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Cake day: April 15th, 2020

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  • you sound like a guy i know who wanted to be a car mechanic but failed to qualify for the job on account of talking too much shit; but they hired him as a car sales instead with commission so his salary got 8x higher. of course he always gives financial advice now that he’s rich. for example, you shouldn’t buy a house near the city if you can’t afford one. you shouldn’t buy a car if you can’t afford one. and you shouldn’t buy a mobile phone and a subscription if you can’t afford it.

    so if we break it down, his advice is: if you have a shitty job that pays you poorly; you don’t deserve to live in any kind of proximity to your shitty job, you should also have no means of transportation to said shitty job (because you now live far away from the city and would actually need a car to get to your job), nor any means of bank and digital ID access (to receive your shitty salary, because its priced outside of the bare minimum wage you’re forced to subsist on).






  • the problem is algorithms. during the whole bluesky promo all over lemmy while everyone was shitting on mastodon. the only thing that’s broken is algorithms, and once you throw them out social media is immediately fixed - but of course the primary argument of mastodon vs bluesky was that mastodon requires you to curate your content (like joining a sub on reddit to see it on your front page stream, before algorithms fucked that site, and the thing is people LOVED old reddit so i fail to see how this is bad and doesn’t work, but hey, all of lemmy said so, so who am i to blame) whereas bluesky being a relaunch of twitter and literally curating content for you no matter if you actually want to see it or not but for most people reactionary content is the only content they happily interact with anyway so algorithms makes a lot of sense for them because they feel they are engaging more with the site despite the pointless empty engagement they are doing instead of interacting with real users and real content on pages where you have to actively curate your content instead of being fed the lowest hanging fruit.

    / rant off