Any/all pronouns. Lazy agender transfem, also asexual and panromantic(? Or maybe aromantic, basically I’m a mess but I’m trying. Possibly my best, but hopefully not)
I get all the theory and everything, I understand the some grifter comes along peddling easy answers and people fall into it. But the Temu version of Trump that is Nigel Farage has such a vibe about him that he’d pick your pocket and then deny it right to your face - while holding your wallet in his hand - that I genuinely don’t understand how people trust him even slightly
Same. I know there are easy ways around it but I’m not going to use them, and I wish more people could take this attitude - if everyone cut down their Internet usage in response to this ID stuff things would quickly start to turn around
What people see in Temu Trump and Co I genuinely just will never understand
I would watch the shit out of a movie about a time traveling T. Rex with force lightning powers
More of a Pepsi person myself
And then the right followed us and we ceded that to them too. We have a long, horrible uphill struggle before us
It’s certainly a tricky one, I feel like a lot of us have some trauma still from covid anyway, and the world is just acting like it has gone away. At least in the real world there are spaces outside that can’t be controlled that easily. I feel you on the meetup groups too, I’d love some local queer friends but I don’t know where the local queer people are meeting up. But the Internet is becoming the ultimate hostile space very quickly and sadly we need to either accept it or try and pull away now before it’s too late
I didn’t say not to use it at all, I said to use it less. If you genuinely are unable to connect to other people without the Internet then I am truly sorry about your situation, but if it’s at all remotely possible that you could connect with people offline - even if you first meet them online - then I really urge you to figure out a way to do it because that’s how we break the power of these ghouls, we stop using “their” stuff for our needs
I didn’t say “Internet bad” and I didn’t say not to use it at all. I said to use it less, with the implication being to cultivate a life outside of it too, too many people just use the Internet as much as possible and they put up with whatever shit gets thrown at them to keep using it. Like, I’m in the UK so I’m getting hit full-force with this ID shit and I’ve just decided that - as far as I possibly can - if a site needs to see my ID to access it maybe I just don’t need that site. I’m not showing my ID, I’m not using any of the clever tricks people have come up with to get around it, I’m not using a VPN to get around it, I just won’t use that site, and if that leads me to spending less time online then so be it. And if we could all make that decision then things might pick up a lot faster
Sincerely: use the Internet less. It’s better for you anyway, but in general we’re seeing a real crackdown from corporations and governments. In response if we all just stop using it so much because it’s becoming unpleasant anyway they won’t know what to do. And maybe a happy side effect if everyone starts to kick the Internet habit is the population becoming generally more sane
The first time AI has made me laugh
Take me now!
Bah, what was wrong with staring at a static image and imagining? All this fancy technology, it’s probably woke
Nah, I think I’ll use the opportunity to get away from it outright. And really if more people did do that youtube would roll it back pretty quickly
If I get ID’d to watch youtube that would just encourage me to not use youtube anymore
In my experience you can also just put “fuck” at the beginning of your search and not get any AI overview
Trump is so delighted he’s imagining jerking off two dudes
How is it that the weirdest dudes keep ending up with so much power and influence. Like, this is just bigoted shit obviously, but it’s weird bigoted shit. What is it about people that makes them look at a weirdo freak (derogatory) like this and think “this is a man I need to have direct the entirety of my belief system going forward”?
The fact that you recognise it would be a struggle should honestly spur you on even more to do it. People got by for a long time without the Internet and even though now the same infrastructure they’d have used is at best a shell of its former self if not gone entirely it would still be possible. We don’t have to stop entirely but if a bunch of sites suddenly find their traffic is way down they’d start to put pressure on about getting rid of ID checks and we might finally see some movement