it’s about the bad man’s bad product

this was inevitable.

agree, no matter what communities you browse, you just get repeatedly hit over the head with the same 5 topics.

what kind of ads were these?

had not heard of this before.

back to reddit you go

https://counciloncj.org/is-shoplifting-up-or-down/

And yet the comment I replied to was “They fixed a problem that wasn’t real”.

Incredibly scientific and thoroughly sourced lol.

In the first half of 2023, shoplifting reports were 16% higher than the first half of 2019. New York City saw a 44% increase in shoplifting complaints between 2021 and 2022. New York and Los Angeles saw the largest increases in shoplifting from 2019 to 2023, with more than 60% increases.

lol ok

you think they are just locking stuff up for fun?

it also doesn’t factor in how these irrelevant attacks alienate people who might consider joining their cause.

there are apparently over 25 million people in the US that play golf.

If, for no reason, you insult them and their hobby, you’ve lost a ton of potential allies.

Take this example I saw here a few days back:

https://lemmy.world/comment/4964970

A guy posts a picture of his motorcycle and some miserable sonofabitch comes in screaming at him:

Thanks for adding more pollution to our climate. Asshole.

Fuck that. Any person that intentionally pollutes the air should be publicly shamed and eviscerated.

yea, great job, guy…

this golf course talking point is weird, even looking at the issue as an environmentalist myself.

there are 2m acres golf courses in the US

the US is 2.43b acres in size.

Golf courses are 0.008% of US landmass.

Well beyond a rounding error, but for some reason this is some people’s #1 issue.

the most frustrating part is when I search for a result I know exists, and I know that Google knows it exists, but it floods me with pages and pages of things it thinks I “should” see instead.

ok

they’ve been posting their dumb political takes for years now.

many dumphones have these functions.

calculator and GPS is not what most people think of from the phrase “a bunch of apps”

just to give an argument for the option most folks are not choosing.

I work for a huge old company and here are some of the benefits:

• Good pay
• Great work/life balance. putting in over 40hrs/week is unheard of, no crunch time
• Size of the company allows for movement to different tech areas
• Very stable, great job security

Now granted, we are totally WFH, don’t think I would be willing to do an in-person job with a suit every day, but there is an argument to make for making more money when you’re younger that you can start investing early.

The lack of bleeding edge tech could also be used to your advantage if you could spearhead leading a more modern initiative.

I’m not sure how large the pay difference is, but it sounds like your heart is leaning towards the start up.

In the end, you’ll just have to weigh the positives and negatives and figure out what you truly want.

but you can’t add a bunch off apps.

kind of like telling a heroin addict to just stop doing heroin.

been using Libretube btw, very nice app.

I read that only 6% of people even use adblockers

I’ll give them a try.

I do have NewPipe installed already, but I just use it to download a video if I need it.

Will try it out full time as well as the other app.

cool ad

I have Photoshop with the generative AI options.

It’s almost impossible to get it to work with anything peach to brown shaded, because it (presumably) thinks I’m doing something NSFW.