Ugh. Well played!

I think i win when the other person starts resorting to insults at least

Bell end.

If it’s a school zone you leave 10 school bus lengths.

Never put off to tomorrow today what you can put off to next week tomorrow.

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me!

Still karma whoring then!

Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.

Not in the slightest. More likely their annual bonus depends on boosting revenue right now. So they’re incentivised to generate short term increases in revenue but not for longer term. Plus, also, if/when Youtube goes tits up they’ll just get a different CEOing job (with “increased revenue by 25% in 2024 on their resume”) rinse and repeat.

Kind of my point. We gained ecommerce, streaming services, platforms such as this one, online gaming, mapping services, and others - at the cost of the freedoms for which people are nostalgic. And now we have ads, personalization, tracking, and inevitable enshitification.

Back in the days of the wild frontier things were chaotic, anarchic, violent, and unconstrained.

Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

And now we’re all fenced in, regulated, allowed to wander only in approved lanes… oh, wait, sorry, we’re talking about the internet, not real life!

I think this is the first example of blatant karma farming I’ve seen on lemmy. It was inevitable.

Me. Sigh.

I’m not convinced I ever had a bottle to lose.

SOCRATES: What’s a what, now?

There once was a bard from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan
When told this was so
He replied, 'Yes, I know"
“But I always try and fit as many words into the last line as I possibly can.”

Sweet, sweet, dessert planet…

My eight year old laughed. My ten year old groaned. My wife sighed and rolled her eyes.

Perfection.

I like boats. Plus I’m a billionaire now.

Surely ‘Why are jokes about mythological creatures so tedious?’ would be a better set-up?

The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll.

I shop at Burgess.

Mahna Mahna!