[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I finally abandoned it a few weeks ago...after 21 years on the platform. That sounds insane but I have spent more than half my life with it. I happen to be exactly zuck's age so I have seen it through every iteration, first as just a network for college, then with other colleges, the whole "poking" feature, intro of news feeds and pictures, expanding to the public...every time some big feature came out it felt invasive and wrong. Like I don't want people to see pictures of me or know about my day...until after years... it wasn't weird anymore. Time to go back to just not being perceived so much. It had some benefits. I do kind of miss not being able to be in touch with folks from my past. I also liked buy nothing through it. But net-net, all the harm it's done is not worth the benefits. See the details from the latest whistleblower book - Careless People. It's pretty bad, particularly what they were willing to do in China, custom censoring tools for CCP, handing over ALL user data to Xi and a whole lot more. They didn't succeed in getting into China but what Zuck was willing to do has me convinced he would sell every last one of us for an ounce more of "power." It ain't worth it anymore.

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Man I'm worried about measles in the next year. All the health departments being gutted, I don't think we're going to have a good tracking system to know how far and wide it's going to spread. Big outbreak in Mexico that traces from the Texas outbreak. I am thankful that my immediate area is 95% vaccinated for MMR which should be good for herd immunity but there are a looooot of places these days that are below that. Kids don't deserve this and they will be the ones to suffer.

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Pumped for The Last of Us 2 and Andor. Andor was perhaps my favorite TV show when it came out. So many Star Wars properties didn't seem to work for me but Andor was phenomenal. When I need some adrenaline, just gotta put on the Kino Loy jailbreak speech. One way out! One way out!

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I approve of lump. Would like to touch belly but unsure of risk assessment.

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The Berkeley hippies were out! Made all the faces Vance with advanceblur.com ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] macncheese@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Hey thanks, I appreciate your post :)

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