I would argue it was moving the bar left up until occupy/anonymous triggered the major reactionary push that saw all the algorithms militarize, and the major push to turn every man born after 1986 into a literal nazi. the truth, or at least vibes in the general vicinity of the right idea that were mostly truth-compatible.

it’s great to be elitist, and, yes, there were fewer of certain kinds of fucking idiot on the early internet, but that’s not when the political valence really changed. that’s not when it became a tool of ignorance. People were getting educated on the internet for a while there. it was kind of cool.

how is this a hard choice? windows will keep ratcheting to shit. it will not improve. the question is: linux now, or tons of expense and trouble, and linux later?

the RDR’s, because, yeah, fuck launchers.

‘deathloop’ love arkane, looks like kinda my shit, but will not tolerate denuvo on my fucking machine, especially because I don’t have particularly high end hardware. I’d love to give them my money, but they don’t seem to want it.

you’re acting like the problem here is the nature of not just the internet, but any hypothetical internet, but you give the game away right in your comment:

jump on x or facebook or whatever

big monopolized platforms controlled by megacorps that use algorithmic curation to decide what the products/hogs/rubes see. use a new computer-it can be a VM; I won’t tell. use it from a new connection-VPN is fine. create a fresh youtube account. search for a video of a random thing you don’t think is super politically polarized. space exploration, typography, taylor swift.

now click on the first recommendation. keep doing that. count how long it takes to start showing you literal nazi shit. if you need a bright line for that, maybe keep an eye out for the phrases “BLOOD AND SOIL” or “FUTURE FOR WHITE CHILDREN”.

see, the problem here is, it did actually work how you thought. briefly. it wasn’t clean or perfect. we got to see a lot of distended assholes in the process. some people ended up going down some crazy fucked up rabbit holes. pro-ana groups did not start on facebook. but this shit was, provably, not structural.

but, generally, the internet was moving things left. that had to be stopped. had to be butchered and dominated by a corporation. it was just a little less obvious what was happening at the time than when they did it for united fruit, with a smaller immediate body count.

giving an exception to tech companies gives an advantage to consumers

No. shut the fuck up. these companies are anti human and only exist to threaten labor and run out the clock on climate change so we all die without a revolution and the billionaires flee to the bunkers they’re convinced will save them (they won’t, closed systems are doomed). it’s an existential threat. this is so obvious, I’m agreeing with fucking yudkowsky, of all fucking people-he is correct, if for entirely wrong nonsense reasons.

good for writing code

so, I have tried to use it for that. nothing I have ever asked it for was remotely fit for purpose, often referring to things like libraries that straight up do not exist. it might be fine if it can quote a long thing from stack exchange from a program anyone who’s been coding for a decade has ten versions of laying around in their home folder, but if you want a piece of code that does something particular, it’s worse than useless. not even as a guide.

AI

HOLY SHIT WE HAVE AI NOW!? WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!? can I talk to it? or do you just mean large language models?

there’s some benefit in these things regurgitating art

tell me you don’t understand a single thing about how these models work, and don’t understand a single thing about the value meaning or utility of art, without saying “I don’t understand a single thing about how these models work, and don’t understand a single thing about the value meaning or utility of art.”.

people, on the whole, don’t do that. no, this man buried his conscience in that little coffin. he cannot turn back. to turn back would, as you say; destroy him. that’s how this works.

he deserves it, of course, but why would he do that to himself?

of value to them? no, of course not. but it would be great for them to use to give away to cuba, police traffic into the gulf of mexico, and taunt certain wealthy tasteless americans.

the thing is, the ‘marketplace of ideas’ was very strictly controlled. when was the last time you heard a communist or socialist talk on a major platform? do you even know what anarchism IS?

there was no ‘fair marketplace of ideas’ there was liberals and fascists jacking each other off, murdering everyone else, and telling you they’re all that can exist.

counterpoint: what if we just make an exception for tech companies and double fuck consumers?

hard disk drives do still exist, and are useful for some stuff. mostly they’re cheaper. I think better for stuff you write to often?

SSD’s can overheat. but, again, there are usually sensors to throttle them when you’re in danger of this, and this idiot probably disabled those. because safety is for cucks i guess.

it is a thing, but any competently designed computer should have things in place to prevent this.

unless you’re an arrogant dipshit and disable all the hardware safeties on your computer to make it go faster and wear harder.

clever gambit. how long were you vegan to pull this off with deniability? will you go back to meat, or stay under cover?

it’s not the worst reason to go vegan. I’ve done stranger things for a bit.

unlike the more severe accountable shit like getting people to murder their own children with pox for the cause, the eggs thing is something that allows people to reverse course, and in fact makes it easier. this might genuinely be the largest threat to the regime.

plus, the eggs they lay would not be egg chickens. they would be eating chickens. and all of them are dying en masse to the flu.

and chickens lay whether the eggs are fertilized or not. kinda like how humans menstruate, but, like, much bigger, and we eat it even if we don’t think they’re cute.

of course lemmy suggests beans.

because tiny little coffins make great structural support for fascism. imagine how hard it would be to acknowledge your delusional nonsense directly killed your child. would you ever genuinely be capable of doing that? do you know anyone who would be?

buying your unwavering eternal loyalty by killing your kids. it’s great. love fascism.

do you understand how much this would destroy someone to acknowledge? that’s why they’re doing this. they need support to dismantle modern medicine, and that support will be built from tiny little coffins.

well then. I suppose we’ll see who has to make a cup of coffee for whom.

yeah, it sucks, I wish we had this cheap protein, but, like… americans need to suffer. they need to suffer, and they need to know it’s their leader’s fault.

okay. I’m not really convinced by most of what marx had to say. a lot of it seems like it was really far sighted, but doesn’t quite ring true in 2025. some of it seems pretty solid. dude could seriously write though, when he wasn’t actively trying to be bland for the respectability, and was proof that people in the 19th century didn’t have to be pieces of shit.

im looking for a classless stateless society where the point is human flourishing and resources are distributed with an eye to fairness and the long term well being of all people. I think there are better/worse and more/less stable ways to get there, but if it’s stupid and it works, it wasn’t stupid.

assuming that’s roughly your goal and we’re both alive to see it, I’ll bet you a cup of (probably extinct by then) coffee my way gets there first?