[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

I know Reddit would have a field day if I said this over there, and maybe here would too, but...

Should be more like "Fascists go kill yourselves" because fuck fascists.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

If you put the phone in airplane mode, you can get the app to load the UI at least. Doesn't do/mean anything but I suspect I'll be doing it out of nostalgia a lot in the coming months.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really sure why this is a question. If I have a cup of coffee, I am fine to get behind the wheel of a vehicle. If anything, my reaction time would be slightly quicker (vs me uncaffeinated, YMMV).

If I get high, I'm keeping my ass put on the couch/at home and if anything my reaction time is slower.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's quite a few but I'll give my top 3:

r/TIFU and r/AITA - The former became a repository for preteen fanfiction and the latter became a place for confirmation bias/rhetorical questions looking for validation.

Then there's r/UnpopularOpinion which ended up being an oxymoron unto itself. I honestly don't understand how anyone thought that concept would work given that the literal point of a social media discussion platform, that utilizes an upvote/downvote system to determine visibility, is to push popular (highly upvoted) posts to the top/front. Very few people actually upvoted something that was unpopular and instead just upvoted the low hanging fruit popular opinion posts that were 'controversial' but still blatantly have a clear majority who support that side that OP took.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Companies are going out of their way to ignore the fact that "the easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." - Gabe Newell

I consider adblocking to be in the same boat. Piracy/Adblocking only exists because it's not a pricing issue. It's a service issue. By making the free version even more intrusive ON PURPOSE, they're not pushing as many people to buy a subscription as they are pushing people to install adblockers. If YouTube only ever showed a quick 10-15 sec ad at the very beginning of a video, I'd be less inclined to go out of my way to find and install an adblocker (and maybe even eventually just buy a subscription) than if they force feed me back to back, 30-second, unskippable ads.

It's the same with those stupid fucking commercials that run ALL the time and try and be as annoying as possible. If I find your ad to be annoying and frequent and shoved down my throat all the time, I will vehemently and actively go out of my way to AVOID that product, not be more inclined to buy it.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The sad thing is that the masses that are still on Reddit at this point dgaf and will likely stay on Reddit forever. There's a real problem of Apathy in today's culture when people are just jonesing for their fix of daily content/memes, or at the very least nothing that disrupts the status quo. They don't give a fuck about "ideals" or what corporations do or farm from them so long as their instant gratification and daily intake of said content remains unchanged.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

Sponsorblock is the reason I'm confident that no matter what they try people can and will find ways to overcome it.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As soon as I read it I thought, "please don't let me be the only person who has a sick mind and is willing to comment it"

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago

lmao the sheer amount of entitlement on him. Truly a leopardsatemyface moment. Imagine tying your entire identity to being an unpaid lacky for a website that doesn't give two fucks about you, to the point that when you're let go you go nuclear.

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I'm ngl, I'm kind of morbidly curious what, if any, remains are there when a sub at this depth implodes. Will there even be any bodies that are retrievable?

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Haven't we suffered enough?

[-] ColonelSanders@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service kind citizen!

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