EndlessNightmare

loops, not loop

Worms are bad, but I'm glad people are talking about that rather than FIP

Remember when police killed the UPS driver who had been taken hostage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout

The response from UPS was disgusting: “We appreciate law enforcement’s service and will cooperate with the authorities as they continue the investigation.” They later deleted the Tweet (or w/e platform it was on), but people grabbed screen captures of it.

Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.

WHAT'S THE FUCKING DILEMMA‽

What did these people think that they were going to lose? And was their perceived loss worse than losing a business that was almost a century old?

Immersion is pretty cool, actually.

I generally cite mid-2010s (e.g. 2015ish) as when society peaked technologically. This is before the rampant enshitiffication of everything. Most new tech "advances" are of marginal use (or outright detrimental) to the average person and are only beneficial to corpos and govs.

I'd say the main exception to this is medical tech. Those advancements do present real benefits, at least to those who can afford it.

China is good/bad depending on what fits the narrative

How to spot AI-generated content would be good to learn

The reasons why are probably rather "interesting"

At least they are showing a willingness to move

It's probably either sunk-cost fallacy or outright denial

How convenient.