Google maps sends you through ghettos where you're more likely to get robbed, r*ped, and murdered because they want to help ""low income communities""

In general the degree to which data and access to data is being fricked with and destroyed and how rapidly it's happened over the last ten years has been by far the biggest thing that got me with rightoids.

It is fricking INSANE to me how orgs that (I think?) used to do cool shit like fight corpos and feds on insane data laws have become completely silent and toothless.

The entire fricking modern computing landscape is about twenty fricking corpos (501(c)3 or otherwise) butt-puppeting modern users in to viewing ads (don't even get me fricking started on how advertising is THE fricking bubble primed for a Great Crash) for garbage shit they don't actually fricking want (coherently extrapolated volition).

All major modern computing platforms (networked or otherwise) are darn near designed at this point to introduce a subtle but deep schizophrenia in end users:

>Computers make everything easier!

>Everything outside of actions benefiting the advertising funnel is difficult or impossible to do.

Take ad-blocking on consumer websites.

Modern computer networking at its lowest fricking conceptual level is about REQUESTING information. The idea that your device can be FORCED to request ADS is offensive on the deepest level to human sensibility. Yet this is the absolute state of things.

Go try to set up system ad-blocking on any stock western consumer phone. I'll fricking wait.

Heck, try setting up any entire-network comprehensive ad-blocking scheme. Outside of serious dedicated computing power and intentionally MITM'ing every fricking device on the network, you can't. You can block some of the idiot-tier ads on consumer apps, but even then, apple has started consolidating ads for apps, running them through apple servers much like youtube does now as well. (The ad originates from the content server, meaning you have to semantically interrogate the data to actually strip out the fricking advertising, vs. separate ad servers where you can just easily block requests to a server)

I write all this to explain that when it comes to serving fricking ads, web tech is ever-evolving and finding new ways to adapt (DNS over HTTPS is in direct response to old/simple adblock methods), but when it comes to actually making computation fricking useful or fun for the end-user? Everything is fricking dead.

This is genuinely one of my favorite things about rdrama: the site is fun, and the fun is semiotic and semantic. The bitches end-users have here are about glitches or for features that would 'un-fun' the user-experience in non-intuitive ways. Combine that with a userbase that covers everything from pharma normie foids to unironic incels and genuine 00s-era oldstrags and you have the closest thing on the modern net that's "like the old web". The admins here act like people, with various, sometimes conflicting desires, and the userbase isn't a gigantic fricking morass of eglin/GPT bullshit like the anon forums have become.

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Best practice for finding places far off to move to when I was younger and much more mobile was just going to the Wikipedia page for the town or neighborhood and scrolling down to the demographics section. You want an absolute minimum of 80% non-Latinx white. And it is night and day how different 80% and 90% are. The sweet spot is >95% but things are usually decent at 80+ and good at 90+.

!followers unironically important advice for if you're ever looking to move to another part of the country and want to find out where the good places to rentcel are. Zillow and Apartments.com and shit are incredibly misleading. Always check the demographics. Do not deviate from the strategy above or you will regret it immensely. If you can't find anything not outrageously priced in the good areas, rethink your move and realize it's not salvageable.

Do they mean "LGBTQ friendly" as opposed to all the "No queers allowed" businesses?

!codecels check out this zinger

are you saying you hate women?