Hup!

Vast majority of petrol is dead pine trees but a good effort

The marketing team realized that society isn’t cool enough to buy enough of them to reliably profit off it.

When we lost the first fight for net neutrality.

This is how distopias happen. Hell this is how fascism sneaks up on people if they aren’t paying close attention.

Will end the current age of civilization? Most definitely.

Will it end organized societies as we know them? Probably?

Will the human beings go extinct? Probably not. Its not crazy to think that we’d face a bottleneck of only a few hundred million humans or less. But there are people all across the economic and geographic spectrum who are prepping. The rich will survive at their polar fortresses. The poorer will survive underground, or at high altitudes.

That’s like fining a person 0.01 per day for speeding. The company sees it as a limited time only discount and invitation to do it a TON right now and get people accustomed to it, before the people who don’t like it start complaining louder. From Facebooks perspective its a black Friday sale on Norwegian data.

How many hobbiests running miniature train sets in their garage have monetized those train sets? How many backyard gardeners sell their crops.

In most cases people who choose to develop and administrate an instance of their own are largely just hobbiests of another type. Sure it costs them some money. Many hobbies cost money, it doesn’t stop people from building things or growing things for fun.

Funny story I was gonna go make a 1 star review in response to this and found out I already submitted one over a year ago!

So I guess instead I’ll go and mark only 1 star reviews as helpful (maybe also a few 5 star reviews in cyrillic script, just for fun.)

To get the full context you’d have to go back through the history of 3rd party apps on reddit which is… a long story spanning years. Part of it is about accessibility and adequate mod tools (which 3rd party apps are built to support / official reddit pretty much doesn’t)

But the point is that this was the final conflict in a long saga for a small but extremely active group of redditors including a huge number of mods. Reddit might not have lost the rest of us if they played the game it cleverly and with some tact.

I was personally pretty comfortable, apathetically doomscrolling the fromt page. But then my attention was directed towards the man behind the curtain. The writing is on the wall with the mod removals, reddit created cryptocurrency, and the sheer number of ads. It was clear I needed to remove myself from that space.

Its very easy to forget, but theres a difference between the majority of Americans and the majority of American voters… it was more like 15% of the country that voted for him and of that 15% about 60% were white, 40% nonwhite. so it’s more in the range of 5-10 percent of the US population that you’re misrepresenting as a majority white supremacist sentiment.

To be clear the Supreme Courts decision here is a regulation on the universities. Not a removal of regulations.

Affirmative action was an option that institutions could choose if they thought was appropriate… Now that option has been regulated away.

Superset Union Intersection Subset!

Anyone else read the headline in a Tommy Wiseau cadence?

Messiah is the sequel novel to Dune so Messiah movie would probably not be part 3… more like Dune 2 Part 1.