CafecitoHippo

joined 1 year ago
[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no center in the US. If you're okay voting for Donald Trump, you are not in the center. That's entirely the point.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Centrism can win in places that aren't America. Too many Republicans are being fed propaganda all day long by Fox "News"...an organization that has argued in court that no one should take them seriously. But that's where they get their news. They're also indoctrinated by their religious upbringing from Evangelicals. There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore. They have shown that they will vote every time for the Republican candidate regardless of how flawed they are. Trump is a convicted felon that tried to overthrow the government, has been found in a court to be a rapist, was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, has had numerous failed businesses and bankruptcies, has denigrated our troops. NONE OF IT MATTERS. Stop trying to appeal to the right and actually get your voting base excited about the policies you want to push.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

But every sector has been ravaged by the stock market changes.

You just don't know what you're talking about. The S&P 500 is up like 25% over the same period. You're just buying into specific sectors. Don't do that. Buy market index funds or target date funds and stop trying to actively manage your retirement account. Also, you haven't lost anything in value because you haven't realized the losses by cashing out. It's better for you currently if things are a lower price because you're buying them at a discount.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I used to use it solely for sports news updates. Once Elon bought it, kept constantly getting politics news that I didn't want. Kept adding blocked terms hoping to not see it anymore. Nope. Kept getting pushed right wing bullshit. Deleted and never looked back. It helps that people have actually moved to Bluesky. The biggest issue I have is with Reddit and Lemmy not having the sports communities here. Game threads for Orioles games had 0 comments. I'm not going to just sit there and post to myself.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Talk about a gross mischaracterization of what is actually said in that blog post. You made it seem like Firefox is getting rid of ad blocking which is far from the truth of what that post says. It doesn't even mention ad blocking. Maybe don't editorialize a post and present it as fact.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I mean, machine learning and AI does have benefits especially in research in the medical field. The consumer AI products are just stupid though.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm not saying it's not a good practice, but I just don't see them doing it.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You don’t want crypto, don’t use it.

I use Brave as my Chrome based browser when not using Floorp but there were other issues with Brave in the past like injecting their affiliate links unbeknownst to users so they could make money off them. They have reverted that decision but that they thought it was acceptable in the first place leaves some to question, rightly, what other shenanigans they might pull. They've also had issues with paying out Creators BAT tokens.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Now they will be forced to look at ads.

I'm pretty sure they would've been seeing ads anyways. I doubt that school IT administrators had uBlock Origins as an extension that was being installed and I really doubt they didn't have the chromebooks locked down so students could install whatever extensions they wanted.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I do the same with my mortgage. Statements emailed to me monthly so I never need to log in to get them (annual escrow statement as well). Payments made via my normal bank's Bill Pay feature. No reason to ever log in to my mortgage holder's website/app.

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Clean water is for pussies.

Well when you only consume monster energy drinks and miller lite, why would you need water?

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