It's such a better story if they lied just to be extra devastating.
Totally valid. My fairphone USB port broke after a few years. Took a £20 part and ten minutes to fix, but it's definitely still an issue with USB C.
Can't wait to see the WeeblesJeebles wall at the Tate modern next year
Even the tired old "go woke go broke" chant is, ultimately, projection. Right wing policy is poverty.
That was always one of the main goals. They'd rather light a mountain of cash on fire than give anyone a thriving wage
A 3.5mm to USBC converter really does cost less than a coffee... Was probably not made with ethical labour tho
It's both. The 'Trolls from Olgino' (Internet Research Agency) definitely have been poisoning online debate for over a decade now. I'm old enough to remember that when people were mean on the internet, it used to be an attempt at punch-down humour. These days cruelty is a comedy-neutral norm. That, I contend, is manufactured.
It's a lot of energy to invest in a discourse that is being oppositionally refereed. Under better circumstances I'd say it was laudable, and on Lemmy the effort is certainly less wasted, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe the better part of our energies are better spent on in-person political efforts.
It's the money. Campaigns are increasingly expensive by design. That and Citizens United basically made it so moneyed interests never have to worry about grassroots ever again. That's (very tangentially) why the internet is also getting so unpleasant, I think, to poison the discourse. If people were nice to each other all the time, we'd band together more easily. Paid trolls exist for a reason.
This here is "no context pics". He's a handy explanation,






All that junk code, what could go?