Ogmios

Saw a great idea recently:

Write down all your fears for what will happen over the next four years. Then, re-read your list every few months and check off everything which has actually happened.

Because people have forgotten that bad actors exist.

Hahaha, that’s cute.

I was part of the first generation brought up with computers, and I’ve been spending my entire life since trying to figure out what went wrong and how to teach myself all of the things that computers failed to convey, while everyone tries to exploit the “gap” to attack their political opponents. It’s been a riot.

Apparently I earned a site wide ban from lemmy.ml, but their posts keep showing up here. Annoyingly, I learned that when you get banned the “block community” button is hidden, so you have to add each community you want to block manually. So just blocking the entire instance solves my problem.

Ah, thanks. I had to scroll down a ways because my individual community block list was large enough to push that one out the bottom of the page I guess.

How do you filter out an entire instance as a single user? I was just trying to figure that out the other day, but it didn’t appear possible.

Just because someone tells you something, doesn’t mean they actually know what they’re talking about. fyi

We know such an infinitesimally small amount about what is actually happening in the universe that any claims to be capable of predicting it’s end are patently absurd.

It also makes a pretty bold claim about us actually knowing the lifespan of the universe.

Or they’ll be fined 0.005% of their revenue for the quarter.

While some people may sit in their cars alone for long periods, there are many more who never do, so it’s still strange behaviour to many. Believe it or not, even being on your phone excessively in public without a car looks strange to many people.

It’s amazing how many people will self-censor and add disclaimers when speaking irl these days.

This is the kind of shit many of us have been trying to warn about when we push back against language police. It may be an easy argument to swallow when examples of actual bigotry are held up for you to see, but the systems which are created for such a purpose can and will be used to hide serious matters.

You would be correct.

They “trust me” dumb fucks

May not have been Gates that said it, but it embodies an attitude which appears prevalent throughout big business.

Edit: O&O Shut Up is a free tool that helps you easily turn off/disable quite a few of the worst “features” on Windows.

That’s unironically a very interesting topic. There was actually a landmark court case which insisted that a CEO must prioritize profits over human welfare.

I don’t care what your fancy RAMrod doohickeys say Johnson! We need that system up tomorrow so we can reach our quarterly earning projections for the shareholder’s meeting!

If you think this is a partisan issue you are woefully naive to the nature of those people who seek the sorts of powers that big tech promises.

I wonder if you can get it to say anything bad about any specific person. Might just be that they nuked the ability entirely to avoid lawsuits.