Ogmios

Don’t pretend you’re waiting for retirement.

How do you know it isn’t actually Eden, but you just focus on all the wrong things to see it?

It’s more about Internet speeds I think. When I download I can almost always get whatever near instantly from hundreds of active seeders. There’s simply not enough demand to tax the networks to the point they need to connect to small timers like me, I imagine.

I rarely even get anyone requesting a single byte, regardless of how long I leave torrents open.

It’s pretty hard these days to even get some seeding done on most things I look at.

Trying to push the entire world’s population into the same spaces. Sometimes, it actually does make sense to have spaces specifically for those with common experiences, like men’s and women’s spaces, or nationally segregated political spaces.

Social media NEEDING new content by the minute simply in order to survive.

Heavy reliance on volunteer moderation.

Falling out of reality irl

Bingo.

The only people you actually end up reaching are people with good intentions who don’t need to hear it in the first place. “Stop taking advantage of people” is a message which can usually be dispensed only by force. The moral panic over “toxic masculinity” did very little to affect those who actually caused problems, but a great deal to disenfranchise those who would actually make bad actors stop taking advantage of others.

They destroyed far more than just America, everyone’s just too myopically focused on America’s problems to notice what they’ve done to themselves by attempting to copy the digitization of society.

That’s exactly my point. If you come into a conversation and start declaring the definitions have to be different from how the speaker uses their own words, because people they’ve never even met said so, that’s not a good faith effort.

The point is that you have to make a good faith effort for communication to be possible, which you are not doing here. Language evolves organically, not by the dictate of a legally mandated authority.

Well if you actually want to communicate with others outside of academia, you’re going to have to get used to attempting to understand people rather than constantly trying to “fix” them.

Whoops. Accidentally suppressed discussions regarding the accidental suppression of discussions. Those darned silly technical glitches are just so unpredictable.

Reformatting.

This may take a moment.

The game of Life.

In common usage, I’d argue it just means a society which is run by technology rather than people, which everyone is trying to do these days.

technocratic

I was unaware this was a feature of society unique to the political far right.

You’ll get no argument from me there, and if you actually engaged earnestly instead of seeking strife by twisting one word you’d have learned that what I actually mean is that men have provided the material goods required from the system. I suspect you did know that, however, and you’re just seeking an argument.

Why would we want to protect them from being exploited to enrich someone who doesn’t care about them, as just another wage slave (or worse)? You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t accept the idea that being provided for by someone who loves you is a form of slavery.

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