Google is run my by assholes and idiots. Break it apart.

Edit: fixed silly typo

I feel like we should run honeypots like this, and anyone who falls for it goes right to, like, therapy and “how not to be scammed” training.

WhatsApp, sms, and Google chat (hangouts? Meet? The thing built into Gmail)

None of them are great.

One of my friends is some sort of neurodivergent and just… won’t install signal. It’s “too much”. I don’t understand this. It’s 30 seconds of “click this link I sent you, then click install”.

The “american dream” has always had a problematic contradiction. You should work hard. Working hard is good. You should work hard so you don’t have to work anymore. Working sucks and you don’t want to do it. You want to be the guy on a golf course getting money while those hard working people assemble widgets for you.

Well, which is it then?

The freedom was always kind of dicey. Sedition act of 1798, for example.

Women also historically had a bad time of it. And the native peoples. Queer folks, too. Religious freedom is hit or miss.

It’s been pretty good for wealthy people, historically. They’ve been pretty free.

I’ve seen some funny comments, but the ones that are like “ur so hot” are baffling.

I don’t know how to grade myself on clarity of communication, but I’ll share some things I think have helped.

Avoid long sentences. Many people don’t read well, and even those that do will get lost in a long block of text.

Read back what you wrote out loud.

Do not neglect the emotional front. Conversations and convincing are about emotions more than facts. Acknowledge their position. Make them feel heard.

Read more. Read a variety of things. Op-eds in newspapers. Books of various genres. Old stuff. New stuff. Feed your brain more than word junk food.

Ask questions. Sincere questions. Don’t try to trick them. People are usually happy to talk about themselves and their beliefs. Use this to find common ground and shared experience.

It seems like their calculations always return high prices. I can’t think of any service that has had the price drop significantly.

People are social creatures. They follow peer pressure. If you want to make the world better, one of the ways is to spend the effort to be better, to work on being kind with other people.

I had two different work friends, years ago. Both of them had low to mid grade homophobia. They’d say things. But after a couple years of me working on them, they stopped.

Was it worth it? Maybe. It was harder than just writing them off, but I like to think as a result of my spending the time with them, they hurt people less.

He should be personally, criminally, liable for the deaths and suffering caused by his policies. So should leadership that supported him.

Pc.

• more utility than just games. Code, write, etc.
• a backlog of games going back like 40 years
• will still be usable and with new content for years. A PC today will probably be able to play some hot new indie games in 15 years.
• no subscription fee for online play, generally
• more free games
• many games are cheaper
• broader range of input choices
• emulators and the high seas, if that’s your thing

Why would they lower costs when they can just not do that?

Having these self driven cars run by private profit driven companies seems like a bad idea. Infrastructure, which this is trying to be, should not be private.

Why would you use another privately owned platform that’s likely to enshittify?

Cool. Been on Linux for a couple years. No real complaints. No tinkering. It just works and is a boring-ass plasma kde desktop environment.

Reddit could have just continued on a place with good user generated content. Could’ve been profitable and popular. Instead they shitted it up. So fuck it. I hope their leadership suffers.

Fuck. Fuck all this AI slop.

Google is run by assholes and fools. They should be broken apart.

It didn’t just happen like the stars moving overhead. People with names and bones did it.