This is the most unhinged and egocentric take I’ve seen on here in quite a while, congrats.

“If you meet an asshole on the way to work in the morning, you met an asshole. If everyone you meet all day is an asshole…”

Thank you for your vision and optimism. It can be hard to see a happy ending from here sometimes.

Gotta start somewhere. Eventually I’ll ascend to a ceremonial rattle of DRAM chips and a teardrop tattoo of a hard drive for each one that has fallen to my hand

You’re also reducing demand for factory farming, sourcing healthier meat than money can buy, and participating more directly in the cycles of life we’re so cut off from these days. Not a super accessible option for most city folks, but a real good one

Bomb a datacenter

Feel like donating to the cause? (The cause is that I would like a computer)

I barely have enough money to make a trip into town, much less buy anything. I squat in the woods eating fish and potatoes and tinkering with the scavenged infrastructure that supports me. It’s actually pretty dope lol

Carpet used to be very expensive, but also serviceable. The good stuff (this looks like the good stuff) would have been wool, and it would have been taken up to clean and maintain on occasion pre-ww2. There was a lot more manual labor back then, skilled and not. So “have the maker touch it up” and “have someone beat the dust out with sticks” would both have been regular occurrences

I last thought it was cool in… checks notes 2016, when an innocent project to differentiate the content and style of images got turned into a big social media face alteration filter data harvesting thing. Feel kinda guilty about accidentally contributing in whatever small way that was at this point

Political attack ads that inadvertently make their targets seem based are one of my favorite genders

Only choice, viable choice, what’s the difference?

Hot take: this is their plan to choke out smaller publishers who can’t afford to just eat these losses. Once there’s no more real alternatives they’ll start to squeeze

I was actually thinking about this wrt healthcare access earlier. I have a genuinely religious conviction against the intimate, personal details of my condition being processed by a machine and made available online. That is the business of myself and a professional caregiver, not a tech company and whatever “partners” they feel like sharing it with. You’re supposed to be able to opt out, but practically that’s almost never possible

Anyways I know it’s in an entirely different field, but this felt like a hopeful precedent. Thanks for sharing :)

Legend. In retrospect probably should’ve been able to figure that out, but thanks for walking me through it :)

It’s not a federation issue, that’s where my only account was until I registered this one today. Day or two is nbd and has happened before, but this is day 3 or 4 and I’m starting to wonder