we're a social species. community standing plays a role in our ability to find mates and improves our childrens' chances of survival

brittle. brittle materials fail in the elastic portion of the stress strain diagram

people are generally ok. put them in a situation where they can climb over other people to advance and watch the rot begin.

so, while people are generally ok, corporate people are generally not.

this assumes a ductile material. I myself am smiling as though everything is fine in the elastic region and may snap at any moment.

there trick is to pull the elastic down far enough so it reaches over the bottom edge of the mattress.

forget folding it neatly. you can adult without that skill

that's a Judas Priest song fyi...

https://open.spotify.com/track/2RaA6kIcvomt77qlIgGhCT?si=-vsBVPV2TY2IbCPmkJSkxA

come to the US - free sauce packets!

just ignore the chasm of wealth disparity, growing nationalism and maybe being a bullet proof vest. wait... you're not dark skinned, are you?

/s

I know this post didn't coin the term 'enshitification", but it really is a great way to describe the monetization of everything that was once good on the internet

I thought he looked a lot like Chris Farley!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Farley_(businessman)#:~:text=He%20graduated%20from%20Georgetown%20University,and%20AHL%20player%20Tripp%20Tracy.

I've always had a niggling worry that downloading apps from 3rd party app stores came with a higher risk of getting apps with viruses and spyware.

any truth to this?

I think the end of net neutrality hastened there older internet's demise. now corps are free to monetize as much as they like.

cool idea. haven't seen this exactly, but there are a number of fact checking sites it there depending on what country you love in. here are a couple...

https://www.factcheck.org/ https://www.politifact.com/