Most people have an idyllic view of certain childhood years, usually around the ages 5 to 10 or so. It’s before you start to understand just how broken the world is, and your worldview gets more complex and nuanced.
Many people wrongly assume that the world really was simpler when they were that age. The truth is, the world was just as messed up–they were just blissfully unaware.
Next time your dad complains, remind him that we still have milkshakes and racism.
“To be fair, some of the characters started running the cables underground in those populated areas.”
“Oh, that makes sense. So they probably have those marked and don’t have to worry about them?”
“Mostly. They don’t actually mark them, and most characters don’t know where they are. If they need to dig, they have to find them each time. Sometimes they forget to find them first.”
I don’t hate myself that much, though.
Oyster. Anything with the consistency of snot that you’re supposed to swallow without chewing isn’t food. I can make my own salt water that tastes much less disgusting.
We’re just glossing over the cockroach, huh?
It’s the same phenomenon as every company that is publicly owned (or aspiring to be)–their only concern is the apparent value of the company. Not the value or quality of the actual product or service, just the stock market value.
Stock market values are based on profitability. There are two ways to increase profitability: increase revenue, and decrease costs. Increasing revenue is hard, especially with social media companies (they cost a lot for how much ad revenue brings in, which is partly why they all sell your data–to increase revenue).
Decreasing costs in the short term is much easier. Fire 25% of the staff, you’ve just increased profitability by a huge margin, and you get a raise. But wouldn’t that lower the quality of the product? Naw, we’ll just replace people with AI, who will do a perfectly adequate job. Besides, who the hell cares? It’s not like the product matters, it’s the numbers!
It’s called enshittification.
I’d say if they write it off as fake news, they didn’t take the time to learn. But I guess that’s just semantics.
They’re happy that they “won.” They have no idea what the bill does, they trust that a failed businessman has their best interests at heart, so whatever he’s doing must be good for them.
Any of these people who take the time to learn what any of these policies actually mean quickly become not-Republicans.
Nobody gonna say 4chan? I’ll say 4chan.
Yeah, there’s a reason GenXers are generally known to be cynical.