joenforcer @ joenforcer @midwest.social

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Thanks for encouraging your kids to have diverse interests and hobbies instead of letting a glowing screen raise them. I don't have children but if I did I would hope to achieve the same for them.

You're expecting Zoomers and Gen Alpha irreversibly addicted to short-form video content, which has resulted in an attention span that doesn't extend past 30 seconds, to READ?

It's also a cartoon for children.

You have too much faith.

Most won't stay away. Most are deeply and horribly addicted. They faced their withdrawal symptoms for one day. They get got their next hit and now they're in deeper than ever before.

$2 a check? You need a different bank.

This exactly. I still write checks to my lawn care guy because Yardbook has a credit card convenience fee.

The original comment that garnered a one word response wasn't mine. Thanks though.

Yep, you got it!

You're right, it's not an argument. But it's a perfectly sufficient reply to a one-word question that doesn't properly provide an argument of its own.

Ever hear of the prisoner's dilemma?

Ah yes, the feed starting with an ad, followed by a reels module alternating between soft porn and dogs, followed by bots and more ads, maybe interspersed with a couple of posts by people whose names I recognize for good measure, are well worth my time. No need to virtue signal, I'm hooked!

The good news is that the main contingent of people upset about TikTok getting banned have willingly rotted away their attention spans (ironically, through TikTok) to do anything meaningful about it. The moment they realize being mad takes effort they'll find something else to do.

You know the same problems can happen and do happen quite often with dead plants too, right?

Ooooooh! Do the washing machine filter next!

You forgot about the heat pumps! The man LOVES his heat pumps!

I don't want to get pedantic about this. There's two reasons the "original" lemmy uses ml as its TLD:

1. It's cheap
2. They can claim it stands for what we've been talking about.

Perhaps "tongue-in-cheek" was the wrong descriptor. More pointing out it has nothing to do with Mali, but sites haven't been using TLDs properly for ages now.

The ml stands for "Marxism-Leninism" as a tongue-in-cheek joke rather than anything to do with Mali. Similar to how a lot of domains ending in .ly (i.e. bit.ly) has nothing to do with Libya.

Ah, so if you catch it early it's a coin flip? Nice.

They never forgot. They never even considered them people in the first place. They're statistics.

What's the equivalent of people that buy ultra high-end stuff to trick themselves into getting high and orgasming from "binaural beats"?