This is known as “malicious compliance”, here’s hoping it backfires

I tried but they were real dicks about me not having an address/phone number. Did take the envelope but I’m not real confident they’ll actually count it

Canned holiday music is an Amazon psyop to finally destroy brick and mortar retail

Gotta say op, both your burn pattern and butter distribution leave room for improvement. Despite the hearty slices of what is clearly high-quality bread, I can’t give this toast better than a 7/10

People been scrolling since they got control of screens. The common term shifted from “surfing” around when connections got good enough to deliver content in a steady stream vs loading wave after wave, surfing connotated a level of skill in keeping the next one lined up and there were all kinds of tools to help with that. Forums, webrings, link aggregators, RSS. This pic would’ve been taken around the time of that transition and I feel like the guy in it was probably one of the trendsetters already scrolling chan sites at that point

I actually have a roll of this in my trash treasures pile. And they say hoarding doesn’t pay

You got a git repo or what?

He would have wanted it this way

Thank you for your vision and optimism. It can be hard to see a happy ending from here sometimes.

A lot of the time what makes those days the worst of someone’s life is, you know, the near-irresistable force pursuing them with guns and chains and a high resolution global surveillance network

Engaged and enraged are only one letter apart. Really makes u think

Blame ghosts

The kind your grandpa was scared of in 1953 maybe. All property collectivized under the control of a scheming bureaucrat isn’t exactly the better world I like to think is possible

I last thought it was cool in… checks notes 2016, when an innocent project to differentiate the content and style of images got turned into a big social media face alteration filter data harvesting thing. Feel kinda guilty about accidentally contributing in whatever small way that was at this point

Only choice, viable choice, what’s the difference?

Hot take: this is their plan to choke out smaller publishers who can’t afford to just eat these losses. Once there’s no more real alternatives they’ll start to squeeze

The telltale sheen of SHARK TESTOSTERONE

You mean “three lies”, right? It’s not so bad

I was actually thinking about this wrt healthcare access earlier. I have a genuinely religious conviction against the intimate, personal details of my condition being processed by a machine and made available online. That is the business of myself and a professional caregiver, not a tech company and whatever “partners” they feel like sharing it with. You’re supposed to be able to opt out, but practically that’s almost never possible

Anyways I know it’s in an entirely different field, but this felt like a hopeful precedent. Thanks for sharing :)