@DarkFox That’s good to hear, it wasn’t shitty enough as it was.

@Powderhorn @StenSaksTapir

Or “Just google it”

not including calls to kbin.social? Curious how they factor in, since they seem to be getting pretty big.

So I deleted all my posts and comments 4 days ago now, and they have stayed deleted. I’m thinking if you leave your account active for a while afterwards, it doesn’t trigger the “undelete” action, if it was ever a real thing. It was highly possible that peoples stuff they thought was being undeleted, was actually just the result of more private subreddits being opened back up. Content you have in a private subreddit will NOT be deleted, as it can’t be accessed.

Ad companies can’t handle the idea that people don’t want to be hit with ads every 5 minutes. “Well, it’s just BAD ads”… no, it’s having my experience constantly interrupted.

Whenever people say “Somebody should do something!” they very rarely ever add “and the somebody is me”

Dude, it’ll be totally radical this time around! No psych!

The ones who stay probably do see themselves as powerless, which is a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy.

…but most people with any shred of empathy would be pushing for that in his shoes.

Empathy? In late-stage capitalism? 😏

I mean, so… I’m a software engineer who used to specialize in automation. I ended up having a crisis of conscience decades back, realizing that I was putting people out of work. “Hey, good job on that project, our client can afford to let 30 people go now!” never really felt like great praise to me. It actually felt really really shitty knowing the work I was doing was making it possible for the “nobility” to further gain back control of the “serfs”.

I figured that the only way this could ever benefit society as a whole instead of shareholders and owners would be if we moved more to a society with things like UBI, with perhaps the people who end up getting something extra being the ones who actually DO the dirty jobs and provide actual worth to society, instead of becoming obscenely wealthy at the expense of empathy and good human spirit. Unfortunately, at least here in the states, anything that smacks of “socialism” automatically equals dictatorship (glossing over that capitalism offers just as many examples of being abused by the “ruling” class). So there’s the whole zeitgeist to battle against before the comfortable and less-informed majority will even listen to anything that’s in their best interest.

As you say, interesting times indeed. I’m not hopeful that we’ll see that sort of shift in my lifetime however, sigh…

Comments are heavily focused on the title of the article and the opening paragraphs. I’m more interested in peoples’ takes on the second half of the article, that highlights how the goals companies are touting are at odds with the most likely consequences of this trend.

… despite having nightmarish diarrhea every hour, on the hour.

… because you are the target of those kinks

Can spontaneously manifest any variety of cheese

I use GitKraken, which is pretty great, but for a lot of day to day stuff I just end up using the CLI

Well said, and so true!

@pixelpusher220 Awesome, glad I could help!

@pixelpusher220 Hmm, I haven’t ran into anybody using readit.buzz yet, but I’m willing to try to help you out! The first thing I would do is make sure that if there is an option for federation to turn it on. Maybe ask within the readit.buzz community how to do this. This is early days for a lot of the tools and instances springing up, so there are still kinks being worked out possibly as well there.

I know I can reference and link to my sub by referencing it as @DwarfFortress

@DwarfFortress@kbin.social

Maybe clicking on that above within readit.buzz will direct you to be able to subscribe?

In a pinch if you wanted to view the magazine directly, it is at https://kbin.social/m/DwarfFortress

ETA: The magazine names are usually case sensitive

As a divorced father who lives alone, my dearest hope is that my own kids learned enough from me to do something like this as well.

No, you had it right the first time. I’m saying if you subscribe to a magazine, there’s a good chance that magazine is autofederating content based on tags, so you are getting more from the magazine than just what is deliberately posted into that magazine.

Yeah, I can’t help but feel like, given his activism, he’d be right here with us.