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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Sounds like an awful lot of work to get the hallucinating, environment destroying, billionaire enriching, Hitler praising slop machine to work right.

This is a very reductive and ignorant take. Media promotes the edge cases and makes fun of them. Meanwhile, people are using this shit all the time without incident.

We’re all better off binning the trash.

Not going to happen. You'd have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, people are using this shit all the time without incident.

Oh I've met these people. They're often just too stupid to understand when they're being fed bullshit. That's why they have no issues.

[–] msage@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, people are using this shit all the time without incident.

Lol. Lmao even.