Even if you don’t grasp the context of the times, it’s insane to call them “boring” unless they never listened past “A Hard Days Night” or “Help!”

Or it probably would, they just have no plan to stop it unless they get sued and a judge forces them

Biden has also been very well known for 40+ years for not paying contractors, so we should have known his word wasn’t good.

Oh wait now hold on…

If anyone needs to be monitored, it’s all of these fucking techno-feudalist freaks.

If you know what feudalism is, and want it back so bad that you’re willing to bankroll it to the tune of billions of dollars, then you need to be monitored. At the very least. A real, functioning democracy would take those types of threats to its existence seriously.

Instead we (e.g. any alleged form of government safe guard meant to protect us from devolving back into such barbaric forms of society like feudalism) just sit back and say “huh, I wonder if they’ll be able to completely destroy our government this time. Oh well, guess we’ll find out”. Or even worse, now that these psychopaths control the levers of government in the US, they are actually aiding it. They think they want feudalism back because they’re just temporarily embarrassed feudal lords.

Edit:

These people literally want to make us back into serfs. And we’ll answer to a fucking LLM. That will be the only interface between us and the Lords. You know that Amazon chatbot? That’s your boss now… Err no that’s not right. The word “boss,” is not sufficient to describe the relationship. That chat bot owns you now. Well, the person who owns the server it’s running on owns you, but why would they ever choose to interact with dirty serfs when AI can do it? If it’s important, they’ll relay it to them. They won’t even be aware of your medical complaints, let alone need to hear them, let alone need to address the working conditions that created them.

This shit is not a joke and it is very much not funny. It’s genuinely insane that we are allowing this to happen.

Because $$

I hope that one day you have the clarity of mind (and capacity for critical thought) to look back at comments like this and cringe.

It’s literally where the word comes from for fuck sake. It’s not boilerplate if you’re having your indeterministic black box spit it out.

It has to be some sort of money laundering scheme

That argument is on the same level as “seatbelts in cars are bad because they restrict my movement”,

I don’t know enough about Javascript to speak about the actual argument itself, but unless at some point it became a life or death situation and people started dying because they didn’t use Typescript, then I’m going to say the argument likely is not on the same level.

Either way, fuck this dude

agentic

How about no

My UE BOOM died a couple of years back. Loved that thing. Maybe I’ll get another one…

Why are you taking all of this so personal?

While I was already reading through what I found to be an interesting study Pew did 1 year after 9/11 about the internet,

(Quite literally the exact topic that OP was asking about)

I took 30 sec to screenshot a relevant chart.

I dunno man, doesn’t seem unhealthy to me. Found an interesting article about the thing we were discussing here and thought that I’d share. That took me literally 30 sec to screenshot the chart from the article I was already reading.

The problem here seems to lie with you.

Found this interesting Pew study about the internet from 1 year after 9/11:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/09/05/one-year-later-september-11-and-the-internet-2/

Take it with a grain of salt, I think it comes off as a little overly optimistic, especially given some of the dire things it talks about (massive support for giving away our freedoms, etc).

I did just see at the bottom that there’s literally 8 pages, and I was basing all that on just the first page so maybe I’ll read more or at least skim through the rest.

Edit: holy shit (from pg 2):

I didn’t realize I was up any notches. Maybe it is you who needs to take your defensiveness down a notch.

Also, hate speech went way up online after 9/11. Just because you didn’t see it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

Edit:

I posted a top level comment with a pretty interesting Pew research article, this chart is on page 6.

Over half of the sites in the study had a tenor of “anger, fear and hate.” More than the “nonviolent response” cohort. I also wonder what % of the “religious expression” ones were Islamophobic

Source:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2002/09/05/part-6-personal-expression-on-the-post-september-11-web/

Edit: to be clear, these comments are about as dispassionate as I can get, I’m honestly not sure why anyone would interpret it otherwise.

LinkedIn had supplanted 4chan greentexts as the most unhinged freaks on the internet imo

This kid sounds like dead weight, if you ask me. Lay him off.

I bet ChatGPT agrees if you prompt it right.

Holy shit, look at that start menu… Just… Why…

Is Nancy not entitled to the sweat of her brow??

Yeah how the fuck am I supposed to get 8 full hours of Rimworld without someone here to cook me chicken tenders?

The weekend which, by the way, is another concept that labor unions had to fight and died for.