I will always add that lemmy.ml is also the main dev’s instance and prior to lemmy.world, the defacto main instance. Many accounts, especially older ones, in lemmy.ml are not politically aligned.

Yeah, I was shocked that both Access Hollywood and Steve Wilkos were still on the air.

Years later…

The highways and cars
were sacrificed for agriculture.
I thought that we’d start over
but, I guess I was wrong.

Once there were parking lots,
now it’s a peaceful oasis.
This was a Pizza Hut
now it’s all covered with daisies.

I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens.

Russians who oppose Putin tend to either get poisoned or fall off of buildings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

Never heard of ‘Mountain.’ Sounds fake.

UTC isn’t metric time. LOL

How else are they going to compare shots unless they aim at the same target?

Sounds suspiciously similar to archery, hatchet throwing, knife throwing, and all other target practice hobbies.

I always bring up the magic of Scotch’s Magic Tape.

This tape lets most of the light through (useful for dynamic light features) while blurring the image as if out of focus or behind frosted glass. It is also mostly discrete unlike opaque tapes.

Married for decades here. Your spouse is just your BF/GF with a little more paperwork. Don’t sweat it and enjoy banging a married partner.

May I suggest lube?

We’re talking about the two halves of Maul being lovers, right?

Right?

Can you share some of these videos? For science.

So far, Jason is batting 1000 with his YouTube channel.

If you are going to cooy and paste, copy and paste the entire thing.

Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.

Examples:

Academic publishing

Between 2016 and 2022 the turn over and profit margins of academic publishers increased partly due to article processing charges from open access. This has been accompanied by predatory publishers who prioritize profit over scholarly integrity. This Academic enshittification results in a scholarly system that is “overwhelmed by quantity, distorted by profit motives, and is stripped of its purpose of advancing knowledge.”

Amazon

In Doctorow’s original post, he discussed the practices of Amazon. The online retailer began by attracting users with goods sold below cost and (with an Amazon Prime subscription) free shipping. Once its user base was solidified, more sellers began to sell their products through Amazon. Finally, Amazon began to add fees to increase profits. In 2023, over 45% of the sale price of items went to Amazon in the form of various fees. Doctorow described advertisement within Amazon as a payola scheme in which sellers bid against one another for search-ranking preference, and said that the first five pages of a search for “cat beds” were half advertisements.

Dating apps

The market for dating apps has been cited as an example of enshittification due to the conflict between the dating apps’ ostensible goal of matchmaking, and their operators’ desire to convert users to the paid version of the app and retain them as paying users indefinitely by keeping them single, creating a perverse incentive that leads performance to decline over time as efforts at monetization begin to dominate.

Oh, I wasn’t arguing. I was clarifying for anyone reading the thread and out of the loop.

More trustworthy than Google?

Linux is only the kernel for the OS. GNU is most everything else that makes Linux (GNU Linux) an OS.