I feel like Switch successor “leaks” have become meaningless noise at this point. There have just been so, so many reported “leaks” and supposed possible release dates/years. I don’t even pay any attention to it anymore.

I really like Apple Music. Actually supports lossless, unlike Spotify, and it just feels much more music focused. Spotify has become too bloated, and I view it more as a “sound” app than a music app.

Here is mine lol

https://chat.openai.com/share/0d543566-427a-4b8b-bc2b-ef32ba4b8a45

The Catholic church is an unjustifiable and ridiculous institution in the same way the supreme court is. The Catholic church also had a lot of control over the lives of many people for a very long time, although that influence has obviously waned in recent centuries and decades (although it’s clearly still not completely gone). Now, as far as the president having control, I will also say fuck the presidency, but it would always be my hope that a person in that position would do anything in their power as a president and a person to stand up to unjustifiable institutions like the supreme court. Obviously a president couldn’t abolish the supreme court single-handedly, nor do I think that would necessarily, inherently be a good thing, but I do think that a president could and should call out the obvious reasons for which the institution needs to be abolished, because it absolutely does. The fact that nine human beings can directly control the lives of millions and millions and millions of people is an absolute travesty. I don’t even feel dissimilarly about congress, but obviously it’s a bit better because they are actually elected. In general, though, I am a very strong proponent of direct democracy. Term limits are a starting point, but it would be akin to applying a bandaid to a gaping, oozing wound.

The supreme court even as a concept is one of the most asinine yet accepted institutions in the world. On par with the Catholic church, but so much worse because it actually has enormous and direct power over 330+ million people. I am dreaming and pining for the day that someone in power, most likely a president, just legitimately tells them to fuck off. They have no enforcement power and they fucking know it. I’m yearning for someone to have the courage, but it’s as clear as it possibly can be that it certainly won’t be a Democrat.

I love this channel! There’s just something about going very in-depth on random appliances and things like that that’s just so entertaining to me lol

https://cdn.frankerfacez.com/emoticon/512932/4

I honestly think that social media services should exclusively be nonprofits and run off of a combination of very limited ads and/or donation drives à la Wikipedia. Profit motives destroy things like this, as we’ve seen time and time again.

“‘I’ make trucks”

Yeah, sure lmao

Most likely just a personal stylistic choice.

Yeah, I’ve been looking through them, and even tried to create one myself with the help of ChatGPT, but there are none yet that change the size of avatars. :/

I disagree with this line of thinking. I see humans as generally good, but sometimes far too easily swayed and influenced, as well as very vulnerable to mental illness. It’s easy to have a pessimistic and nihilistic view, but it’s important to keep in mind that the vast, vast majority of people, if not all people, are victims of circumstance.

Yeah, I have a very different perspective haha I very much prefer to connect to real humans and for that to be a focus, which is why I made an account here. I never, ever posted on Reddit unless I had an issue I needed help with as a last resort before seeking out an irl resource, mostly because it never felt like a community to me; it felt like you were reading random people responding to each other in the same vain as Twitter. This is my first time actually posting anything publicly since I was active on a a particular forum from like 2013-2015. But I can understand your perspective all the same.

Propaganda??? I personally like pfps/avatars and think they’re an important part of any traditional forum. Identity is important in communities and I think they help facilitate that. I just wish that I could adjust the size of the on Kbin because they’re way too small for me. 🥲 But you should always have the option to hide them as well.

Agreed, we need to move beyond Reddit. I personally want to see this (and honestly the Fediverse as a whole) shepherd the internet and social media into a new era more akin to the old internet. Reddit as a platform was destined to fail, imo.

Those are/were the best!

As someone that wasn’t ever particularly active on Reddit, I didn’t even know that was a general attitude there. I’ve generally never understood the hate that some people have for emojis, though. They have their place in certain circumstances and can make communication easier in general sometimes, especially in private, more personal conversations. Tone can be so hard to decipher through text.

No smile for Apple, unfortunately. :(

I had never heard of that, so that was a fun article to read lol

Would love to hear about what kinds of things you’ve been doing!