There can still be a huge bubble to pop and still have it be just as transformative as the author thinks it will be

The Internet itself is a prime example, it similarly was massively over-hyped for the time. The bubble grew and popped and while billions of monies were lost and a lot of companies went under, ultimately it did little to stop or even slow the transformative-ness of it (for better or for worse). In the end, it didn’t even slowdown online shopping.

But I think he was also exaggerating to a point, because like you said he’s personally invested even if he’s not “laying the foundation”. But, how much is he off? A couple years? 5 or 10? That’s still not a lot of time to lay preparations with properly functioning governments and considering the current state of affairs as it is…

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Diets gross to me, Aspartame just has the metallic taste to me lol

Convenience stores and gas stations usually and maybe Walmart (bleh)

Idk maybe you should and always mute it, maybe after awhile of you doing it it’ll be harder when you’re not there doing it to keep the status quo and they can join us on the fuck ads team lmao

This is why I don’t trust “privacy” [company] if they do any sort of ads. Especiall-

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Fucking Simpsons, always accurate lmao

Lol, of course the place that stands to document y’alls crap gets slanderd by the people it’s documenting

Literally authoritarian 101 lmao

Megathread

Authoritarians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

It’s matrix actually, but it’s been brought up before, some of the more prominent tankies all have a collab document that they copy/paste from

Hint: look at Dessalines modlog

or the megathread

Documentation of the admins authoritarianism and censorship

Some highlights from the link:

“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

Showing support for Ukraine on .ml is worthy of a site ban - dessalines, main .ml admin, head dev https://lemmy.world/post/32775563

Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

Rightttt, just anti-comminism, nothing to do with the admins and their authoritarian simping lmao

Why that’s executive material!

From the artists Reddit thread:

Thank you! In Slavic tradition (it can be found in some Germanic and north Italian places too), the people would dress up as spirits to thwart the evil spirits, while also singing Christmas carols. This was originally a pagan tradition that got embedded in Christianity. They’d hold an avatar for the Sun, to signify that the Sun is returning, the days are getting longer. The tradition is generally called Koliada.

So, just people dressed up as spirits, looks sick though lmao

I definitely think the main developer publicly having those opinions is awful though. Projects have had drops in support for less.

To be clear, it’s the fact that they run what many on the outside perceive to be “the flagship” instance. Had they run an instance in the same manner, but with their admin profiles and identities disconnected from their dev accounts…we wouldn’t be here right now.

Then it would be easy to dismiss the Triad when advocating the Threadiverse to mainstream users as just “random instances that many others block”, just like hex and grad

If you’re right, it might be scary good, I’m not a car guy so I couldn’t tell one manufacturers body from another like that.

But it makes sense for me as in everything I expect looks in place and proper. If they’ve finally figured out how to nail those details…

We’re f’d lmao