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[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The entire point of these tests is to see how much that they can get away with exploiting children before enough people object to force them to stop.

Then they will just disguise what they’re doing so it takes several more years for people to once again get outraged enough to force them to stop… And so the cycle repeats and has been repeating since Facebook first came out.

Serious legislation to regulate these platforms, combined with extraordinarily severe penalties are the only way to begin to curb this behavior. Banning social media companies altogether is the only sure fire to stop it altogether.

But we knew all this decades ago… The only reason we’re doing what we’re doing now is because everyone in power to do anything about it was put there by the tech billionaires paying for them to be president or commerce Secretary, whatever it takes for the billionaires to get away with whatever they wanna do.

Why do you think Epstein was so popular?

[–] homes@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

Splendid. Thank you!

[–] homes@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you still seeing the ads?

[–] homes@piefed.world 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Having stuck many things up my ass, I’m simply not comfortable taking advice from this guy

[–] homes@piefed.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

may have given Trump a new business idea.

“How can we instantly make everyone hate TV?”

[–] homes@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a major problem with studies like this : they approach from a position of assuming that AI doctors would be competent rather than a position of demanding why AI should ever be involved with something so critical, and demanding a mountain of evidence to prove why it is worthwhile before investing a penny or a second in it

“ChatGPT doesn’t require a wage,” and, before you know it, billions of people are out of work and everything costs 10000x your annual wage (when you were lucky enough to still have one).

How long until the workers revolt? How long have you gone without food?

[–] homes@piefed.world 13 points 1 week ago

considering brown and rainbow people as "equals" is now "globalist and radical ideologies"

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If only there hadn’t been almost 300 years of testimony and evidence of the horror…

If you’re alive now, you won’t be for much longer

[–] homes@piefed.world 26 points 1 week ago

You know, I just read that about an hour ago, but I can’t seem to find that version of the video. All the versions I see are the ones with all the boos and jeers, lol.

Someone’s algorithm needs a tweak…

[–] homes@piefed.world 138 points 1 week ago (9 children)

How adorable! It’s all the fuck over YouTube

[–] homes@piefed.world 17 points 1 week ago

although I doubt this will get much of any mainstream coverage, as someone who has been setting up/administering a number of plex servers for the last ~20 years, I have noticed a rather remarkable uptick in not only setting up new servers, but a flood of interest in membership for the handful that I administer.

This has had the interesting side-effect of renewing interest in the fact that you can borrow DVDs/BRDs for free from your local library for the purposes of ripping them. Believe me-- you may think that, in 2026, everything is available for download very easily.... no, it isn't Yes, much more is widely available at (generally) much higher quality than it used to be, but it all relies on how popular a show/film/album is (and continues to be). If you're looking to dl something new/current, you'll very likely have a 2 week - 3 month window it will very reliably be available to download. after that, whether it's available (and for how long) depends entirely on how popular it remains.

Example: The "New Trek" that most old-school Trekkies hate is less-available than, say, a mega download of all 7 seasons of DS9. DS9 is probably available (as a single download and as single seasons/episodes) much more easily than any episode of STD. Or, even, the JJ Abrahms films. Shit, even the Rifftrax commentary version of ST II has more seeders on more torrent sites than any of the 3 JJ Treks. And, to put a pin in this... Star Trek Lower Decks is even more available now than it was when it was airing.

The cool flip-side of this: I never got to see the iconic Fritz Lang film M in the pre-torrent era because I could never find a Blockbuster's that carried it in stock. But, as soon as that barrier to see it was removed (availability), I got to see the prototypical murder mystery thriller film which, still today, holds up as pretty awesome.

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