Wow, he really socked it to them.

Do you think if the electoral college was banned that criminals would give up theirs? Wake up, the only thing that stops a bad guy with an electoral college is a good guy with an electoral college!

I mean I have a tiny bit of respect for Beardy McNazi in the back there, not afraid to show his facist face. A tiny bit. Maybe an iota.

Whoever has been left as its leadership is a dumbass.

Not in the slightest. More likely their annual bonus depends on boosting revenue right now. So they’re incentivised to generate short term increases in revenue but not for longer term. Plus, also, if/when Youtube goes tits up they’ll just get a different CEOing job (with “increased revenue by 25% in 2024 on their resume”) rinse and repeat.

Kind of my point. We gained ecommerce, streaming services, platforms such as this one, online gaming, mapping services, and others - at the cost of the freedoms for which people are nostalgic. And now we have ads, personalization, tracking, and inevitable enshitification.

Back in the days of the wild frontier things were chaotic, anarchic, violent, and unconstrained.

Then came the churches, then came the schools
Then came the lawyers, then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

And now we’re all fenced in, regulated, allowed to wander only in approved lanes… oh, wait, sorry, we’re talking about the internet, not real life!

Me. Sigh.

The best alternative is to take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Just head down to the basement, find the circuit breakers for your building and flip them all to off for 10 seconds. That usually gets you out of Vi.

Vi/Vim - had it on every computer I’ve owned or used since about 1991.

One foot? More like five feet ten inches!

The Crown Prosecution Service.

Time for a Tub of Lard then.

That hurts the side of my thumb but I’ll give it a go!

I heard something like this the other day. Is it the same thumb as the palm? 'Cos I can’t press my right hand thumb to the palm of my right hand very hard.

I love water so much I always add a splash to my whisky!

Goldman Sachs is overhyped and unreliable.

I’m anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have read such pericombobulation.

Defragged cows. System files cannot be moved.

I was thinking more like a jazz trombonist.