Reddit has the only decent Steroid/Ped commuities on the web. I dont fuck with anabolics but I do play with some other things that are banned suppliments and its the only place to get decent user info on them.

Not with that attitude.

Ive been asking for that since day 1 of being here.

I found Reddit so useful that I would have paid but only for the user experience I wanted. not the stream of vomit their app wanted to show me. Im almost 40, I’ve got a pretty good job I can cover another subscription. I wouldnt have liked it, but I could have.

This is what pisses me off about tech companies. Tell me “for $20 a month you get the fully customisable app with no tracking for advertising or data mining or use the free add supported, try and sell you shit app” give me the option, I will pay to not be annoyed.

Floatplane is nowhere near close. Floatplane is only good for established creators with dedicated fanbases who are willing to pay, although admittedly it is really good for that. There are ways FP could start to encroach on YT but its still a long way off.

The AI can be trained however they want, and has no conscience. Mods might actually reach a whistleblowing tipping point.

Im fine with it because this isnt me.

Jack and the beanstalk (the folk tale) was first published it 1734 (the story of a boy who goes to market with a cow and is talked into exchanging it for “magic beans”) in 1734 the key premise of the story was a person making terrible purchases.

The expression “a fool and his money will soon be parted” or a variation of that was first published in 1573 “A foole & his money, be soone at debate: which after with sorow, repents him to late.”

People being dumb with money isnt new, if you think targeted advertising, or any modern form of advertising is the root cause (admittedly it definitely cant be helping the situation) Id argue that this is a part of the base human condition.

Im a car guy, so Im always interested in who is selling what, for how much, what features it has and so on. I have absolutely no intent on buying the new Kia EV, but I will read about it briefly.

I know I’m in the minority but I have mixed feelings about targeted advertising.

If being shown none isnt an option Id rather be shown things that I might have a passing interest in over just being bombarded with advertisements for a male 25 to 40.

I think after 11 years I finally realised that I was just fed up with internet strangers. I have a few wheelhouses that I’m well informed in but every time I tried to help someone gain a deeper understanding of an issue Id get argued with or worse.

Trying to have a reasonable conversation about how to get the best deal on something only to get brigaded by people who want the world to be a socialist utopia derailing the conversation. Like yeah I agree but capitalism is the system we have and you either work the system or the system works you.

By the time they switched off RIF I was only there for the memes.