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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Vaccines. I gave up trying to gently educate my coworker and instead am waging an outright campaign via Facebook to terrorize her into vaccinating her poor sickly autistic son. Every journal article and news piece on preventable disease, I'm posting it, and am having long winded chats on my page about how measles wipes your immune memory and how a kid died of that in the community a few months ago. Parents of antivaxxers should have their children apprehended by CPS. It's child abuse.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 10 hours ago
[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Third party voters, trying to explain feminism, trying to explain planned obsolescence, explaining that you need to check more than one source for information, ad blocker,

[-] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

I use Firefox for over a decade now never had any problem with ads and if it occurres it's very easy to sort it out

[-] lohky@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Literally anything.

Except Wayfinder's revamped Echos launch. It's like $20 and it's super fun. Go buy it and support Airship Syndicate.

[-] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

I wish it was acceptable to call older folks out as lazy if they refuse to learn how to text, email and otherwise use the internet. It’s fine for them to call millennials lazy if they can’t drive a stick shift or balance a checkbook, but if you’re giving me bullshit like “I’m 68 years old, I don’t text and I don’t email” you are just a lazy, stubborn bastard. I’ve met plenty of 90 year olds who are perfectly capable because they aren’t lazy old fucks.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Seriously, of all people they're the ones that have been around since the internet's inception. They've had more time to adapt than anyone.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The dangers of conservatism/fascism.

If not for conservatism, humans would be proactively addressing global heating. Conservatives oppress the innocent and vulnerable in every country where conservatives have power. If not for conservatism, there would be no genocide. Conservatives are the gullible, deadly foot-soldiers of the billionaires.

Conservatism is the single biggest threat to life on earth. Eradicating conservatism would be the single most positive change we could make to preserve life on earth.

[-] LouNeko@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Conservatism should be used as a moderator. If Libertarianism is left unchecked it will try to solve all the problems all at once, running out of resources before even achieving a proper solution. Ideally the Parliament should be roughly split into 5ths with each part representing an important area (environmentalist, economist, socialism/communalism, etc.). Then through coalitions, in which conservatism should always be a part of the most relevant problems can be targeted in a moderated sense.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

That the covid pandemic is still going full tilt and still demands a very aggressive worldwide response.

Everybody (over the age of 4--they were born in 2020!) knows it, they just deny it like crazy because they don't have the balls to deal with how unpleasant it is.

Which makes it infinitely more unpleasant because we aren't lifting the weight together. But anybody still denying the pandemic is consciously deciding to do it, and an explanation isn't going to make them un-decide, because it's not a lack of knowledge.

[-] DimFisher@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Dude wake up, Covid was the biggest scam in history of humanity!

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 4 points 14 hours ago

You dropped this: /s

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago

Influenza typically accounts for 1.5% of deaths at its peak every year. Covid has been hovering around 3%. So it’s currently about the same level as a bad flu season. To me this indicates endemic levels. If there is a strain that suddenly starts killing more people, it will make headlines. I’m not trying to be in denial, this is just where I’m at. I’ve had it, and my immune system is doing what it is supposed to do. I’m not worried about contracting it again, unless the a new deadly strain comes out.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Even having a mild case of COVID has cognitive impacts in healthy people. It's really really really actually very terrifying.

https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/covid-19/2023/the-risks-of-even-mild-covid19-1-in-4-showing-cognitive-deficits-011723

[-] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

This is where I'm at too. I was literally just talking to my friend about this last night.

We both know of several people who feel very strongly that the pandemic is still in full swing. They won't go out of their house without a mask, they get their groceries delivered, they won't come to any social events for fear of getting sick, and they only work from home. They've basically trapped themselves in their house, out of fear.

In my opinion, which is only an opinion, I think these people have an undiagnosed mental illness. Some sort of excess anxiety that was triggered by the events of lockdown and the early pandemic, and now they are unable to reset back to normal.

I don't mean that in a bad way or a rude way, I'm legitimately concerned for these people and don't know how to help.

For your average Joe, COVID is just a reality we live with. I don't want to get it, but I can't afford to lock myself down, nor do I think it would be healthy for me mentally if I did.

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

I don’t think it’s good for you physically either. I have been exposed to Covid, probably every few months. The immune system needs to actually see viruses in order to keep making antibodies.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago
[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

I’m aware of long covid risks. My belief to which you are replying is that exposure to viruses is important to continue making antibodies. The study indicates a 25% risk of cognitive impacts from mild COVID cases. I’m not alarmed by that number, and I’m not seeing how it should change my belief about immune system health.

By the year 2100, ambient CO2 will reach 1000 ppm (1 ppt), which is associated with a 10-15% decline in cognition. In many indoor spaces, CO2 levels are much higher than this. I actually got CO2 up to 1800 ppm just driving my car with the air turned off. Anybody who works indoors in a building is at risk of impaired cognition.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Is it still full tilt?

Looking at CDC graphs of excess deaths, it appears we're back at baseline. That is, assuming I'm reading this correctly which is very much not a sure thing.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago

Before calling support, turning your device off and back on again will legitimately resolve 90% of your issues.

If you call the helldesk and the uptime of your device is more than 24 hours and you said you already rebooted it how can we trust anything else you say?

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago
[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Now, conversely, if you work in support, please ACTUALLY FUCKING LISTEN TO ME when I am telling you I've already done that 17 different ways, along with tons of other troubleshooting and isolating and I'm not a technical moron and I tried every possibility to avoid calling you so can we PLEASE SKIP THE USUAL BULLSHIT SUGGESTIONS?!?!?!?!

I hate it too but they don't because everyone claims they know what they're doing and they've already tried all that stuff.

99% of the time it turns out they haven't and that was the problem.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

I don't often need support, but when i do, i try to make it clear that i kinda know the deal and i tried everything in my power to make it work for days, and calling in support isn't my first instinct. But i completely understand why they treat you like a dummy.

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[-] gsfraley@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That if they vote third party before we can get rid of the first-past-the-post system, they are helping their ideological opposite. And a corollary: if they do it because of the genocide in Gaza and Trump encourages a total wipeout of the Palestinian state like he's telegraphing, the blame for the deaths of those innocent civilians is on them for being self-righteous instead of honest.

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[-] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago

The importance of digital privacy and freedom. The way capitalism ruins everything you like.

Actually two things:

First: Capitalism is bad. It gets so bad it will destroy people the worst way: both mentally and physically. And it will destroy our planet more sooner than later. We need to get rid of „the rich“, switch to a social stable System and actually care about our environment (aka climate) immediately to stop the worst. It is already way too late to stop the catastrophe entirely, but some of us still can survive.

Second: Voting for faschist and racist parties will hurt you badly. They don‘t want what’s best for the common people, they want power.

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

I wish we fucking lived longer so the people who doomed our planet would be alive when it starts burning. I hate that their selfishness will go completely unpunished, and that they get to die happy and comfortable in their beds after sentencing billions to death.

[-] Ydna@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

When you're at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year... but you can!

[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

but then you have to do itemized deductions which takes forever and unless you're mister moneybags or in an unconventional life situation, the standard deduction is almost definitely better. also tax write offs are not free money, you still gave the money to some sketchy "charity" it's just the government doesn't get a slice of that.

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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

Looks at Republican party

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