I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

  • grillpilled [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's getting harder and harder to tell what's a scam, which makes people less trusting.

      • grillpilled [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        MLMs are the absolute worst. Pretty much everything can be a scam, though. Even some of the more legit charities will scam you in ways other than how they spend the donation. Selling your info, trying to upsell you, tricking you into monthly donations, putting you on mailing lists you didn't agree to, using fake stories to get you to donate, hijacking people's social anxiety to get them to donate like they're being mugged, guilt tripping you after you already donated (which makes you feel worse than if you'd never donated at all), secretly doing things that go against the stated purpose of the charity, getting as indebted to big donors as political candidates do and giving them influence on what the charity does...

        If a legit charity does this stuff, how can you trust a company or some random person on the street?

          • grillpilled [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Ughhhhhh... I signed a change.org petition yesterday, and I had to click like 50 different things after signing it to avoid getting roped into something else but make sure that my signature went through.

          • grillpilled [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I just realized something... this is what charities or other companies that ask for donations used to do only for big donors who got influence in return. Now, since the internet's made it easy to harass everyone who's ever given you a donation, everyone gets the same harassment, but small donors like us never have a chance to get any influence.