[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

This is a kind of obvious folklore fact as well as actually true, that inbreeding (you seem to be referring to) causes worse intelligence. Because I believe I am right, I would on principle object to getting someone who is less easy to convince of my world view as an option, even if someone else gets to indoctrinate them first. It's obviously a cynical post but this is just unfair to the nonexistent inbred kids you're hypothesizing

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

we're going to have to stay on mastodon for at least until someone tells us about how good the moderation is

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

have not thought about this security aspect yet, I seldom do actually take the laptop to a public place

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I rarely actually press Ctrl+Shift+H to go through the chronological history, and I do actually use bookmarks, (you know favelets? I have 2 that are actually useful). It technically also gets harder to search for the thing I want in my History as It gets bigger, but its still feels like less typing than on a search engine.

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I've turned search engine suggestions off because they often get me side-tracked, or even get me to completely forget what I actually wanted. If it is something I have visited once already, simply getting that from my history skips the search engine, making the process slightly faster. I realize that my attention problem might not actually be solved by this,

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

see elsewhere: doubt about whether all game publishers are the same

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are the IMO most supported Single-Sign-On provider. I think Facebook, which I don't even have, was mostly for games, and then apple also isn't an option, and that's just it besides using firefox' built in password manager for another email/password combination. What's your opinion on log in providers?

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use .tar.gz in personal backups because it's built in, and because its the command I could get custom subdirectory exclusion to work on.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I've been waiting for a joke like this. In hindsight, it was inevitable.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

eat the rich

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I obviously don't smoke but are cigarettes not safe for work?

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like something something emo 2.0 ? (yes, the bottom guy is jordan peterson: (sneer now) i know almost nothing about him and have vaguely understood that it should stay that way)

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Is there a lemmy community, for example, where people discuss shopping strategies which minimize the risk of the purchase decision being influenced by Brand Image or Flashy Packaging? Or similar topics. Maybe what product categories have cheapest products that are bad, so you can't apply an objective criterion while making the purchase decision, and are more vulnerable to advertising. Maybe how shopping background music is evil because it takes up mental capacity. (I'm feeling slightly autistic right now, science at least shows music makes you buy more, the rest is just my guess.) You know, that kind of thing.

Questions I would ask people interested in this (feel free to answer them anyways): Do you think making a list of every company that has ever advertised to you so that you can hold it up to yourself when making a purchase decision and only buy from their competitors, makes sense and would be worth your time? Do you love shopping lists because they make you think of the generic product beforehand, and then let you objectively decide based on price which one to buy? Do you agree with the sentiment that, like an AI in a Robert Miles video / Sci-Fi Movie resisting being turned off, I should want to resist something that will change my opinion or state of mind? Do you get a negative gut reaction whenever you see that people are studying advertising, which means most of their job is making this manipulation more efficient? Would these hetorical questions make good advertising for the hypothetical Advertising Hate Club?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

[citation needed]

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

delete and pause your watch history, at least that's how it works for me.

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