fucking microsoft too. they’re enshittifying things so much because they can charge you rent to compute instead

second this. volunteering is a great way to build a larger circle and force yourself to meet new people. libraries, food banks, nature conservation - there’s tons of opportunities. tool libraries too!

that motto always made me wonder how bad champagne tasted…

ty!

the thing you realize as you get older is that the spine is holding the whole shitshow together, and you rely on it constantly. so when it’s fucked, everything is fucked.

I rust wasn’t too rave and dance

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DOA beach volleyball was basically made for wanking. the game itself was… barely a game

soylent mignon is made out of rocks!

wait until they can feed you paste but make you think it tastes good.

yeah I hate gatekeeping but the trolls are real

which article is it that pissed you off this much? because you obviously have some kind of axe to grind. “has enough” oh, you manage nonprofits do you?

you manage nonprofits being attacked by billionaires? why are you bootlicking the assholes attacking a nonprofit?

sus as fuck

and also, who’s OP? brand new account.

their infrastructure is getting hammered by ai scraping too. “don’t defend wikipedia, they have enough” get fucked

I look at the people and orgs who dislike wikipedia, and then contrast that with the people and orgs that support wikipedia.

Trump, for example, and Musk hate wikipedia.

I think their funding is inline with their needs, and it’s free so getting yourself upset about how much money they bring in while doing great work seems… either petty or sus.

they also want skilled labor; they are happy to have it scrape from authors and artists - primarily the same groups who the ruling class despise.

The other thing that sites do now that earns an instant DNS block on my pihole, is capturing the back action that prevents leaving the site to show a pop-up that says “wait, before you go, check out these other articles” or something along those lines. HELL… NO!

I would like to find the dev who came up with this and shit on his lawn after eating two weeks of burritos.

The only humane choice is total disarmament and deterrence with an empty gun, which will never happen of course.

unfortunately I think the only way we’ll regress to sticks and stones is long after just such an apocalypse and all the leftovers get used up. because we’re certainly not intelligent enough to recognize the danger.

just the US alone… the idea that Trump’s insanity is next to the football 24/7 should make anyone sick if they can read and have half a brain.

ironically climate change will take a few decades to really start slaughtering people and we see it coming, but are ignoring the problem, just like nuclear weapons.

fuck my species, they’re too clever and too fucking dumb all at the same time.

LGBTQ rights in China are… complicated. LGBTQ rights aren’t spelled out, leaving things ambiguous - but no same sex marriage, no pride orgs shut down, lots of workplace aggression and discrimination with no protections at all… homosexuality is decriminalized but there’s no trans rights. so yeah, that could be better.

social credit scores are downright orwellian - they experimented with these in some cities in the 2010-2020 decade but t hen nationalized all the private solutions they tried… not sure even they know if they want to continue but - hypothetically - anyone can report you for… anything that disturbs the peace or what the ccp thinks is the ideal order - your social credit score gets dinged, then you could have trouble with all kinds of stuff - make it harder receive loans, obtain a visa for travel, etc.

compared to us credit scores, it’s probably not that big of a deal (we let three companies decided who gets loans for houses, based on… voodoo afaik. the way credit scores are compiled is pretty opaque).

What happened? I blacked out.

typical gate guards :D

heh, easy decision to cut a lot of time signing shit out of her life.

I feel bad for the kid in first grade who’s like “I’m Bobby, Bobby Laxwhanxijontongsilvalessbronchongamonson”

Left and right will all blame everyone but themselves. Anything to not put in their own work or take current matters at hand.

both sides are the same lol.

get fucked. one tried to give us single payer insurance, you know, like a real country. the other gave us a child molester rapist con man and then let his cult followers smear shit in the capitol.

both sides are the same goddamn it’s so fucking ridiculous get fucked with a jackhammer