Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.
But I’m more interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.
The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.
^^^
Pirates now the only ones preserving this culture, yeah
I go back and forth. I like getting cozy and warm, but when it’s cold my skin feels uncomfortable, like it’s crawling or shrinking on me, like I put it on wrong. And my hands feel gross and cold and I rue having to touch myself with them in the bathroom.
But when I get warm enough it’s nice.
I’ve read 500 page novels that have touched me less than these 5 paragraphs.
Thank you for sharing this story.
So anyway, I love those dark maples with the leaves that are so blue they’re almost black in certain light. I call them goth maples.
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Agreed
Oh I didn’t know that, they can’t just wave it away?
Robot laws innit
Idgi
E: oh, no threat of violence?
The email is 100% optional though. Also customer can decline a receipt.
… they’re just underpaid and under a lot of pressure from management to try multiple times and in some cases they even get written up for not doing it because it’s deemed part of their job. They hate it just as much as you.
I’ve worked retail and call centre jobs and I can assure you this is many people (at least those who are not too exhausted to care). These workers are constantly pressured to enshitify their service at the expense of theirs and the customer’s experience.
I haven’t worked a counter in over a decade, so can only imagine it’s got worse.
This is sadly very common where I’m from, except you don’t even get a discount from it. I’ve taken to just politely declining, since I’m sure the person working the cash is probably pressured to get people to give their personal info.
“And can get your email?”
“No thank you”
“I need your email for the receipt”
“I appreciate it but no thank you”
It’s a slight non sequitur while still being polite. Saying “no thank you” when someone is pressuring you works well in many situations.
Black hat v grey hat innit
This is why we need a Crysis demake
Ok WTF. Unencrypted PII on prem, just out in a hostile public environment???
Or religious sludge
Harder to quality control for though
Or after the “but” and before the “and”