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Cake day: August 31st, 2025

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  • When I was in highschool, for the first few months of my freshman year I had a couple of classes that took place inside those old “mobile home” style class rooms (idk what they’re called lol). They were old, kinda smelly, the AC unit was loud, and I loved it.

    But then they finished construction of a new multi-storied building and relocated all those classes. Every classroom was an identical, minimalist cement rectangle with perfectly white walls and high tech whiteboards. I hated it, and actually felt like it made it harder to focus. Nobody agreed with me when I said the old classrooms were better :(


  • Your tone, word choice, generally poor sentence structure, and grammar are characteristic of an older gentleman who has been drawn in by Facebook’s algorithmic feed. Only god knows what wild conspiracy theories, snake oil, and AI generated hoes you’ve been exposed to, but the fact you’ve stumbled upon the fediverse is befuddling. Maybe you found a MAGA group that encourages its members to brigade leftie spaces, like if you were on 4Chan in the 2010s? (Ask yourself what you were actually doing in 2010 instead of these childish internet games)

    I could be wrong about your age, of course. I’m not pretending to be psychic of anything. Older people struggle with grammar and scams online due to many factors, but stupid young people do too. If you are the latter, then I sympathize. Your circumstances are more likely the result of a society that failed it’s youth than your own mental retardation.







  • You must be new around these parts. Facebook (and the rest of big tech) are monopolists. For the past ~26 years, the tech industry has been using illegal anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition and destroy potential competitors. The government has done nothing, because they’re stupid and think “big = good”.

    An example is Instagram. It was a start up that was growing rapidly, and actually became a threat to Facebook. What did Facebook do? They placed a massive bid to buy the company at like 10x their actual market value. It’s an offer so huge that every investor in Instagram would support the deal even if the founders were against it.

    A sane government would see that as an obvious anticompetitive decision, and block the merger. Facebook should instead use that money to improve their own product and compete fairly. Obviously, that didn’t happen, the merger went through, and Facebook is still the owner of Instagram. Users and the tech industry at large are worse off.

    Look at TikTok’s huge success. If they weren’t a Chinese company, they probably would have met a similar fate. Unfortunately for Facebook, they weren’t allowed to buy a Chinese company.


  • How are they so unable to differentiate a shitty edit from AI?

    It’s just that most people don’t know what you mean when you say something is “AI generated”. With context clues, they tie back to terms they’re already familiar with, and are associated with fake computer generated imagery (“that’s Photoshopped”).

    I think most people have never even seen Adobe Photoshop, the actual software. Like, literally never laid their eyes on the gray window, the layers and tool panels, etc, yet they’ve still thrown the term “photoshopped” around.