“Sugar-Free” Candy will always amuse me.

Hands down - Kiwi Farms.

I’m going to have to answer this based on my personal experience and I’d know because your detailing is very similar.

Mainstream content reinforces the idea that the world and society all but feel manufactured. They’re the things that got chosen to be popular, they’re what is going to be market, they’re what is going to be talked about and so on and so forth. Sometimes it is chosen but other times, there’s definitely a formula in the works that just gravitates people instantly.

That’s all fine and well. But if you’re an individual who’ve developed their own tastes and you’re not getting in any engagement with anyone about those tastes, you’re going to get lost in the fold very quickly because you’re not part of what everyone considers the ‘in’ thing.

Your last bit tells me that it’s a you-thing. You dropped everything that you liked, because why? Because you saw merchandise being made in a store? But it’s like, did anyone force what you enjoyed down your throat? You’re waiting for the hype to die down? I don’t get that, because all that you’re doing, is limiting your personal enjoyment and your personal moderation about how much you enjoy something.

You don’t have to go out, buy the merchandise, buy anything that so much has your favorite thing on it. You don’t have to engage with the mass volume of the community that gets noisy to engage. You’ve sucked out whatever interest that was left over things that are optional. It’s one thing if a series changes because of fan demand, that I can understand and it has happened to people’s favorite series.

But if a series is still going for what it is, unaltered and naturally enjoyed but still popular but you want to sit it out anyways? That’s kindof on you.

Boo-hoo.

Yes.

The ingredients you’re using. They all have their own calories.

I got an honest chuckle out of it. But yeah, it really sucks for people surfing the net today and within the past 10 years. People like me who’ve been around for 30+ years, just sulk in depression for the state its become, remembering simpler days.

It’s how I feel deeply about social media’s existence. Facebook, Reddit, MySpace, Twitter .etc weren’t ‘evil’ just for simply being made and standing on its own. It needed fuel and that fuel is in the form of the many thousands to millions of people who’ve used them for years.

And those same people have turned around and now put blame on said social media sites for how bad they’ve become. Never caring to realize that they majorly were built that way off the behaviors of what people did and continue to do on there.

These guys are a bunch of morons. All of the comments here are proving as to why.

• Associates with AI
• Wants money to use it
• Doesn’t factor that Twitter might not entirely be available after all
• Uses Musk’s other imprints, like Grok, on it which may subject them to fail
• More centralized social media is not what we need

I’ll give it a few months before they actually are sued into oblivion, to which they’ll have the biggest pikachu shocked faces possible.

Which is what could get them lawsuits. Such a dumb move.

Meta maintained throughout the brief trial that it had worked extensively over the years to make its platforms safer for its youngest users, pouring resources into testing and research, and building new features.

No, you’ve made it a pain in the ass process to delete a facebook account. I’ve counted, you have to go through almost 5 prompts to finally delete an account. It’s simpler on mobile, by about 2 extra steps shorter, but that indicates that no, you did not work extensively to make it safe if you can’t make deleting easier.

Someone doesn’t know what the ‘?’ means.

Kids and Teens online is such a wormy issue. They’ll be everywhere, lying about their ages, lying about who they really are .etc They’re just problematic little liars at every turn, fucking things up for the rest of us, because their parents are stupid and garbage at handling them.

We wouldn’t have an issue with social media, with IDs, with chat room or even Discord servers if it weren’t for them. Fuck them, they don’t belong online. The internet should be for 18+ users. It’s clearly evident that teenagers and children in general, cannot handle anything online. And the only reason they sortof can now, is because of the lengths the laws and egregious moderation that consists of the sanitization of online content have gone to ‘protect’ them.

And here we are where it has come full circle to where, we’re seeing Master Chief on a freaking Playstation 5 cover case.

"YouTube said the hike will “allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.”

Bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit. They say that every single time they raise the prices. It’s the same dogshit excuse.

I think PeerTube should be for hobby purposes. I mean, here’s where I am coming from. I am from a period of the internet, where you were not meant to be e-famous. I still at times, believe this. Look at what happened when the idea of the tiniest bit of fame and success people allow to get to their heads when they realize that they can just make videos and profit off of them.

My high school. I just didn’t think I’d come out with a diploma and that my entire school ‘career’ had been nothing filled but setbacks and directionless days. Yet I somehow came through.

I didn’t think I’d make it past my 20s, because at the time, I was a very overweight teen that carried it over into their 20s. I’ve heard stories of people who’ve been overweight that’d never see lengthy lives because the burden of weight would be too much.

I actually maybe wouldn’t have minded two movies. Then again, I say it should’ve been one 3-hour long film and given the extended treatment the LOTR films got. It’d be one long, but eventful movie.

The question was meant to be broad.

Man, humans have fundamentally and irreversibly fucked up this planet. We burn coal, so we have that problem you mentioned. I learned recently how chemical companies have done decades of a poor job just dumping chemical waste wherever they want or developing things that does more harm than good at the planet’s expense.

Enjoy it while it’s here I guess.