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Sufficient enshitification results in us simply reverting to how we did it in 1990. I am using actually useful software, but when that becomes unavailable, I will walk away like I already did with so much.

I’ve been using Linux since 1995, for this very reason.

Increasingly, when I find services don’t work any more, support says, “we don’t support linux”. I stop using that service and find an alternative. Never been on Facebook, and it’s stopped me from spending money at several retailers. Oh, well. Their loss, not mine.

As an American citizen who still believes in the actual Constitution and the values that were enshrined Within I can say that I am perfectly happy with Europe telling us to f*** off.

Seriously considering becoming a refugee.

Hey, some really amazing people have dyslexia, you know.

(Yes, I know what you meant)

LOL…SOB (rethinks assumption of the basic goodness of humanity, SOB again)

Yes. That’s the plan. You don’t think they fired all the people doing the reporting and policing because they were a waste of public money, I hope.

With no verifiable figures, they can claim anything they want, any time and expect us to believe them because they are the ones seeing it and nobody can prove otherwise. That’s all we need to know. They have everything under control.

It’s happening, but do you really believe a bunch of nonprofit low income “woke” “DEI” loving hippies are going to lobby more effectively than billion dollar corporations - er, sorry, PEOPLE - will lobby? These people literally bankroll candidates for office to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and have hundreds of lawyers to pick apart any resistance.

Sure, lobby. Just understand we are just continuing the fight on principle, not because it will have any impact.

We can’t give up, but we aren’t going to win, short of a literal uprising and even then it’s probably just going to remove the lipstick from this political pig, and the pretense of “for the people” will fall away.

We were hyped over the tech and the “punk” aspect. That’s the rebellion against the dystopia, not embrace of it.

I think I’m past the principle. I’ve been fighting for my privacycfor decades. I think we are beyond any hope now. Not only is it relentless, but it is happening on every front imaginable. I think I’ve checked out. Nothing short of total collapse or ground up revolution will change anything.

As “the kids” say, we’re cooked.

Yep. Biden signed a bill into law to rebuild that infrastructure. Trump killed it.

Much of it is over 100 years old, so it must be replaced. Flint Michigan learned that the hard way some years back. In Connecticut this year there have been several water main breaks in multiple towns that knocked out water for large numbers of people.

We were literally decades ahead of the rest of the world when we built all this stuff. Which means we have to be decades ahead of the rest of the world to rebuild all of this stuff.

It would be a lot easier if we didn’t have some 400 people taking about 80% of the wealth of this country.

For sociopaths like Musk, yes. The rest of us, not so much.

I actually commented on that somewhere. Cyberpunk is a good example of authors warning us of dystopian possibilities, not glorifying them.

Oh, yes they are…

You’re implying there is an option other than not owning a TV. Please send us specifics so we can join you.

Yep. My LG is not configured for internet. I updated it once with a USB stick. There is no reason to connect tv or speaker to internet. A good antenna gets me critical stuff.

We are already there, but with cars.

They do not exist. I looked.

This is the way. Bonus with HDR, Dolby vision, Atmos.

Steam Deck looks and sounds awesome with this setup.

I still remember adjusting the wrabbit ears on our black and white tv to get one of 4 tv stations.

I am perfectly happy with walking away from video entertainment once my work-arounds fail.

The world will continue spinning when the media manipulators go broke because nobody watches their tripe any more.

I hear these things called books are pretty entertaining.

What mean “we” round-eye?

I built my life around tech, but I never believed it was anything this article claims “we” believed.

Tech is a tool, not a panacea. Apparently “we” never grew up watching Star Trek, or reading the many authors’ works that fully explored the folly “we” are building (Fahrenheit 451, I, Robot, Ender’s Game, any number of cyberpunk books, et. al.)

Holy Fuck. A child could see this coming. I know because I saw it coming. Decades ago.

I see you totally ignored the entire point of my wall of text ™, and decided to simply insult me and claim I thought I was dunking on someone (more proof you didn’t really read it). You do you!

Right here, folks, is what happens when people feel threatened by information that does not support a closely held world view. We get argument-less attacks on the person perceived as threat. Even better, I had actually confirmed that the original topic was in fact legit in my own opinion after fact-checking with that “billionaire-owned propaganda factory” - yet here we are.

How does it feel, “BlameTheAntifa”, to agree with such a propaganda factory? Or, am I misunderstanding you and you feel the story is entirely propaganda?