lol what is there to investigate this is pretty thoroughly documented situation. Maybe next they will start investigating ET

Thank you for the info! I am right now thinking of switching to linux on my PC - I am using like a 7 year old Windows 10 system so I need to clean up anyway and no way in hell am I moving to Windows 11 :D

Americans being shocked at European protest actually being protests will never not be funny. For some reason Americans will change their profile pic for a day and think they’re making a statement while Europeans will only recognize an event as a protest when something is literally burning or destroyed

Am I crazy for thinking that this will be fine? Most people here in Europe have some experience or at the very least an understanding of the unbelievable destruction our continent has gone through in the last 100 years. I am in Finland and my country was basically a developing country until the 1980s frankly. We have gone through depression periods in recent history as a continent at various points.

You need to really nuke things for us to not have some optimism to recover. I do not feel that for Americans. I used to live in the USA for close to a decade, and what I noticed is that a lot of Americans have gotten so full of themselves, figuratively unable to close their belts from greed that a disruption to the over consumption is going to cause significant chaos.

I am more worried for the average American about what will happen when the iPhone is no longer affordable and we get into a serious financial depression that Americans haven’t experienced for a century.

Somehow the complexity of using Lemmy compared to other social media sites and the decentralized nature of it has really gotten rid of the trollfarms and bot spam to a pretty good extent. I realize now that Reddit has such an insane amount of bad-faith actors that cause the site to be so toxic, same with all other mainstream social media.

It doesn’t necessarily surprise me, but I just expected more from our generation for some reason. It seems like people are degrading to the point where fully grown adults are pushing these boundaries on purpose like the teenagers you speak of. I do not remember it being this bad 10 years ago.

My alternative was to start carrying a wallet with cards. Maybe it’s not wise to give card information for free to a service like that in general.

It’s insane to me that somehow free speech has been successfully twisted into a dog whistle to basically just spread disinformation, actively call for extermination of minority groups and openly attack and threaten other people. That shit is not free speech those are malicious actions - and they should absolutely not be tolerated under some vague guise of free speech.

lol they are giving warnings to people who upvote posts that they deem questionable. Literal thought crime police :D

For anyone reading, any idea what the music catalogue on Qobuz is compared to Apple/YouTube/Spotify music? I checked out the website and it looks like Qobuz is kinda expensive (I pay 9.99 euros a month for YouTube Premium + YouTube Music so it’s really hard to get rid of it and find a better alternative)