Lately?

You can see the continuation of this strain of OG Woke Thought with "artists" who are like "GenAI is bad and must be destroyed because it automates the creation of furry inflation porn."

"Man, I had to spend the last 2–3 months of my senior year losing my fucking mind at home, attending 'classes' on Teams, didn't get to have a night out with or even say goodbye to my classmates, and my 'graduation ceremony' was a prerecorded YouTube livestream. Can't get any shittier than this!"

Ooh, another chance to post (the table of contents for) my meme/other shit megathread!

We have general-purpose computers today because the military wanted a cheap and harmless way to simulate nuclear explosions and the government as a whole was looking for a quicker, easier and more scalable means of storing and retrieving records.

I don't think this is a universal thing, you're just describing Greenwald and the rest of the Intercept circle jerk (though they more specifically subscribe to the "and of worse scale" view.)

Look, Shinji needs *something* to do when he's not piloting the Eva and he can't dedicate *all* his free time to being horny for Misato.

And at the same they're working to make "invade a petrostate to loot their resources with no popular support or even the pretense of a casus belli" a real thing.

It has been said the biggest single advancement in the U.S. government's capacity for processing paperwork was the invention and adoption of the filing cabinet.

The modern centralized state as we now know it begins with Napoleon, Lincoln, Garibaldi, Bismarck, and the technical advancements contemporaneous to each.

Excessive *decentralization* was the norm for most of history, really. After all, how much bureaucracy can one emperor with only pre-modern technologies personally manage?

Friends, upon several years of reflection, I've reached the conclusion that conducting society-wide epistemic discussions on social justice and ethics solely over microblogging social medial platforms was, in a matter of speaking, "not very cash money."

They issued a totally sincere apology after being called out by nearly everyone who saw it, and even then they could only frame it in terms of being thankful for the Red Army ending the Holocaust.

This was in ~mid-2021, in case anyone thinks this kind of garbage only became an issue recently.

Still remember one particularly dimwitted communist account "jokingly" lamenting how if she'd survived, she'd likely have moved to Israel after the war and fought for the IDF.

I'm reminded of the whole "Anne Frank was a privileged Becky, fuck her" discourse back on Twitter some years ago.