I mean, aren’t we changing things right now, changing the way it goes?

Sorry for all my railing against the mainstream, I can’t resist quoting T2.

But yes, I suspect you’re right. Really, it’s a kind of return to the pre-commercial internet, before corpos started trying to capture, valueize, and monetize all of our freely given interactions on their platforms.

Really thought the pussy comment was it, but mfer just doubled down.

Yeah the amount of powerful and stinking rich people incriminated in Epstein’s files might’ve actually motivated a modicum of competency for once.

Interesting hypothesis! I wouldn’t put it so boldly myself, but there is a type of person who relishes in holding authority over others, and given that most people are just happy to go along and get along, it makes sense that those who are motivated to boss people around would kind of monopolize positions of power and do everything they could to hold on to them.

Yeah I finally made an account and there is more than enough here to satisfy my mealtime watching needs. Still not a lot of content when compared to the mainstream platforms, but that reminds me of all the fediverse offerings a few years ago.

I feel like it’s only a matter of time before there’s enough on peertubes to keep me off the mainstreams almost entirely.

The spirit is there

Plenty of places don’t have HOAs, like my neighborhood. We just bitch at each other. If things got really bad you could just call the city.

I wonder if they’re betting on other people being as shitty as they are

All right then let’s establish a neutral war crimes tribunal and prosecute some war crimes — on both sides, obviously.

Legitimately wtf

I see right, yeah, it’s the conditions social and material that give rise to the “disorder” whereas if we fix the conditions, it just evaporates. Like abolishing slavery or private property.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania

Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that […] hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity.

I could make some guesses, but I’m not sure what you meant by this. What did you mean?

That was a fun day

I’m becoming convinced it’s an actual mental disease, or at least grossly maladaptive

Here’s a little sample https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/99258/why-do-corporate-mergers-require-the-approval-of-foreign-governments

Same thing with open concept offices. To extraverts it feels more productive and collaborative, but it’s actually the oppo to anyone engaged in any kind of focus work.

That’s great. It’s like you were temporarily a worker’s co-op.

I remember my company at the time also admitted that COVID was threatening the bottom line and many in the all hands and public chats suggested just what your company did.

Instead we got multiple rounds of gutting layoffs mid-pandemic, a mass exodus of core talent, and the founders selling out to some B tier silicon valley fucks who fly in every now and then to complain about morale.

I only had a 360 back in the day, and I feel like I got in and out at the absolute peak. So many great couch coop with roommates memories.

Companies used to need approval to do such things

Only the high profile ones