🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦

You might not, but it would be really nice if some others would. If we repeat it often enough, some of them might actually learn something for a change.

Yeah. It’s almost impossible to create a system grounded in ethics in a hyper-capitalist architecture. Misinformation is by its very nature more entertaining and easier to make, so the unavoidable market incentive is to eventually shift the revenue base away from a broad, but low capitalization user base toward the handful of high capitalization snake-oil mongers. It’s a direct product of market concentration that’s allowed a handful of talented liars to accumulate more wealth than the majority of the rest of humanity.

I mean Google made its own bed here. Their chronic enshitification because they thought they were invulnerable really means the digital landscape doesn’t have a solid accessible alternative and “Web 2.0” capitalization of network effects to concentrate attention means viable competition is always going to be niche.

This is mostly the fault of the tech giants, but if we’re being honest, we all played a role in letting it get this bad. Kids are just following the path of least resistance.

You get that an infinite pool of money has no value right? Like, the value disappears the more is in circulation. Part of the role of taxes is to prevent runaway inflation. If there’s no taxes, your greenbacks very quickly lose all meaning and they end up worth less than the paper they’re printed on.

There’s 3 errors here.

1. You’re overestimating how much people watched controversial movies. Yes, people still went, but they still had relatively small audiences.
2. Major studios don’t publish niche movies anymore. There was a time where they put out like 1 maybe 2 major blockbusters a year and then had a 100 small “eh, it’s ok” movies along with a few experimental things. They don’t do that anymore. If it’s not a $100M movie, they’re not interested. This is in no small part because people don’t have the time or attention to give to something that isn’t knock-your-socks-off spectacular.
3. The nature of what we consider “controversial” has changed. 99% of “controversial” movies aren’t an unpopular take on something, they’re either deranged and delusional flights of fancy, OR they’re a perfectly normal take that contradicts someone’s delusional fantasy, and thus gets review bombed.

It’s true, in fact I curse in way more languages than I can speak fluently. You should hear me when I pinch my finger while working.

Our WiFi was unprotected

starts typing in U-N-P-… hey are there any capitals in that?

Oh I hate that one.

“The company” doesn’t give two flying f***s about me, I’m here to do a job and get paid for it, not join a cult."

For people who only know the internet past 2010, the 2001 internet would be unrecognizable, so the question doesn’t really make sense. The world was an entirely different place before modern algorithmic media. There were trolls, and there were decent people, but the whole context of the world changed after the emergence of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Arguably for the orders of magnitude worse. It’s not really fair to compare then to now.