[-] llama@midwest.social 54 points 3 months ago

This reminds me of the time in HS when a letter broke off my laptop keyboard and my parents insisted on taking it to the shop for a repair. Turns out they really just wanted the shop to turn over my search history and chat logs. I already knew my parents were nosy so I would always delete it anyway.

One day I came home from school and they said the shop fixed the keyboard but just needed my password to test it and do updates. I said no it's fine if he can type in anything into the password then obviously the keyboard works, and I already did the updates regularly.

They literally had to beg me for the password and they were like pleasssse just give the shop the password so they can finish their checklist and you can get your computer back, and I was like fine if it's the only way I'm getting it back. Of course nothing came of it because there was nothing to discover.

Then my parents got the computer back but kept it in the trunk of their car for a week, and I accidentally saw it when we were leaving Old Navy which started a whole "I don't believe this!" discourse in the mall parking lot.

Moral of the story just talk to your kids instead of spying and lying, because they know and it won't work!

[-] llama@midwest.social 37 points 3 months ago

So now they're just charging people for what they were already doing anyway.

[-] llama@midwest.social 49 points 9 months ago

It's getting ridiculous though like even gas stations are starting to ask. Like sorry why should I leave a tip to get a Snickers and bottle of water rung up?

[-] llama@midwest.social 55 points 9 months ago

What if we get Mr beast to lock himself in a room with Jake Paul and say whoever makes it from now on will be the only content creator on YouTube. Then we just never let them out and turn off the Livestream.

[-] llama@midwest.social 36 points 9 months ago

"what if we made it so everybody had to pay to turn off their screens even if there was no video or music!"

[-] llama@midwest.social 49 points 9 months ago

Because SNAP lobbies the districts to buy their lunch accounting systems instead of schools just doing their own lunch tickets.

[-] llama@midwest.social 32 points 9 months ago

Can someone name and shame yelp for automatically generating pages for business listings that don't exist like TOP 10 BEST CANTONESE FUSION RESTAURANTS IN HARPERS FERRY.

[-] llama@midwest.social 43 points 9 months ago

Gets a $3000 bill because they picked the wrong instance type.

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[-] llama@midwest.social 33 points 1 year ago

FB: We're confused why someone would sign up for a social media site set up by somebody in their dorm room, tell us how to be more like you.

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[-] llama@midwest.social 72 points 1 year ago

My favorite things about this whole debacle is how transparent they're being about how the plan the whole time was to actually just hope we would keep giving them content and moderating for free forever so they could package it up and sell it to wall street. And not just them but all social media companies seem to think this will just work and nobody will mind.

[-] llama@midwest.social 31 points 1 year ago

Oh you built this community through your own time moderating, posting, upvoting and commenting? Cool we're gonna sell it to Vanguard for a few billy and pocket the profits! And, here's a list of approved content you're allowed to post now. Hard pass bro nobody cares about your IPO when we built your company.

[-] llama@midwest.social 37 points 1 year ago

Well good for them, they can have a lot of fun paying reddit staff to be the mods now.

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