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When you fundamentally can't admit a truth because it destroys your entire world view, you end up going down conspiracy rabbit holes in order to avoid it.
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: yes, it is.
The old internet is still there. It's just dwarfed by the colossal amount of shit piled up on the shit sites.
As a general rule, stick to free and open stuff because the motivation of the people doing it is to give to the community, rather than make money. Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin rather than Xitter and Reddit. Just stay away from Facebook. There are lots of old style bulletin boards still around for various interests, and they are often more used than FB groups.
I stopped putting adverts on my sites ages ago because I hate them so much. I don't want to be part of the enshittification.
99.9% of people have more in common with an illegal immigrant than Elon Musk. Their problems aren't caused by people arriving in small boats, but those arriving in private jets.
Yes, a complete barbarian. We have them too, but we aspire to be better than just being equally barbaric in return. That's why civilisations do justice, not revenge.
The bed of that stupid thing is about twice as high as the useful one, so you have to lift the cargo twice as high.
My wife takes the piss out of me for turning every task into a spreadsheet, but who ate a perfectly cooked, stress-free Christmas dinner exactly when it was supposed to be ready? We all fucking did, that's who.
I'm shocked that a person who thinks the name of a piece of software can harm them doesn't understand their own religion.
That there are cities that have actually done this doesn't seem to stop them insisting it's impossible.
I'm old enough to remember when the roads were fixed as routine maintenance, rather than using infrastructure money for a quick bodge just before an election.
They are absolutely terrified that people will see that it works.
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Naich
joined 1 year ago
Every time I want to do something, I have a look around the baffling ecosystem of frameworks and end up writing it from scratch because it's easier than wading through the bullshit.