Would a sufficiently developed socialist government see this as desirable? Would pre-Adpocalypse youtube ‘gel’ well next to the socialist government’s social media, or online banking infrastructure? & is there anything actually all that vital about the content/culture produced around this time?

I don’t think it’s possible to rewild the internet. Part of what made the early internet as it was, was the novelty of the technology. It was new to everyone as well as being largely unregulated, no one knew what it could do and everything was an experiment.

Now people have much different expectations, the internet is infrastructure and the services it can potentially offer are unrivaled. There is merit to a wild west free-for-all and we’ve seen the good and bad that produces. What many would argue today (imo) is that there’s infinitely more merit to having governmental services accessible from anywhere, from having moderated & reasoned discussion areas, and to have any and all bad actors suppressed in the ‘digital town hall’ we all love hanging out in.

You have a 1:2.2 upvote to downvote ratio

Devastating numbers. I can finally see now I’ve never actually made a bad post. Rather, downvote gregor, who downvotes 14282 posts, is an outlier and should not be counted

honestly, they’re not very good at what they do, and that doesn’t seem to be it

I really don’t think China had any benefit from spying on Epstein. Mossad assets, maybe, but their definition of valuable intelligence is probably different to that of the West’s.

The report added that executions will be carried out by hanging, with three guards pressing the trigger simultaneously.

Specialist teams, composed entirely of volunteers, will be assigned to the task.

Grim. We’re extremely deep in this genocide, and no one is poised to stop it.

Stop crowding into the most corporate platforms which inevitably enshittify.

my bad but I need that back thanks

You’re sentenced to reading discussion about the Hanoi Hannah reference on r/helldivers

I’ve seen a lot of yanks quite emboldened by this guy online. Let’s hope for the best. Honestly, the bar for being on the right side in this is horribly low.

If they can survive the soviet collapse surely they can survive Trumpism, but this is entirely a cope on my behalf. If I were a religious man I’d be praying for the nation.

Is this guy like like the others who are constantly talking about it but doing nothing, or is he some hope for additional information to the masses?

this is dialogue from a lazy animal crossing villager

It turns the bit into a definitive gag for sure, whereas before I saw a bit of symbolism in the GOT theme spurring up only to get ‘shat’ on. Takes away from the feel of this being a peasant’s journey.

But then you have a moment where something epic happens and the music swells with no hint of irony or humor

You’re not that far off. A combination of lack of effort + prompting the LLM to produce fiction produces, I think, a perfect combination of slop that is actively harmful to their worldview while being obviously fake about a third of the way through. Sometimes, I’ll just switch tracks midway and insert communist propaganda into a book that, for example, is examining the worldwide influence of Antifa reptiles.

The short story it’s based off is much shorter than you probably think. About 30K~ words. I’m sure it feels that way not because it was designed to be released all at once, but because the original story was not really written to support a HBO drama.

I engage in unethical behavior by effectively scamming people myself. I moralize about it often and don’t feel like a great person but at the end of the day all I’m doing is a microcosm of what the worst of the worst people are doing, and the difference it makes for me is being able to live an average and comfortable existence.

FWIW, my scheme is using LLMs to pump out right-wing conspiracy slop for publishing on Amazon. Each book makes cents to dollars but you push enough stuff out (especially about relevant topics) and you get a steady stream of income. I prefer this to materially cheating someone out of a product because the buyer was just going to buy some other slop anyway.

incredible hexbear meme pull, incredibly specifically tailored to me

Yeah I don’t know who any of these people are but she spoke to my experience as a manchild learning to cook in his twenties. There were lots of recipes where if I didn’t have the staple already I’d be scared of it. The longer the list, the less likely I was to try it.

I’m a great cook now but I related to this exchange, and I really don’t know who these people are so I can’t defend any other of their takes.

The scale of what they’ve built in under 2 years is boggling my mind a little bit. I’m so used to how long construction takes in the west that I can’t imagine seeing that pop up that quickly.

For reference, there are still some areas affected by the 2009 bushfires in my state, that are still being rebuilt today. Mostly these are neighborhoods and national parks.