Fuzzy_Red_Panda

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 23 hours ago to asklemmy in Best universities for women?

Unfortunately North Carolina’s current abortion law is 12 weeks. That’s unacceptable.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 1 day ago to news in JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts

Right?? The bank already makes money off the money people put into the bank. Now the bank is saying that their unethical practice of stealing people’s money isn’t as profitable as they want so they are going to unethically steal from everyone a different way that they can’t stop or say no to?

JPMorgan Chase: financial rapists

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 1 day ago to piracy in How are you all planning to watch the 2024 Olympics?

I think it’s to send a message that many people feel disinterested in the olympics for whatever reason.

For me, I am disgusted that the the olympics have turned into a corporate money making machine. Hosting countries will pick a huge chunk of land to “terraform” into a games site, with little regard to the people who live there or nearby. They’ll displace residents, make people build the infrastructure for low wages and in poor conditions. They’ll spend billions to try and make snow where snow doesn’t naturally occur. The ecological impact alone is massive. There’s also the issue of the housing for the Olympians being substandard and dangerous. I’m not claiming that this happens every time in every country, but it’s certainly a problem and I don’t want to be part of it.

There’s also the issue of banning trans athletes from competing, which continues to be rooted in ignorance and hypocritical disagreements around what we define as fair. (Bring on the downvotes, I don’t care.)

I debated posting this at all because it’s off topic, but the question was asked so I gave my perspective.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 2 days ago to aboringdystopia in Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled.

Yep. Google treats their service like television, but it’s not television. We all watch the videos on computers and computers are owned by users and each user gets to decide what their computer does, full stop.

The ad model for youtube will always be circumvented by the fact that our computers can run whatever code we want it to (despite Microsoft’s and Apple’s efforts). If that means that youtube goes subscription only, so be it. If that means youtube can’t sustain itself as a business with ad revenue, then so be it. It would mean that decentralized alternatives gain popularity and it would most likely be to the benefit of everyone who isn’t a corporation.

Youtube has a stranglehold on creativity, open speech, and fair use. Youtube will demonetize a video for saying too many swear words. They’ll demonetize or restrict a video for talking about non-sexual lgbt content. They’ll take down legal and legitimate videos for copyright infringement even though it’s fair use.

Youtube is bad for creators and it’s bad for users.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 3 days ago to technology in Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable

There are dozens of us!

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 3 days ago to technology in Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable

When the tape drive fails and eats your tape in the process, you better hope you have a second backup or you’ll be crying salty salty tears.

I worked in the service center for a tape-drive manufacturer and I would routinely see the drives we got back for repair. They were often taken apart by the customer in a frantic and desperate attempt to get their cassette out. The cassette was almost always still in there though, with multiple feet of tape snagged and wound around everything.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 3 days ago to news in FDA bans food additive found in citrusy sports drinks and sodas

You’re going to have to drink indoor pool water like the rest of us. It has all the bromine you’ll need, and more!

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 3 days ago to news in Donald Trump Jr. weirdly claims that Hurricane Beryl is nonbinary name

It’s always a little disturbing when clearly the headline must be from The Onion…but then it’s not.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 3 days ago to news in Conspiracy Theorists Think Biden Was Hit With Directed-Energy Weapons During Debate

Join us!

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 4 days ago to memes in big spiders

Does anyone else see the creepy upside down smiley face in the corner?

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 4 days ago to news in Conspiracy Theorists Think Biden Was Hit With Directed-Energy Weapons During Debate

“He’s old.”

He actually said on camera that the reason he is running this time is because Trump is running, meaning that if Trump wasn’t running, Biden wouldn’t be running, meaning he doesn’t even really want the job.

The DNC put up a guy that doesn’t even want to be president again, and now 40% of democrat voters want a new nominee because apparently they weren’t paying attention for the last 4 years and only realized now, during the debate, that Joe Biden is dealing with cognitive decline.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 4 days ago to news in Conspiracy Theorists Think Biden Was Hit With Directed-Energy Weapons During Debate

Some of us aren’t against GMOs for being genetically modified, we’re against patents on food.

Fuzzy_Red_Panda , 4 days ago to selfhosted in New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login

Sorry you have to deal with this. I know it wasn’t in your list of options, but you could attend HOA meetings, bring up the internet issue and see if they’ll change the current setup, or you could get elected to an HOA board and start pulling the strings of change. That’s more of a long-term goal though.