Depends what you use it for.

I joined Facebook when it first came out, when it was still only for Uni students, used it for many years and stopped probably about 8-10 years ago now. Fuck, how long has it been around for?

Anyway, I’ve recently rediscovered Facebook as I bought an old muscle car and I’ve been enjoying the groups and marketplace for parts.

Anyway, just a thought from an old Facebook user.

You could live like the first 2020 years of our timeline.

It’s not technology alone, but what was previously a local ordeal is now spread worldwide and with our ever interesting screen time to the point some people live half their life digitally, it’s only getting worse.

I don’t even think it’s Andrew Tate specifically and I think that’s a big problem.

I’m in my early 30s and grew up being ‘the tech generation’, adults marvelled at our simple abilities. Now I see 20 something’s and even teens and they’ve surpassed us in every way, not so much in technical skill but they live in social media.

Smart watches, tik toks, face time and yada yada. It seems like a borderline gamble what will tickle their fancy or even what the algorithm will just repeatedly shove down their throat until they ‘like it’.

I guess what I’m saying is I think the reliance and love of technology is what pushed a lot of these young guys into listening to this fucking clown as opposed to straight up ideology.

It really is embarrassing. It’s a common theme on Lemmy, Reddit too but not the extremes in large casual subs.

Left and right both bullshit and exaggerate so many of these stories and it makes them both look like clowns.

But hey, I’m fully prepared for a bunch of downvotes because this place has the self reflection of a fucking mop.

P.s. May Biden become supreme overlord and drink the blood of all those who run on a ballot against him.

Aren’t they all motivated by wealth and greed?

In America, not the rest of the world.

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I do, in my many houses

Feel free to go buy your own house then buddy

How dare you speak ill of Daddy War Crimes

… What

Yes… And your advocating for more power to the people killing and jailing whistleblowers?

Fucking hell, you’re actually promoting a surveillance dystopia.

You’re fucked.

That’ll change when EVs begin to dominate the market, they all weigh considerably more than their ICE counterparts.

Absolutely, I’d happily take a redundancy payout from my current job.

HP was making garbage in the 2000s. Always has been, always will be.

Lemmy has mostly been the same as Reddit in that sense - whenever someone says ‘here’ with no context, you know they are a yank.

Tesla has done a lot of scummy shit and they have likely outrightly lied about their range but pretty much all vehicle manufacturers do to some point.

Fuel efficiency is measured in both highway and whatever cool term the company likes such as ‘city, urban, commute’

They do these tests on test tracks, windows up, no AC, no quick acceleration or braking etc and THEN they combine them and spit out an average of the two numbers and tell you to expect that fuel economy.

It does not happen and I’ve heard of multiple court cases against manufacturers alledging they’ve lied and the fuel efficiency they state is impossible. I don’t think any large manufacturers have lost however.

Anyway, point being - range is usually exaggerated quiet a bit. It may be about to get those numbers in a completely unrealistic scenario but actually obtaining them in the real world, in traffic etc - they are all liars.

That explained absolutely nothing