Did they back out of their police associations?

I’m thinking there are going to be very interesting developments in the years to come. So many things that were considered immutable constants about life may change.

How about slapping something gun-related on it, like that Black Rifle company?

Remember that absolutely fucking stupid ad Ajit made about using the net? Awful.

All the ones that have stayed have told everyone exactly what their real priorities are.

Typing search terms into Google does not an argument make. Neither does calling people lazy.

“Cancel culture” is not really a thing.

How were they “cancelled”, though? Do awful people have a right to gobs of money and attention and a platform? If I get fired from my job for bad behavior, does that mean it’s not being fired, but “cancelled”?

By the way, nearly all the people that are supposedly “cancelled” still seem to have careers.

“Cancel culture” is just a big myth from the right.

Really? How? Who has been “cancelled”? What happened to them?

use cancel culture against somebody they disagree

LOL. Is “cancel culture” even a thing?

Yes, this is a trend I’ve been commenting on for…well it seems like a very long time.

It’s clearly enshittification in nearly every single case; the more clueless johnny-come-lately tech-trendsters want to label me as just being old-fashioned or something when I bring it up. Trying to explain to them what is going on is usually a pointless exercise, as they have been steeped in a new==better mindset that is nearly ironclad and since they didn’t use reason to get themselves into that position, but instead, emotion, trying to reason them out of it is not going to happen…

Call it what is is: GREEDFLATION.

What is ironic about this is that Bezos could probably make all of their video streaming free and have no ads and still be making gobs of money. Their AWS ecosystem is practically a license to print money. Oh and that little store he runs on the side, too…

I’d say we crossed the Rubicon on this front decades ago, when in-person, at the theater, movies started showing actual ads and not just trailers before the movie you just paid for (and it was at the same price, of course).

I remember the first time I experienced this in a theater. My GF was like “…the hell?” and people were fucking booing the ads. But it didn’t matter enough - the ads are still here.

And yeah, it still annoys me.

Not sure why there is any confusion here. This is an externality long borne by labor.

I don’t know many Democrats that think there’s a pee tape, but I do know many that would not be surprised if kompromat on donnie - including a pee tape - did show up.

Well, people like Newt and Rush have been at it a long time, so we probably don’t need that much help.

I wish I could vote you up 1000x for the RSS recommend. I’ve never stopped using it (even though many people snickered when I mentioned it - “oh, that old thing ?” - but I’ve never been one to care what is considered “cool” when it comes to technology anyway) only on the desktop, using elfeed, mostly.

This really sucks when you have to explain this kind of thing to your kids…

It’s not Javascript per se, it’s the abuse of it that I take issue with. Also, there are plenty of places where it has no purpose that benefits the user and it would be quite possible to have many sites/pages that don’t require Javascript at all.

I think I might put that on a T-shirt. Ferchrissakes. The propensity for everyone to want to build a GD React SPA with gobs of unnecessary Javascript is so very rampant right now.

Let the backlash begin. Someone has got push back - the hegemony of Javascript frameworks as the Golden Hammer of the Internet has just got to end.

I remember when Spring came along and effectively put the end to baroque J2EE stuff; it seems that the frontend is long overdue for this type of revolution. Or at least stop inflicting this awful experience on the users…why do I need to keep upgrading my computers every few years, just to browse the freaking Internet? Why is Javascript necessary to read text? It’s ridiculous.