I fear you are right. I’m hopeful you are wrong but the same world is doing everything it can to beat the hope out of me.

I think there’s about 8-10% too many of them. To make things fair, we should remove an equal portion of each (starting from the top).

Jebus, this is so depressingly truthy.

I agree and my comment had obviously no nuance. I’m still dealing with VMware fallout in my professional life which is on Broadcom but still, this dude had control of another huge sinking ship previously…

Damn, this guy is utterly fantastic at ruining huge tech firms.

Screen time says yes.

You know, the way this toxic bro culture has evolved, let them build their own romantic partners if actual human women aren’t good enough for them.

Personally, I love my authentic, human, beautiful complicated and unusual wife. I didn’t get to create her, but I’ve gotten to spend almost 20 years figuring her out and it’s been pretty great.

If the last few weeks hasn’t beaten the optimism out of you, please tell me which cave you are hiding in so I can come join you.

Pretty much sums it up.

The sanewashing has consequences after all.

same reason we just elected donald fucking trump. people will always take the easy option that makes them feel good.

I think thune shows exactly how little they are going to matter. the gop panicked since they caught the truck and had to do a secret ballot to get the establishment, next in line guy in place. if the fix wasn’t in, they could have held a regular vote. instead all we can do now is hope that the party that has no spine, suddenly grows one.

These Senators know how much power they have

right, none. the fix has been in for a while now, this train’s brakes have failed and all we can do is hang on.

how is it that everyone seems to have forgotten about this: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

trump owns the judicial branch and they put him above the law.

trump assumes that because he sucks up, that putin is his peer. putin knows how easy trump is to manupulate, this first act after him winning shows that he knows exactly how to play him. my hope is that trump is too stupid to realize it because else there will be a dick waving contest among the two most nuclear armed countries in history…

that is the eventual plan.

right now I consider my fediverse and self hosted stuff as my ‘real’ profile. bluesky falls into the same category as linkedin, a necessary evil for my ‘professional’ profile.

So no, I won’t be leaving mastodon (or lemmy).

I have never been an accelerationist but have a feeling it may be our only path forward from here on.

Note- not a plan, will see how things go. Not terribly hopefully atm though.

Sigh, here we go again. I jumped on board because it’s where my friends are. Was pleasantly surprised that most of my old twitter follows are already there. Still, given the history I’m being careful and ready for the next enshittification exodus.

I wish folks would just embrace self hosting and decentralization but we obviously love to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again…