OP literally said there’s much better deals anyways. You focused entirely on the financial aspect of the comment, when that was never what was being discussed. Its perfectly fine for people to, in addition to thinking about good or bad deals, think about the moral implications of their purchases. At no point did they say or imply that morality was the only or primary basis for a purchase regardless of value proposition.
Edit: don’t assume I’m a fucking gringo, ew
Rich coming from the person trying to justify Tesla cars as not a ripoff when they’re some of the worst shit to come out of North America in the past few decades, equipped with a ripoff self-driving technology that doesn’t work even though it was promised to be coming as a fully fledged feature a decade ago, and which has been getting charged as a complete feature for just as long.
Maybe, just maybe, the ultra-billionaire fascist asshole who’s hoarding wealth by inflating his companies’ stock prices doesn’t have his costumer’s best interests in mind. I know, shocking, moral values kinda correlate with whether you’re getting ripped off or not, its a crazy concept, and one that the MAGA folks so desperately think they understand but they sorely don’t.
It varies a lot from person to person among those who are bilingual, and even from era to era. I’m Honduran, for context. I had nearly natively fluent English when I came out of high school and began working at a call center, mostly because I played an MMO for years and spent days and nights in Skype calls with groups of people from all over the world, most of which were native English speakers. Everyone else on the call center was astounded at how good my English was, and it was indeed miles better than anyone else in the office.
Then, I started university, it was predominantly taught in Spanish, everyone spoke Spanish, and I stopped playing MMOs and spending all day on Skype calls. I very clearly remember the transition, where I had trouble speaking Spanish quickly because I was so used to English, to now having to think for a second what I want to say in English before saying it in a less than perfect accent, while my Spanish now flows quite easily. My Spanish and my English essentially swapped places (to where they should’ve always been, if you ask me). I now believe this had a noticeable impact on my social life when I was young, I was too shy to talk in Spanish but the shyness would fade away completely if I held the conversation in English. Thankfully, spanglish became a predominant way of speaking now and everyone is happy lmao.
Content consumed did little difference, I believe. I never stopped consuming content in English. Still do, I spend too much time on Youtube and 99% of what I watch is in English, but my English will never be as good as it was back in those MMO days. Daily practice with native speakers makes all the difference in the world. I now have friends with better English than I had in my golden years, but since they work for Brits or Aussies, they have that accent, and I can’t tell the latino bits out of them at all, they could fool me if I didn’t know any better.
Edit: education here is not good. I had classmates on senior year who couldn’t read out of a reading book, at ALL. I’ve heard similar stories from even the most prestigious schools in the city. My school would pride itself on having some american teachers at some point, but that was history by the time I rolled through, so my English was 100% a gamer skill.
They just did a video through FUTO where they go over all “missing” features and why they haven’t or aren’t implementing them. Almost from the start they essentially said that if it’s still missing by now, there’s a reason why, and they mostly have everything they wanted to build into immich already on immich. I would imagine a feature complete project would be in more of a maintenance phase, and maintenance being slow during the holidays sounds… Pretty normal to me.
Americans need representation somewhere, you know
As someone who obsessively got too much ram for all his machines (96GB DDR5 on gaming PC, 96GB DDR5 on laptop, 64GB DDR4 on homelab mini PC, 128GB DDR4 on NAS), I now feel the sense of pride and accomplishment that EA promised me all those years ago.
Come on dude, that’s copium. Would it have eventually happened? Sure, the MAGA movement is the new mainstream right wing and this could’ve become a common sentiment through think tank pushes. Would it have happened right now under Kamala? Lmfao fuck no, that’s ridiculous
If you were really saying both sides would’ve been just as bad, just take the L and move on. Kamala wouldn’t have pardoned my country’s drug lord ex-president, among hundreds of other things, and that’s facts.
Listen, man, I’m from Honduras. Cuba and Venezuela get touted as the literal demonic results of communism over here, as if communists declared war on the Cuban and Venezuelan peoples. Communism was never going to get rid of corruption because corruption is part of any system of power. Communism guards against specific flaws in capitalism, but it’s still not a perfect system. This doesn’t clear the governments of either country of their sins, but we HAVE to weigh that against the actions of the literal colossus that decides whether any and every country in the Americas is prosperous or carpet bombed/cut off from the rest of the world, and they decide that purely on what interests and benefits them. Socialist and communist policies are both the only way forward for the continent, and literally impossible to pull off while the US controls all of us. The alternative is to just become slaves with ever lower wages, ever higher costs of living, and a bunch of bootlicking politicians telling you not to listen through your ears or see through your eyes, but to listen to them and to the empire because they know better, all the while also being told “at least you’re not as bad off as those stinking communists, and you need to fight to prevent that from happening to you”, as if the problem wasn’t the United fucking States assfucking anyone who dares to try and make things better.
By all means, hate and rage against the corrupt, but also do try to understand who the real culprits of this clusterfuck are.
the original or more prevalent tool needs to seek ways to be better as to not lose market share
I think concentration of market share itself is an issue. I just got banned from WhatsApp, twice in a row, by the automated spam banhammer they have, and I fully expect to get banned a third time as soon as their registration retry timeout expires in like 18 fucking hours (I’ve been at this since Friday).
I hate Meta as much as anyone else around here, but I’ve essentially been cut off from my entire community with this single event (which, to clarify, is a completely unwarranted ban that has been reverted by WhatsApp twice now). Everyone uses WhatsApp for their hustles, businesses, friend groups, neighborhood groups, etc. I have tried for YEARS to get a movement going to at least consider installing alternatives. I’m now left with signal which has 1 contact, and telegram which a ton of people downloaded during a whatsapp outage during the pandemic, but which nobody uses anymore because… WhatsApp came back rather quickly.
The lack of interop and lack of any usage of email on WhatsApp for anything other than support tickets, means I might need to ditch my phone number, which I’ve had for 20 years, because Meta’s AI got trigger happy with me for some obscure reason that not even they seem to understand.
Something that truly pisses me off about this specific conversation is, people in the privacy circles can’t quite seem to grasp just how much of a stranglehold Meta has on its communities. There’s 0 chance of me being able to get even a fraction of the people I interact with to use something other than WhatsApp. I’ve tried multiple times through the years and I have never been able to do anything about it, and it quite frankly pisses me off that the general response to someone using WhatsApp around here is “just stop using it and get your friends to stop too lol wtf why you such a lil bitch” as if we don’t live in a society that depends on these fucking monopolies because that’s how they were designed. You quite literally can’t opt for alternatives or go against the flow on this because it can result in you being cut off from your entire community, and as much as anyone here likes to LARP that they’re post-apocalyptic survivors who can and do live by themselves or whatever, that’s not the world we live in.
Some stuff needs to become interoperable, their concentrated market share usage needs to directly correlate to how much regulatory oversight they receive, and ideally it should either be diversified or government-owned if the concentration is too high and can’t be reversed. All of this can only happen through legislation, and clearly legislation isn’t doing shit because the EU’s DMA should have me connecting into the WhatsApp network from other apps already.
It is a civic duty to redact certain papers incorrectly.
As someone leaning ML, this makes me feel like I haven’t argued with my own side in a while… Or I am less ML than I think I am…
I have an ML account and usually just jump back and forth between .world local posts and .ml local posts and I swear I’m not seeing all this hostility people talk about anywhere
My dude, fry those tortillas a bit!
You’re zensanto. LadyMeow is LadyMeow. OP, in my context, is LadyMeow, not you. You’re just being autistic for no good reason.
To quote OP:
Or is this too difficult for you to follow?