is there anyway I could be more disruptive to the business model?

By not using the platform. You think you’re being clever but all you’re doing is making them more money.

It’s fake, originally posted by Intel.

Who?

It’s quite funny how the virus originated in a city with a lab studying precisely that kind of virus, yet judging by the comments, it’s considered outrageous to even suggest the possibility that it might have escaped from that lab.

Nobody is claiming with absolute certainty that it did, but it seems strange to completely dismiss the idea.

I’ve experienced this like 3 to 4 times in total but the first time you fire up a new toaster makes this smell like nothing else and I find it extremely pleasant. It’s just impossible to replicate.

Probably carpentry. It’s highly relevant to what I do for a living. I have the tools and the physical abilities but there are big holes in my know-how

Not a meme. Do we really need politics on every-single-community?

I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed around a year ago and went from barely anyone seeing my photography to literally no one seeing it.

One major issue with most online discussion about AI is that many people seem to view that term synonymous with LLMs - which it’s not. LLMs are AI systems but AI as a category is also so much more than that.

The fact that people are constantly talking and making everything about politics is the “problem” I’m talking about here and that is what I’m almost entirely blaming social media for. It’s not the world events I’m blaming social media for but the reaction people have to them.

The current events are nothing new - social media is.

Social media is what happened. Consuming negativity all day every day makes people angry and depressed - who would’ve thought.

I’ve been using similar, but slighly different ones that I assume do the same thing. You can also copy the filter and just replace the filter word rather than including them all in one. Naturally here the instance name must be also changed to that of yours.

lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text("/trump/i"))

And for filtering comments:

lemmy.world##article.comment-node:has(div.comment-content:has(p:has-text(/trump/i)))

One million invested to the stock market pays you on average 70k a year in interests. Now imagine having a billion on the stock market.

Compounding interests. I don’t think that most people realise how powerful the effect of it is. Anyone can take advantage of it but there’s no getting around the fact that the more money you have the easier it gets to make even more which then makes it even easier and this just keeps accelerating.

I don’t see how this has anything to do with federated platforms. I’d argue that watching Loops is just as bad for one’s mental health than TikTok is.

I wouldn’t say that I don’t see the appeal of it. I would probably get sucked right in if I gave it a shot. It’s a consciouss decision on my part to simply not do that. I don’t not-consume short-form media because I’m better than the people who do, I prohibit it from myself.

Like I said, I’m not for this ban. In my view what ever reason is used to ban TikTok should then apply to every other social media aswell. I don’t want the government to dictate which content I’m allowed to consume - I should be free to decide for myself. I simply don’t view this issue thru the lens of free speech.

It’s similar to banning porn. While it’s objectively bad for you, so is drinking gasoline and that’s not illegal either. If you want to drink gasoline you should be allowed to.

I’m not for banning TikTok but the ban also doesn’t conflict with your freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not about having a megaphone, it’s about not being procecuted for the things you’ve said. You’re still free to say the exact same things you were allowed to before the TikTok ban - you just can’t do it on TikTok.

I lived in the capital of my country for about 6 months and even though everything was generally located closer, the travel still took me the same time if not even longer. Keeping car is expensive there and traffic is much worse. Public transport here is much better than almost anywhere else in the world but it’s still public transport. Having your own car is infinitely better.