The real cost of enshittification is that they make it impossible for others to run honest business.

Who will pay a subscription for privacy respecting services when there are a dozen free alternatives. True cost of running online business has been completely hidden from users and for so long that they will never accept those that want to cover the costs upfront.

e.g. how many of you remain on Lemmy if instance owners asked for a monthly fee to cover their server costs?

I have a sneaking suspicion that most memes are from CS students, it all makes sense. People with jobs don't have time to make memes, get angsty about languages, or syntax issues.

Adobe: Pay $1699 yearly subscription or it will go transparent.

Let's not start the cult of /r/nofap here. And no, you are not suddenly more charismatic and confident. You are just not reeking of cum all the time, something achievable with regular showers as well.

Avoided turning into Meincraft.

Antimatter still has a positive mass. It's not some exotic negative mass matter.

DoorDash driver 🥲

How much do you think the poor guy makes? And now he has to pay for a lawyer, lose the job, and probably go to jail. Only so this dipshit can get the right "reaction".

And the shooting would've been completely justified for a cop.

52% versus 55%. 61% vs 68% in public places. Not a lot of difference, within margin of error even.

It's "wheeled around", not "around 99".

Leave her alone. She was just training her ML model SchlongGPT.

Simple solution is to block lemmygrad and hexbear in your app. That cuts down quite a few tankies and mainlaind Taiwan shills.

And encryption is when you fondle a holographic semi-transparent ball with your fingers.