Yes, but not by the level we see now. Google was still usable in 2016. Shitty, but usable.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
I’m a lot of things, but not a Velociraptor
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Microsoft's approach to age verification in Australia is further proof that Valve is taking the everloving pissEnglish
2·1 day agoValve is the biggest pc gaming storefront. Could they just comply and verify you in the easiest way? Certainly. But how is that going to change anything with that shitty law? In fact, by verifying you “easily”, it becomes an issue for Valve itself because in case someone breaks in and steal your data from them, who are you going to blame? The government that made the stupid law? No, probably the middle man: Valve.
Instead, they decided to go through the tough path: Piss everyone and make it an issue for everyone in the chain. The gamer gets angry because they can’t verify without a card. The dev gets angry because they see piracy rise and when they both point at Valve, Valve can just say: Hey, it’s not my fault, ask whoever is doing this stupid law to go back.
Change often comes from hardship, and there’s very few collectives more complacent than gamers; the only way to make them move in any way is inconveniencing them enough. This aims to do that.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Microsoft's approach to age verification in Australia is further proof that Valve is taking the everloving pissEnglish
19·2 days agoIdiot writer doesn’t understand that the point of valve’s method is to piss customers so they act against a law that only seeks surveillance and control. Microslop complying with it that easily (for now) should tell you a lot about them and about their position in this situation.
2016 mainstream tech was (still) useful.
2026 mainstream tech is either surveillance or surveillance but with ads.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid homeEnglish
14·2 days agoThe goal was to evict her, not to make her pay the higher rent. Even those 1650€ a month were probably deemed too low when they can simply make another BnB from her apartment and earn twice that.
This has been happening in Madrid for a while sadly. And people keep voting those fascist assholes despite this to the point they win easily. At a certain point, you start considering this is self-inflicted pain.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Police use teargas on protesters as disabled woman, 87, evicted from Madrid homeEnglish
25·2 days agoLet’s not forget how Madrid (both the city and the Autonomous Community) are ruled by far-right politicians who are making all they can to turn the region into an usian hellscape. But hey, democracy. Madrid has (almost) always been a fascist region. They had some pretty decent mayors (like Manuela Carmena) but I guess it was too much comunism for them to bear, so after her, they turned right pretty hard.
This kind of barbarism doesn’t surprise me at all, the government has enabled and even encouraged it for decades and now the people are reaping what they sow with their votes.
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Funny@sh.itjust.works•nurse in thailand prepping foreign patient for surgery 🥶English
35·3 days agoYou can see the patient is not Usian because they use the 24h format and they understand it.
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politics @lemmy.world•[Ed Sheeran] Calling Gaza “the most complex political issue on the planet” is pro-genocide propaganda – CE MediaEnglish
84·3 days agoThey knew it was going to happen. And not only they did nothing, but they allowed a festival to happen where Hamas was going to attack so the victims were more. If the attack had that many victims, was because they knowingly didn’t act.
Then, there’s the question of who’s funding Hamas. If we dig enough, we’re going to find Israel involved in the funding of Hamas because they are the ones who benefit more of an active militia in Gaza.
So yeah, in my eyes, this attack happened with the collaboration of the nazis.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’English
3·3 days agoPro is for mobile. Pro Max for tablet.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•[Ed Sheeran] Calling Gaza “the most complex political issue on the planet” is pro-genocide propaganda – CE MediaEnglish
4·3 days agoIt’s incredible how difficult is for some people to understand that an ethnic cleanse is bad WHATEVER THE FUCKING COLOR OF THE VICTIMS.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•[Ed Sheeran] Calling Gaza “the most complex political issue on the planet” is pro-genocide propaganda – CE MediaEnglish
2412·3 days agoLook, Ed. It’s actually quite simple: A nazi state called Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza after they fabricated a terrorist attack so Bibi the nazi could declare a war and avoid prison. And a good portion of the nazi country is actually not ok with the genocide because they’d like bibi to hit them harder.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Tells Americans To Change Their Diet If Beef Prices Are Too HighEnglish
2·3 days agoEven though they are cops, they are still homo sapiens, canibalism is not something you want to do unless you like playing with prions.
Curse you and you clarifying and mistery crushing explanation that gives sense to the bottle!
I wanted to think about the probably horrifying mystery for a while more!
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Seems chill to meEnglish
4·4 days agoYou know the difference between hitler and bibi the nazi? One of them did a good thing while he was in the bunker. Oh, right, he also had a moustache. I guess that makes 2 differences.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
News@lemmy.world•YouTuber Targets College Student With Autism for Content and Ends Up With Felony ChargesEnglish
15·4 days agoI am autistic. I have been bullied for the whole time up until I was 18 and left my hometown.
Normally, I always curled up and cried when being bullied.
Except when I didn’t. And I remember those times vividly. I remember clearly having to be pulled of my bullies by 3-4 people because I wasn’t stopping and the bully was already on the floor bleeding. Every time this happened, my only thought was “it’s you or them”. And in those moments, you are never thinking about just stopping the aggression. You are thinking about eliminating the threat. I’ve always been lucky that every time this happened, there were people relatively close so they could stop me. Otherwise, I’d be telling very different stories.
Do NOT trigger people, you never know if they are going to feel threatened and, if the lizard brain takes control, it’s gonna be a fight to death for them. You don’t want to be involved in a fight in which the other person fears for their life.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school childrenEnglish
22·5 days ago“Flawed intelligence” what a weird way of saying “People dumb as fucking rocks in charge”.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialtoNominative Determinism@feddit.uk•How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner with villanous nameEnglish
10·7 days agoThe real one was an italian scientist living between 1840 and 1891. Born in Florence, he was good enough to deserve the honor of being buried in a famous graveyard. He wasn’t a villain by any means.
But I don’t expect OP to know this, so I guess they went with the JoJo’s villain named after him.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump’s Iran Fiasco Takes Humiliating Turn as Leaks Grow More DamningEnglish
3·9 days agoIn the end, this is gonna turn into the pedofuhrer Vietnam. Keep going Donnie!
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.socialto
Reddit@lemmy.world•POV: you spent 30 minutes to write a well-worded, well-structured post (it only took the AI mod a millisecond to remove it)English
41·9 days agoBe the one creating it! I was jesting, but the fact is, reddit is a cesspool, and it’s been for a good while, so this comes as a no-surprise for anyone knowing how things are going there.

No, it doesn’t come with everything. It comes with a bunch of cheap crap highly overpriced. And I suspect it will be soldout because that’s what realgamers™ want right now.