It’d just be monkey bars all day. Monkey bars on loop, like on CNN in 2003. So much monkey bars your kids would be swole like great apes when you got back.

Then the LAN games…

“C’mon let’s plug in and do a 6x2 comp-stomp on StarCraft!”

(Edit: changed the ratio, because if I recall Starcraft maxed at 8 players lol)

The Internet was for anyone!

(Stares 1000 yards away)

…But it should never have been for everyone…

I even thought social media was brilliant when it came to say, earlier MySpace.

Why? Easy way to keep in touch with people all at the same time. “Oh look what’s going on in so-and-so’s life”, instead of hoping they’ll stumble on your blog lol.

Even early Facebook was kinda like this. Network of friends and family. Chronological order. Simple, but not exploitative enough.

Then, yeah, I think it all went dumpster-fire when the incentive was “How many complete strangers can I get to follow my hot takes?” and adding rage-based prioritizing instead of chronological, and whatever the hell the “For you” section is. (When I rarely pop on FB with TOR, it’s all just NSFW thot content…that I cannot disable.)

When it all became about following celebrities and being all “notice me senpai!” on their feeds.

…Putting bad companies on blast can stay though. A platform to publicly shame bastards like airlines and politicians is/was a feature. Lol

I have this crazy longing to go back to having time for hanging out in digital worlds with people, without feeling guilty like I’m wasting my life away.

One of my favorite online moments was playing Wurm Online with some random dudes, chatting about stuff while slowly chopping trees, cutting logs, and wheelbarrowing them back to the village. Just talking about random stuff.

We built a little supply room that day. Felt pretty accomplished.

I have a Motorola I probably need to do this to, especially if Google is about to lock down against using F-Droid and stuff.

What a huge freaking inconvenience. When am I gonna find the time?

But I’m hoping there’s builds for something that will just work and not be like “Oh BTW the camera doesn’t work.” It seems a lot harder to find alternate ROMs these days if you’re not on a Samsung or Pixel.

It’s gotten so complicated too because they keep adding more and more anti-user layers. I like messing with stuff but I don’t want to be forced to hack my daily driver! Ugh.

This was quite educational, thank you very much for all the detail! I feel like I understand fundamental economics a little better now.

Hey no fair, you’re just reciting the events surrounding 2008!

But yeah. Scary stuff.

That soundtrack is a huge reason it’s such a perfect film. Damn, it gets ya so pumped!

You have chosen. . . .

. . .wisely.

There was that cat recently who holds the record for a crazy amount of toes. :3

My first thought was “Hey we’re one step closer to Star Trek replicators.” :D

We will not go quietly into that good night.

Pretty sure this is that dude known as ReviewBro, who reviews fast food and stuff. Or used to, idk.

He was in a rather popular meme that goes “My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.” Lol

I think they’re responding to the original image which states “Is there anything that isn’t getting worse?”

I agree. Things are NUTS right now but there’s some truly incredible stuff going on in the open source anything space, and I’m happy to be here for it. :)

Its all just homosapiens coping,

Exactly. Want to actually fight drugs? Give people something to hope for, and opportunities to do better things than constantly numb oneself with various substances to cope with a soulless nightmare society.

I notice it’s a good barometer for society’s health: Once all the jobs start laying off again and the costs go up and up and up and we get into some other war, everybody starts reaching for the stims to get through their jobs and the narcotics to find respite from everything else.

Just constant stress and pressure in the very air. It sucks…

If it helps, I gave you both updoots because the discussion was enlightening and mostly productive. :)

“Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.”

–Optimus Prime

I’m sickened by how many “flawed trials” are going to result out of such a thing before it “succeeds.”

Even as a goal, this is so wrong on every level. The stuff of nightmares.