I don’t know how someone who grew up around people who drinked could have any other perception of alcohol than as poison. I don’t know a single person who drinks regularly who doesn’t have health conditions directly linked to it.

That’s kind of what I was wondering, I figured this as well as a way to track that it is at least sending data at unusual times. Someone else in this thread explained that actually determining what that data is would be difficult yeah: https://lemmy.world/post/48510943/24408747

I don’t know enough about system security or forensics to evaluate this, but it does make sense based on what I know.

You seriously have to chill out, like, actually. You’re acting like this under a comment that made fun of the use of “/s.”

Well, I tried being nice to y’all. Interaction done, never trying that again

Edit: be sure to notice the distinct lack of “/s”

Right, I forgot you guys also think of it as an insult if someone says you got mad.

would this not be detectable by tracking the data sent through your network?

“How they claim?” Is there no way to confirm that?

Okay, well this time I did put the “/s” and you guys still got mad about it, so I don’t think I’ve done any wrong here.

I think it also depends on context. If you’re being “sarcastic” about something that could be harmful to someone if genuine, then it’s better to make that clear and avoid potentially doing that harm. In this case, I’m making fun of Reddit and ads, no harm done.

It doesn’t if you aren’t just dying to catch someone being stupid. I don’t care about being nice, this is the first time in my entire life that someone has admitted to expecting me to be nice online. /s

Do you people actually need “/s” to not be annoying? I added the fucking smug face and everything.

They actually plan on ads being tuned out, it’s more about choking out the presence of competitors than it is actually convincing the audience that their product is worth while; y’know, like a weed.

Either way, I don’t fall for it because I just make sure to type in “Reddit,” right after my search for a product I want so that I get honest human reviews and not ads. 😏

Kind of interesting to read something that so clearly isn’t critical of the system but is advocating for something that would fundamentally require systemic change. Liberal movements to further police the internet at a state level is constructed here as the selfish acts of self-interested politicians who are simply using the system wrong, not the inevitable consequence of a system that relies on the subordination of different groups of people and therefore must control the means by which people communicate. The internet is a problem for colonialism and capitalism, full stop. They aren’t citing youth wellbeing and ignoring them in legislative decisions because they forget or they are particularly inconsiderate, it’s because they know the child represents the continuation of this system and they are evoking an ideal innocence associated with children to construct the internet as a corrupting force on society. They know they don’t have to actually think about the kids because that would mean anything else is valued over capital.

It talks about addressing the root causes for the disingenuously cited problems that unregulated internet access poses, but then ignores the fundamental role that corporations have played in facilitating those issues exactly because the internet was inevitably commodified under this system. The fact that there is one video platform controlled by one of the largest corporations in the world that reliably kneecaps any competition was what, not an issue? That these corporate entities are beholden to the interests of almost exclusively Americand and European imperialistic interests is not a coincidence, and until quite recently their transnational operation allowed for a significant amount of informal influence on colonized spaces. The only reason they’re doing this is because they know that people within the empire have effectively used it to organize resistance, and that this is avoided in this mission statement speaks to the dissonance between “democratic” internet movements and the reality that the internet exists in.

“It isn’t racist to call a Native American a ‘yank’ because I’m ignorant about racism.” You’re telling me that you moderate a Norwegian community, talk a shit ton about Euro nations, but you think it doesn’t make you look like a racist asshole to not know what is racist about trying to dunk on an indigenous person (who, again, you thought was just some other poor person) by calling them a term that identifies them with the occupying settler state that has committed genocide against their people.

Yeah dude, totally not a bloodthirsty chud.

Hey, dummy, what do you think settler-colonial means?

Are you seriously also down here saying racist shit to a Native American so that you can roleplay some flex on what you thought was just some poor USAmerican who couldn’t afford healthcare? Your good guy scenario was dunking on a poor person in an authoritarian state?

Europeans are seriously the most bloodthirsty fucks I’ll see online, and they’re predictably the most smug about it too.

Sorry, is this not meant to sound like you’re a Eurocentrist douchebag? Medical care and resources are already not distributed proportionately throughout the world exactly because a small number of nations benefit from a brutally extractive colonial system that requires the dehumanization of other groups to exist.

The US doesn’t have a fucking healthcare system because it is a settler-colonial, imperialist military power that holds up the capitalist system that Europeans are such proud benefactors of. They violently enforce a system that inflicts as much precarity and vulnerability as possible on its people because it depends on preventing as many unprivileged people as possible from gaining enough resources to muster an effective challenge to its power within the metropole while maintaining its legitimacy to its more privileged working classes.

So, what the fuck are you bitching about? Americans saying that people won’t be able to afford it? They’re correct, most people will not have access to it so that fucks like you can thanks to the US guarding the loot. Fuck’s sake with you people.

Edit: Before any Euros try to bitch and whine about how unfair it is that you’re still colonizers, I do not care. I don’t fucking care. We are not going to do this thing where you can bitch about the US and pretend like you aren’t world destroyers for the same exact fucking reason it is. If you are not critical of how many EU and European settler nations have the wealth to sustain a healthcare system and quality of life that makes access to medicine an entitlement instead of a privilege, you’re not a serious person.