Just commenting so I can find this video when I get home from work.

Sounds interesting.

Which of these cats are you giving me? You have too many, and I’m going to snuggle one.

…ok, I honestly can’t tell if you’re in on the joke, or if you’re being a nutjob.

Or, maybe they’re trying to kill adblockers so hard that they killed the whole homepage.

“Well if we can’t block the adblockers, we’ll just block EVERYBODY! No more Mr Beast for anyone!”

Eh…Digg is like the little brother that wants to be cool, but just ends up burning down his own house.

Now, you may be thinking,

“But Lost_My_Mind! You burned down your own house when you were 5 years old! And you’re the little brother of the family!”

And that’s all true. But you see, the difference is…I was never trying to be cool.

IDK that just doesn’t seem important.

I’m fine leaving my old account behind.

Then we have different viewpoints. I’m very much NOT ok with leaving my old account behind.

If AI hadn’t banned me on reddit, I’d be much happier over there. I’d have my old account, and all my post history going back 10 years. Which by this point would be more like 12 or 13 years.

It’s not important to you, but it’s important to me. Just because youhave an opinion doesn’t make it “the right way”. Everyone can have different opinions, and thats ok.

Literally 3 months after I got here, and started figuring out how the fediverse worked, I was calling for changes. Quite frankly, what I thought the fediverse was is a lot cooler than what it actually is.

I can post a picture here from pixelfed, but it’s no different than posting a picture from imgur.

So the account history is all I have to look back at.

But your upvotes and comment history don’t.

Reddit refused access to API, and people left reddit.

Lemmy.world is refusing access to the pirate instances.

By your logic, people should leave Lemmy.

My back pain means I always feel old.

How often are they just bursting into flames for no reason?

Ok everybody. You heard them! Everybody talk about discuss.tchncs.de! Let’s ALL form opinions and talk at length about them!

Unclear if AI bot, or insane person having a stroke.

I get the rest of them, but why is “gay republican” there? I’m not saying he isn’t, but why is being gay one of the insults?

Shoo! Shoo away from my garden, bird!!! SHOO!

People want access to the defederated instances, on lemmy.world.

People don’t want to switch.

I have a different conspiracy theory.

I think they’re planning on the reduced human population that’s already underway in America.

See, the boomer generation at it’s peak was bigger than Gen-X, the millenials, and Gen-Z combined. But, people die. And the youngest boomers are 70 years old.

The next 30 years will see a massive population collapse, and we’ve already entered the collapse of the work force of that generation.

Which means for the next 30 years, everybody else is paying for the boomers social security. But when it comes time for our time on retirement, we’re not going to have the same support they did. Boomers will be dead, Gen Z is statistically having less kids (and I get why, but it still means less social security income).

So their plan is to regulate all the work to AI, and take all the profits. The problem is, it’s a really stupid plan. It doesn’t matter how advanced AI is. It will never fully replace humans. Which means the concept of work will always need to exist. And the end result is, I think they’re preparing to figure out how to get AI to do enough of the jobs, and then enslave the people to do the rest.

Because nothing has changed?

I don’t care how advertisers feel. I’ve been telling them for decades that their ads have zero effect on me. That it just pisses me off.

When I go into a grocery store, I have a list. If it’s not on that list, I’m not buying it. The list was prepared weeks ago, and added as I run out of things. Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads. I’m not paying attention. Even though you paid money to show the ad, I still didn’t see it. What difference does it make if I’m alive? Either way I didn’t see the…uh…what were you selling again? It was a commercial for Jesus? See, this just shows how little I pay atttention to ads. I saw the superbowl, and I’m fairly sure one of the commercials was for Jesus. I’m unclear how one would buy Jesus, but that was the ad.

Tell ya what advertiser industry. I’m going to do your job for you. I’m going to make sure every single person pays attention to every ad you ever put out. Are you ready for this? Here we go.

The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They’re bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning “OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!”

Remember, tittys are still bouncing. You put the product in the center of the screen.

You just made a billion dollars!

Found the appropriate response.