damn I never realized how efficient it would be to eat woodchucks

and it's also why some of these assholes are obsessed with the Roman Empire aesthetic without actually knowing a goddamn thing about anything, that would require them to Learn Something

because all of these guys also failed in Very Well Documented Ways

Hannibal of Carthage

fuckin Pyrrhus of Epirus

the problem is all these guys are ridiculously ancient, like classical antiquity ancient

Surprised this didn't immediately get you a block as a bad faith response, which is usually the next step in the psychological abuser master script

I think a lot of it has to do with the deep sociological depression inherent in the advent of the internet making us all collectively, slowly, and then very rapidly, aware of just how much of our labor and time and economic value have been outright abused since roughly the beginning of agriculture

touché

oh damn it was an AI dildo?

have you read Bluesky's? it's questionable in a variety of ways

oh she really didn't like this one

I find it very empowering when decisions are made for me either without my informed consent or hidden behind the wall of one-click T&C legalese our judicial system incomprehensibly considers informed consent

this seems like a really obvious, well-known thing to have forgotten

oh fuuuuck

ding ding ding

In the mean time we'll dig through your dumpster and make do just like we did with Protocol Labs. God bless

When you guys finally figure out why what you're building has such a deep flaw, please let me know, because you apparently have a lot of people who have bet the farm on you being right, and I suspect your company will implode long before you figure it out on your own

Bluesky has a leadership problem. It has a human problem. The technology it's building has a technical design problem that it thinks isn't a problem and it has a corporate ideological problem that enforces the idea that that design problem is a solution instead of being just another problem