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Good decision, I would welcome this rule on any Lemmy community.

Because it's not about principles or ethics or beliefs or anything more than money and fame. And I don't know how that makes him an idiot, it just makes him shallow, greedy, and empty.

He's got the literal same exact people who used to clutch their pearls and say his music should be banned, that he should be imprisoned - those people are now like "look at that quirky Snoop guy! At the Olympics, that's so funny, never saw that coming! Oh, oh! I recognized some of those slang words he said, I'm still with it, this Snoop guy isn't so bad, he's making jokes and stuff! I think he's cool!"

Who's the idiot?

Snoop likes money and fame, it's not too hard to figure out?

Proof positive that doing drugs prepares you for the world better than head-in-the-sand conservatism! Party on.

Yes, Trump being famously data-literate and low on rhetoric, that's probably why.

Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it's like the word "app" is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app's purpose - there's an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn't name it iWhatsApp, then we'd agree and be big mad

Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.

Hotdang, nailed it first try!

This is 100% the way to do it, you can dabble as much or as little as you want, with familiarity one reboot away, and that takes all the stress off the distro selection.

Initially, treat the Linux OS as just fully disposable, which you may realize you have some subconscious resistance to, I think I did. Plan to try a few just to compare the overall experience, you may find that one really just feels more intuitive or smooth than the others, and there are many worse ways to select a longer-term distro to use.

Problems pointed out by commenters aside, I am under the impression that there is very little oversight about this kind of stuff anymore.

For one thing - unless they've changed recently, Amazon "bins" alike products from multiple suppliers, meaning if a bad actor is introducing counterfeits (or just less stringently tested, for more fungible products) - Amazon doesn't even know who they got them from, by the time that's discovered.

But for another thing, the absolutely incredible volume of products - how on earth is anyone making sure these random-character-generated "brands" are safe?

I lack much in the way of direct evidence, cuz I've got shit to do and this isn't my life's focus - but it seems apparent that there cannot possibly be the kind of consumer safety testing that we want going on. And if that's true, it's only a matter of time before the smart capitalists realize no one is watching and they can make stuff even cheaper (I think they already have), and then how long before we as a society discover all the harm that's done as a result?

I'd love to be wrong about this, but like so many tech innovations, I have a feeling we're going to find out later there were huge harms done before we learned how to rein them in. The speed, volume, and price we've grown used to with Amazon seems to preclude consumer safety.

Heard lol, it's not a universal good

The boredom was real, but also like...thoughts would turn over in undirected and sometimes fruitful ways, too. At least for me. My mind does far less just "idling" these days, and while too much of that is a real kind of misery, I think some is probably useful.