the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.
the assassination of Alexander the second backfired completely.
why would you expect it to get better if Google is broken up?
Google has a massive conflict of interest; it both sells ads to SEO’ed websites, and ranks searches. Their incentive is for you to go to the pages with the most of their ads possible. Even a company with revenue purely from ads on the search page has less terrible incentives.
weird grammar to say someone made it up?
I’m sorry Russian cat girls? Wat?
There’s a distinction to be made between things that “look” dystopian, and actual dystopias. I think a lot of our current visual language of dystopia was taken from fascist/communist design choices which were in many respects independent of all the oppression they perpetrated. this example really drove that home for me, since the media it inspired came to mind before the reality.
wow, I was assuming metropolis. it just screams dystopia to me, but I guess they had to get that aesthetic from somewhere
acapella science is one of my favorite channels!
or at least no rhetorical questions looking for a circle -jerk
on that note, Miyazaki’s filmography. just all of it
Wisconsin cheese curds!
you forgot lutefisk and lefse!
and yet there are still plenty of maniac drivers on the road
it didn’t take off because micro payments are hard. still a better vision than the advertising hellscape we got
came here to post this. has been legit helpful for work. also adorable
I mean, as much as I think gates/bezos have abhorrent business practices, they do both have fairly large charitable foundations, and iirc, both have actually built literal hospitals with their money.
well, you certainly live up to your name
just … bring them to a library or thrift store… they’re better at figuring out what’s actually valuable
UAW wasa fucking shitshow of corruption until a couple of years ago. looks like its back on its feet!