Reddit refused access to API, and people left reddit.

Lemmy.world is refusing access to the pirate instances.

By your logic, people should leave Lemmy.

How often are they just bursting into flames for no reason?

Ok everybody. You heard them! Everybody talk about discuss.tchncs.de! Let’s ALL form opinions and talk at length about them!

Unclear if AI bot, or insane person having a stroke.

I get the rest of them, but why is “gay republican” there? I’m not saying he isn’t, but why is being gay one of the insults?

Shoo! Shoo away from my garden, bird!!! SHOO!

People want access to the defederated instances, on lemmy.world.

People don’t want to switch.

I have a different conspiracy theory.

I think they’re planning on the reduced human population that’s already underway in America.

See, the boomer generation at it’s peak was bigger than Gen-X, the millenials, and Gen-Z combined. But, people die. And the youngest boomers are 70 years old.

The next 30 years will see a massive population collapse, and we’ve already entered the collapse of the work force of that generation.

Which means for the next 30 years, everybody else is paying for the boomers social security. But when it comes time for our time on retirement, we’re not going to have the same support they did. Boomers will be dead, Gen Z is statistically having less kids (and I get why, but it still means less social security income).

So their plan is to regulate all the work to AI, and take all the profits. The problem is, it’s a really stupid plan. It doesn’t matter how advanced AI is. It will never fully replace humans. Which means the concept of work will always need to exist. And the end result is, I think they’re preparing to figure out how to get AI to do enough of the jobs, and then enslave the people to do the rest.

Because nothing has changed?

I don’t care how advertisers feel. I’ve been telling them for decades that their ads have zero effect on me. That it just pisses me off.

When I go into a grocery store, I have a list. If it’s not on that list, I’m not buying it. The list was prepared weeks ago, and added as I run out of things. Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads. I’m not paying attention. Even though you paid money to show the ad, I still didn’t see it. What difference does it make if I’m alive? Either way I didn’t see the…uh…what were you selling again? It was a commercial for Jesus? See, this just shows how little I pay atttention to ads. I saw the superbowl, and I’m fairly sure one of the commercials was for Jesus. I’m unclear how one would buy Jesus, but that was the ad.

Tell ya what advertiser industry. I’m going to do your job for you. I’m going to make sure every single person pays attention to every ad you ever put out. Are you ready for this? Here we go.

The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They’re bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning “OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!”

Remember, tittys are still bouncing. You put the product in the center of the screen.

You just made a billion dollars!

Found the appropriate response.

Hold on …

Are you saying all software hosted on github is infected with copilot? Or am I misreading the situation?

Honestly? This just looks like the goomba I remember. It just looks like if that goomba aged. Thats just elderly goomba.

Yes, but you are the minority.

I dated a girl over the summer, and we were watching youtube videos in bed.

My phone has revanced, and it kills all the ads.

Then she shows me one of her videos.

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

And thats just how most people watch it. They just watch youtube, with the official app. Ads and all, and are fine with it.

So even if all the fediverse minded people quit youtube in unison, it would still be less than 1% of their viewership.

No lies detected.

Do it, do it, do it, do it!

See, thats because you don’t know how to raise cats. It’s ok. Most people don’t.

Here’s what you do.

Step 1, hire a clown to stand naked in the closet with a chainsaw. You’ll need this later.

Step 2, go onto your favorite dating site, find a mate, and spend the night at a hotel.

Step 3, fall in love

Step 4, move in together

Step 5, adopt a few cats. Nothing much. Just a few. 22 should be enough.

Step 6, have your girlfriend go on a fetish dating site and find a guy who’s into chastity. She doesn’t have to sleep with him ever, but now he’ll clean the house, clean the 44 litter boxes daily, cook the meals, tutor your kid in his 2nd grade math homework, tend to the garden, wash the car, clean the gutters, and then sleep in a dog cage at night.

Step 7, anytime the cats start their bullshit, you use a little water bottle to spray them and yell NO! Eventually they’ll assosiate no, with being told you don’t like what they’re doing.

Step 8, fuck with your cats brain. Stare at them wide-eyed. Just dead stare at them without moving a muscle. Eventually they’ll get bored, and look away. That’s when you start salsa dancing behind their back. Everytime they glance at you, you stop, and stare at them. If they walk away, follow them and stare. Until they look away. Then more salsa dancing.

Step 9, when they fall asleep, wrap your arms around them and cover them in kisses for being such a good cat.

Step 10, do a barrel roll!

Step 11, now when your cat starts crying outside of the door, you stare at them. They should begin to realize you don’t like them doing that, and now they stop.

Step 12, from now on, anytime they’re annoying, you be even more annoying! But not aggressive. I did not say be violent. I did not say to do anything bad. But if your cat is annoying, maybe you go over and tickle them while making turkey gobble noises.

And that should do it. A house with enough cats, and a free cleaning service to help maintain all those cats!

Now you can get on with your day!

Is that the one you have to pay for, or is that the one you have to self host?

Because if it’s either of those, hard pass.

I use lemmy.

I use google.

Occasionally I use bing when I want to pirate, or find porn.

I can’t think of any other search engines. Google killed them all.

I miss Ask Jeeves.