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823·5 months agoIs this because they don’t know how to torrent? Or did the “you wouldn’t download a car” ads get into the water supply?
Recently had to use a windows laptop for work. So weird to not be able to securely update all your packages but rather have some hacky IT tools that feel like malware scream out that they are updating some basic software on said laptop.
So surreal.
81·1 year agoYou’re completely correct.
I stand corrected.
Welcome to being a Doomer. 90s was according to several sources the best time ever in human history, the peak that is.
“The crux of the problem is that, geopolitically and demographically speaking, for most of the last seventy-five years, we have been living in that perfect moment. At the end of World War II, the Americans created history’s greatest military alliance to arrest, contain, and beat back the Soviet Union…What is often forgotten, however, is that this alliance was only half the plan. In order to cement their new coalition, the Americans also fostered an environment of global security so that any partner could go anywhere, anytime, interface with anyone, in any economic manner, participate in any supply chain and access any material input – all without needing a military escort. This butter side of the Americans’ guns-and-butter deal created what we today recognize as free trade. Globalization. Globalization brought development and industrialization to a wide swath of the planet for the first time, generating the mass consumption societies and the blizzard of trade and the juggernaut of technological progress we all find so familiar. And that reshaped global demographics. Mass development and industrialization extended life spans, while simultaneously encouraging urbanization. For decades that meant more and more workers and consumers, the people who give economies some serious go. One outcome among many was the fastest economic growth humanity has ever seen. Decades of it…But all things must pass. We now face a new change in condition…”
- Peter Zeihan, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
This book is: Something
Top comment here describes it better then I can;
https://goodreads.com/book/show/58782897-the-end-of-the-world-is-just-the-beginning
4·1 year agoA book maybe.
Closest analogy I can think of is hunger, only I am more motivated to satisfy one than the other. Guess which.
It’s almost as if the whole system is designed to stop this from happening
Cheating on your spouse with someone at the company julefrokost (christmas work thing).
Denmark 🫤
https://cphpost.dk/2016-12-07/news/a-shocking-affair-danes-lead-european-infidelity-charts/
Ok I actually have those on my Android device and you are correct, they’re cool.
However on my ios device I’m fucked.
For example; It’s hard to find mobile keyboards that arent spyware!
Oui oui
Fusion powered AI, what’s up dystopia!
Written in … Java!
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Jokes aside; very cool.