It’s always amazing when someone discovers a new way to be shitty that I hadn’t even thought of.

Meanwhile, Canada has no minimum wage exemption, and you still are asked to tip on everything.

Oh yes, can’t forget about libraries just because they’ve been successful forever.

The networking level is solved by Tor and similar, open protocols are still standard at the transport level, and the application layer is served by Linux, the Fediverse and so much more. I think the hardware level is where future efforts are the most needed. That and just resisting the change as much as possible.

(It’s not a level of abstraction, but if it was less of a mess crypto would deserve a mention as an authoritarianism-resistant way to keep funding going. Both for whatever future dystopian blackmarket, and for the providers of the infrastructure supporting it)

Yeah, an actual hypermobility disorder would not help, lol.

Hmm. Cows too. You have a whole operation going there. Good luck, and take it easy - you only get one body, and there are tools.

Overkill. My ladies just had a hopper feeding into a tray with a small enough gap to prevent overflow, and a piano hinge to close it up when the tray needed cleaning.

Chickens, if they have a run with enough stuff inside, can be mad entertaining too. Their brains do not work like ours.

RIP you. How are the chick-os doing?

I recognize I’m over the hill and my joints sound like pop rocks

I had that start when I was a teenager, maybe even earlier. It sounds gross, but so far it hasn’t done anything else.

I’m going to guess mostly the former, with a sprinkling of the latter, since the battery cage people are definitely online a lot.

It’s not moving at all or moving way too much (and in the wrong ways) that causes the problems, per physio people I’ve heard from.

I had a thread on here where multiple people were telling me I should expect to be in a little pain all the time in my 30’s. I asked older people IRL about that, and the answer was lol no.

High probability it was dudes who barely get up from their chair, and seized up like corpses as a result. TBF it might have been a programming community.

Ah, I see. Never mind.

Walled gardens are most of the problem, and they’re only getting more walled over time as companies move from expanding their platform to exploiting it for returns. CloudFlare is kind of an exception, as it’s still giving away a lot of free services. Once it starts being evil it’s going to really suck.

Closed-down hardware is the biggest emerging threat. You can leave the proprietary software ecosystem if you want, but a SoC is DIY-resistant.

The surveillance is more of a surprise tool for when shit gets really ugly. Which is super bad, but not directly about the internet.

I mean, it’s recommended to. Diversification, right?

But that’s besides the point. I’m just not sure what you mean by shareholders here. They really come in those two types: individuals, and funds that issue their own shares which you can then buy. If you’re fine with individuals holding shares, I don’t really see why you’d have a problem with the funds.

Depends on the source. Some older lady I met? Yeah, there’s a high probability they just believe everything in their feed. Bellingcat, on the other hand, is going to make absolutely sure.

Relevant XKCD.

Basically, we’re going to go back to the days assessing likely truth by how much you trust the source. Unfakeable photographic evidence was the irreplaceable thing, and it was nice to have for a while, but it’s definitely not the first time we’ve been without it. AI slop isn’t fundamentally different from human made tall tales.

To a degree I’ve already made the shift, and tend to click more on websites I’m familiar with, while I used to just go by relevance.

I only buy mint-type candies. Junior mints until the trade war; something local now.

I need something to crush sweets cravings, but I also want to limit how much I’m actually going to eat. With the strong flavour, I find those work pretty well.

I ignore the results until they’re all in as well. The time to worry and do things is before the ballots are cast.