Lol you just reminded me of what my grams said to me about why the boomers suck…

me: grams why are your kids so messed up? grams: they were raised during the US’s peak golden age. they have no basis for actual reality.

May she rest in peace. Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it.

No arguments from me on China. They’re excellent at playing the long game. My elders are boomers and the greatest generation.

You’ve been downvoted but this is pretty much what my elders told me.

I love it for what I use it for which is research, speeding up scripting and code writing, resume building, paraphrashing stupidly long news articles, teaching me Spanish and Japanese, bypassing the bullshit that are what passes as search engines these days, and talking my anxiety down. They cut through the noise and boost my productivity.

That’s too bad. I was hoping for a Mao style Culture Revolution.

That’s true. I was just reading about the Somoza dictatorship. That mofo shot up the houses of his most fervent voters.

I guess a lot of music and movies from a pirate site. I’d spend more time at the library listening to my music.

It’s like there’s a manufacturing conveyer belt of horrible wealthy tech bros just going brrrrrr all the time.

I’m reading about the Nicaraguan fascist takeover because I already know enough about WW2 that I wanted to extend from the data I already get. I recommend Victoria Gonzalez’s “Before the Revolution” - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/abs/victoria-gonzalezrivera-before-the-revolution-womens-rights-and-rightwing-politics-in-nicaragua-18211979-university-park-pa-penn-state-university-press-2011-pp-xxviii224-6495-hb/D8272AB5737CA6237F2A67CD5B4EC444

My coworker said to me today that all the news outside of the US is calling us Nazi America and this goes hand in hand with my own international news reading experience in the last day. I think everyone is acknowledging how dumb we look and how it affects them?

FOR REAL??? FUUUUCK.

I just realized my shared box that was freebsd got moved to linux… I am dumb. I was wondering why command line was such a shithouse for me lately. Anyway. Installing my own RSS and happy to be on the decetnralized web.

I feel like the content is becoming more robust and the userbase is keeping up. I think it’s going to be super necessary pretty soon down the road.

This is my experience with them as well. I guess we all suck when we get old.

It is 100% way overdue to take a lot of tech away from these cunts and make it public infrastructure.

I kinda expected it to be another Lyft stock comedy. Idk why.

It got me in my way to learning about decentralization and now I’m all over the small web stuff.

I just wish there was a way to delete my reddit profile comments easily. I log in every three months or so by accident usually.

Ohhh! Another good suggestion. I really appreciate it. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Yea… and I realize how harsh it sounds but like, I put “lazy” in quotes because I don’t think it’s really laziness. Maybe more boredom? The environments’ just been designed to not invite exploration. Everything is just automatic and instant now. Innovation is driven by need. The need has been engineered away, for the most part.