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azureeight, 1 year ago to lgbtq_plus in Boycotts rarely work — but anti-LGBTQ+ backlash is forcing companies into tough choices

The unfortunate reality is the threat or actual use of violence is what they listen to.

The irony that we never here of the scale of violence for Left causes like this never seems to be found but ya know "both sides". 👀

azureeight, 1 year ago to technology in Meta and Mastodon: What’s really on people’s minds?

What a lot of these places started out as, grew a userbase with, and then sold out when they got mainstream and popular.

Quality engagement can't be found at those places once they become corporate!

azureeight, 1 year ago to technology in Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'

Omg I would have absolutely no script for that. They would get the blankest expression and something snarky like "it was impressive how Nestle was able to get market share on water and baby formula in the African market" but knowing my luck I'd probably get unironicly hired with that line when I was trying to be sarcastic. 😭

azureeight, 1 year ago to technology in Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'

Discord. God I hated how I was one of my friends that got everyone to switch, and now I'm the first one out. I don't think they have added a feature that hasn't been an annoyance for a while, and after a year of no mobile notifications working and their staff being incompetent (especially if you are a free user) I'm just over it.

Everyone worshipping it is kind of a turn off too. It's a service y'all, I've had everything from AIM to Slack and I'm sure there will be a million others. Worshipping a corp is gross.

azureeight, 1 year ago to news in The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating

We are a global people. We could do more, and we actively don't. We should all be ashamed and just because it makes you feel uncomfortable or helpless doesn't mean you have to rationalize the shame of our species.

We need to face it if we'll ever change it.

azureeight, 1 year ago to news in The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating

You should look more into the story and into the occupancy before you start taking random moral stances cause you want to be rich one day.

azureeight, 1 year ago to news in The Guardian view on danger at sea: The contrast between the frantic hunt for a missing submersible and the failure to save migrants drowning in the Mediterranean is illuminating

So you should just be left to die if you get shot while committing a crime?

azureeight, 1 year ago to news in Tesla hacker discovers secret ‘Elon Mode’ for hands-free Full Self-Driving

I never was going to be able to get one of these cars anyway, so I didn't look into them until recently, I was shocked how little oversight and testing the selfdriving has.

Looking into it, using that tech unassisted feels about as mad as getting in a rando's submarine...