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*willful blindness

Archimedes over here with his bigass lever

subdued scoffing

Boomers sucked all the air out of the room 40 years ago, setting the stage for this shuffling zombie existence.

Millennials hit adulthood just as the music stopped and have been scrambling in the ruins of yesteryear, while Boomers continued to berate and gaslight them for 20 years.

Zoomers don’t even get the false promises and propaganda of the 90s to push them along; they’re already burned out from day one.

The self-selection of Lemmy vs Reddit users is an inherently stratifying medium. Lemmy is also distinctly left-leaning in a way that Reddit is not.

Having experienced several waves of Reddit absorbing Facebook exoduses, and the subsequent worsening of experience, I can only infer the same pattern will exist in Reddit slop migrating to Lemmy.

If anything, I’d prefer that entire crowd return to Facebook to bloviate their opinions and Boomerisms ad naseum.

Choosing a server is the bridge too far?

That’s fine, keep the reddit people on reddit.

Because it’s really about two things:

a) Managers who can only function via line-of-sight

b) Commercial Real Estate investments

And Milton Friedman

The solution is clearly to mash them into one superfood: wasabanilla

The US government is the most willing Charlie Brown to ever not kick a football

Give me back my headphone jack. No one asked for fucking mandatory Bluetooth.

The cost is to the whole world, because they consume enormous amounts of energy and produce essentially nothing. Like bitcoin miners.

Which means they’re adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.

MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2024:

The Institute’s pooled investments returned 8.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion

The late 90s dvd versions are gold.

Not sure what happened midway through this example, but the nudity may settle my remaining questions.

Also, buy physical media. You don’t own digital movies without the file; you’re just given access to them.