> Back during the Iraq war days and government overreach into privacy violations, the tech companies were on the side of the American people. They fought to defend the 4th amendment.
I thought there would be one or two results, perhaps a result of poor reoccurring phrasing. Nope.
>i'm going to change your diaper and burp you
>Carlito is a very good boy Go piss in your diaper you big baby
>He doesn't care. He is a big baby who filled up his diaper with pee pee and poo poo
>you are a big baby and i am going to change your diaper and burp you <
>To be clear I call executives of multi trillion dollar companies scumbags and if you can't deal with that I'm not sure what to do. Burp you? Change your diaper?
>I am going to change your diaper and burp you
>Yeah man it's real authoritarian to say your second name is doodoo. Go change your diaper you big baby
>Yeah because you're a big baby with a big full diaper
>Hello sir this is your uber outside. I have your order from the diaper store
Ed Zitron, from what little I have heard of him, seems incredibly irrational. I don't think I've ever seen anybody stick their head deeper in the sand more than I've seen him do.
It's one thing to dislike or even detest something, but to constantly claim it is worthless and without use when people are already benefitting from it everyday is nothing short of delusion.
Unfortunately there is a type of person who thinks there should be no places where politics is absent, and these people will endlessly spam non-tech politics articles like this one in the hopes of a few making it to the front page and surviving being flagged.
You'll notice that posts like these don't have actual, logical discussion underneath and in their stead have repetitive slogan comments.
Nothing makes you seem well-adjusted more than adding political "autocorrects" (which are likely just an abuse of ligatures) to people's computers without their permission under the guise of "resistance".
I don't know what the author of the font is trying to achieve with this but unless the motive is purely winding people up it is probably going to have the opposite of the effect intended.
Today's young people are already technologically retarded (in the literal sense) and barely know how to use Microsoft Word or navigate with a file explorer, this would make the problem significantly worse.
While I'm not interested in "short form" videos I had the same curiosity regarding the userbase and wanted to check myself.
The only way to look at the web view is to sign up, so I did. I completed E-Mail verification, then the account was disabled immediately with a pop up message to contact support. Not worth the effort.
I just tried exactly the same (at https://loops.video ), but I was able to watch without account, and registering afterwards also worked. Guess it's something on your side.
I can too, now. I wonder if any changes were made or if it was just a problem on my side.
Checking loops.video now, these were the first 5 videos I saw, in order:
1. Left-Wing American Politics
2. Promotion of the Fediverse and Loops
3. Left-Wing American Politics
4. A Non-English Play
5. Left-Wing American Politics
6. Stop Motion Flipbook Thing
7. Advocation for Loops Itself and Decentralization
8. Loops Promo
9. Left-Wing American Politics
So out of the first 9 videos, 4 centre around American politics, 1 I couldn't understand, 3 were promotion for the service I was currently using and only one was interesting and understandable.
I don't have a Loops account, but check multiple sites for news and information, landing on the loops homepage several times. I haven't needed a login to see videos appear for some time.
If it's anything like the rest of the Fediverse applications, it's meant to give you a full chronological feed of people you subscribe to. While several of these sites seem to have a simple trending page, one of the themes of the Fediverse seems to be getting away from overly predatory algorithms and leaning into letting people curate their own feeds and interactions again.
It sounds a lot like a "be the change" situation. If you want to see other stuff, follow people you like instead of drinking from the hose. It's still a small site, so if you don't see the content you want, then make it or build the community there.
These sites can also have basic interoperability. I don't know if the Loops UI supports subscribing to people in other Fedi networks yet, but I've seen people say Loops videos have started trickling onto Mastodon.
If 80% of adults worldwide somehow became unable to tolerate the slightest inconvenience, then yes, I'd say they would be morons, but I doubt they are. I'm unsure where you're getting the 80% statistic from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
PRISM started in 2007, during the Iraq war.
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