dejected_warp_core

joined 1 year ago
[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

Welcome to the top of the sigmoid curve.

If you were wondering what 1999 felt like WRT to the internet, well, here we are. The Matrix was still fresh in everyone's mind and a lot of online tech innovation kinda plateaued, followed by some "market adjustments."

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

I was gonna say. It's this exactly. Plus a nice feature of Fediverse stuff is that it can scale down to hobby levels if needed. Venture funded commercial services abhor this and will compromise all kinds of things (e.g. morals, ethics) to keep going at whatever scale they're at.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

This gives me hope. It's like we're all finally learning how to moderate forums in this ridiculous climate.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 50 minutes ago

Clearly. I'm also prepared to pay the handsome sum of $0. Where is my cabinet position?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 53 minutes ago

And greedy. Can't forget greedy.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 55 minutes ago

Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes,

Interesting. During the Cold War, that was unthinkable, mostly because there'd be nobody to counterbalance a US monopoly on nuclear arms. Things have proliferated considerably since then, so perhaps a nuclear Russia isn't as important. If anything, they're proving themselves to be a liability.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago (5 children)

Good grief. It's like he asked ChatGPT "how do I hire people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect?"

Dear meme-lords: I need something with much more facepalm than the Picard one. A "super facepalm" if you will. Thank you.

No idea. Maybe they'll keep it like the Gadsden Flag holdout libertarians? "We were here first" and all that.

Honestly, I was thinking about the people out there with tattoos. There has to be at least one.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 48 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

For me, the cherry on top is how the "InfoWars" name is still completely apt, for completely different reasons.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 66 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I think there's always going to be that group of people. Another example: folks that didn't notice that The Colbert Report was satire.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 97 points 21 hours ago

That also sounds like the kind of prank that Cards Against Humanity would pull if they had access to as much cash. I love this so much.

 

Some of you may remember this absolute diamond of insanity that was the "4-Day Time Cube." This was the go-to example of the internet as a universal amplifier for communication - for both the sane and insane alilke. It was there from nearly the start of the world-wide web, back in the 1990's. Alas, it ceased to be some time ago, but it still lives on in our hearts.

For the uninitiated: welcome. Read and join the rest of us that are "educated stupid."

Amateur documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lWCqbgQnU

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