I’d rather have the percentage on and with slightly larger digits, because at more than a feet away from the phone screen hard to tell how much battery charge is left without the percentage.

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One of my nephews is this. Cooks something but in the process used a lot of pots and pans and utensils, and didn’t bother washing up afterwards.

What’s mostly keeping those platforms afloat is, unfortunately, people in developing countries where social media usage is very heavy to the point it’s literally its own internet such as Facebook’s walled garden.

Makes me angry my country is now split as far as AI slop awareness is concerned: some are opposed (look up so-called Pax Silica), while others are embracing the garbage full on as if it’s gonna make them more money, and still others unaware it could affect them sooner or later, especially as the government thinks AI is a boon when it’s really not.

The goddamn banchode running the biz, and greenlit this garbage moderation. Fuck AI.

And of course the oligarchy hiring PMCs.

I hate this stupid AI hype.

YT-DLP is my go-to now. Can download one track or a playlist.

You can just curate your experience by making changes to the feed and shutting off what you feel are sources of distressing content.

Given the current state of affairs where if being a progressive American is a harrowing struggle, it’s not surprising the fediverse is a refuge and outlet for angry progressives and people who have been alienated by spez’s war on left-leaning content, as he will ban anyone even remotely or casually talking of committing violence on awful fascists and robber barons.

Seems you got downvoted because some are fanatical about cracking open a book by their own fingers, rather than going online to see how that book is actually faring in the market.

Yeah, that bookstore looks pretty upscale, nearly a boutique, especially in a developing country. Not unlike others built for bookworms where browsers are free to read almost anything.

In such a bookstore, the customer is not always right.

Asides from the protection from humidity and dirt, I feel they also don’t want to sell a frayed damaged book or magazine – I feel that would count for them as a loss – unless the customer paid for it, so they put limits on casual browsing. This, RFID tags and CCTV cameras to deter shoplifters.

Otherwise and in some places they put out a selection of open unwrapped publications and let anyone, provided they also pay for the coffee or hang around and pay by the hour, to read at their leisure in a dedicated cafe.

Only sure way for you to know a new book is to scope out the copy online if it has an ebook equivalent.

National could barely able to sell publications as by 2010s nearly everyone went to spend more time online – ebooks, social media, etc. – and even the browsers have disappeared as magazines started to end publication due to mass disinterest, so leaving the stationery business the only thing keeping it afloat.

Strangely, asides from Fully Booked and that small Japanese bookstore in an uppity part of Manila, the Big Bad Wolf book festival draws a large crowd of bookworms. That for used books, a chain called Booksale is still alive and well – there I bought a 20-year-old paperback copy of Blackhawk Down in fair condition.

Once again, the fucking suits.

A similar thing happened to Filipino-Americans who, in their search for ethnic identification which led to joining radical movements, ended up recruited to join the shrinking New People’s Army; they were later killed in a lopsided firefight against Philippine Army soldiers.

Reduced to cannon fodder.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/philippines-communist-party-lyle-prijoles-kai-dana-rene-sorem

Sail the high seas, then.

Especially if it’s a great TV show or a movie and you really want to keep it.

Fucking rotten bastard. Someday he’ll fucking be sitting in jail for mass murder.

Might as well mirror the whole site, run it elsewhere where the suits don’t have control over people.

Make the most of being a 20something.

When it was increasingly clear to Christian extremists in the 70s there won’t be any forthcoming event at the end of the millennium, instead the bastards have to artificially force the second coming, so they created the scheme to destabilize the world.