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I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free
  • the vast, vast majority

    Not to disagree with your main point - everyone deserves to be paid - but porn scales so well that we might already have enough free amateur production for everyone. It just doesn't get to the top of SEO-optimized searches.

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    Peak technology
  • That's very hard to do in practice when you make a thousand little choices a day - the time spent researching everything would be astronomical.

    The solutions we offer should take rational ignorance into account; shaming victims won't make it go away. Where do your food and clothes come from?

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    As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs
  • How come they don't count? They're figuring out how the machines should work, for money. That's engineering, right? (I'm an American mechanical engineer)

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    I heard you wanted more
  • I think it's because he just did the wordplay and didn't ask "our opinion on" jhoes, which raises the jhoish question.

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    No thanks China!
  • I'm not defending China here, but since Snowden we now know that American corporate spyware does serve the government. And they are suppressing democracy - this isn't a democracy yet, and peaceful protests for democracy are met with violent police resistance - Occupy, BLM, etc.

    I sincerely hope that Lemmy can grow large enough to serve as a staging ground for democratic protests in America, just because it's not corporate controlled.

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    Are We Watching The Internet Die?
  • If it really ramps up, we could share block lists too, like with ad blockers. So if a friend (or nth-degree friend) blocks someone, then you would block them automatically.

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