BarneyPiccolo

joined 10 months ago
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

It's not necessarily a matter of moving. People who are into those niche subjects will gladly add more. I'm into guitars, and that's the only thing I really miss about Reddit. If I was in all the Reddit guitar subs, and found out about Lemmy guitar forums (which practically don't exist), I wouldn't switch to Lemmy, I'd just start browsing Lemmy's forums, too.

Start with Cats. Lemmy has a real lack of Cat material. Cats are like Artists in a run down neighborhood. Once the artists arrive, everybody knows the neighborhood will change over the next few years. Cats are like that in the Internet. Lemmy needs cats to attract more eyeballs.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

What? You mean explain NUANCE to a MAGA? Their entire political pallette is Black and White, and you want to introduce colors?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago

Worse, it means anything they want it to mean, at whatever moment they need it. You could be perfectly fine today, and tomorrow be public enemy #1.

Look at the Venezuelans. I have several very close Venezuelan friends, all of whom came to America to escape the brutal Maduro regime. They all arrived illegally, but very quickly hooked up with lawyers, and got documented ASAP, which all previous non-MAGA Administrations were happy to assist with. All eventually became American citizens, and got jobs, some started their own businesses, and they have been active, positive contributors to American society. Even Conservatives were happy about it, because it gave Maduro a black eye.

But today, all Venezuelans are evil gang-members, here to rob, rape, pillage, and eat our pets. Not because they are all those things, but because MAGA simply says they are, and today, these good people are all considered demonized criminals, by the same people who used to be proud of them for resisting Maduro.

You can be the best American today, and be the worst American tomorrow, if MAGA decides that it is politically expedient.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 months ago

Here in Florida, the ENTIRE argument is about passing a law that keeps kids off all Social Media. To do that requires age-verification, but since kids don't have a way to do that, they will age-verify EVERYONE, and kids won't be able to get past that.

And like everything they do, it's a fool-proof system that the MAGAs have designed. Surely no kid will ever learn their parents password, or borrow their Dad's ID for the verification process, etc. If I were a kid, I wouldn't sneak my Dad's wallet in the middle of the night, and take a photo of the front and back of his Drivers Licence for future reference. No kid will ever figure that out, right?

Of course they will. So we're going to surrender our anonymity on the Internet, just so we can implement an extremely flawed system that won't work, but that's OK, because keeping kids off the Internet was never the objective, tracking every single person using the Internet is the real objective.

And people will surrender that basic right, "for the kids."

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wow, COMPLETELY miss the point, why don't you? It's not about the kids, you moron, they're using the kids as an excuse to oppress the rest of us.

And your reaction - Ah, the kids will be fine - is exactly what they're hoping for. You will permanently surrender the privacy of every person on the Internet, just because some parents don't feel like doing their jobs as parents.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 27 points 4 months ago (10 children)

This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can't do, because they're kids, and don't have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.

Here in Florida, I've already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it's the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE'S ID. Now they're going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren't doing or saying anything wrong, right?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Valid, also the accountanting departments, which is the kiss of death for any company. Never let the accountants run anything, just keep them in their hole, counting the money.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

When you said shaving razors, I thought you were going to go with disposable, but you went with multi blades. Good head fake.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

From the moment I saw it, I knew what the problem would be, and surprise! That's the problem.

BTW, I'm a musician, not an engineer. If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago

Like most things in contemporary society, we are given the choice between two terrible options, and then encouraged to go all in on one of those terrible choices, or you're a LOSER.

Modern life is just Pavlov's lab.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So Android phones are anti-Semitic now?

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