All of these things are achievable without paying YouTube.

Huh? Small businesses are the ones that predominantly use FB to replace traditional websites. If you want to support local business, chances are they are using a free Facebook page rather than paying for web hosting.

Gladys’s Artisanal Buttplugs is owned by a 60 year old who doesn’t know the first thing about running a website, but she has used Facebook to send spam to her grandkids for years. If I want to avoid giving my money to Big Plug^tm, FB may be my only way to contact local creators.

I get the disdain for FB, I really do, but pretending that there aren’t people being held hostage by the system is a bit silly. This thread was about someone trying to untangle themselves from FB, and you’ve turned it into a moral argument, as if they don’t agree with your assessment of social media anyway.

OP isn’t asking about how to keep viewing shorts or memes from friends.

Many businesses forgo websites and put their contacts, opening hours, menus, and updates on a dedicated Facebook page. Is that small business open on Sundays? Google says yes, but Facebook has a post from the owner about their dog dying so the store is closed for the week.

I am part of several social groups that communicate entirely through Facebook. There is no way to get updates out to all members outside of the dedicated group pages. A venue change a few months back caused chaos because some people didn’t check the Facebook group in the week leading up to the event.

I too want to leave Facebook, and have stripped my use down to these minor use cases. But getting rid of it completely at this point cuts me off from some of my only positive mental health activities.

You are assuming that there will only be one device used by a careful and considerate individual.

I can think of many companies that would 100000% set up a moisture farming complex if it was financially feasible. Who gives a fuck about the environment? It’s basically free water from nothing, right?

Do you think they are condensing 1000L of water to then just splash it on the ground where it was farmed? That water is going to people (or more likely companies) that are going to leave the ecosystem.

I would think that ripping 1000L of water out of an environment in a day is going to have more immediate impacts than you eventually pissing on a cactus is going to fix…

Sure, the water isn’t “destroyed”, but it is being removed from an ecosystem that has evolved to use every last bit of water it can find to survive. It may not be immediately obvious, but it sounds just as damaging as removing 1000L of water a day from a lake and thinking the ecosystem will be fine because you’re going to sweat next to the dry lakebed.

If I were to walk into the courtroom with a go-pro strapped to my head, would I be clear because the camera is off and probably not recording?

These glasses are never advertised for how good the glasses aspect of the product is, but for their ability to record hands free image and video. The product is primarily for filming, and Facebook knows this.

The amount of people who suggest YouTube Music when asked for alternatives to Spotify is absolutely mind boggling. Legitimately feels like some people have no self-preservation skills.

They were wearing glasses with the camera literally built into them. Anywhere they look they are pointing a camera.

Corrected the autocorrect 🙄

I’ve said it before, but Trump as president basically rules out the existence of aliens on Earth. That fat fuck could not keep his mouth shut if he knew about aliens.

I have been rewatching the x-files, and the most fantastical part of the show is the idea that the FBI could orchestrate an alien conspiracy. Kash Patel couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone hide aliens from the world.

Oh, you’re that kind of dumb. That “anyone who disagrees with my point is obviously just offended at my right-ness” kind.

Thank you for your time. I’m tapping out.

Men make up ~80% of the military in the US. Already we are off to a bad start if you think the military is a ‘general slice’.

Using the military as your source comes with a whole lot of biases. Military enrolment is not mandatory in the US, so your numbers are already skewed by factors of wealth, ‘patriotism’, and gender.

You can assume that people who are not open to the possibility of killing a human being are filtered from their ranks by default. And then being exposed to the life of a soldier (especially in a war zone) can skew the way that a person interacts with their world.

A small enough number that they can all be listed by name. You’re correct, it’s a plan that is working incredibly well.

Some of you may die, but that is a risk that I am willing to take.

Because “my” narrative is clearly supported by all the video evidence that is being collected by hundreds of people with their phones out.

We have evidence of wrongdoing and crimes by the governments that spans years. If evidence was enough to topple this regime, we wouldn’t be here.

It might be good for you to unplug and stop subjecting yourself to the constant news cycle then. Don’t watch all these videos, just take care of your own mental health.

Kindly go fuck yourself you patronising git. I am mature enough to look after my mental health, and I choose not to turn away from the events that are unfolding. I do not need to be hooked into the 24h news cycle to see that things are dire, and ignoring them or telling others to ignore them is the kind of shit that lets dictators steal more power.

What the fuck are you talking about?

People are currently not shooting back, and people are currently being murdered in the streets. Clearly it’s a plan that is working well so far /s.

You talk about a “good guy/bad guy” narrative, and then admit that the current government is painting the victims as terrorists. So why do you think your narrative is any stronger than the one that the president and many popular news media outlets are complicit in? Especially when you personally are telling people not to watch the objective footage.

The world is watching the US right now, and we are seeing innocent people die in the street, while people comment about how bad this will be for Trump in the next election and people need to get out there and vote while the Slavecatchers pull families from their homes. I’m feel like I’m losing my mind!

This is the continuation of that scandal, from the same creator who documented the initial incident.

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I’m rewatching The X-Files at the moment, and it’s so weird to remember a time when people believed that government agencies were staffed by people smart enough to investigate or cover up alien conspiracies.

It actually works as evidence against the theories that aliens have visited earth, because if it existed, Patel would have accidentally tweeted the Roswell autopsy video while eating his lunch on the toilet by now.

We share Olivia’s desire to keep live music accessible and ensure fans have the best access to affordable tickets.

While we can’t require other marketplaces to honour artists’ resale preferences

“We really want to keep music affordable and accessible. Unfortunately, the resale marketplace that we designed and profit from is totally out of our control, otherwise we’d totally make music affordable like we wish we could”

Fuck off and die

The idea that a company can grow meat by just adding a few carbs and vitamins to a flask of cells is ridiculous.

Right now it is. The attention these projects are getting is intended to pique the interest of people who can help fund research into making the process more efficient and affordable.