I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 2004. Waiting for everybody else to see it too. … See it yet??? Everybody???

They’re coming hard for van life too btw.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We have to mend this. And we can still mend this.

… I have no camera.

This new CAPTCHA’s prejudicial and exclusionary.

Not to mention grotesquely invasive.

And more time yet wasted tidying, sysadmining, dispensing with bureaucracy, eating, bathing, going to the toilet, socialising, travelling, and sleeping.

I wonder how much of the greed comes as a reaction against the [manufactured] scarcity.

I don’t think it’s all or none. I suspect it the vast majority though.

Even when adjusting for inflation?

definitely a form of addiction

& definitely getting people more entrenched in their groupthink, out of critical thinking ability.

Speaking as one who uses “fancy words”, I can attest, it’s no means to garner respect, and more likely people still won’t respect what you do, and may even respect you less for the fancy words.

Not all infinities are the same size

Heh. Watched an old episode of Scorpion yesterday. The one with the armed hostage-takers who just had the one demand to the social media data mining company, to delete all the data they’ve mined. I amused myself a lot, by uttering “I like these guys”.

can haz dropping android, and going for a linux or hurd or bsd or ironclad kernel instead, and back to a more proper unixy userspace?

Where?

Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don’t use the web interface. It’s video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.

on YouTube’s TV app

That’s where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.

Nothing like free software

Far many more than someone.

Largely true, though I think $ is a secondary consideration to some of the genocidal eugenicists, fundamentalists, supremacists, jingoist hegemons, etc.

Troubling, given how much the put-up-or-hack-up users-are-developers ethos having slipped as more and more come in enjoying the convenience wrapping, with their consumer mentality.

That is amusing if BSD do that. Being from there.

Them being armed will make it a lot more thrilling when you persist in asking them under what conditions are you lawfully obligated to comply.

War is good for business?

Yep.

Plenty bad reasons though.

Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

… So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?