Yeah I tried. I actually couldn’t get a real support agent and eventually the refund period auto triggered cause the seller couldn’t figure out how for me to return it.

eBay doesn’t care. They just want their little piece.

I bought from eBay recently and I got a package from Amazon. I don’t buy from either anymore.

And they gameified it by making it if you got someone else to sign up you both got insane coupons to make stuff that they were selling as loss leaders even cheaper and get enough and you could get it for free.

It made it a race to get the most people to sign up for the app as the very rare person got a switch for free for being better than any advertisement.

They must have been bleeding money for the name recognition. I still think their name equals trash.

Yeah, everyone is “a business owner” by selling temu crap all over the place now.

Even farmers markets with wealthy looking white people selling garbage mugs and tchotchkes that are all clearly from China.

Someone else did all the work and they think they are special for pushing it on others. Heck so many ads these days are for sites selling the shovels in this gold rush for making your own drop shipping site on tiktok. What else is Shopify?

Yes!

This is the way. Why pay double for eBay or Amazon to ship me stuff from AliExpress anyways for like 5 day faster shipping at best.

But only for the same garbage that they will sell anyways. Shoes are leather and can be fixed and have been at a cobbler for like $40 to new. Clothing should be bought once and last at least a year if not much much longer. So I buy from better brands in person if possible.

I don’t get why I should pay Amazon to be a shitty middle man that is trying to destroy the world more for my crap.

This feels like a completely different conversation to me just wanting fries deep fried in beef tallow again. And that you can’t find these kind of things easily out there anymore as everyone argues about being healthy.

Yeah but I want the choice without having to cook for myself sometimes.

Can we all just collectively accept death is an inevitability and eat tasty food? This need for perfection in everything we touch is killing me.

Nope. It is not.

from Liberals

I.E. the people who think they can win in identity politics alone cause that seems progressive enough. Because they look down on everyone else they are all equal minorities in their eyes.

Get ready for all the stages of grief at the same time and I’ll warn you.
Most people get stuck on denial and anger.

That’s a word salad I can’t decipher. Sorry.

No thanks!

Edit: sorry don’t mean to be that dismissive and I get there are more uses sure. But I’m also just not interested in AI “artwork” or legitimizing it.

Mmmmm… That’s a crisp gif.

As someone not logged in or with an account I keep getting

These images hidden for mature content settings

From swiping through those thumbnails so… I’m taking they are able to generate some NSFW images just fine.

Honestly who is using AI generation for anything but that? I’ve only heard about fursonas and D&D stuff as well but let’s be honest roleplay was secondary use of that dungeon too.

That’s like saying the only people who bake wedding cakes are bakers…

I mean yeah. But what of it? Or are you already implying a level of abuse and connotation to the mental disorder?

Same way in the infinite random non repeating numbers of Pi is the binary of a 4k resolution photo of Betty White nude holding a snake on a tiger.

It’s random forever and eventually the 1s and 0s fall into place. The problem is the monkeys repeating themselves.

And you have to be a jerk apparently.

You immediately assumed people needed to have multiple pieces of hardware when some can’t even afford past what their job provides, being able to have a separate and dedicated machine is still privileged.

You got immediately defensive and felt you had to rush to defend the dangerous question because you thought I might have been snarky when asking? What the hell?!

And you are still doing it!

Being rude is asking you to explain why we should have a second device running Linux?

And you wonder why there is an adoption problem with that OS.