We pretend to work

They pretend to pay us

Broadly classifies as gross negligence and any business that wants to stay in business will be wise to make that info public.

But I’d rather just not end up in an ER to begin with.

Her, at the funeral: “He needs his glasses! He can’t see without his glasses!”

People acting like potluck Thanksgiving is a novel invention have lived a very privileged existence

No - literally rivers were on fire.

BP lit the Gulf on fire a while back. Nevermind the drought induced wildfires all through the Mountain West.

And gay bashing was mainstream, fully tolerated, very common.

Texas Senate Bill 12 is bringing it back.

Lakes were turning clear like swimming pools due to acid rain - kinda pretty, but totally dead.

We had a climate-related disaster every four days last year.

Rivers on fire, gay bashing, satanic panic, abortion clinic bombings, acid rain…

Okay, but we have all of that now, too. What was different?

So, I’m reading two false claims, and I’ve got a long line of highly proficient bald family members to prove it

We are complaining about printers now?

Sadly, no. We’re complaining about age cohorts.

a key feature of the campaign is to make americans predisposed to outright reject the alternatives that have already been proven to work

Not just with socialism. This was the response to the civil rights movement of the 60s/70s, to the environmentalism of the 80s/90s, and to the anti-war movement of the 00s/10s.

Every progressive position is pillared as unworkable, overly expensive, and jobs-killing.

Meanwhile, we sink $1T/year into chat bots that spam your Twitter feed with racist porn and armies of tweaked out sheriffs deputies to crash their cars into anyone they consider illegally brown

No no no. In socialist countries, the Big Government is in control. There’s no freedom. Everyone lives in fear. You don’t even own your own toothbrush.

Anyone who supports socialism is a Tankie who just wants to kill rich white people for fun and doesn’t understand how awful their lives will be afterwards.

Folks can’t remember Bush Jr at all, much less Clinton, Bush Sr or Reagan. They can barely remember Obama, except through a haze of nostalgia.

What’s notable about Trump isn’t his fascism - plenty of presidents have been openly fascist. What’s notable is how many middle class white people are getting sucked up into the current dragnet.

Things are working great and you people need to quit complaining

I wish it did. Unfortunately, conservatives seem to rule our world far more often than not.

Ever hear of an atheist needing an exorcism

You joke, but…

Demon Spirits – The Real Root of Addiction

Growing up in the 80s/90s, I 100% heard about how everything from Heavy Metal music to D&D to Voting for Michael Dukakis caused the godless heathens to become possessed and driven to deplorable acts. Exorcisms are for people with insider access to high ranking church officials. The folks living outside of the fence - the migrants, the hippies, the drug users, the fornicators and exotic dancers, the non-believers - why do you think they have all that crime and disease and misery?

They’ve fallen out of God’s love and light. They’re all tortured souls, possessed by any number of evils.

Everyone here saying they still exist.

That’s not the point.

:-/

It kinda is, though. “I’m here, rather than over there, because I’d rather product content complaining about a lack of a thing than adding to the content of the thing I say I wish I had”.

I miss them because is was a concentration of each niche and there usually wasn’t much competition. No competition for “likes” or whatever.

I think its easy to mis-remember the past. But the idea that people on forums weren’t competing for attention, or that whole communities weren’t competing for degrees of participation, is a product of nostalgia. Jump over to 4chan - a very Old Internet relic - if you don’t believe me.

The thing you remember was the fun you had in your younger days doing a thing you were passionate about. And the thing you hate about Social Media is largely the absence of fun.

I’ll tell you what was good about the old school forums. Once you got up the right combination of browser add-ons, there were no ads. I go on Instagram now and I’m getting 2-3 ads for any given real post. I’m getting a flood of click-bait “Suggested For You” content I didn’t subscribe to or ask for. I’m getting pop-ins and notices and updates and reminders shoved on me. That’s what fucking sucks in Web 2.0/3.0 Just a deluge of corporate shit raining on you at every interaction.

But this dogged insistence that the newer model of forum organization - the Reddit or Wikipedia content ranking formula, rather than the traditional Groups organized by Last Update - is somehow ruining the internet… I just don’t see it. What I see with the newer model is more images and videos, which would have sunk an old school dial-up powered forum 30 years ago.

And I think what old-heads are really asking for is a community that doesn’t use thumbnails/images/videos in the feed. And I’m sympathetic to that. I’m just not nostalgic for fucking WoW forums or SomethingAwful posters or 90s-era content rings. Just like with the modern internet, that era was choked with shitty posters, bot posters, and endless scams. Those things just weren’t memorable in the same way as the fun stuff.

Sure, that’s a work around. But it relies on a trusted third party, along with wiki mods who don’t yank the entry because they don’t recognize the archived source as a valid citation.

It isn’t a feature integrated into the encyclopedia.

Here, enjoy this stew.

I still have my dad’s 1957 edition sitting on my childhood bedroom shelf.

It is genuinely kind of wild to read through that thing, in light of modern history.

I mean, just having the ability to roll up your own Wiki is very handy.

I would appreciate a way to archive the citations, so that a link-break down the line doesn’t cause the raw data to be lost. But that’s a problem with copywrite and IP more than anything Wikipedia does natively.

That’s Free Markets, baby!