Welcome to the top of the sigmoid curve.
If you were wondering what 1999 felt like WRT to the internet, well, here we are. The Matrix was still fresh in everyone's mind and a lot of online tech innovation kinda plateaued, followed by some "market adjustments."
I was gonna say. It's this exactly. Plus a nice feature of Fediverse stuff is that it can scale down to hobby levels if needed. Venture funded commercial services abhor this and will compromise all kinds of things (e.g. morals, ethics) to keep going at whatever scale they're at.
This gives me hope. It's like we're all finally learning how to moderate forums in this ridiculous climate.
I have been sexually harassed as a man in public transportation too and while i recognize it’s not as bad for me as it is for women, because it only happened a few times, it always happened by forcing me to be smushed against a ton of people.
Let me just say: I am sorry you went through that. This is awful and indeed unacceptable. Thank you for pointing out that assault is not an entirely gendered issue, and that segregation sends everyone down a slippery slope where we fail to stop it in the first place.
Clearly. I'm also prepared to pay the handsome sum of $0. Where is my cabinet position?
And greedy. Can't forget greedy.
Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes,
Interesting. During the Cold War, that was unthinkable, mostly because there'd be nobody to counterbalance a US monopoly on nuclear arms. Things have proliferated considerably since then, so perhaps a nuclear Russia isn't as important. If anything, they're proving themselves to be a liability.
Good grief. It's like he asked ChatGPT "how do I hire people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect?"
Dear meme-lords: I need something with much more facepalm than the Picard one. A "super facepalm" if you will. Thank you.
I've been trying to wrap my head around this too. Just yesterday, I was thinking "what would Mr. Rogers say/think at a time like this?"
Then it dawned on me that maybe the worst parts of society had a radically different upbringing and media exposure than myself. ^1^ The so-called "violent" cartoons (many of which were just toy commercials) I get and recall people keeping that stuff from their kids. But to think of banning something like (1980's) PBS in your home, of all things. Now I understand why that messaging existed in the first place - we might be worse off right now without it.
1. Insert "we-are-not-the-same-gen-x.jpg" meme here.
No idea. Maybe they'll keep it like the Gadsden Flag holdout libertarians? "We were here first" and all that.
Honestly, I was thinking about the people out there with tattoos. There has to be at least one.
Best I can do: