I think people would probably be upset at losing access to their banking, Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc. accounts. Basically every big company website runs through data centres.
Don’t get me wrong, I have deep nostalgia for the “small web” days of the 90s. But if we want to go back to that we’d have to do a little more planning than just “shut down all the data centres!”
Munchos are okay for a bit. Eat too many and you get overwhelmed with salt and oil. I guess that’s a feature or something.
In my town restaurants come and go so fast the yellow pages are basically always obsolete.
I say they are still heroes for being awesome marsupials living in North America. Not very many of those! It also doesn’t hurt that they’re super cute and rather comical in their expressions! I also don’t mind that people seem to be afraid of them, even though I know they’re harmless.
Us humans in our warm and cozy houses and apartments forget how brutal the elements of nature can be. All that rain and snow and tempestuous wind; all that humidity and blistering heat. Nature remains a very difficult place to survive in, even when you’re an awesome marsupial well-adapted to the local conditions. Climate change, logging, construction and encroachment into habitats; we humans put even more pressure on our four-legged friends!
Apologies are an admission of liability in the corporate world, therefore extremely rare. Corporate-speak non-apologies (with sweeping changes to reverse the damage) are just about the best you can hope for. If you’re looking for someone to blame for the non-apologies, blame lawyers. Otherwise blame Microsoft for everything they’ve done to screw up Windows (which is far worse than a silly non-apology).
I think the real issue is the all feed. For many folks on Lemmy, there are no communities, there are only community tags on an otherwise never-ending stream of flotsam scrolling by on the all feed. This makes it very hard to establish community norms in any case.
It will always go up in nominal terms. That’s true of everything, due to inflation. It’s not always true in real terms, adjusted for inflation.
Looking at your phone when you’re out with friends.
I don’t have a cat but I do love cats. I have a healthy respect and understanding with them. If our positions were reversed I’d be nibbling on my human’s ear when they came to check on them!
Cats are well known for eating their former owners after they die.
As I understand it, it’s the steam escaping from the shells. The screaming (whistling) sound is present at the end of the cooking process (long after they’re dead), not the beginning.
I would say that, but… there are a lot of, for example, Japanese companies that have been around for decades or centuries making great stuff the way they always had. Unless you’re saying Japan isn’t a capitalist country (I’d love to see how that argument plays out), I’d say there’s some difference in company culture that leads to enshittification.
I’ve heard in some cases it happens when a new CEO takes over and they have no respect for the existing culture, and just want to “make their mark” by chasing short term profits.
HP used to make a lot of great stuff. Their spectrum analyzers were the best in the business. At some point they flipped a switch and went into full enshittification mode. They burned all their bridges with their most loyal and informed customers.
It’s easy to get mad at people for not knowing the things we know. It’s incredibly frustrating. But then they know things we don’t. Turns out there’s way too much stuff to know and we can’t all know everything.
Modern life is unbelievably complicated and everyone is failing to manage that complexity to a level that would satisfy all the idealists. In light of all that, I find it hard to blame them for it.
Bashir and Garek, Kirk and Spock
How about Quark and Odo? I love both of these stick-in-the-mud cop vs lovable rogue duos!
A pseudonym cleverly concocted to avoid paying royalties to Naren Shankar, the writer of TNG 5x19: The First Duty, who was let go after TNG finished its run.
All I said was that the data supporting your claim (hunter gatherers are more violent, period) was much less clear than you made it seem. You never successfully showed how Pinker’s book provided any evidence for that claim in the period prior to the agricultural revolution. The paper I linked pointed that out at the outset (that almost all the data is from post-agricultural H-G life). You then had to go off and drive yourself crazy tilting at windmills and attacking arguments I never made.
Anyway, some other points that make you look silly:
You took the term “resource-sharing” to mean “gift economy” which is ridiculous. For Hunter-gatherers, resource sharing is as simple as different groups passing through an area at different times, using the same food and tool resources that area provides, without entering into violent conflict over territories. When you don’t have a concept of “land as property”, you don’t have wars of conquest.
Then you go on to rant about carrying resources being more difficult (duh, Hunter-gatherers follow their resources, not carry them), hunter-gathering lifestyle being economically disadvantageous, and sedentary societies having big advantages here. This is arguing against a claim I never made (that H-Gs are economically superior). I said (at the outset) that the series of developments leading to modern society was actually a series of tradeoffs. That we’ve sacrificed everything H-Gs had (leisure, community, culture, and song) at the altar of economic growth.
If you’re a fifth of the way through, then you missed this part:
96% of human history happened prior to the agricultural revolution; if we only focus on the last 4% of human history, we will get a distorted picture of patterns and long-term trends in human violence.
Pinker’s book doesn’t support your argument because it never attempted to do so. It’s answering a completely different question.
Talking about Hunter-gatherers when they were warring for survival against agriculturists (a 10,000+ year gradual annihilation of Hunter-gatherers leading to the present day, where they’re on the brink of extinction) doesn’t tell you anything about what they were like for the hundreds of thousands of years prior.
Where’s your data?
HaikuOS is way more niche and obscure than FreeBSD or LFS. The only thing more niche than that would probably be TempleOS.