“Go away! ‘Batin’!”

Oh you mean South African Debian. Yeah that’s a popular mod, I guess.

Pretending? The upper class of capitalists have always favored the right. They’ll allow the milquetoast Dems but lock out people like Bernie just to make it look like there’s political choice.

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It’s not that I don’t like it, I couldn’t care less. But as an example, let’s see, how about, almost a hundred years of straight heterosexual cisgender couples sucking face in the vast majority of movies and TV shows ever produced? Or the vast majority of romantic literature? I can think of many more.

We are talking about the general public sphere, not here.

Can we get people to also then stop shoving their cisgender straightness down our throats as well? Would only be fair.

Yup. I realize that. If the admin above me says to go fuck myself, I won’t hesitate to leave for another instance.

But in this case they have had their lunch eaten by the steam deck, Rog ally, etc.

I see tons of people still using the old Switch. I have so far seen none other than myself and my kid using a Steam Deck.

I get that. But I’m from the old school. In the 90s and early 2000s, if you paid for server space, bandwidth, and set up a forum for multiple users, nobody questioned whether it was yours or not and your ability to do whatever you want with it. Users who didn’t like it moved on or started their own.

Then why even give a shit and start one and put unpaid hours into it? I don’t do any work without an end product to show for it. The users are just casually posting media. The mod has to sit there all day and make sure the community doesn’t turn into a shit show.

On the flip side, if I create a community for some really niche thing that I want to discuss with others, I don’t want an irrational mob of users kicking me out of my own community that I worked to grow.

Mob mentality on social media is also a real problem. People see downvotes and continue to down vote a comment without even reading the whole thing, automatically assuming a user must be an asshole if everyone else downvotes them. Oftentimes, it’s just something people don’t want to hear, but is true.

Back in the day, I had just envisioned storage media getting more and more dense, to the point where we might be using some kinda holographic cube or some shit in the future to store petabytes of data.

I never thought of the entire world just constantly streaming and downloading everything around the planet on demand. The state of Internet bandwidth in those days made it hard to imagine.

Some time ago, the industry seemed to have standardized on a cheap-ass all in one platter/motor/stylus assembly that’s just dropped into every modern record player now. I think I started seeing that thing everywhere in the late 80s. They did the same to tape players. It’s now just an entire chassis containing the play head, motor, etc where they just make a shell to go around it and a circuit board to drive it/amplify it.

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Yes. But they didn’t have a megaphone to reach millions with one post. They were rightfully looked at as crazy assholes and mostly stayed in the dark.

That’s the idea, overwhelm people with massive amounts of information and misinformation, and people start tuning out and not caring anymore. One thing I did learn from those “propaganda” sources of days past was that the Holocaust was real, a fuckton of minorities were brutally murdered, and Nazis are fucksticks who need to be stamped out at every opportunity.

That is something I’ve actually seen actively changing in the past 20 years. When I was a kid/teen, we never fucking questioned it. Now the Internet is full of Holocaust deniers. Just spreading that shit from person to person like a virus.

We didn’t blindly trust other sources either. Filtering and research is a skill you learn to use on any source of info you’re given. Public schools used to teach us how to do this. Do they not anymore?

The world’s space industry would be even more impressive if we didn’t have these stupid fucking hangups and worked together with them on that front. Just like Russia and the US working to build ISS.

It’s the Amazon store technique. Today, you’re known as “Sohanghi”, tommorow you’re “Elbertung”, next week you’ll be “Smasnug”.

Back in my day we were perfectly capable of checking our own facts. A rare skill these days.

I have an idea. Make it so every time you create a social media account, you have to check “agree” to a giant banner that says “if you take anything you see on here seriously, you are an idiot.”. That’s how we used to automatically treat things on the Internet at first glance.