The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Scribe]

Enshittification - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Love that this is a thing. Hate it, but love it.

Also, that over there is actually kind of an interesting discussion, but no its not worth the effort to try and claw out some actual value.

 

[billd91]

 

[dragoner]

Love that this is a thing. Hate it, but love it.

Also, that over there is actually kind of an interesting discussion, but no its not worth the effort to try and claw out some actual value.

I'm talking to someone on the other side of the planet right now in messages, about this subject. I think the internet is great for a lot of its intended purposes, such as communication, or finding hard science data. Though people want more, it is just their expectations were unrealistic.

 

[Scribe]

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ts always worth the cheap laugh when I think I know exactly who the problem is, and it bears out 90% of the time and I have zero regrets.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Gradine]

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ts always worth the cheap laugh when I think I know exactly who the problem is, and it bears out 90% of the time and I have zero regrets.

I learned a few years ago that our university, with a culture that has defined itself as several steps to the side of Berkeley, had a local chapter of a national organization with a highly oppositely-oriented political bent and just enough plausible deniability to skirt campus policy with their rhetoric. My partner, who oversees our clubs office, told me about it. My initial thought was: "What? Who would even... what faculty member would agree to be their advisor?"

Then I paused.

"Wait... is it X?"

It was X.

And that's the universal takeaway. It's always X.

 

[Ryujin]

I learned a few years ago that our university, with a culture that has defined itself as several steps to the side of Berkeley, had a local chapter of a national organization with a highly oppositely-oriented political bent and just enough plausible deniability to skirt campus policy with their rhetoric. My partner, who oversees our clubs office, told me about it. My initial thought was: "What? Who would even... what faculty member would agree to be their advisor?"

Then I paused.

"Wait... is it X?"

It was X.

And that's the universal takeaway. It's always X.

Popper's Paradox?

 

[Gradine]

Popper's Paradox?

Federal funding.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If your wife was cheating on you with Pizza Hut, you'd insist the coupons made it all worth it.

 

[trappedslider]

Snobbery,Snobbery everywhere