The highways and cars
were sacrificed for agriculture.
I thought that we’d start over
but, I guess I was wrong.
Once there were parking lots,
now it’s a peaceful oasis.
This was a Pizza Hut
now it’s all covered with daisies.
I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens.
Russians who oppose Putin tend to either get poisoned or fall off of buildings.
How else are they going to compare shots unless they aim at the same target?
Sounds suspiciously similar to archery, hatchet throwing, knife throwing, and all other target practice hobbies.
OK…which are they?
☝️This guy gets it.
Wish to have an eight inch penis. Eight is already quite large. Sixteen is a disability.
This is a lie people like to tell themselves.
We’re talking about the two halves of Maul being lovers, right?
Right?
If you have never played this game, get it. Excellent.
If you are going to cooy and paste, copy and paste the entire thing.
Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to both users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders.
Examples:
Academic publishing
Between 2016 and 2022 the turn over and profit margins of academic publishers increased partly due to article processing charges from open access. This has been accompanied by predatory publishers who prioritize profit over scholarly integrity. This Academic enshittification results in a scholarly system that is “overwhelmed by quantity, distorted by profit motives, and is stripped of its purpose of advancing knowledge.”
Amazon
In Doctorow’s original post, he discussed the practices of Amazon. The online retailer began by attracting users with goods sold below cost and (with an Amazon Prime subscription) free shipping. Once its user base was solidified, more sellers began to sell their products through Amazon. Finally, Amazon began to add fees to increase profits. In 2023, over 45% of the sale price of items went to Amazon in the form of various fees. Doctorow described advertisement within Amazon as a payola scheme in which sellers bid against one another for search-ranking preference, and said that the first five pages of a search for “cat beds” were half advertisements.
Dating apps
The market for dating apps has been cited as an example of enshittification due to the conflict between the dating apps’ ostensible goal of matchmaking, and their operators’ desire to convert users to the paid version of the app and retain them as paying users indefinitely by keeping them single, creating a perverse incentive that leads performance to decline over time as efforts at monetization begin to dominate.
Oh, I wasn’t arguing. I was clarifying for anyone reading the thread and out of the loop.
More trustworthy than Google?
Linux is only the kernel for the OS. GNU is most everything else that makes Linux (GNU Linux) an OS.
I haven’t decided which tracker workflow I like best yet. Dirtywave, Polyend, or ReNoise?
I am you but replace Tracker Mini with Dirtywave M8.
Me, surrounded by music gear.
I listened to his interview on NPR and it sounds terrifying. If he excerts himself too much, he gets drunk. If he eats carbs…drunk. Because his body made alcohol for so long, he had become an alcoholic even though he’d never had a drink. His alcohol dependence was so deep that he went through physical withdrawl, including the shakes, once he started treatment.
EDIT: Nobody believed him when he said he was not a drunk. Even his parents told his girlfriend (now wife) not to marry him. His wife believed him and is now a champion for the cause.
If I wanna look good and not be bummy,
Xi, you better give me that money!
Hey, Inari, baby Xi’s got your money
Don’t you worry, Xi said hey.
Baby Xi’s got your money.