Hopefully I can replace myself with an AI and then she can deal with this shit.

As a trans woman who spent a lot of her life as a violent man, I have some perspective on this.

The tendency to blow up and hit things? Those are panic attacks. Men don’t like to think of themselves as having sissy emotional problems and so they just try to stubbornly power through their panic by yelling and hitting things, but like, a good cry really fucking helps you know? Meds too! Take a break, get some fresh air, take some deep breaths, fix your makeup, it’s going to be okay. No need to break shit.

Chicken and egg situation.

Did Russia make them into this, or did Russia seek them out because of who they already were?

Sometimes (the freak lobster men like top right aren’t what most women are into lol), but Hollywood doesn’t give a shit about what women want. This is what men want. It’s all power fantasy.

It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.

A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg

Actually it’s only sterile in the bladder, once it passes through the urethra it picks up bacteria.

Factory farms where everyone is being fattened up in cages on a slurry of hate and memes.

I’m thinking that double checking is slightly faster than doing the research yourself.

As opposed to Google searching manually, which always has accurate outputs and never outputs falsehoods as fact. 🙂

As long as you double check the source of an answer I don’t see an issue.

Huh, I always assumed it was referring to dogs eating cat shit.

Do they have a choice? By hosting an instance, they open themselves up to liability if someone posts child porn. What else could they do?

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I’m sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

Or its proof that rich people shouldn’t be allowed to have children.

I’m not so sure Musk is actually motivated by his own hype, I think that’s part of his professional self branding that he relies on to juice the valuation of his companies. Seen through that lens, taking control of the main public square is a way to juice his rep further and make even more money.

I’m skeptical of ascribing immaterial motives to billionaires.

EDIT Oh! Also, I think the reason enshitification has accelerated so much recently is because of high interest rates. It’s why Silicon Valley Bank imploded, after all. Companies are scrambling to be profitable after the free investor cash has dried up. It’s not good enough to be maybe profitable in an undefined future, they need to be profitable now so they can justify investment. The bubble is deflating - though fortunately, it seems like it’s going to be a soft landing instead of a pop.

The only person in the world you can ever truly know is yourself.

So when I ask myself “If I were spez/zuck/musk why would I do this?”

The answer is usually “because someone gave me a lot of money”

I, for one, support Elon and u/spez in their efforts to destroy corporate social media and their support for federation!

There’s a theory that, at one time, “man” was a gender neutral term for persons and we called males “weremen” and obviously women “women”

That probably isn’t true, but it’s fun to think about a world where that was reversed.

EDIT Also evidently there was wifmann and wapman, which is an even funnier world to imagine.

Count me in that 30%

Russia’s invasion was wrong, but it goes back to the Euromaiden government upheaval and that should be considered. Russia isn’t just a crazy warband of orcs that wanted to restart the Tsar’s empire for no reason. What’s brainwashed about that?

A bunch of other countries, like China, which had 75% of people polled stating that the Russia/Ukraine conflict was good for China.

It kinda is in some ways because it’s basically left China as Russia’s only option for a lot of import/export, so China gets a ton of leverage in determining prices. It’s also solidifying China as a regional hegemon and opens up a lot of opportunities for China diplomatically.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say the conflict is good, but there are benefits and it’s not as simple as “people are brainwashed”