It’s immoral to leech off other people’s children tax money, sure.

But also no one wants to be a sucker doing 20+ years of unpaid labor raising kids, so someone else 's S&P 500 keeps growing and sustains a very comfortable retirement plan, and no one will even help you with raising kids anymore.

It’s really the system’s fault, not individuals. It makes it lucrative for every individual human to give as little back, and take as much from everyone else.

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It’s not like authoritarian governments ever lied with their official statistics to prove a point or anything…

Environmentally inclined people feel like they do something and don’t rally against the real problem.

Actually we have already been lobbying and protesting and trying to change the system for decades.

The work might not be visible, but it’s due to resource constraints, not because we are delusional and think that decreasing global CO2 emissions by 0.000000027% will fix the biodiversity loss.

Having friends is bad OPSEC!

Signal people have already explained why they refuse federation.

Basically, looking at history of federated messaging protocols (SMS and email), they are permanently frozen in time, and haven’t had security improvements for decades.

Signal team considers this tradeoff unacceptable, as highly targeted individuals rely on Signal to always keep it’s security model up-to-date against the most capable adversaries.

History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse

Life did get substantially worse since 1990 though?

Mass surveillance, rise of tech billionaire class, unprecedented political polarization, KYC-rollout in banks.

Ecological crisis is accelerating with tens of thousands of dead in Europe due to recent heatwaves.

edit: also Germany, Japan, Russia and China openly remilitarizing after 80 years of relative peace. This is really bad.

62% home ownership in 1960’s for much smaller homes (on average 700 sqft) vs 65% now for an average of 2000sqft

62% -> 65% sounds reasonable.

700 sqft on average -> 2000 sqft on average is suspicious though. It’s possible stats got skewed by the top 1%, who are today richer than ever before, and own ridiculous amount of property. Median sqft perhaps would be more representative

Why not spend 5 minutes and find a place that has exact same meals, but doesn’t use AI?

I would take Word (or LibreOffice Writer) bullet point list with prices and ingredients list over “pretty” AI menu at this point

Your point can still get across

Probably even sharper than with AI, because it looks cleaner and has less distracting elements

I might not be able to tell every time something is AI. That’s true.

But if a person has put zero effort making sure it doesn’t look like AI, then I have every right to call that out.

If you cheat, at least be smart about it and not get caught.

“noooo i can’t read corporate slop from government agencies and my favorite ragebaititng influencer news on Mastodon nooo, must read Xitter!!!”

Its my crack I can’t stop coming back to all while hating every second of it