“In theory”? More like “Move fast and break society.”

We are in a fist fight and Democrats want to get our faces kicked in with decorum and professionalism.

War crimes and murder are business as usual in the US. The sad thing is that he died without seeing the inside of a cell.

What is the point of comments like this? Yes, we realize this. Are you just hearing about it? Do we really have to face each new horror with admonishments that it is distracting us from the last horror?

Pizza is A toast. Like avocado toast.

It’s bread, toasted with sauce, various meats, cheeses, and vegetables. This seems pretty unassailable.

Jerry: So he hugged her. People hug.

George: People hug? People HUG? Not like this people don’t hug.

Jerry: Describe it.

George: There was … hairplay.

Jerry: Hairplay?

George: THERE WAS DEFINITE HAIRPLAY

Jerry: Maybe it’s something she isn’t getting at home.

https://bsky.app/profile/juliusgoat.bsky.social/post/3m4lssheixk2i

I try to hear about little about these people as I can, but it’s not like the public would know if they were having an affair.

A popular one.

Marijuana’s a lot more difficult to grow than this. You need to keep the males and females separate.

We do have to remember that “First do no harm” is not a universal law of ethics or anything, it’s just the way the powers that be think about things.

Nobody cares about the long run. You can fool all of the people until next quarter, pull your golden parachute, and go suck the marrow out of the next corporation like a locust.

The “true meaning”* of Black Friday is clearing out old stock that didn’t sell and getting it off the books before the New Year.

You used to be able to get some decent deals, but now it’s just warmed over crap produced specially to be sold at a discount.

*This is meant in a parallel to the feeling of “the true meaning of Christmas”. Not the literal meaning.

This is an awful lot of work to try to fix capitalism. The tech billionaires will never allow it or undermine it completely.

In any world where we could pass this sort of tax, we should change to an economic system where everyone got their needs met.

The problem with capitalism is that eventually you run out of slaves.

Our boundaries about sex and violence are weird.

With the caveat that I don’t pretend to be perfectly logical, I’d say that fighting pokemon isn’t really violence. It is just a video game.

Someone who’s jerking off to pokemon is fantasizing about bestiality. This is way better than real bestiality, and I honestly don’t care if someone is into it as long as they don’t tell me about it. But it’s still going to squick me out.

I’m built different. Turns out if you stick your head far enough up your ass you turn into a Klein bottle.

Conservatives’ first instinct is always to lie.

True. But an old joke.

How much of the economy in the 60s was telecommunications vs how much of the economy today relies on the internet?

3-5 companies in a sector is an oligopoly, which acts nearly the same as a monopoly. This is not “actual competition”.

All of these companies cornered their own markets, and now they own the backbone of the internet.

If we broke up all of them and required open standards and interoperability then other companies could innovate.

AWS needs to be broken up way more than Ma Bell ever did. We need to have open protocols developed so that there can be actual competition.

The question isn’t “why does Signal use AWS?” It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

https://bsky.app/profile/meredithmeredith.bsky.social/post/3m46a2fm5ac23

She was misquoted (although the meaning should have been clear). This isn’t just “cloud” and bears no resemblance to a web server you spun up at home. This sort of world spanning tech stack is not something any company can build themselves, and there are only 3 or 4 companies that could host Signal.

The world’s Internet infrastructure basically supports civilization as we know it, and it’s crazy to allow it to be privately owned with so little competition.

In the old days, there would be public standards and interoperability and networks of organizations working together. Now the Internet is a series of proprietary walled gardens.