A bit manufactured, even.

Like, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but when I can see the 'inevitability' of electric vehicles and that they're still given years to enter and replace the market - the sudden corporate push for AI spyware seems a little funny.

For something that's inevitable, you wouldn't think the level of extortion and demand required to switch everyone to AI wouldn't be required.

Like, I don't know why we're so opposed to the idea of more government positions & work to improve living conditions & make healthier and well maintained societies that include training those positions over building more call/data centers.

Like the longest grift in history of capitalism itself and now that we've reached a point where scarcity is a logistics & distro problem more than a resources problem, economies themselves can't handle the idea that there is simply less need for jobs - and that the natural progression of labour falls less under 'manufacturing garbage for manufacturing's sake' and more 'these are tasks needed to be done' like infrastructure longevity, maintenance, etc.

Sometimes it feels like everything terrible going on is just a series of Hail Mary plays by people in charge who fired all the experts and so are betting on rich billionaires who are only that way through generational wealth.

Like, this was why political dog whistles were invented in the first place. To sneak in an agenda disguised as something else that was 'normal' or at least 'neutral sounding'. To sprinkle in your racism/misogyny/queerphobia/ableism underneath a separate economic platform.

'You know a situation is bad when BOTH sides of government come together'

That's how a functional government is supposed to work though? Have we forgotten that compromise and discussion was the idea of democracy? That it's not about getting EVERYTHING or NOTHING but enough to execute a plan and accomplish something. This isn't sports - this is society. What is wrong with us.

Rip out all the gamification. You'll still get notifications for things like comments but you can't read them without going back to the full thread.
Most features would be opt-in rather than opt out. Staggered ability to interact with each other. Ie, fill out a profile to some degree before you can even follow someone.
It's still anonymous, but with a lot more control & you can get warnings about accounts trying to follow you with their CWd content

What if I built an 'anti' social media website. Basically a social space where all the instant gratification is sucked away. 'Slocial media' if you will.
Everything is still in chronological order, but it has tools like an optional timer that notifies you if you've been on for an hour. You have to request permission before commenting to someone (this can vary between whether your mutuals/one sided/ neither following)

Welp, Substack was already a spam site, and I guess now it's just gone full mask off.

I hate how broken our perception of time is. I hate how if 'things aren't done immediately' then it's treated as not worth doing at all. That we've forgotten good planning takes time. That we can break things far faster than we can build them. That we might not see the efforts of our labour for months or even years, and that's enough to abandon the effort entirely.

Found a little dude

'humans today are too degenerate, we must return to our ancient roots'

Our ancestors: 'okay, I fished all morning. Now I'm going to take a nap till dinner to rest enough for the evening dance/orgy'

Do you BBQ your corn cobs:

Brain is mush

Not being on Facebook is wild cause the folks who still are just show you all the horrible shit your family & friends continue to post.
Still getting the full Meta experience without even being there, amazing.

Morning visitors

I miss those little kid friendly flash sites, not gonna lie. Little math games, paper dolls, a million different skinned snake games, etc.

I really do not understand the genre 'watch other folks travel around the world and eat food and do things you can't afford'.