this looks like the trex skeleton they have on google’s campus and it makes me wonder if this is some kind of psyop. lol

the people who pour their heart and soul are the people they want. i’m the kind that they don’t want: software engineers that have been doing IT/operations for so long that we understand & accept “good enough” and don’t give a rat’s ass if they don’t implement something we’ve been working on; so long as we continue to get paid.

they search for people like you in the hopes of avoiding people like me because mind sets like mine are both more common and more difficult to manipulate.

to be clear: they’ll still shit on you like they do to anyone else, but know that you’re the kind of people that they want and, if you can figure out how to leverage that for yourself, you’ll be doing very well.

use one of the instances that are not based in the united states; my french is getting a workout on .ml.

i like sticking my head in the sand too; it’s safe.

the extent and effort at which they create and enforce those policies is the measure of left or right in this country; not the existence of those policies because both republican and democrats say that they want those things; but when you investigate beyond the lip service you find that conservatives will give token-at-best support for the policies while leftists will support it with full vigor.

tldr: the democrats very tepid support for these things is what makes them center-right; because the party that calls itself conservative takes pride in doing this, while most democrats do it too and hope you don’t notice.

longer: democrats only push for re-distributive policies (if at all) once it becomes popular and they’re forced to respond; not because democrats are progressive. see biden’s decades long anti-gay crusade that suddenly stopped once he needed the votes and his expansion upon trumps draconian anti-immigration policies; or clinton’s establishment of anti-gay service and anti-gay marriage; and then see kamala backtrack on liberal positions like pre-k; community college, childcare, medicare expansion, etc. only the democrats very weakly seek social or economic policies of government and; for the most part; behave like republicans when it’s time to put their money where their mouth is; that’s why they’re center-right

it sounds like you’re judging these books by their cover without reading any of the material. we’re on social media so it’s par for the course; but your takes are going to be divorced from reality if you don’t bother to go further than shallow understanding.

They’re clearly a center-left party.

by what measure?

they’re a majority; just go to any city in a red or purple state.

i used to feel like that until i discovered the chub and bear crowds.

now i show off my hairy moobs; my low hanging belly; and my back boobs every chance i get when the sun is out.

I hate to be pessimistic, but I don’t think any American politician would take on this topic.

it’s only pessimism if it’s not true and there are plenty of demonstrably true public examples to guarantee that this isn’t pessimism; it’s reality that sounds like pessimism.

Join the other team; we don’t even bother with talking most of the time. Lol

i’m aware of it and havent yet jumped the wagon because of my experience in the past w other firefox clones like iceweasel.

librewolf is my most likely bet; i want to stay away from anything chromium based.

lemmyverse

i think that the first sign of enshitification is its leaders and it seems like it’s already here.

i’m wondering what browser to switch to next.

pizza hut in the small town i grew up in stayed like that until the 2018 when the sole owner died and his inheritors outsourced its management rather than returning to bfe to run it (i don’t blame them) and i feel like that’s how most older establishments enshittify.

there was no way he was making money, but he CLEARLY loved pizza & people and was happy doing it.

mine only had 4 pepperoni slices and never enough cheese so i had to spread it around more evenly to enjoy it and it was still 99% bread. lol

they’ll not only shoot you; but each other as well. lol

They want a device that “just works” and has their ecosystem.

i have friends that struggle to pay rent and they’re forced to pay apple’s extortion-esque prices when something goes wrong or when purchasing their phones and equipment.

witnessing them suffer like this hits close to home for me because i grew up poor enough to ration out the government cheese & powdered milk along with asking extended family and begging neighbors for food so that we could stay alive until next payday and also because i’m tech savvy enough to understand how unscrupulously apple has behaved at creating this well designed trap of an ecosystem that’s actively easy to fall into and passively difficult to leave; locking my friends into a seeming perpetually repeating cycle of new iphones and government cheese.

i think that the icing on this shit-cake is that they’re all atleast vaguely aware that apple is screwing them over; but they still accept it because it either “just works” or it’s “all they know” and that blows my mind because 5-year-old-me HATED government powdered milk in my cereal enough to switch to oatmeal for breakfast if it were an option.

if you’re referring to climate change and i would expect that it would cause the 4th near human extinction event at a minimum; so there’s a chance humanity will survive and there will be some sort of a society if it does.

perhaps since we’ve exhausted most of the easily accessible sources of energy; maybe the next society won’t be able to advance past the next stone age on-wards to develop the industrial or technological capabilities that enable such absurd disparities in wealth they can afford to bend the entire world to their will for a genocide; rending 99% of the world helpless as they can do nothing but witness palestinians culled into numbers small enough that isreal no longer considers them a threat.

Harris is Palestines best bet at continued existence. Sorry if that hurts your feelings or something…

continued existence is going to happen one way or the other. isreal is going for an american style genocide which means kill enough of the natives so that they’re a small, manageable enough number and then your country can spend the rest of its existence throwing enough $$$ at their reservations to ostensibly show you’re “super sorry” that you genocided so many of them; but not enough to for them to ever escape this newly imposed generational poverty and also without any promise that your country won’t ever fuck them over again in the future when another pipeline needs to be built.