The banana hanger in the background is such an odd but… appropriate addition.

The best way to delete your account was to delete it like I did, in 2010, roughly 1 year after I created it. I realized very quickly what they were doing and I knew it was beyond dangerous. This was not Friendster and MySpace, this was monstrous and pure shit. I’ve been railing against it (on accounts that require no identifying information) for the better part of 15 years now.

Fuck all of them and any sites like them. If you’re still a member, then you must accept some blame, you know it’s shit and with a tiny bit of extra effort you could just email your friends and family to stay in touch.

Nobody said they are. However, “a great fediverse alternative to Facebook” does not mean, in the minds of most people who might read it: “you could host a website that would serve as a great fediverse alternative to Facebook.”

Why is everything so glacially slow anymore. Fucking do something! I’ve been hearing about the demise of TiKTok for like three YEARS. Die already. Or don’t, I’m just sick of hearing about how it “might close” any fucking day now.

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That’s not what they meant. The person who said it was “director of subscriptions.” They meant gamers need to get used to all games being SaaS because they are of the opinion that that’s what’s going to happen. SaaS is capable of generating magnitudes more money than any other paradigm, so this is of course the wet dream of the bean counters.

The problem with the statement, of course, is threefold:

1. People don’t like being told things that sound a lot like “just hand over your money and like it, dumbasses”
2. SaaS is also capable of failing spectacularly
3. (most important) In no conceivable world would it be possible to have every single game be a subscription service

Shit, the world can’t even support half a dozen streaming video subscription services, but they think everybody’s going to gladly pay monthly fees for every game they play?

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He was shilling for some mangosteen supplement on the forums and when people bitched about seeing sponsored products on a forum they were paying for his face fucking melted, which actually happened a lot. Dude was unhinged.

Or the thousand dollar chair.

You know, I never thought I would be praising Fallout for its prescience in predicting the future.

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Come on, I know there’s Germans about. What the hell does it say lol? Here’s what Claude says:

The fire department’s rescue and firefighting group vehicle… It transports firefighters, ladders, tools, hoses… (text cuts off)

So I am guessing “Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug” is “rescue and firefighting group vehicle?”

There likely needs to be a very public message sent out to these billionaires along the lines of “stay in your lane… or else.” The kind of incontrovertible message that everyone will understand when they see it. But it’s probable that they’ve already got a similar (albeit conflicting) message from some other… billionaires that specialize in that art whose name ends in “estration.”

haha yes because norms will be followed certainly

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No, they just don’t give a fuck. The vast majority know it’s lies, they just want their side to rule and elections be damned.

This is absolutely happening right now at a huge scale, ignore what you know to be wrong, it’s just robots.

Seven vegetable soup with a half a cup of black beans added, some grated parmesan and whatever hot sauce I am feeling at the moment. It never gets old.

Not that any discussion of theology makes any logical sense, but then why did angels get a pass? They have free will, they do not suffer or have evil and they live for eternity in heaven. Are they somehow… deficient because they didn’t get a turn on a hellish Earth? Did God figure out he made a mistake doing it that way and switch to the Crucible Version? Oh, there’s that pesky lack of omnipotence again.