At this point just let the kids into the porn sites. Like for gods sake I’m so fucking tired of this.

I really wish some large government would order that all hardware manufacturers publicly released any source code used to make the hardware run. I think there are some real arguments you could make for the benefit of the economy if that happened. A hardware manufacturer can still lean on selling the physical parts even if the software can be copied, and the software can be tailored to their hardware making it harder for it to apply to their competitors. I’d actually like to hear others’ opinions on that too.

I don’t understand your numbers but yeah, I am not exactly happy about how things went down.

I get the feeling it’s going to be constantly running around in circles. The corporations are constantly looking for ways to enshittify things to improve profits, but too much and people don’t want to deal with it. They’re constantly looking for that balance in a landscape that’s constantly changing, and so constantly experimenting with what they can get away with.

Hey, I didn’t play myself, over a hundred million Americans played me.

I’d really like to see every new coin get rug pulled and crypto bros stop pulling their grift cuz nobody listens anymore instead.

And we now have an entire country open to talking about how much they want corporate executives dead.

Idk, the implication it seems your making is that this murder was bad, but I’d argue the result is pretty good here regardless of intentions (though their intentions seem pretty clear given the bullet casings)

I’ve re evaluated. The CEO was still definitely the baddie.

I’m going in

I wish we would all actually get behind that. I still hear people say that Elon Musk is the smartest man alive.

I’m genuinely impressed. I might even risk the blow to my mental health to see for myself.

Edit: yeah, holy shit, there’s a couple people going “jeez you guys are nasty. I didn’t like him either but still” and the rest are treating the shooter like a national hero.

They have the money to hire a 24/7 coffee shop on their private island. I don’t think it’s so bad for them.

Well, if the corporatized platforms all went to federated instances, it’d be a lot easier to pack up and move to a different platform, or fix the existing platform by choosing different instances. It would make those platforms better and we would probably still have our own spaces either using different protocols, or different clusters of instances who only federate with each other.

Threads being federated is not them actually trying to be federated, but trying to EEE the open competition, and I think that is more of a threat to us than people joining mastodon.

Edit: I’m realizing that I’m kind of contradicting myself here lol

I can totally believe that he didn’t know about mastodon, but even Bluesky is like a reasonable platform. Threads… I see literally no upside to using threads. It’s on a timer from the beginning to turn into another X. Just look at how long Facebook has been a cesspool of Nazi propaganda.

It really boggles my mind the cognitive dissonance of everybody constantly complaining about corporations screwing them over, then refusing to use the obvious solution to their problems.

It’s gonna take more than a crowbar to get us out of this one

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I gave up my human rights and all i got in return was 5 cents