I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.

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    18 hours ago

    Every time I feel old I remember that all of my grandparents lived to well over 90 and that I’m barely halfway through my life. With modern medicine and the Boomers beta testing any advances, I’ll probably live to 130 with good quality of life with just over the counter medication and regular automated cancer screenings.

    And extra colon cancer screenings if I’m a good boy.
















  • I think that was also around the time the timeline went from chronological to algorithm-based

    This has always been the first stage of enshittification. Twitter back in 2007 was pretty nice. I made a lot of local friends because they’d post cat pictures and food pictures and we’d have meetups. Really great folks that I found because their posts showed up in a chronological feed alongside other ones I follow.

    Then when they switched to an algorithmic feed all those posts by people with low follower counts got drowned out by ones with activity. My friends were still there, I just didn’t see them because The Algorithm decided I didn’t want to. I stopped using Twitter not long after that.



  • Because the Dem leadership is obsessed with appealing to an increasingly tiny portion of the electorate, alienating everyone to the left of Reagan who isn’t in the “Blue No Matter Who” cult of settling for second worst.

    No, because land area determines the legislature and not population. The Republican Senate hasn’t represented more than half the population in the US since 1996, but had control for most of that time. Every Democratic majority is a short-lived thing after massive uphill battle, because America leans hard to the right we value land area more than people.

    In short: This is the best our government can do, because it’s structurally deficient and Americans are pretty dumb.


  • The cloud at least made a bit of sense. Offload the requirements of hosting an app or colocating a server to other folks, and you just use it. It’s somebody else’s computer, and it’s their problem if something goes wrong.

    The problem is that the MBAs making the decision didn’t understand what was going on in the first place, so “the cloud” because a catch-all buzzword for anything they didn’t want to think too hard about.