GaaaarFIELD!!!

What if the profit doesn’t cover the cost of building and maintaining the roads?

I love her Morpheus sunglasses.

I was working at a music festival, schlepping cases of beer. Some guy hit me with “I’m Gord Downie’s cousin, give me one”, I didn’t know who he was talking about, so I told him that and ignored him.

Later, a bunch of Ontarians told me I did that in perfect deadpan. In reality, I grew up on the east coast, where the Tragically Hip wasn’t nearly as popular, so I legitimately had no clue who he was talking about.

The research showed that parents’ screen use could negatively affect their interactions with their children, and also established a connection between parents’ and children’s screen habits, with the children of heavy users developing similar habits themselves.

As another Lemmite mentioned, kids are learning behaviour from their parents.

I guess I have to rethink my opposition to engineering humans now. 😞

My downvote reasoning:

Do I think editorial cartoons have a place in discourse? Yes.

Do I feel that politicians expensing extravagant lifestyles are a worthy part of political discourse? Yes - Bev Oda May disagree.

Do I enjoy criticism of Carney? Yes.

However, AI fuckery displaces existing jobs, avoids royalties, and (in current form) builds dependence on scummy companies.

Hence the downvote.

I thought dilation was key.

The statement that the new commercial veneer is dying needs to be backed up: YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and Reddit still drive traffic, despite the slop, and because of the commercialization. Meta and Facebook are doing fine.

I like what he says about the underlying protocols, but it is missing a bit of nuance: Google has been instrumental in the evolution of HTTP; SMTP became a very different game when Google (via Gmail) pushed authentication; DRM made it into browsers thanks to Google and media companies.

Commercial companies may be benefiting from open protocols, but they are also pushing them in new directions. The stack the author remembers still exists, but it has been changed by that commercial “veneer”.

Isn’t that water polo?

You are beautiful

I’m saying that. I’m saying it right now. And I’ll say it again.

Imagine wanting remuneration for time and labour.

The eyes are perfect

yet

Pretty much this.

The best shitposts speak to our souls

I’m surprised there are any posts left with those filters.