Seed your torrents.
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When you do use traditional social media, try to actively downvote and if you can justify it report engagement bait. People will intentionally do stuff like pronouncing things wrong or even just straight up lying about shit just to get engagement from people correcting them. Also do the same for people that add nothing but their facial expression to call something their own content or even another stolen video played side by side or who post still memes as video.
Federation has the opportunity to solve a lot of these issues but unless special attention is taken to create voting systems that promote healthy community engagement the corporate pressures will eventually push into these spaces as well. I've wondered for a while if there's a good way to create an algorithm that would offer the comfort of a targeted media algorithm except readable, modifiable and executable only by the end user's client. Piefed is probably the best push towards that kind of functionality currently, but very prototypically.
Be nice. Fuck ICE.
Be kind scrub
"like and subscribe".
"Don't forget to hit that bell"
"Don't impede. Seed."
Spread the seed, avoid the greed?
be kind seed as much as you take
"Don't thank the AI"
But if I hop on that e-peen then maybe it won't decide to take my job /s
I wouldn't say it's the equivalent but I kind of enjoy this...
Have the day you deserve.
It's not pleasant if you're an asshole and a grumpy fuck. And it's great if you're a good person..
Seed after torrenting?
Yeah but you have to call your isp to open up ports and all-…
(At least in my country)
Be Kind, Rewind was released in 2008. I 100% was torrenting and seeding back then.
Had no idea it was a movie, was a slogan at video rental places (that were pretty much out of business by 2008) before I was born. Seeding torrents is a p deece analogy for the benefit it provided
Its jack black and mos def iirc. Fuck jack black, pirate the movie.
What's wrong with Jack Black?
Trumper. Thin skinned ass hole
Is he? I figured he just sold out and didn't want to jeopardize any of his contracts due to calls for political violence. Still disappointing, but I haven't seen any evidence that he's actually a Trumper.
He's basically by the band broke up. Kyle made a joke about someone taking a shot at trump, something about better aim, Jack got all pissy about it.
Put the grocery cart back
It always baffles me that this seems to be hard for many people
i used to work retail, what annoyed me more than the cart stuff was when people just left refrigerated items they didnt want anymore on shelves. is it rly that hard to walk a couple extra seconds to put it back? just spoils food, attracts bugs
edit: spelling
just spoils food, attracts bugs
and legally, it cannot be put back it has to be thrown out.
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At one of the bigger groceries I've been to, the wheels would lock up if you got too far from the store. Well, we'd parked outside that range so the wheels locked up and I had to awkwardly drag the full cart to the car.
Being a good person, I went to drag it back to the return spot. The wheels did not unlock. Dragged it all the way back anyway.
But given this, I can see why someone might just abandon their cart if the wheels are locked.
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Given the economy, it may be "If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't."
Maybe about plugging in devices to charge when you're done with them? Schools use laptops a lot now, but don't think they're communal ones on carts anymore.
Do people not rewind their streaming media? No wonder it takes so long to load.
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"Post before you leave."
What's this mean?
Before you stop scrolling, post something.
Shiiiiit, just drop the "rewind."
Don't get irate, just pirate.
"Make sure to like, follow, and subscribe."
Even as a child, I never really understood this concept and I am old enough to remember going to video stores a lot. But you're rewinding one way or the other. Why does it matter if you're doing it when you just get the cassette or when you're done watching it?
And video stores were super adamant about this too.
If everyone does it, it improves the overall experience of everyone, as you said, at absolutely no additional personal cost, financial or otherwise. You get home from Blockbuster, insert the tape, flop on the couch with the still warm takeout food, and begin your movie night without any friction. At the end, you placed the cassette on rewind and switched to cable to watch something else until you dozed off, or kid's bedtime came or whatever.
The other experience, you insert the tape, flop on the couch and…wait, the VHS says the videotape is at the end. Ok, then put the VHS into rewind, it was usually slow, then use the rewinder. You have to get up, take the cassette out, put it in the rewinder, wait a few minutes. “Daddy I want to watch the movie now.” “Patience, just wait a minute.” “Honey, the food is getting cold sit down to eat.” “Wait, the rewinder is do…shit, it swallowed the tape again.” Take it out, clear the jam, manually wind the tape, put the tape back in the VHS, it is gentler. Wait some more. Now start the movie. At the end, should you rewind?
It was just one of those things that, are simple, nice and cheap for everyone. Not doing it is just a mild annoyance for others, but it costs you nothing. It was truly a test of morality back then. Good people are those who still do the right thing even if no one is watching.
I guess if those particular scenarios happen in abundance... But in reality they were few and far between.
I don't know man... It was so benign to me that I don't even remember if I did it often or not.
Yeah, that's kind of the point. It was benign, you didn't have to do it. If you didn't do it, you wouldn't hurt anyone. But if you did it, it displays a modicum of kindness towards an invisible fellow that speaks of a considerate moral character.
True story: once I have seen a device for sale on eBay, for rewinding DVD's. On the photo it was mainly a green tissue box.
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