Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

I buy albums. Built up a nice library. No drm. No Internet required. I can even share it or pass it on. It’s a lot easier to share than my parents’ big record collection

Of course they are. I’m happy to never use twitch but I feel like most people don’t care or don’t have the self discipline to stop.

It’s because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they’re useless. Worse than useless.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

I’m pretty happy not using Spotify. I will continue to do so. My library of drm free music (mostly from Bandcamp) is just fine.

Happily using Linux at home. Played some elden ring today, and the original fallout last week. Did some writing in libre office. It’s fine. And free. I never have to tinker with it.

I don’t know what it does on Lemmy but I’m clicking the gold star on this reply

Google is run my by assholes and idiots. Break it apart.

Edit: fixed silly typo

I feel like we should run honeypots like this, and anyone who falls for it goes right to, like, therapy and “how not to be scammed” training.

WhatsApp, sms, and Google chat (hangouts? Meet? The thing built into Gmail)

None of them are great.

One of my friends is some sort of neurodivergent and just… won’t install signal. It’s “too much”. I don’t understand this. It’s 30 seconds of “click this link I sent you, then click install”.

The “american dream” has always had a problematic contradiction. You should work hard. Working hard is good. You should work hard so you don’t have to work anymore. Working sucks and you don’t want to do it. You want to be the guy on a golf course getting money while those hard working people assemble widgets for you.

Well, which is it then?