I’m on the extreme end. Any kind of “recommendations” are an immediate and complete turn off for me. Not just the obvious stuff like “sponsored” posts or “algorithmic social media” feeds. I abhor and avoid even things like Spotify recommendations, which most people consider useful.

Whether they intend it or not, these engines are built to funnel you back into the lowest common denominator, most broadly appealing stuff, because that’s what the algorithm sees gets the most clicks from the average person. Sure, everyone likes oatmeal, but that’s because its bland and inoffensive.

I want to find my own shit through my own idiosyncratic process.

these girls are like 30 years old now.

My IBS is acting up just looking at this picture.

I jokingly said “1999 Honda Fit” so many times that now they call me asking about that fictional car.

Average “no one will listen to my under baked political opinios in real life so I’ll hold a meme community hostage” 17 year old

Probably depends where you live. In a big city I don’t think anyone would bat an eye, but in a small town in rural nowhere people would probably get upset right away.

“so i posted a picture of winnie the pooh, which was the style at the time”

These pictures are from an account that only posts rage bait political content. https://www.instagram.com/redstreamnet

They’re not trying to help you. They’re trying to selfishly protect their business.

How did you get an invite?

Ticketing people who don’t pay for parking is “bullying?”

This is pretty insulting to people who have actually suffered from real bullying. There’s plenty of real problems in the world to be righteously angry about. Maybe let’s not post shitty Facebook memes on Lemmy.

this hurts my heart

Nice pelvic bowl. Deep.

Nuance? On the internet? Get the fuck out of here.

Interesting - I’ll definitely look all this up. Thank you for setting up some fun YouTube/Wikipedia rabbit holes for me!

Can you share more? Perhaps a link or two? I visited there recently and would like to learn more about the history.

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TV show Narcos on Netflix.

Damn this happened to me last month and just today I got pissed looking for my Chex Mix.

Tell me more about my opinions and what they are. I don’t think you understand what the word nuanced means. Especially if you are proponent of a nuclear scary and scary is bad mindset.

Just as an illustration, you just told me you didn’t like me putting words in your mouth, then 2 sentences later put words in my mouth. I think you need to reevaluate how you interact with others, and try to treat people the way you want to be treated.

Nope. The starting point of your and my interaction was you making a snarky meme containing 0 facts that implied anyone who thinks nuclear reactors are scary or have risks are so dumb they can’t tell the difference between 2 copies of the same picture.

Then when I called you out on your juvenile behavior and the emotional nature of your argument, you implied I had no reading comprehension and told me to read your other comments.

To use your phrase, “the facts are” that it only takes one bad-enough meltdown to potentially obliterate life on the planet, and that makes nuclear power of any kind a VERY complicated topic. Nuclear power CAN be very useful, but it can also be very dangerous.

Pretending like its a magic bullet is infantile and only harms your cause.

Don’t like my ad-hominem attacks against you? You’re getting treated the way you treated all of Lemmy when you posted that dumb meme. Now you know how you made everyone else feel first.