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Occupy the bottom of the ocean!

I still have mixed feelings about deleting one’s whole comment history, though i also did that when I left reddit.

Same. I also did that. Mass edits + delete. I wish there was a way we could collectively move all that history to a non-commercial platform.

it’s the right thing to do, but the amount of information lost because of greedy leadership is super sad.

Also same. I backed up all my user data for sentimental reasons, but that’s hardly enough to be of any utility on its own.

I really did feel like I was participating in a community, and was doing something positive with all my posting. I was just treating reddit like any other forum from my youth, not really thinking how ofc it would become commodified and enshittified.

I feel like such a fucking idiot sucker. Over a decade putting in time outside work, lunch breaks, toilet breaks, morning, evening, just contributing to an IPO package.

Their only utility now is in five year old comment threads discussing niche topics, and that can only stay relevant so long.

This was my biggest takeaway from watching the movie Perfect Days.

Two time boomeranging failson here.

I tried Lord how I tried. I fell flat on my face trying to make it on my own. Actually did wind up homeless for a stint. If I didn’t have the option to crawl back home to lick my wounds, I’m not sure I would have made it.

Mmmaybe

Never really thought of the effect that “sometimes” has on a sentence, but now I see your point. God dammit, I think you’ve infected me with your knowledge. I hope the “sometimes” cop-out is not as wide spread as I fear…

Accelerationist claptrap. These people have given up hope for real progress, so they’re going to hand over full control to the billionaires to see if that fixes things.

I’d rather put him in a sub. A really badly made one.

Number row is good once you get used to using it without looking.

Even better is a layer toggle to put numbers near or on your homerow.

60% is excessive

Look to trump for that - he bankrolled the guy

Oh interesting, that’s not what it sounded like. Is that your personal view, or a tenet of the Golden Mean? Is there a particular thinker that you cleave to more than the others?

The Wikipedia page is pretty nebulous on this, other than allowing for a limited aristocracy (and monarchy?? Lol no thanks on that).

I’m not sure how you’d decide exactly how limited this aristocracy is without importing from other philosophies and value systems.

That’s a beautiful story, thanks for sharing it.

I didn’t go in for libertarianism, but I was a pretty obnoxious with my born again atheism/rationalism/intellectualism. You were adjacent to that scene, so you can probably picture it lol. Not pretty.

Anyway, glad to hear from others who also managed to grow up to be kinder than they started.

But what if the hard times are caused by rich people abusing the commons? Should we just keep tightening our belts while the rich take more and more?

I agree in general, like if there’s a drought expect less food. But most of our scarcity is artificial. I believe there are solutions to the challenge of surviving.

Good to have a canary in the coal mine, at least.

I’ve had a catmint bush for a few years now, and it’s topped out at about the size of an Australian spider.

I think the neighborhood cats keep it pretty well groomed. It’s very popular, even in the winter.

Should we just be doing the opposite of whatever the conservatives want everywhere?

Guaranteed there’s going to be some greedflation using tariffs as an excuse mixed in