This of the core of the problem. Github energy.

Fine for a hobby. Not good enough for a public-facing product.

It’s owned by facebook, it’s irrelevant.

It will, but it still has that countdown timer over its head.

The future is the fediverse, some yet-to-be-invented non-corporate equivalent, or offline.

The actual center, which never moves even as extremists come and go, would be a little to the right of Elizabeth Warren, though not by much.

If the internet has a future, it’s on the Fediverse. We work around capitalism to avoid enshittification, or we let it defer our future further.

In the meantime, the Fediverse needs to get shiny and intuitive. The sign that something is cumbersome and hard to use is people saying “it’s not that bad”.

People say this to sound cool but they don’t think it through.

All watching it happen in real time has done is made it more clear that it still makes no sense.

They were a mistake.

Take the week off, work for two days on the weekends.

Even if you’d get a vengeance kick out of it, the suffering won’t produce the good results you want.

When the worst guy starts fighting a twice as worst guy, you have a relative good guy to root for.

This is dumb.

It’s not benign. Long covid can be and often is permanent. You get that shit, and everything you care about in your life is now a distant second place.

What you’re calling “benign” is everybody consciously choosing to ignore it, and act like anyone smart enough not to is somehow weird and wrong.

Some lost their ability to regulate from everybody else being critically stupid, some see everybody still being dumb about it and aren’t gonna play such a transparently stupid game. Some got long covid, the worst outcome of all, the thing you wear a mask to stop.

Multiple causes.

Yeah in the old world where a little elbow grease was all you needed to afford a house, this would have been a coward’s move and creepy as hell.

Now, it beats the pants off of most jobs. Which is all the evidence you need of how much of a failure society has become. This situation should be awful, but it’s pretty nifty by comparison.

This is the breath of fresh air this dumb post made me need. Thank you.

The shame is that there were not more people who voted that way.

America has one party, the democrats, and cancer, the republicans. It just metastasized. One party rule sucks but it sucks less than cancer.

Well, wages are shit and prices are unjustifiably high. So yeah, you fall to the safety net or the ground.

It’s natural to remember the hits.

If you ever go back and review the whole catalogue, you won’t be nearly so impressed.

No, we don’t know. It makes less sense than it ever did seeing it play out in real time.

And it’s still, for the moment, a screw-up. Something that slipped through the cracks. Deregulation means not even trying to stop it anymore, so it’ll be normal. Or, one layer of protection will be gone.

Stomach pain can be easily some of the worst pain.