[–] 5 points 2 days ago

Yes.

Social media is a tool, as others have mentioned, but when you get down to brass tacks, everything is either a tool, food, or art.

It's a tool very few are responsible enough to use properly, and that causes great harm when misused.

Letting the oligarch class take control over social media was like giving an angry toddler a handgun, except the toddler can be bribed to give up the gun with candy and the oligarchs never will.

In the end, I don't feel it's worth the trouble of keeping around.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    See, you guys are awesome, but when you've got your GoPro on in the combat zone, be sure to remind everyone to like and subscribe after every confirmed kill, that'll really help you monetize your channel.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My step mother was a merchandiser for American Greetings back in the 80's and 90's. I was the Easter bunny at a promotional event once.

    That suit was a torture chamber. A fluffy iron maiden. The inside smelled of people desperate for air that was not fetid with their own evaporated sweat.

    But, a bunch of cheerleaders from my school sat on my lap... Seventeen year old me consider that an even exchange.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    I had a 1986 Mazda B2600, 2wd, 5 speed standard. Loved that little truck. It was simple, durable, and dependable if a little bit spartan. I used to have friends with a bigger truck call me to move appliances because the Mazda was easy to load. It really sucks lifting a fridge three feet off the ground to get it in a full size modern pickup. Sold it to buy something that I could put a car seat in and regretted it in end.

    Right now I've got a Chevy Equinox, a workable little grocery getter with a surprisingly decent sound system. Decent milage given it's age and it's got the kind of air conditioner you can really appreciate in a hot, humid climate. But it's far harder to fix and maintain, and I don't feel it can take the kind of beating that old pickup could.

    Put the climate controls and sound system from the Chevy in my old Mazda and you've got the perfect vehicle.

    Guess I'm nostalgic for something that never really existed, but I'd take the Mazda in original trim in a heartbeat if I could get one.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Climate change deniers.

    Is climate change bad? Very bad, existentially bad. Do I want it to happen? No. Do I try to take steps to mitigate it? Yes, I put my drop in the bucket and vote for people who support policies that would help.

    But we're eyeballs deep in Brandolini's Law at this point and by the time we get ourselves out of the quicksand, massive change will have taken its toll.

    I'm not saying we shouldn't take action, but working ourselves in to a spittle-flecked outrage everytime someone says something stupid on social media is a waste of energy when we're already in damage control mode. The battle lines have been drawn for decades and the backlash effect is a very real phenomena.

    Economics is going to win this fight before logic and debate does.

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