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People used to shirking their responsibilities are constantly at the inevitable negative outcomes of doing so.

It's pretty ironic that many of them are members of the GOP party who purportedly believes in "personal responsibility" as a governing principle.

BTB the above goes doubly for the leash-less dog people.

My favorite is when someone has some minor road dispute that cost them maybe a couple of seconds in drive time, and they follow you to catch up with you and scream at you about it....almost as if they weren't actually on their way to go fucking do anything.

What would make me think that they haven't "thoroughly dissected" it yet is that I'm a skeptic, and since I'm a skeptic I don't immediately and without evidence believe that every industry is capable of identifying, dissecting, and solving every problem with its products.

Stop letting your cats outside unsupervised you fucking dimwits.

Every time I see a "missing outdoor cat" sign in my neighborhood, I want you to know that I see it like putting out a "missing outdoor balloon" sign after releasing a balloon into the sky.

Something is "eating the cats" and it's the front fender of trucks, and the local predators.

You can't spy on our citizens, that's our (and our corporations') job!

Signed, the US Government

I'd rather they just ban spy apps in general...but that's a "dream a little dream, it's never gonna happen" type of thing.

Yes, I understand your point and agree with you for the most part.

I feel like there was a turning point in the Internet though, where the federation of user identities basically ended for most Internet users. I track it to the advent of MySpace and Facebook. People started using their actual identities on these sites (most likely, at first, to attempt to get laid), and our privacy began being flushed down the toilet then. I also think the creation of Google Chrome with Google's all-consuming want for private data and to tie all of your Internet activity to a real person had a big hand in this as well. The modern Internet is a surveillance Internet.

As the article states, it's no longer true that "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". They hook you to your actual physical identity the instant you do anything on your phone, search using a logged in account, browse one of their sites with your logged in cookie, or generally browse anything after you've touched any of the major social media sites because they added trackers to everything.

In some ways, this is beneficial because many cannot handle anonymity, but the bad parts of the Internet have largely drowned out the good. As the Internet has scaled, more and more of the bad side of humanity is reflected digitally. To add to that mix, the major sites in their fun house mirror algorithms supposedly designed to amplify engagement (or "enragement algorithms" as I sometimes say) constantly amplify items posted by the most degenerate among us.

However Lemmy is still way bigger than what a mid 90s experience with the internet would be.

IRC was a ghost town the last time I checked in on it. In the mid-90s there were constantly thousands of people on it.

I hate fucking snap. It might be enough to make me switch distros if Ubuntu keeps up with it (which I am sure they intend to).

The continual "you have new snaps" or whatever it was message every time I'm just trying to have a web browser open made me eventually figure out how to install firefox for real on all of my computers.

EDIT: I think you may have convinced me to try out Debian on my next OS installation.

He was invited to give a speech from the bushes.

Yes, and they do.