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Yes, because the point of the article is that these are things rational every-day people recognize as being worthy of mockery.
If the author needs to explain to you why not knowing your own address is foolish, how handing your child an AI instead of spending time with them is bad, then you aren't going to get the rest of the thesis. As the author puts it, you've passed the test, you're part of the cult of personality.
> Relative to the total population, the share of immigrants in 2024 was approximately the same as in 1890. If we only look at the last few decades, we miss this historical perspective — there have been periods where immigrants made up a similarly large share of the country.
Considering its become exceptionally difficult to search for things that used to be easy to find, I have to disagree with you there.
The web has been polluted with trash, covering up all the original media with messy imitations.
They know the market isn't going to buy in for their big payout.
Edit: found the article I remembered https://prospect.org/2024/04/24/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-an...
> I brought up the ordinary comforts of kinship, friendship, craft, memory, legend, lore, skills passed down across generations, and other benefits that small towns provide: things that make human beings human beings. I pointed out that there must be something in the kind of places he grew up in worth preserving. I dared venture that it is always worth mourning when a venerable human community passes from the Earth; that maybe people are more than just figures finding their proper price on the balance sheet of life …
> And that’s when the man in the castle with the seven fireplaces said it.
> “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”
For a while I've been wondering why people are even bothering with high level languages if you aren't even gonna read the code.
The problem is that very rich/powerful people want to be very much richer/more powerful by doing the thing.
I'm guessing you're not a fetlife user, then? They have had repeated issues with keeping a payment gateway, since mastercard keeps yanking service due to sex workers advertising on the site.
Did you ever use craigslists personal ads? The ones they were forced to remove after FOSTA passed?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/craigslist-personal-ads-sest...
FOSTA/SESTA make it extremely dangerous to operate a personals site in the US. The bills made content providers directly liable.
https://uslawexplained.com/sesta_fosta#the_anatomy_of_sesta-...
Betting he got to keep all his RSUs
I met my wife on OkC in 2006, years before the Match acquisition. I have long been furious about what Match did to the site after they bought it in 2011, and have long fantasized about creating something that could return to what it offered. Problem is, I don't think you could do it.
OkCupid in its heyday was a product of the golden age of the web, when social networking was new. It thrived because it predated doom scrolling, so taking quizzes and answering surveys was still a fun way to use the web. Now we're in a post-twitter landscape, where dopamine comes from a flick of a finger.
OkC's forums were one of the first mainstream online spaces for conversations about sexuality and non-monogamy. That role has now been subsumed by subreddits and facebook groups.
When OkC was independent, the majority of moderation involved keeping things pg-13 and enforcing the terms of use. You could crowd-source it all right within the site itself. Today you have AI agent swarms bombarding any site with a userbase, just hoping to get eyeballs. You have age verification laws, payment gateways that will stop processing if they get even a whiff that sex workers might be using your site to advertise, and bigots who will DDOS you if you dare to cater to the needs of minorities.
And all that to wade into a battle with a billion dollar juggernaut.
The best option is display only units made for businesses, like what they use for restaurant menus, but those are usually twice the price of normal tvs because they're not app subsidized like smart tvs are.
What I ended up going with was Hisense. They ship with Google TV, but it's disabled by default. On first power up, it asks if you want to activate the Google TV features, and you can just say no. The thing then runs like a basic display.
Even if you can get legislators to pass regulation, enforcing it is a constant battle, and odds are they'll just pay a fine and keep on violating the regulations.
It's a much easier fight to keep a DC out of your community to begin with.
Now if you're using Movie canon, yeah, it's broke.
Also, Marvel? Those aren't wormholes, they're magic portals.