I figured that was already a euphemism for shitting yourself.

I’ve had one lie to my face and the person next to me about what they said to us less than a minute prior.

It’s understandably difficult for people who haven’t experienced it to understand or believe it.

Afraid not, and even if it popped out of existence the inertia is still there.

The challenge of designing/iterating on a better system is easier than the political challenge of getting a chance to try it.

And then you have to defend that chance from saboteurs, enemy propaganda, poisoning the discussions on how to proceed, sanctions, invasion, literally anything and everything the old world can do to try to smother it.

We can all decide the government should take their money, and politicians can do exactly what capital wants as always.

I wouldn’t say core problem but it’s definitely a critical component missing from any ernest attempt at actual democracy.

Big if do.

I can’t wait for all this to be long forgotten when we’re being loudly told all over again how important voting (and nothing else) is.

After the ‘4’ incident my calibration for guessing if something like this is a joke is completely broken.

Start? We’ve been embracing the Great Filter like a long lost friend.

To be fair to them the default with “user friendly” phone UI makes it difficult to have any idea where things are. You often really have to go out of your way to open a file manager.

pre colour film announcer voice

The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week

Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.

People die if they are killed.

and that finally – and this goes for the capitalists too –

an inhuman power rules over everything.

The comment was on the fecklessness of the ‘resistance’, not downplaying the brutality of the established order.

Americans have been taught “the right way” to resist by their class enemies. At this rate they’ll frog-costume-dance all the way into the camps holding hands and chanting “this is the way”.

Every company feels like they need to get faster.

Well yeah, they’re capitalist institutions. If they’re not growing exponentially, they’re failing.

That’s not a snarky mockery of the attitude of leadership, that’s the logic of capital.

Looking at it coldly going by the selection pressure of the market, they almost certainly are more fit for survival than a company that isn’t finding an excuse to spy on you (even more) and sell your data.

If I’d only put off de-googling a bit longer before I saw the news I could have skipped this hop. Oh well…

I’m eyeballing Tuta. Anyone have other recommendations?

Give it a few generations for the selection pressure of the market / the temptations of new leadership to take over.

Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.

I saw a thread about it where someone asked “Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don’t do anything with it”.

The answer given? Vote.

… That was all. …