I am very sorry this happened to you. I don't know who you are, or the first thing about you. For all intents and purposes, I am just a random internet guy reading about your struggles.

You clearly have a deep level of patience, empathy, and have devoted a significant portion of your being to another person. Never let anyone, including her, ever make you doubt that. She cannot and/or will not accept that and has clearly decided to take that for granted. It is very very rare to find someone like you who will put up with such utter bullshit for that long.

I really relate because I was in a similar relationship. Unfortunately, these things tend to happen. Let none of this extinguish the light of who you are. Just as you showed love and loyalty to someone, love and loyalty must be shown back. There are no free lunches. Not in partnership, and certainly not in life.

Stay strong, and don't look back. I, and others, are rooting for you.

Up until now, I haven't been overwhelmingly emotional about all the horrible things happening right now.

I don't know why this news hit me particularly hard. Reading it made me feel like a part of me died. Got glassy eyed. This kind of feels like the final betrayal in a sense. Not the ultimate betrayal, but one super close to my heart.

look, I trust F-droid and open source apps more than I trust the sponsored garbage on play store alongside shit like kalshi and candycrush. The security point is moot. The call is coming from inside the house.

As for ad money, being one of the most grossly profitable corporations in the world isn't enough? Must line go up always? At what point is having an absurd amount of profit enough? Where is the line?

It's probably majority network effects. If you compare Instagram to 5, 10 years ago on the dot, you see an atrocious drop off on quality and usability. The change was so insidious, majority of people didn't notice or care all that much. And yet, Instagram is still one of the largest platforms in the US, despite how objectively horrendous it is to users.

The ironic thing is that they could still be rich beyond their wildest dreams while leaving enough for the rest of us to pursue happiness and (at minimum) stability. They just want more than 'rich beyond your wildest dreams'.

Capitalized greed

I, for one, want to thank Elon Musk for graciously backing up my highly sensitive government ID (that has my birthdate, eye color, height, weight), my biometric data, and likeness! It is such a nice thing to centralize all my most sensitive data into one giant honeypot waiting to meltdown. It is made even more appealing after he fired the entire staff responsible for maintaining this honeypot!

Good Lord bro. Imagine having self-awareness. With the Madison stuff also coming to light, they would have already been in the pit regardless, but this 'apology' video is kind of insulting.

Yes I also watched the whole thing and still found it equally as insulting as the highlights.

Thanks for being so transparent with us. Lemmy really does feel like home now to me. I wish the maintainers all the best as they continue to fight the forces of evil.

Are you fucking shitting me rn? I am sick of how lame this dystopian future is. Where are my neon lights and grungy underground bars? All we get in this timeline are takedown notices, corporate overreach, disappearing content and DMCA strikes.

This is absolutely grade A batshit crazy, not just your average dystopian batshit crazy.

What a clusterfuck of a HIPAA violation.

Reading the article with the letter X in place of Twitter makes me feel like I am reading a pre-generated article with someone forgetting to replace the placeholder with the brand name.

That's one angry shower.

I don't think this is too far off. Synaptic pruning leaves us vulnerable to increasingly relying on heuristics as we age. It is entirely possible that cognitive decline makes us more drawn to less cognitively taxing messaging (generally conservatives).

This isn't boring dystopia, this is just straight up Monday for a true dystopia.

I just got back to the US from japan and now I'm super depressed that I have to drive 14 minutes to the nearest grocery store... Which is Walmart.

When sentences begin with an inflecting "Honestly?", I am immediately on guard to completely ignore what comes next, because it is usually a steaming pile of AI crap.

I remember during world's a couple of years ago, the stream chat was shouting "TY MASTERCARD" everytime their ads came up

Saw a TikTok on the Saturn ad that posed how inefficient car transport is when scaled with large populations. Basically, if you remove the body of the car and have people walk on those same roads, they are just taking up so much space. Traffic is horrible even though there is plenty of space between people. The comments section lacks media literacy in the most basic sense. Either they were willfully ignorant, or just outright stupid.

All the comments were like "doesn't this prove cars are the most efficient form of transport?"

Americans truly need to visit Tokyo, or really any city outside the US that HAS ACTUAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE.

I live in Houston, the worst possible car centric nightmare and I get nearly killed every other day. It's gotten to the point where you don't even flinch when someone almost rams you in a head on because these near misses happen all the time.

I am so fucking sick of cars.

With windows 10 EOL on the horizon, I need steam OS to come out for desktop soon. I beg you lord Gaben. 👁️