@FlagrantError @RickiTarr there's also a human cancer that's been alive and growing since the 1950s that's immortal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

@Npars01 @draftexcluder uhhh, they own all the housing...

@GossiTheDog they're going to have to make some big changes to the story. In the game the complete ejection of everything we knew about the main characters to create 180 degree unbelievable actions and choices wasn't even attempted to be earned.

@farah why are you destroying the economy?

@jsit and the embrace extend extinguish becomes inevitable because one press release bot is on threads and there's no way for any large instance to have the freedom to decide that a massive, corporate run, algorithm infested and almost completely unmoderated threat to the entire network is unwanted.

Each state and the federal gov should have their own activitypub instance.

Biden joining threads is not potus joining mastodon. It's potus supporting a corporate spike jamming open the door for embrace extend extinguish.

It's going to be next to impossible for a mastodon community of any size to not expose their users to the flood of shit from threads just to support this one press release bot.

It should be @potus@us.gov threads should be federating with that, not Biden forcing us to threads🤦

@youronlyone that old Travolta movie Phenomenon doesn't decouple intelligence and emotional intelligence.

If you haven't seen it it's got a pretty good hopeful heart to it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/

@phiofx @gerrymcgovern @jackofalltrades @jill_the_pill @FantasticalEconomics marketing and propaganda are twins. The vast majority of mass media advertising is manipulative enough to be considered coercive abuse.

It's also almost impossible to escape.

The most evil thing about it is that we're know on a third (or fourth?) generation of society where everyone thinks it's normal and good to soak in an environment where every second has at least one ad in your attention.

@thomasfuchs personally I'm fine with cracking open an amp and reworking the circuitboard to check/clean the pots and make sure the soldier hasn't cracked or the caps bulged every few years but I'd never claim that that's easier than waiting for firmware to update itself.

@thomasfuchs let me sing you a song of soldier and the great capacitor plague...

@youronlyone there's a build of hollow knight for Android that's great. Castlevania SotN is on android and that phone can run emulators pretty well.

@RickiTarr I think it's because our internal narrative back fills our own motivations and goals faster than we can admit that we have no idea why we do the majority of what we do.

Our memories are of an ongoing pseudo rationalization of chaos that we never really understood.