Any piefed instance can empty the list of right-wing sites, either as a whole or on a case-by-case basis. Source: https://piefed.social/comment/11254679

what if the dude pulls a fetterman and next year he is blocking shit you agree with?

Then you move to another instance.

Space Ice has some quality Seagal ridicule. But imho the very best is Cum Town’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzIHyF7UWY4

That reminded me to look up their interview with Saul Alinsky again, and I found a page with a bunch of the Playboy interviews: https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/playboy-interviews/

a problem entirely fabricated by YT

I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it’s more like a problem fabricated by… capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.

brand recognition. IOW, when you are at the grocery store, you think of Coke in general rather than any specific ads.

Agreed. More specifically, I think brand association plays a part. Even if you never drink cola of any type, the ads make you think “Coke is the kind of drink for people who (whatever)”. Then when you see your friend drinking one you say “Oh you drink coke? I guess you’re the kind of person who (whatever the ad campaign says).” It’s really insiduous.

Some of those old books had ads for cigarettes in them! Mostly the cheaper paperbacks. For some reason it wasn’t as annoying, it was more of a historical artifact, an indication of the context in which the book was originally read.

I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.

I notice that I don’t pay attention to videos as much any more. It’s just stuff playing in the background while I game or edit an image or browse piefed or something. So if it “hangs” for a couple seconds while ublock fights the ads, it doesn’t really bother me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

ikr whenever I visit my elderly aunt, she has cable TV on. I timed it once and there’s like 10 minutes of ads for every 20 minutes of content.

I read how to play but I didn’t understand…

I use the Buddha’s Palm that Falls from the Heavens to straighten my sheets.

wow that’s awesome, a great introduction to the concept.

reddit_enshittification++

I don’t know what a “claremont mckenna college” is but it seems like a bag of shite to me. Albeit I’m judging from a quick skim of this article.

Claremont McKenna is a respected college in LA, it’s just kinda small (1.5k students, part of a consortium of around 8.5k students in adjoining campuses). This article appears to be part of a “News” update of their web page describing a visiting speaker from Harvard; the talk was about the visiting speaker’s research.

Mbin carries onwards, but with only <1k active users world-wide one wonders for how much longer.

I think you’re failing to see the potential. We promoted Lemmy for a while, now for novelty we’re promoting Piefed. Once that gets played out, we can promote Mbin. After that, we can cycle back to Lemmy and so on ad infinitum!

I’m guessin this is bait, but anyways:

• human emotions have cognitive (as well as physiological) components that interact in ways we don’t yet understand. For example, if two people listen to a song that they enjoy, one person’s memories may be wistful and another’s may be tinged with a negative emotion, and each of these will trigger different physical reactions (which will themselves trigger cognitive responses, etc.)
• “The happiness you experience from eating is the same as the happiness from cocaine.” lel, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine#Pharmacodynamics
• That being said, there is something called “loving-kindness meditation” which encourages intentional benevolence for all things and is kinda in the spirit of this post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitrī#Mettā_meditation

There’s a fair amount of info online about human trafficking during the world cup sorry don’t have time to find info now but a web search points to lots of stuff: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=human+trafficking+world+cup+football