But the fediverse solves that with federation, right? Connectivity and choosing where your connections are is the whole point.

Or is that short sighted? Seriously asking.

You’re asking that question in one of the places where it will be evolving. The fediverse, or something like it, is the future of the internet.

Don’t fuck with KPAP or the fans will destroy you online.

I for one am a fan of everybody doing UI Fediverse improvements. It is very literally paving the future of the internet, because the future of the internet is not corporate bullshit. The Fediverse needs to be as slick as possible, and more people working on that is sorely, sorely needed!

Aren’t quarks made up of the nothingness, the vacuum of space, somehow vibrating? I feel like that’s what smart people have been trying to tell me.

If that’s correct, then the nothing is the source of the something.

Yeah I think it’s Syncthing-Fork now?

The list of apps that want to invade your privacy populates itself?

First past the post is what you’re tangling with.

https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

It makes it so third parties only hurt their closest friend and lose to their least favorite party. Taking that energy into the democratic party itself is probably the best bet. Not good, but best.

In ranked choice, yes a new party would probably be best.

Make fines for companies breaking the law to make money a percentage of the profit generated from it, with a base percentage of 125%.

The patterns of behavior between shareholders, boards of directors, and executives is what’s killing people. The same role can be re-cast with different actors.

It’s not that CEOs need to die, it’s that that larger pattern of behavior that gets rich by killing people needs to end. Maybe this spooks other people who are part of that larger pattern into stopping, maybe it makes them do it more, stealthier, and with bodyguards. It’s hard to say.

At the very least, we should all jump at every chance to help things without hurting anybody, wherever we do find it. “Necessary violence” comes with a big ol heap of plausible deniability, and it’s a pretty big ask for somebody to handle it responsibly.

The justification will be alluring even in circumstances where it is not legitimate.

The US widget buyers in the fantasy scenario are 100% not getting fucked by tariffs, because–again, fantasy scenario–their dollars are not supporting slavery, wage slavery, or some unjustifiable bullshit that’s barely technically not wage slavery. Gutting economic opportunities for bad actors that exploit labor is a win for everybody, and claiming otherwise is evidence of a misunderstanding born of too narrow a scope.

Basically, if I save a buck by poisoning my town’s water, I haven’t won.

That aside, I loved reading this. I already kind of knew it but your version made me know it better. Thanks for writing it.

The internet has been mostly enshittified. The corporations are guaranteed to continue sucking in predictable ways. It’ll never get better or good enough.

The fediverse is something new. It is, at the very least, immune to being reddited and twittered. If the internet has a future, it’s on the fediverse, or on something like it that doesn’t exist yet. Going back to shitty corporate stuff just delays the future.

Your real issue is that spez, musk, etc all suck. That’s what you hate. This is the place where we are free of them, and it can only get better.

Out of the two and only two choices Americans had (thanks, first past the post), she was overwhelmingly and objectively the best.

But yes she was weak on Palestine and that was bad. Ranked choice for actual third parties, please.

It’s like not commenting, but with more effort.

Nazis do this dumb thing where they go “hey that small and therefore relatively defenseless group (badassness of individuals aside) is the cause of all our problems, let’s kill them to solve everything!”

Surprisingly, it never works.

So they do it again with somebody else, and somebody else, and somebody else, until everybody on earth is killed by nazis or somebody stops them.

As for why anybody is dumb enough to fall for it in the first place…it’s anybody’s guess.

Family is usually everywhere in your life. Not everywhere-everywhere, but everywhere for you. The ways it’s fucked up aren’t obvious from that perspective because there’s no contrast from inside the system.

Your aunt is displaying a pretty gross and spineless “genes over well-being” attitude present in a lot of families. It can be very useful for getting through lesser hard times together, but it’s poison when used to excuse treachery.

It gets used to excuse treachery like your aunt did because not excusing it implies seeing how awful it is, and the realization could break her conception of the family, which could break her. While your aunt’s words are dumb as fucking bricks, the thing to picture here is her nervously texting you, trying to cobble together some victim blaming horseshit as a way of not having to make eye contact with the Madness Demon staring at her from across the room.

A lot of what gets labeled as (and is) “complicity with evil” is fueled by this. People blame victims because they don’t have the strength to see that the victim is actually just in that bad of a situation. They can’t handle the heartbreak of seeing it, or the fear that it could happen to them. So they blame you because that means (it doesn’t but they tell themselves) you could have done something to prevent your own awful situation, and by extension, so can they. Your crappy situation dispels their illusion of control; victim blaming scotch-tapes it back together. They don’t see that they’d be safe without it; they think if that illusion of control goes, the universe ends. They’re scared. Very tense, no way to live.

I don’t have advice, I can just tell you for sure that you’ll see this much more clearly, if not more simply, with distance, by seeing the family system from the outside. But that does mean leaving the family in some sense, which isn’t for everybody. So maybe reading this can give you some sense of what your own eyes would probably tell you if you could get the angle on it you needed to verify it yourself.

You aren’t doing youtube correctly.

PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube

Mobile: revanced, newpipe

Even if you’d get a vengeance kick out of it, the suffering won’t produce the good results you want.

This is dumb.

It’s not benign. Long covid can be and often is permanent. You get that shit, and everything you care about in your life is now a distant second place.

What you’re calling “benign” is everybody consciously choosing to ignore it, and act like anyone smart enough not to is somehow weird and wrong.