This was my first ever exposure to Battletech, and 35 years later I still love the franchise. This looks awesome.

There were us knowledgeable early adopters who were ridiculed endlessly by … pretty much everybody … who actually worked to build the thing. Then the companies came… and brought with them the ignorant, unthinking majority of the lowest common denominator who believe everything they’re told to believe. I call it stolen. The consumer class that followed the corporations didn’t build this place, nor did they represent what we had built.

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The unthinking sheeple who remain behind, the lowest common denominator of humanity… I won’t really miss them, honestly.

Hehe, the actual “old internet” resembles the fediverse of today, it’s what we thought the internet was supposed to be back then. Once corporations found the internet, we got the bullshit we have today.

Rock and stone, brother!

Which only works with an educated and informed base of voters. Which is probably why the people who corrupt all forms of government spend so much effort in making sure we remain ignorant and misinformed.

It’s not knowing what we want, we all know what we WANT, it’s knowing what we NEED. We WANT to have more than anybody else (More money, more power, more … things)… But it’s not what we NEED. We need food, water, air, a safe place to sleep, love.

But we instead spend a bunch of time, resources and energy on things we don’t really need, and convince everyone else that THINGS define our worth, that we can only be good if others are worse off. We promote greed and hatred. We APPLAUD that shit and then try to emulate it. It’s not what we need though.

Hodor!

eyes the climate of earth nervously

If someone makes a federated porn app, they could call it “Feddish” … just give me a mention in the credits.

I reviewed the Reddit app at 1* because it honestly is a steaming pile of shit sorry excuse for an app, especially considering how long it’s been in this state now without any improvement.

Ad companies can’t handle the idea that people don’t want to be hit with ads every 5 minutes. “Well, it’s just BAD ads”… no, it’s having my experience constantly interrupted.

Reddit: You can’t be private, people need to see the content, reopen or else!
TIHI: No.
Reddit: Fine, mods are gone and we’ve reopened the community. People who want to be mods speak up
Crickets: Cricket noises
Reddit: This sub is unmoderated, so it’s now banned so nobody can see it

So… Reddit just reclosed the sub they said MUST be open.

Sound logic. Real class act.

Whenever people say “Somebody should do something!” they very rarely ever add “and the somebody is me”

Hehe, a Spez dispenser

The ones who stay probably do see themselves as powerless, which is a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy.

I definitely feel frustrated and saddened that people don’t realise how much power they have to end this bullshit. All of these problems only work if the populous is compliant with it and complicit in it.

So much this! But many never realize it. It’s so sad though how many people are well-adjusted to such a sick society.

Comments are heavily focused on the title of the article and the opening paragraphs. I’m more interested in peoples’ takes on the second half of the article, that highlights how the goals companies are touting are at odds with the most likely consequences of this trend.

As a divorced father who lives alone, my dearest hope is that my own kids learned enough from me to do something like this as well.