I’d love this in the US, but we’re ruled by the wealthy assholes here. They have personal assistants to screen their calls.

I despise interfaces that try to be “friendly” by showing relative times. It’s not helpful. It’s counter productive. If you tell me it was at 08:45 I can look at what time it is now and fucking figure it out. Not so if you say “20 minutes ago”

And then some of them have fucking javascript to update the text. Fucking insanity.

Sometimes I think we should get rid of 3/4ths of the “product people”, but then wi the just engineering websites would just be like plain text and the occasional still photo. Which, honestly, sounds okay.

It’s infuriating that the mob just went on with their day.

I do wonder what the right wing fanatics are going to say about gun control when someone shoots a would be lynch mob dead.

It’s hard to do anything and know anything when one of the two major parties, backed by the wealthy, is anti-doing and anti-knowing.

This is as much a movement as it’s going to get. Peer to peer.

I know. People are an endless source of disappointment.

Refuse to pay. If we all just refused to pay, they would have to change.

But too many people don’t care, so I guess we’ll all just suffer.

I will continue to not buy EA products. Fuck 'em

There’s a whole Wikipedia article on that phrase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi

Google is run my by assholes and idiots. Break it apart.

Edit: fixed silly typo

I feel like we should run honeypots like this, and anyone who falls for it goes right to, like, therapy and “how not to be scammed” training.

More people from more walks of life (pun intended) on the street probably does reduce some types of crime, though. You’re not going to be mugged on the street outside two busy restaurants and a record shop with a bunch of other people walking around.

Yes. The American suburb model is probably the worst of all options. And people who haven’t really lived other ways might not even realize how bad it is.

I never want to live somewhere car-first.

Remember that comic that shows two people riding bikes through a nice area, and one of them says like “if anyone proposed building this where I live I would kill them”?

WhatsApp, sms, and Google chat (hangouts? Meet? The thing built into Gmail)

None of them are great.

One of my friends is some sort of neurodivergent and just… won’t install signal. It’s “too much”. I don’t understand this. It’s 30 seconds of “click this link I sent you, then click install”.

The “american dream” has always had a problematic contradiction. You should work hard. Working hard is good. You should work hard so you don’t have to work anymore. Working sucks and you don’t want to do it. You want to be the guy on a golf course getting money while those hard working people assemble widgets for you.

Well, which is it then?

The freedom was always kind of dicey. Sedition act of 1798, for example.

Women also historically had a bad time of it. And the native peoples. Queer folks, too. Religious freedom is hit or miss.

It’s been pretty good for wealthy people, historically. They’ve been pretty free.

I’ve seen some funny comments, but the ones that are like “ur so hot” are baffling.

It almost certainly was not a sincere threat of violence. No one is asking you to condone threats of violence against children. You can narc on your friends all you like, but that’s a separate discussion.

You are correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria

The one in queens is maybe he most famous, but I might be biased because I live nearby.