AI companies are consuming all the electricity, and will destroy the economy when their bubble bursts, in their quest to eliminate millions of jobs and control the lives of everyone, to profit the global tech elite.

Memes are not-for-profit cultural detritus. They are not the same.

Have an upvote. Both sides are not the same. Anyone who can’t distinguish between them is seriously not fully operational.

This is not enshittification. It’s just shitty.

We know. We hate it.

Because men are babies.

Brave has never had a good look.

Those are non-routed IP blocks. 127.0.0.1 is the machine you’re on, the localhost.

Too many commenters here do not understand anything about how any of it works, especially how first past the post voting works. Progressives do not seem to understand that the system has not rejected them, but the voters have.

It is mostly relentless propaganda for the oligarchs that has captured the country. That’s the problem, and it is not fixed by any of the suggestions here.

You need to look up Komar & Melamid. They did market research art, and they commissioned “The Least Favorite Song” after a survey that showed the least favorite features of songs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People’s_Choice_Music#The_Most_Unwanted_Song

SQL does pair well with getting drunk…

My mantra: “Behold, the field in which I grow my fucks, and see that it is barren.”

No, he’s accusing them of being what he is, a time-honored tactic that Trump also utilizes.

Email has taken 25 years to get people that comfortable with it, and most folks either go with their ISP email, or one of 3 or 4 providers. Discord, you’re already in the tech savvy population.

You have to pick a Mastodon server, before you know anything about anything. The acquisition funnel probably drops 90% of the people checking it out right there.

Personal dignity?

My mom died.

My father taught me to hate myself.

You invite my “billionaires shouldn’t exist” TED talk.

Yeah, and folks know “scruples” as a noun which some people have and some don’t, but “scruple” as a verb is a nice archaic version that I really like, which you don’t encounter much outside of, say, a Jane Austen novel.

I would say “meaningful”. Billionaires can have a very noticeable effect with their philanthropy, while making essentially no sacrifice on their part. The Gates Foundation does very noticeable good, but Bill Gates isn’t giving of himself very much.

“scruple” as a verb, meaning “hesitate due to conscience”.