My concern since late 2018 or so has been that America is effectively terminal, it's just that we don't know it yet. That we've passed some internal tipping point before waking up where even if we try to course correct, it's too late to stop the decline. I'm not sure we can get the momentum anymore to fix it. Biden and even Kamala feel more like a temporary reprieve where we'll only have enough power to stave off total collapse, but not enough to actually make any headway. Which is basically all Biden has been able to do.
Anyone else just pretty much assume that all of your data is already lost, so these sorts of data breeches barely register anymore? Blah blah blah another company lost my data, blah blah blah the credit monitoring company lost every single important bit of information for literally every American, blah blah blah. Just another Tuesday.
I tended to get the impression that implied sex (such as fade to black scenes) were also not appreciated. That effectively they just didn't want their media to include references to sex pretty much at all.
Maybe most people are reasonable about it, but online at least it feels a bit like the old Tumblr days, except now these people are super anti sex everything and want to erase all mention of it.
Most of the (supposed) younger generation people I interact with online seem even more prudish and conservative about sex than my very religious parents were growing up. It's super weird to be the older person who's ok with sexual content. I don't really get it.
And yes, I know people will claim it's because it's only when it's not done right or when it feels shoved in, but honestly from the way they talk about anything dealing with sex, it feels like that's just an acceptable excuse and they really just don't want the content to exist at all, even if 'done right'. It's like a huge chunk of the generation is asexual or something.
Agreed on the emotional intelligence approach. I'm tired of democrats thinking logic and facts will just sway everyone and then being all high and mighty when that doesn't work on some people.
The whole thing with Trump being weird was an excellent attempt at actually messaging in a way that resonates with people. There's a reason ads for stuff like cars and medicine focus more on happy experiences and not on what the product actually is.
We need to be building a brand identity, shaping how people feel about us and focusing less on the raw facts and logic. It doesn't work on seemingly most Americans, continuing to use it despite the lack of results really makes me question whether we really are controlled opposition.
Yep. I think there's a huge amount of left leaning online people in denial.
They keep thinking that they just need to tell people about all these issues and then obviously those people will see it as wrong. Nope, a huge number of their fellow citizens are absolutely aware of this shit and actively approve of it.
Bringing 'awareness' is pointless if the people actually approve of this horrible stuff.
It's 'ugly'. Also the rules were set in the 80s and I guess people didn't care then. And it's not like a law has been passed removing their authority to do so.
HOA has banned solar and Gas heat is still way, way cheaper here. I could go heat pump, but I'd be paying 4-5x higher just to stick to my principals.
I was always so disappointed in the 90s to see 'realistic' looking graphics and then you play the game and realize it was just a point and click game
I'm mostly concerned that the media has immunized too many people to his madness such that they effectively chose trump years ago and haven't at all reevaluated that decision because the media has been sane-washing everything he does.
Cascade failure maybe? Sudden loss causes other plants to try to pick up slack, overloading one of them, which puts even more pressure on the rest until they all fail?
Modern farming is extremely reliant on gps and 'smart' planters, fertilizers, etc. Using tech to precisely control exactly how much seed, chemicals, etc is used can result in significantly less costs. My understanding is that Deere has bought out basically every company that has a decent implementation of this technology and is an effective monopoly on modern farming equipment.
You can move away from them, but expect your business costs to significantly increase as a result.
That isn't sufficient for the people trying to pass these laws. They're trying to get the government to enforce parental controls, not the parents. Those types of controls already essentially exist and yet they were deemed insufficient.
This is mostly because these people are not interested in protecting children, but rather shutting down anything they don't like. The same way they tried to shut down abortion clinics by attempting to hold them to full blown hospital building standards. It wasn't because it was unsafe, it was a way to harass the clinics they disapproved of.
I thought the same until someone shared some additional insights with me.
So basically for device verification to work, you have to prove to someone that you're an adult, typically by linking your real ID. The problem comes from when you log in to a porn website and they try to determine you're an adult by reaching out to that trusted 3rd party. Now even though the porn site doesn't know who you are, only that you're an adult, the 'trusted verifier' does know that you've visited the porn website. This makes that organization a huge security risk as it directly links your identity to visiting controversial websites.
Who would you really trust with that info? Corporation or government, both have major risks to collecting that info. What happens when FL bans porn and starts targeting people they know have accessed it via this database? What happens when LGBT info is labeled 'adult only' and requires this tech to access, creating a database of potential 'undesirables'?
Once it's created it's absolutely positive that the data will be hacked and that the government will use this mechanism to target at risk groups.
The difference between this and in person ID checks is one of data persistence. Bars and such things just look at your ID, but don't typically log it in a database. Compiling a persistent database of every 'adults only' only action is just too risky.
Will this just become obsolete the next time they update usb c to support something new? A tester that goes out of date as quickly as the cables it's testing feels pretty pointless to me
Humans outsourcing human checks to bots because it's too annoying to prove they are human. We've fallen so far.
Feels like the entire world is going backwards and yet at the same time the majority of people don't want that. Which just tells you how much power truly is in the hands of the few.
Feels a bit like a cheater letting their spouse be abusive to them because they feel so guilty for cheating. Germany fucked up so they're going to let the victim do whatever, even if what the victim is doing is wrong.
This was me too. There was some stuff post endgame that seemed interesting, but I wasn't sure what else I was supposed to watch first, so I just didn't watch anything. It was just easier to avoid marvel or put it off in favor of consuming something more straightforward.
They completely ignore the long tail benefits of building up a huge catalog. The streaming service with the biggest 'vault' wins, and yet they only seem to care about stuff actively in production.
Cancelling a story driven show early on not only pisses off fans, it effectively kills the whole value of the show for late adopters. Why would I start a show I know gets cancelled in season 2? If it had finished, people would work their way through the backlog. Owning a library of nothing but half finished shows is worse than useless for most people and further encourages people to cancel as soon as whatever current show they watch stops airing instead of sticking around to catch up on something else.
Is it possible to reorder the account list?
I've acquired several lemmy accounts now and I'd like to reorder the list. My main two accounts are at the bottom while my alternates are stuck at the top