My confidence that these reports aren’t distortions of the truth is slim considering banks run on greed. Their track record doesn’t help either.

Debt has to be issued somewhere and the banks arent saying that enormous loans are being made to pay for AI development

Ah yes, banks, the bastions of truth and moral conduct.

I honestly tend to think that instead of using search engines where you already have to know what you’re looking for, it might be better to use something like lemmy where you can advertise what you made with a post in an appropriate community.

Obviously both have their place, but POSSE is the magic sauce:
“POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.” ―https://indieweb.org/POSSE

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https://marginalia-search.com/

“The need for discovery

Nothing you do to try to make the web a better place matters if nobody can find what you did. There are a lot of precious websites out there that deserve an audience, but instead are languishing in obscurity.

This makes alternative discovery mechanisms an urgent priority of the free and independent web, both document search as well as blog and RSS-feed discovery.”

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I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

1. Some people pay for Discord and they still exploit their data.
2. Some people pay for Lichess and their whole website is free of charge without tracking/advertising.

Yes, things cost money. Yes, ideally those who can pay for it should. No, something being free doesn’t legitimize unethical means to make a profit.

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Cinnamon. After using Xfce and KDE Plasma for years, and having testing Gnome, Budgie, etc., Cinnamon feels like it took the best ingredients from all of them.

How can we verify if things are paid for in cash?

The beauty of Linux is the triviality of creating an alias that runs whatever long or short update command by typing “upd” or “release_the_epstein_files”. E.g., in ~/.bashrc, place:
alias release_the_epstein_files="sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm"

pacman -Syu

And I love you too.

I love you.

The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it’s all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.

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Chess* enhanced my cognitive skills and consequently improved my confidence.

*lichess.org

And Duolingo now has chess. What a complete joke; both those corporations and the people using everything uncritically.

By using unfriendly language online?

Brain rot only for the right… 28 TikToks Later…

I’m hyped as long as Ladybird supports uBlock Origin; hoping it’s technically feasible.

Watch the video yourself https://files.catbox.moe/rkqc60.mp4

Limp dick Gestapo brained pieces of shit.

1. Scandinavian-style education everywhere.
2. Virtue > everything else in life > profits.
3. Only people like Marcus Aurelius in charge.

damn
i saw that meme and realized that i haven’t contacted lots of good people in a while because of how ofraid i am to resemble the girl
damn, right in the feelings dude, ouch

Why? Don’t ask for help and you’re golden.