Are we talking about Elon and his dad now? According to Behind the Bastards it’s how they both acquired their first wives.

So, who is going to offer themselves up as bait to find out what her scam angle is?

Scammers don’t spam unless it “sticks”.

I too received this.

Check your DMs. You’ll probably get one eventually.

The question that remains is: what does she want?

It’s like someone took everything they found free on FBM and used it to renovate. Sprinkle in the cheapest HD had available and discount mis-mixed paint, as available.

It’s a shame, the outside looks promising.

She talks a good game now, let’s hope she sticks with that stance after the bill is introduced.

I don’t do ads. Seeing them after years of not has a profoundly negative effect on my brain. A slight fog akin to waking up after using Benadryl as a sleep aide, and a hazing of attention capacity.

I’m not going to pay for that impact on my thinking. It certainly won’t improve the world to have more of it.

That’s just it. Zuck could sell off and close shop and live large for the rest of his life. And yet he chooses to fuck around with people instead.

It’s weird.

There’s creating. And then there’s harvesting content and creations of others. The former is the only one that makes you interesting.

He was going off about CEOs being the new mafia, just mafia supported by the law this time around. And speculating on whacking between CEOs, like Walmart vs Target and such, pre Luigi. And then Luigi happened and he’s like: well yeah.

Really, it all fit with his pre Luigi narrative.

I’ve heard of it just now.

The issue is going to be: what are my friends already using? Can I find and friend all my new acquaintances on this platform?

It’s not so much whether or not it has the capacity to be a great service, it’s what is the current population on the service? That’s what people are really asking.

If there’s not millions on it already, most are going to pass on it.

We’re on Lemmy, that puts us a bit outside of that perspective, but that’s still going to be your fat middle of the bell curve on peoples willingness to move.

OfferUp is really the only FBM replacement out there. I’m just assuming that’s 1/2 of what keeps most people around. The other being that messenger, in spite of its complete lack of privacy, still hosts the largest bulk of people, for finding acquaintances and such if needed.

Signal or WIRE should be the obvious replacement for the latter but our Congress working efficiently and effectively for the people is an easier task than moving a single individual off messenger and into Signal or WIRE. You’ll probably have to no contact people on text to get them to switch.

Adobe being adobe.

I have that, insomniac Lemmy ramblings aside. I’m making a point. There are many individuals out there without that capacity, financially or otherwise.

Art supplies, sewing supplies, woodworking supplies, metalworking supplies, stained glass supplies, even gardening supplies, and all the tools that go with these activities, these are all things that have become quite expensive across the last decade. More so in the last 5 years. That’s the point. It’s not free.

There’s a reason woodworking tools, art supplies, and sewing notions have been locked behind glass or mesh for a while now.

Writing is free. That said, an industry complaint of the last decade is the number of prospective writers is, proportionally, too large compared to active readers of late. And many of those prospective writers don’t read books to feed their craft. I’m sure you’ve noticed the quality decline in fiction, minus a couple notable exceptions.

The point is, what’s free for people to occupy themselves with?

Climate change is still nebulous. It’s like population decline. Few will face the impact of it with anything practical or human until the negative impact personally stares them in the face.

George Floyd protests and riots happened, in large part, because people were bored, unoccupied, and angsty about the world. Human behavior points rarely happen under the influence of a single variable.

If anything, people are more fed up with their daily world, now, than at the time of Floyd. I think that’s a piece of why people kept reporting a sense of impending doom all year.

Now we’ve hit a point where one guy with everything to lose said “enough” and went after a health care CEO. And we have plenty of people in this nation with nothing to lose. I wouldn’t be surprised if stage 4 cancer people started throwing themselves at CEOs.

The wall of inactivity and learned helplessness has broken with Luigi.

They’re not seeing how this scrubbing of entertainment access will impact the masses going forward? Plenty of people will steer away from action if you just give them free distraction.

But here we are, instead, working hard to scrub all free distraction.

I work 40hrs a week. No kids in the house. If I can’t stream, then what? Reading news and Reddit, probably. That’s probably the least healthy option.

Subbing everything isn’t sustainable for working class. It kills the monthly with bug bites.

Free entertainment is a way to occupy and distract the festering masses. And yet they remain determined to scrub all capacity for such.

If most people using free streaming could pay most would be already.

“The help”. That deserves more attention.

I would get a pic and send it into your closest, large academic institution, the relevant department head or professor, as well as your state department of agriculture. Tell them where. Tell them how many.

The academics can confirm species and are often the ones telling the government this, whatever this is, could be or become a problem.

“Write your legislator” is popular but “write your local academic institution” is not.

Perception management, probably. I thought terrorism applied to upsetting state entities not private ones. How, by any stretch of the imagination, is a private health insurance company part of the United States government? It’s bizarre. Jan 6 would fall under that umbrella for sure.

What do you think?

On that note, Moores reaction is interesting.