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mikeyBoy14 @lemmy.world
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Saying that using an adblocker is immoral is no different than saying that it is immoral to switch the TV channel in a commercial break
  • I don't think that's quite right. The act of changing the channel wouldn't have impacted the station's ad revenue because the tech couldn't tell if the ad was served. On YouTube you actually deprive the site of ad revenue with an ad blocker. And if enough people do it, you could also deprive creators of material earnings.

  • A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries
  • Mate, a good third of the countries on that list are currently suffering such brutal ethnic violence that it might be considered genocide. Close to half are riddled by islamic terrorism, usually directed towards ethnic minorites. At least two of them are in the middle of civil wars.

  • Elon Musk Rebranded Twitter as 'X.' Users Immediately Rejected the Change
  • To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms.

    Jake and Amir parodied this well in their "Facebook Redesign" episode.

  • Do you know what is an 'Everything App'?
  • On the other hand, Google/Apple Pay are both pretty great products that replace a horrendous legacy payments system. Recall that for like 40 years the most innovative consumer payment system looked like this. And it was essentially a duopoly as well (Visa/Mastercard).

    At the end of the day, cash is still a thing as well.

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  • This thread feels like reddit all over again, and that's not a good thing.

    Agreed. I think it's the upvote/downvote system. It's an inherently flawed way to facilitate good faith discussions.

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  • I love the irony of a subreddit against religion trying to collectively reinforce that there is only one true interpretation of a comic. And discrediting contrary viewpoints without addressing the underlying logic.

    We're an odd species, aren't we?

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  • But the scientist and the religious person are shown to be identical, and the first row showed that he could fly. I.e., the claim that he refused to prove was implied to be true, regardless of his refusal to prove it.

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  • Since he can actually fly, this implies that his religious beliefs are true...

    Edit: I love the irony of a subreddit against religion trying to collectively reinforce that there is only one true interpretation of a comic.