People want better broadband. ISPs promise to broaden internet. Government gives money. ISPs spend a considerable amount of the promise of better broadband in marketing. Doesn't happen. People still want better broadband. ISPs promise again. Government gives more money. ISPs continue spending on marketing.

Over and over.

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soulifix @lemmy.world

3y ago

What are worrying signs that society's intelligence is slipping?

3y ago

Where Do You Sit in the Movie Theater?

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

Always in the back. I get a better view that way. I've tried sitting in the front before, but I always had to have my head tilted up. I've tried sitting in the middle before and my eyes had to zoom around the screen still to try and catch everything.

So, the back it is for me.

3y ago

Family died in Rockies after trying to live ‘off the grid,’ official says

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

Well, why aren't we practicing that communal specialty into you know, bettering society from it's current dumpster fire state? Or is that just too tall of a task?

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soulifix @lemmy.world

3y ago

Are people outraged just to be outraged or are they outraged because they don't understand?

3y ago

I never went cinema, should I try it now ?

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

First, go alone. But make sure you go at the tailend of the movie's cycle before it goes out of theaters. That's usually when crowds lessen and it'll be easier on you to manage. Lots of people really find themselves annoyed because they attend a movie, just when it's freshly released and they run into all of these problems.

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soulifix @lemmy.world

3y ago

Do you ever use coinflips to decide what you want to do?

3y ago

These captchas and that there are 4 of them

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

Can we just fucking retire Captcha already? It can be defeated and there's been proof of that. If it's purpose has been defeated, then it is no longer of use.

3y ago

Does listening to music with dark lyrics make you feel better when you're depressed?

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

Not really, most times. It just makes me look at things with an even viler perspective towards the things I already have a low-mood or tolerance to as is.

3y ago

Could one really really smart person eventually recreate all technological advancements granted immortality?

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

Our brains are like hard drives. We know a fair amount but over time, we forget some things to make room for newer things. Some things, we can't access because some part of it was overwritten. Some other things, we can't simply recount at all.

So it'd be an eternity spending time figuring it out, forgetting, misplacing the knowledge, coming to a realization, forgetting again .etc .etc

3y ago

stop asking for a karma system

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

If Lemmy's karma system can stay as it is, without adopting the Reddit way of how it handles it, I guess it's fine. Personally, I'd like to at least have some place to go to, that doesn't have likes, doesn't have karma points or anything. Because it just encourages people to groom themselves to say things, that'll garner the most attention. It invalidates your way of thinking and makes you check back on scores to feel validated.

I hate that I can't go almost anywhere anymore, without seeing some stupid form of a karma points system. It serves no purpose. Reddit's is worse because they tie your account to it. Don't have enough? Welp, too bad, can't post here. Got downvoted to oblivion? Welp, too bad, gotta wait some 10 minutes and fill a stupid captcha check.

If Lemmy can avoid that, then fine, I guess.

3y ago

Apart from interpersonal events (deaths, breakups, etc.), what's the biggest heartbreak you've experienced in your life?

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soulifix @lemmy.world 3y ago

Several. I'll keep it to three.

One, was having to move out from my home state, twice. I have my fair share of criticism for some parts of it that I didn't like, like having been around some lowly leveled towns with druggies and drunks. But there have been an awful lot of ups as well, I love it's scenery, I love how it isn't billboard haven like the places I've moved to have had and I liked the small communities. As well as my state being a very progressive state too. If only it'd correct it's affordability problem, I would have loved to return there.

Two, the changing of the internet. I've been online for over 27 years now. It is depressing to watch it all devolve into a corporate marketing playground with so many subscriptions nagging you. I've had to watch so many good places shut down because of these increasing pressures of these changes affecting them. People I've known online, are either gone due to the sands of time or that they've passed away that I didn't realize until I get second or third hand information about it. It used to all be a rich and fulfilling experience. But every time I use the internet now, it feels shallower and shallower. If the internet were to suddenly up and vanish in maybe the next 5 minutes, I wouldn't complain. I'd just bow out and feel that we've done all that we've done.

Lastly, having to oust a friend of 5 years tenure for showing sympathy to pedophiles. They brought a lot of positivity and wholesomeness to my life during my time with them. We were even in a group with others that shared silliness and good times. But the past year it has been nothing but just senseless debates and one of which ended up them coming out as a pedo sympathizer which was something I just couldn't accept because of my experiences having been entangled with pedos and dealing with them and their illogical worldview on how they see minors.