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There’s a disturbing number of creeps ITT arguing that they should be allowed to film people without their knowledge on the subway

Single point of data here, and I don't think I've ever really felt that any of them did much.

Problem is that they supposedly take over an hour to do anything, by which time I don't know whether I'd have felt better regardless.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/

Last year's inflation was 2.9%

This year to date is 3%

For all its faults, the EU is much better than what we had before, i.e. a massive fucking war every single generation going back to the dawn of time.

A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.

For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption

Did they remove channel blocking recently? Something very undesirable appeared on my recommendations this week, and when I went to the channel to block it it the button wasn’t there, and worse still me going to the channel auto played more of its shit. So now YouTube think I want more.

It's hardly tinfoil hat time - I defy you to name a single poster anywhere on Lemmy who reads more like a repost bot or engagement farmer than that particular user.

Had to check what community I was in for a moment

Yup. Also the post captions always read a bit too engagmentey, if that makes sense? Like either the account is a bot, or it's one that being run cynically by a farm who's following a set of guidelines to maximize reach over anything like sincere interest or value or humanity.

I'd recently blocked "LadyButterfly she/her" because I was getting fed up of her constant low effort ragebait, so I was surprised to see this post appear on my feed - it turns out she's posting from multiple instances, presumably to get around either blocks or bans.

I'm reminded of Jon Ronson's observation in "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", that the religious right are surprisingly tolerant of sexual misconduct scandals in a way that progressives aren't.