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Ok.

> uses search engine

> search engine gives generative AI answer

> stops using that search engine

That’s all you have to do, it’s not hard. I’m absolutely certain that people really want to have things that annoy them and makes them feel bad just so they can complain and get attention from that complaining. This is the same as people complaining about ads online and then doing nothing to fix that, it’s the same with many things.

It’s also very much part of the 'murican narcissism culture, everyone has to be special in some way, no matter how shallow, made up or objectively irrelevant that is. I’ve known a few Americans IRL (I’m Swedish) at different periods of my life and no one else has ever come close to the level of mental gymnastics they do to feel special, cool, different etc. This really mirrors a lot of other things about the US, the classic image of early American towns with houses that have decorated facades but that’s all it is, paper-thin lies to mask both nothingness and shittyness. And man do they hate it when you try to push your finger through those shallow shields they build for themselves.

Ok, but the US isn’t the majority of the world.

I’ve seen this without the shitty crop several times in the past few days. I don’t remember if there was a source or something in the normal version, but the cropping being done to remove that is the only thing I can think of. Shitty people.

We’ve stopped with presents in my family, except for the kids. And they don’t get showered in them, a few things they really want, preferably cheap. Everyone else just wants nice food and family coziness.

I don’t understand reacting like this. Do you disagree? Do you think only people with opinions that aren’t popular on whatever place they are should share them? Should no one ever say what many others are thinking?

Wouldn’t be surprised if it could literally split you in two and I’m not sure whether that’s a good or bad answer, but I won’t kink shame.

Basic privacy is expected and followed, not everywhere is like the US where you’re getting fucked over constantly.

That doesn’t seem right at all, no matter the country. And do you not have tap payments?

Never once seen anyone use PayPal for that, Swish is the most common (in Sweden at least) and there are many alternatives which are just as easy.

Yes, daddy.

(Sorry, it had to be said.)

Even here on Lemmy, where most people are tech-savvy, a disturbing amount don’t use adblockers. I’ve seen so many posts of people complaining about ads and they always have comments with people agreeing. A lot of the time they’ve got some completely illogical and stupid reason for it.

And there are so many things you could do even just on your phone than mindless, objectively bad for your mental health shit like tiktok style content. Watch actual videos about interesting, cool and/or fun things, play a game, talk with a friend etc.

I think you’re mistaking “many” for “most”. There are objectively many Russians against putins bullshit. And the original comment specifically said they’re afraid to speak out, meaning part of those you say are for putin are just stuck, like so many others around the world. The only troll here is you, every reply you’ve gotten is way more friendly than you deserve. (I refuse to capitalize putins name, and wish nothing but death to him, his regime and everyone supporting him).

I haven’t blocked it, I just don’t interact with it much and it doesn’t bother me at all. Very rarely is there anything that I want to see other people’s opinion on, and the vast majority if posts is US politics which is just a circus to laugh at as an outsider. It’s far from as bad as Reddit was, it doesn’t take up whole days of several pages of top posts and I learned my lesson of not reading comments much.

At least two.

The US constantly:

Affordable purely by the money you pay upfront. They earn more by the ridiculous amount of tracking they do, and they’re also forcing you to stay within their services.

As with so many other things, you’re paying with more than just money.

Even people you’d really expect to use adblockers. A good example is right here on Lemmy, people here are generally pretty tech-savvy yet you get threads with lots of people complaining about ads. This has been a weird lesson as I get older, seeing that most people somehow don’t even think about lifting a finger to fix things they see as problems, they really just complain and then do absolutely nothing to help themselves. It’s the same with if someone mentions something they don’t know what it is, instead of taking 5 seconds to just look it up they comment to ask about it and then never reply to people answering their question. I’m certain that it’s very common to have some weird need to make others do work for you, they don’t actually care about finding out what something is or how to do something to fix a problem, they just care about making others spend any kind of effort for them.

I’m an older millennial who generally dislikes new words like that but this is the one that I fully accept. It’s just a good word, you don’t need any prior knowledge the understand it either, it just works.