I still too socialist. better make the cars have to drive around in pointless circles

Love that.

Sounds like they have Rick Sanchez is custody over there

Don't feel too bad. I didn't pick up on it either

I've been around for this kind of thing. Similar to grants. When the money is flowing, management just goes around and earmarks various things on the budget sheets and asks the data folks for reports to back it up. Some of it could be true. Most of it is a stretch.

I mean even if it made them more money to platform confirmed shitheads, it's still the wrong thing to do. Like ethically. It doesn't also have to be wrong from a business or even legal perspective.

If a company can't take that kind of stand I don't want anything to do with them.

I am actually kind of thrilled that I have substack subscriptions, including paid, that I can pull as my little protest to this platform. Luckily my paid subscriptions have both confirmed that they're ditching substack as well, so my support will follow them wherever they land.

I really hope that substack lets writers have access to their email lists, so they can easily take them with them.

Yo this artist rules. I just binged their back catalogue, and it's really cool to see their (jheir?) progression over the years.

pretty much

Wowww really hope these guys face consequences. Totally inappropriate behaviour.

It did? On desktop browser it looks like it has it

I feel this. It hasn't really gone away, like if I had a button I could push and wink out of existence I would press it, but now that I'm mid life and out of my 30s and still... somehow alive, it's like idk. It's still there, but I don't really think about it any more?

Sorry I'm late. I'm also available to chat, for real! Love your posts

Do you like cool lore? Detailed item descriptions? What about esoteric oddities that you interact with through text? How do you feel about choose-your-own-adventure books? Torment: Tides of Numenera might be the game for you.

Also highly, highly recommend Disco Elysium, but someone already suggested that. I think you would love it.

It was nice crawling different dungeons and then… “Fresh meat” That was the first time in the game where I started to frantically try to just… get the fuck out.

Thanks for the memories. I remember taking turns playing this with my sister and freaking out when we first saw the butcher. Like just being able to use the mouse and keyboard was a challenge it was so scary.

I love this. Very relatable. It's something I can totally picture myself drawing.

I'm in love with these lines. Thanks for sharing.

I basically only go there when DDG hasn't indexed the Stack Exchange/Overflow Q&A I'm looking for.

Also decentralized SE/SO when?

Heh, cool.

Yeah I've seen this happen in real time. Maybe a little slower, but still inexorably.

no no it's authentic it's great

Yeah I like to come for air like every few years or so

keep...going

no it's good I like it
keep playing

ahah big boba better bring a big straw 😘

I'm going into the den of racists this year, wish me luck

I would warn against it, minor cogito hazard if subject tries to understand symbols

I love these kinds of very specific slice of life stories from work. It's so weird how these things can feel like such a big part of your life, but most of us just forget about them as soon as we walk out the door, let alone change jobs. Work is so weird lol

humanity squatting in their own ruins

Love this. It's kind of giving Ruin Haunters from All Tomorrows.

how could anything be wrong when you're drinking VSOP cognac and eating, squints, Japanese...? Bugles?

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Python programmer: They're the same picture

How do you know about DW?

I think the fediverse in general has a better chance because it's built on an anti-corporate philosophy, from the software, maintainers, admins, moderators, and much of the community (though increasingly less so, as it becomes more popular).

If you have a problem with corporate influence on Reddit, then your ability to act on it ends with your subreddit's moderators. To the admins and owners of reddit, that kind of influence is a feature.

Hell they can even monetize it, bake it right into the DNA of the back-end, give the corps a nice little API to poll, maybe some webhooks...

That is not something I see happening on the fediverse as long as its open source and run by the community.

But I really really agree with it. I'd like to see the culture around here step up a little bit. Circlejerks and shitposting communities are one thing, but not everything has to be a joke. And certainly not the same joke, over and over again and again.

What's wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It's just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.

Proof the system works right here.

I can understand this perspective: wanting to spread the gospel of federation, etc.

But I'm starting to come around to the realization that the growth mindset is rotten. It's what leads to these big centralized/unified platforms that concede on their core in order to reach a wider audience.

I can't blame corpos for conceding away all identity, because engagement is how they make money, but what's our excuse?

These aren't refugees. They're free to make a lemmy or masto or whatever account any time they want. We don't have a problem with most of the people. It's the platform, and all the fucking out and proud racists who are on it.

My grandma who owned a diner used to say the same thing, but about cops

I might join you. I know some k8s and shit, if you need a hand admin-ing. Actually since my instance is likely federating with threads, I was looking at pulling my account and donation eventually anyway.

Don't be obtuse, you know exactly what they meant: low effort "quippy," dare I say it: Whedon-esque comments, that you can predict before even opening the comments.

Well it was