“In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.

Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”

https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity

DISGUSTING

Where my Yerba Mate homies at?

Silicon Valley Hubris. These companies got too big and act as if we don’t have choices. Web is still built on open standards no matter what. These are all attempts to graft on closed patterns on open infrastructure.

If only Firefox rendered my CSS exactly the same like in Chrome. I don’t know if they fixed it but last time developing a web site in FF was real annoying because when I made it look just right in FF some minor things were slightly off in Chrome so I had to keep going back and forth.

just another vapid tech bro

I swear this whole “use the app” instead approach has become literal cancer.

I just realized I meant to say 4. 3 was kinda fun actually. But dang, this whole opener of 4 with the “butterfly-people” and soap opera style banter during and post fight was just too much. I really liked the protagonist in early seasons but now everything just seems so campy.

Edit:refered to my other comment in this thread

Loved the show in season 1-2 but it has been such a camp-fest since s3 I stopped following …

Has the writing gotten any better?

not sure if more or less, but the time spent here is 100% more enjoyable. With corporate social media there’s always this vague sense of brain-rot going on in the background. Don’t feel this here. Actually had some nice conversations over the fast few weeks.

“so, it’s basically like email, in that everyone can send emails to one another even though they are on a different provider, unlike centralized social media which is also bit problematic when it comes to privacy-regulations such as GDPR section …” blue feedy eyes

it is decided! "All secret meetings take place in the fancy room”

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Clicked on it out of curiosity. Sub is still nsfw. Second post I clicked was a veiny boner. Nope.

not optimal, but I still prefer this to the Silicon Valley Adslinger Algo™ tbh

SPARGEL IST SPARGEL.

I think it all started with Zuck wanting to turn Facebook profiles into the “Internet’s Driving License” or some shit about ten years ago: https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/01/05/197776/facebook-wants-to-supply-your-internet-drivers-license/

question: can instance admins remove/change mods of a community?

Not sure if more or less, but I definitely love to check in during the day. feelslikehome.jpg