short-form-video is just the new thing.

Why the hell would I be bothered by SFV and not care about diets that do way worse for the health of an individual?

Not really? Boredom is boredom and it sounds like you’re doing the same thing people said about video games and TV and rock and and and.

Tbf all of those are holdouts from old video game licenses. (That I also don’t agree with)

Apple set the standard for the app store cut and gets that cut on a lot more than video games as well as having a much more needed use case (phones are closer to a need than a console) that you can’t get around.

I consider iPhones and iPads to be personal computers and of all personal computers they are the only ones that don’t allow you to get applications from 3rd parties.

For the immensely wealthy it’s at least self serving. It’s the poor people who parrot that shit who I worry about.

The refusal to allow side loading is what really stops me doing the same

Thats not formatting. That’s like reading a book transcribed on post-it notes and calling it a format. It can be ordered, yes but I’m talking about paragraphs and complete sentences.

My apologies I was meaning to share frustration because I agree with you not come off as an argument. I hope you don’t feel as if I was saying you were wrong.

It’s also madness because we did this before at least in the US with air conditioning going main stream on a grid designed to support lights only.

Likewise I don’t understand the difficulty in reading more than 140 characters.

But I’ve never used Twitter so when I experience the platform it’s through screen caps of tweets. Instead of having paragraphs and cohesive formatting it reads like a programmer who writes code all in one line. Sure, it can be done and it can be read but it’s fucking awful that it isn’t formatted correctly so that it is more clear.

Gasoline has about a 6 month self life and has to be refined from crude oil at specific facilities that polute the surrounding area.

The supply chain to support gasoline is completely insane compared to plugging you car in at home 90% of the time. Once the wiring is updated to support EVs it’s basically done, no more logistics expense but gas is expensive always.

I disagree with you simply because brevity is nice but not at the expense of nuance. Having to try to follow a string of tweets because one simply can’t suffice is awful.

Generally it’s surrogacy even if the baby has their DNA. If two identical twins could theoretically carry the other’s baby as a surrogate despite having the same DNA.

Either God raped her or God gave her IVF against her knowledge. Because she raised the child as her own regardless and it’s not like they could DNA test.

Religion is fucking stupid

Pineapple is delicious on pizza thank you.

They’ve been given to billions of people at this point and with a sample size that large it’s surprising how safe they are.

If they were to run some applications on the side it would validate the power usage. Like if it also was a Plex server it could be more reasonable to use more power.

Could also really hinge on the electricity cost for their region. At 10 cents a kwh and a delta of 100 watts we’d be talking 87 dollars a year assuming it’s always running at a delta of 100 watts.

I doubt there will be a 100 watt delta especially newer architectures that idle really well.

I don’t think Lemmy has more propaganda than other social media, it’s just not the usual propaganda.

Also says a lot that despite that they still make more. Having more global sales in effectively one country is more impressive if anything.

I’m in the same boat and at this rate I feel like my retirement is with Remington

Oh you’re insisting you can’t come in because you are sick? I’m going to need a doctor’s note that will cost you a day’s wages.