seize it via eminent domain.

Any good tool can be a weapon in a pinch!

Geologists get it.

Yes, it’s a shame fascists are so hell bent on doing that to us. But perhaps if they experience consequences, they may elect to do literally anything else with their life than harass queer people.

But I know I’m being too optimistic.

Some fascists would rather die than be better human beings… So it is only generous to oblige them.

It’s nice not being so full of shit, right?

Japan…

i just really freaking love public transportation infrastructure

i want to ride ALL THE TRAINS

Here’s how I think a GoG subscription might work out:

The money goes into a balance on your account. It just accumulates store credit.

You might raise the question of “why would they want to do that”, to which I say:
it’s guaranteed income for them and they make a profit by selling games ANYWAY.
The fact that they get this income consistently is good for their books.

You might also raise the question of “why would anyone want to participate in that”, to which I put to you this:
I want to give myself a “gaming allowance” of a little bit each month but saving is hard. If I am paying GoG a monthly subscription, though, and I accumulate a balance of credit, I can get games without it impacting my budget outside of what I’ve exactly allotted.

What else do I get? The warm fuzzy feeling of supporting GoG. Which I’d definitely do anyway. Honestly, letting me turn my subscription into store credit is a huge boon. I don’t NEED any perks beyond that.

Oh here’s something GoG could maybe do, actually:
an extremely UNOBTRUSIVE cloud storage drive that they say is for Save Syncing (and automates this if you’re running the galaxy app) but that they’ll let you store any arbitrary files in it as long as what’s in it fits within the space they’ve designated for me… and furthermore if this space got bigger the more store credit I have built up, that’d be the tits too.

OH OH OH I thought of two other perks!

• What if the cloud storage suggestion also automatically “stored” “copies” (in your “personal” cloud storage box) offline installers for games you’ve purchased so that you can still download them EVEN IF they get “delisted” for sale?

• What if your subscription gave you sliiiightly more than the cash value in store credit? Like only 10% bonus.
  If I am paying $5.00 per month, they put $5.50 store credit in my balance each month.

And it’s happening again, right now, as we speak.

Knowledge is being set ablaze by the powers-that-be and nobody is stepping up to meaningfully prevent it from all being destroyed.

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Boy you fuckers sure are lining up for the hate train. Fuck you too then.

I resent rich people in general but I fucking hate this feckless buffoon especially. Professionally, he had a hand in ruining an iteration of Batman. Personally, he doesn’t understand the difference between race and religion when it comes to people who practice Islam and that’s both reductive and patronizing. Fuck Ben Affleck.

You’re right, absolutely spot on, about several things but ONE IN PARTICULAR is this:

A human being helping a customer is, quite literally, an act of circumvention. Customer service EXISTS, SPECIFICALLY, for scenarios that require exceptions and skilled, knowledgeable internal maneuvering within, between, and around the cold mechanisms of machinery and policy. We tend to think of, say, purchasing items at a store as standard operation, for instance. But really, from the perspective of the business, its objective is to RESTRICT access to goods and services. The cashier manages exceptions to this goal. If the company has its way, it would take your money while relinquishing NOTHING.

I want to get a book like this except when you open it all it says is “made ya look!”

in first world nations we are insidiously brainwashed to believe that there WERE NO SUCCESSES among Communist movements.

awareness of those successes must be promoted.

start with “hey this really successful thing happened” AND THEN reveal “btw that was communism”

they must harm the fat in order to save the patient

/s

If Canada can put milk in bags,

Oh that actually makes an amazing amount of sense

Pretty soon, the only thing that will be left which demonstrates sufficient capacity to hallucinate hilariously idiotic and false bullshit will be AI ._.

Absolutely ABYSMAL branding and accessibility.

Social media relies, no matter how much we hate it and wish it weren’t the case, on things being “new”, “hot”, and “FAST” while this service’s name implies the absolute ANTITHESIS of what people need to disseminate information in real time: mastodons are frozen, dead, ancient, clumsy, and/or fossilized. And worse, that’s how it feels to use, too.

An extinct lumbering beast from the ice age.

Also its name is a clumsy dactyllic meter full of dull woody phonemes that doesn’t feel good to say. Its name lands with a dull wet thud. Mastodon’s name is so forgettable that nobody i ever tried to tell about it can even REMEMBER it, and even my best friend for some reason imprinted its name as “WalrusChat” (which is SO much worse but silly with that it stuck) and she can’t remember it any other way to this very day.

Gods, the mileage it could have done with just, JUST a better name. Two syllables with accent on the first just like Facebook Lemmy Twitter YouTube Snapchat Discord Ebay PayPal Google Apple Samsung TikTok WhatsApp Signal and LinkedIn. Even Pinterest and Instagram, in conversation I constantly hear people pronouncing them as pint-rest and truncating to In-sta.

If it were made of bright, sharp, tinny phonemes that POP on the two syllable meter it’d have been extra good. I would have liked Trunky. It’s bouncy and playful and fun and it keeps the pachyderm symbolism so posts could still be called toots.

The problems extend to the interface experience too: Instead of liking and bookmarking there’s only FAVORITING and that adds FRICTION because just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s your FAVORITE. Favorite implies permanence in an otherwise transient medium and people mistake it for BOOKMARKING which needs to be its own separate functionality. Instead people see posts they appreciate, go to like it, but then STOP and ask themselves “wait, I like this but is it really my ‘FAVORITE’??? No, that’s a bit too much…” And their minds have already moved on!

THIS IS WHY THERE IS SO MUCH LESS ENGAGEMENT EVEN ON MASSIVE INSTANCES WHERE THE CONTENT IS A FIRE HOSE

AND GUESS WHAT: LACK OF ENGAGEMENT IN A CONTENT DISSEMINATION SOCIAL MEDIA APP IS,
UH,
*CHECKS NOTES*
BAD, ACTUALLY!

They COULD have lent into the branding! For bookmarking, call it “remember” (because elephants never forget!) and their “like” analog could have been “trumpet” (like trumpeting praise) whereas “boost” should have JUST been called ReToot. But instead nothing feels right and it’s clunky as SHIT.

And if all that isn’t already BAD ENOUGH, Having created several profiles on several instances myself, the sheer disparity of content from instance to instance is VAST. You can’t just go on mastodon and see the same things everyone else sees! AND THAT’S A BIG FUCKING PROBLEM! You can’t just BE “on mastodon”, you gotta also know WHERE ON MASTODON something is and follow it. AND MAYBE YOU FOLLOWED THE WRONG ONE ON THE WRONG INSTANCE FROM THE WRONG INSTANCE.

so much

FUCKING

BULLSHIT.

AND ITS NAME WASN’T EVEN ORIGINAL! SEARCH RESULTS COLLIDED WITH A METAL BAND OF THE SAME NAME FOR YYYYEEEEAAAARRRRSSSS!

that’s why.

Bill wurtz reference \o/