The first one returns an instance of the class, the second one is a static reference? I don’t really know what I’m on about, so the words might be wrong.

Social media, like most things in life, has its good and bad sides. Places like twitter and Facebook have definitely been moved to the “bad” side of things through the use of an algorithm to curate the user’s experience and steer them towards socially harmful content. It’s much more difficult to do this on federated SM because anti social messaging doesn’t get amplified.

It’s not a panacea, and there will be attempts to corrupt it, but federated SM does give me hope that we can escape the rabbit hole of billionaire bro psychopaths.

I hate that image so much. The way he’s got his fingers round her neck gives me the creeps.

Has no one else spotted number 4? It’s really obvious.

Oh yes. I’ve seen one in action. It’s beautiful but deadly. Looks like genuine magic with sparks and glowing shit bouncing around.

Anyone know a good way to fake electrocution?

This is 100% correct. No notes.

For a while I found it easier to legitimately stream what I wanted to watch. Then the fuckers got greedy and upped the price, split content into dozens of different platforms, stuck adverts in, and made it harder to access. Now it’s easier and more pleasant to just pirate it again. Well done studios, you could have had a good thing but you fucked it.

People who type “Google” into the bar at the top of the browser, then type the site name into the search box.

Yup. Sneakernet backups monthly. When I can remember.

I fucked off Google Photos and now run Immich from a Raspberry Pi with raid 1 SSDs.

Terms and conditions. What’s yours is theirs.

Wouldn’t be Donny if he wasn’t doing crimes and scamming people out of their money.

You have been blessed by the patron saint of Lemmy. Say 3 hail Nicoles.

Being called “twits” never put people off Twitter.

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It’s the same point but my interpretation makes more sense. You don’t need a 4 panel comic for a simple criticism of ad hominem.

He’s not totally wrong in the first one. You can buy phones that are more ethically produced than Apple ones. There is a choice to get something better, even if it’s not perfect. In the second one there is no choice to get a different one, but there is a choice not to buy one at all. In the third one there is no choice in any way.

What do you think it’s saying? I’m assuming it’s that the guy is using a flawed argument in situations that make it increasingly obvious, with the third one being utterly ridiculous that he thinks it’s a gotcha.

I see it as being a progression of that argument from being right in the first one, debatable in the second and completely wrong in the third.