existing as a “consumer” in the “American market” is so fucking tiresome

Agree - PayPal screwed me out of over $200 in overdraft fees by spamming a transaction to an external account when I told them to pay from balance, refused to make it right, and it took months of battling my credit union to get half of the fees forgiven.

I hate PayPal with the fury of a thousand burning suns, and there are endless horror stories like this out there, as well as them just arbitrarily stealing people’s money. I’m forced to keep an account but these days I keep an entirely separate bank account with an entirely separate bank to link to it, just to prevent the contagion from potentially spreading to anywhere where I actually keep a balance. FUCK PayPal.

Thanks SDF! If I wasn’t desperately broke I’d already be a member!

The Unhook browser extension is pretty good, though I needed to add some Ublock rules once in a while. They don’t always update super fast after Youtube adds new addiction triggers.

Beware, I don’t think they support secure SIP (SIP-over-TLS + SRTP) yet. I have dedicated SIP devices and this is a roadblock to me switching to JMP.chat.

“Wine Hiking Society” absolutely is what it says on the tin btw 😆 #WineMomLife #LiveLaughLove

Absolute peak shitlib content from The Guardian, bravo

Have you seen how heavily he’s being astroturfed since about 6 to 9 months ago? It’s practically guaranteed at this point.

And this is why the Democrat Party will continue losing elections when it really counts. He is 1000% more of the same of what got us Donald Motherfucking Trump not once but twice.

Free Luigi

Linen’s good at it, cotton’s pretty bad, rayon however is excellent (aka viscose, “bamboo” etc) despite being semi-synthetic.

I dunno but I’m fixin’ to find out. currently provisioning a couple Proxmox hosts.

although… I might choose Piefed.

It’s still a decent overview of the state of play, anyway.

Free fun game: https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

Quantity over quality, right?

…wait a minute 🤔

Not if you move to a better instance and block .world. There are plenty of far better communities to subscribe to.

At some point it’s 100% valid to throw up one’s hands, block all of .world, and move on.

The threadiverse with a .world-sized hole in it is plenty active with lots of things to read and talk about. As a bonus, you also have fewer irritating interactions with people who haven’t detoxed from corporate social media. After I blocked .world, the average quality of my random interactions noticeably increased.

It’s unfortunate that so many noobs land there, but it is what it is … they either figure it out (thru exposure to threads like this) and switch instances eventually, or they don’t. Either way, the ones who do eventually filter out onto smaller instances arrive with a better understanding of (and appreciation for) how a federated threaded discussion board system functions in practice.

Blocking .world and putting our collective energy into communities elsewhere is the only real option. I took the plunge months ago and I have plenty of stuff to read and plenty of people to chat with. It just wasn’t worth it to me to continue tolerating the vexatious stupidity and poor behavior just for a handful of communities that weren’t yet (at the time) duplicated elsewhere.

Every time anyone from outside .world participates in a .world community, they are helping to entrench the bullshit. We need to be doing the opposite.

Jeffrey Goldberg’s The Atlantic

The solution is the same now as it was a year ago: stop participating in .world communities and start contributing your energy to the equivalent communities elsewhere. The entire point of federated threaded discussion boards is to be able to route around damage (or dipshits).

.world is the reddit of the threadiverse