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Cake day: December 20th, 2021
  • drspod@lemmy.mltoTechnology@beehaw.org•Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)
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    23 hours ago

    You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]

    Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅

    You removed the emphasis on “You” from my quote which changes the meaning. I specifically meant that you, the person that I am replying to, don’t need to do anything, and there are people who will do something on your behalf.

    Nothing that you’ve said changes my critique of your critique btw. You said:

    he lives in absolute La La land

    No, actually he presented a well thought out analysis of the way that the relationship between business and customer/user in our current system, along with the relationship between business and legislator, both entrenches monopolies and causes a pathological dependency whereby customers cannot exercise their right to freely choose with whom they do business, and so their rights are severely diminished.

    the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

    The main point of my reply was that you are arguing against a straw-man here since the intended audience of the article is not “the people with power.”

    like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You’ve been living in a total fantasy. You’re not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.

    A non-sequitur and then a baseless dismissal of the argument that suggests that you either didn’t read it, or didn’t understand it.

  • drspod@lemmy.mltoTechnology@beehaw.org•Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)
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    1 day ago

    Did you think this blog post was aimed at the people with power, to petition them to change the laws?

    It’s aimed at us, the people getting fucked over, to point out what (among the many other things) we should be fighting for. Commentary like this is important to align the goals of the organizations, charities and lobby groups that defend YOUR civil rights by filing amicus briefs, publishing articles, encouraging activism and drives to get citizens to write to their representatives on the important matters that affect their rights. You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked by Big Tech and capitalism, on a volunteer basis.

    It sounds to me like you’ve just given up hope that any progress can be made on this front, given the new status quo.

    Never give up. Just because civil rights defenders will be on the defensive for a few years does not mean that discussions of what is worth defending no longer have value.

  • drspod@lemmy.mltoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games
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    20 days ago

    Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.

    I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”

    Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy’s facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.

    She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.