The Incredibles came out twenty years ago?

The new Outlook is fucking awful.

How did they fuck up email? Just put them all on the left and let me read and move them in the fewest clicks possible.

Boromir also happened to be CEO of GondorHealth

Entropy is a helluva drug

Does SIG make a Legion version of soup too?

Now add in the creation and capture of Surplus Value, and distribution of profits from the sale of said surplus.

“Rational Self-Interest” is pure masturbatory rhetoric from the Capital class.

Tis but a simple machine- the Great Wedge, if you will.

I think my point stands.

“Just calm down” is better articulated as, “stop saying things that make me feel uncomfortable feelings.”

The rhetoric of manipulation and abusers.

Stock buy-backs used to be illegal, which at least forced some reinvestment. Now it’s just shareholder masturbation all the way down.

This feels like trying to explain forests to someone who only wants to tell me about their favorite tree.

I get how the technology has changed. As an elder millennial, my entire life has been a constant shift of technology. From analog to digital, and back again- from betamax to DVDs, from 8 tracks to tapes to pocket rockers to mini discs to ipods. And including resurgences as people “discovered” the benefits of vinyl.

My point is that this new paradigm has shifted ownership of what we pay for away from consumers, to give gatekeeping power to corporate entities that can shut down, or shut off access, on a whim. And what’s the ROI? Increasing access costs without ownership is just a more expensive lease.

I am simply arguing that physical media puts consumers in a greater position of control over the property they have paid for than streaming. And I am intimating that it’s by design that technology “leaders” have moved away from allowing people to OWN what they buy.

“Aw geez lady, I just came here to drill…”

I ain’t the fuckface whisperer.

They may be, but you’re missing the larger perspective by harping about the processor.

When the technology was ubiquitous, it didn’t require specialized equipment ie USB disc drives, because the necessary gear was already built in. Which means more people had access and more sharing was happening.

Of course there’s nothing stopping ME, I already know about CDs. But ask the average teenager where they get their music. Ask them how they would share an album. Do any amount of critical thinking about this, and my original premise holds true. But nah, you’ll probably revert back to internally screaming that some guy on the internet insulted your processor speed, because THAT is the point.

lol, ok. You do realize that if you OWN your media you can just hand over a thumbdrive or send the files directly to a friend? CDs are also cheap to burn. You can build an entire library for the cost of a couple months’ streaming access.

You are parroting marketing and those words are hollow.

Of course, but it’s worth pointing out that PCs phased out the addition of ROM drives, which allowed the layperson to rip their content. Naturally, this allowed Apple and ilk to introduce streaming access, as though it was a fucking boon. No CD/DVD-Rom, no ports, just an enshittified processor, display, and a cloud. Because THAT’S WHAT WE ARE TELLING YOU YOU WANT.

This is why 20 years ago we had CDs and ripped them to hard drives. Streaming is a sham when you pay continually for access.

Yeah, young people saw that the veils of society are a sham, that no one is looking out for them, and that Corporations have free rein to do whatever they want, to whomever they want.

You don’t blame the kids, you blame the political machinery that allowed our culture to reject social norms. And that’s been happening since before the pandemic.

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In the Office of Hell and, actually, also Hell