BigBenis

Proud to be an Oregonian 🫡

Easy solution: never flush

You don’t have to bother yourself with pesky numbers. It’s one step away from having to do math.

Because the economy is based on exploitation and profit maxing, not the benefit of society.

Wow, who could have seen that coming?

What are you even talking about? If anybody is denying the existence of a challenge, it’s you through your insistence that there is no future worth living without the unrelenting integration and consumption of technology.

Don’t get me wrong, I rely on these technologies as much as the next. In fact, as a software engineer, it’s my livelihood and I’m going to support any means to keep it aligned with my own values.

But I also recognize that I am a small fish in a vast ocean and that my most reliable weapon against tyranny is my own free will. If push comes to shove then I can and will simply refuse to follow society into the techno-feudalist hellscape we’re moving towards.

You call it being left behind; I call it liberation.

Sounds like you’re trying your hardest to convince yourself that it’s worth selling your soul for whatever they’re offering. If that’s the case then they’ve already won and it’s only a matter of time before your freedoms are stripped away and you willfully become a virtual slave for fear of missing out on whatever prosperity is being promised.

Left behind? If you’ve deemed a system to be so necessary that refusing to abandon your privacy at its behest means you are condemned to live in obsolescence, then you’re only reinforcing the idea that we must surrender our rights for the benefits of the system.

I’m old enough to have lived in a world without the internet and if it’s going in a direction that demands I surrender my right to privacy then I’ll return to a life without the internet. I won’t be alone and just like Lemmy I’m confident we’ll build an alternative that aligns with our values.

And so what? Many of us left Reddit because it killed 3rd party apps to force us onto its shitty mobile app. Did it burn without us? No, I doubt they even noticed. Does that make our departure meaningless? Also no, we built something better here.

Who is Charlie and what does his horse have to do with anything?

Lol, sure. Voluntarily alienate an ever-growing chunk of your customers. See how that goes for ya.

What’s with the NSFW tag police in the comments lately? The most mild shit sets them off.

This feels like it’s supposed to be a dig on Star Wars if it weren’t for the fact that it’s got both Carrie Fisher and Natalie Portman.

I like to imagine we’d all be happier and better people if city infrastructure wasn’t designed around trying to get cars from A to B instead of people.

Great! I finally have an excuse to take that hiatus I’ve been meaning to do for the past several years. You’ve got my number when everything breaks! Oh, and when it does my rate is gonna be double what it is now.

Isn’t fury one of the seven deadly sins?

Doesn’t even have to be radioactive. Too much salt will kill you, as will any rock with sufficient mass and velocity.

Feels like a Facebook boomer meme

Too late, for me at least

I just installed Linux Mint last weekend. Working great so far!