Like, I’ll go ahead and say the internet has gotten worse, but only after a decade or two where it got much, much better.

Yeah. 90s internet was really novel and interesting and unique, but after a couple hours you got bored. There wasn’t that much happening on it. Also slow as all hell.

Then internet speeds picked up and there was enough content to keep you basically permanently entertained. Lot of entertaining stuff. The Age of Memes was truly upon us.

Then the bad actors and village idiots were able to easily get access and understand they could use the internet for nefarious reasons and it’s been getting shittier for about the last decade or so. Realistically, probably around the time smartphones came out and the influx of fools was of tsunami proportions.

Convenience-wise? Yes. A lot of things are easier to get taken care of now. From being able to handle DMV shit online to organizing events to paying bills. All way easier than they used to be.

Everything else…yeah, no. Things are not good economically. Things are not good socially. Things are not good civically. Stress levels are high. Suicides are up. Wealth disparity is getting insane. Finding career jobs with good employers is rough. Have fun buying a house. You might be on the street if you have a medical emergency. Fuck you if you’re poor.

Generally speaking, things are getting worse, but we’ve got some cool tech and easier payment methods while everything else goes to shit, so we’ve got that going for us.

A bottle opener shaped like a key so it fits neatly between my other keys on my keychain. I thought I lost my keys once and I was way more upset about that than my actual keys, despite it probably being pretty easy to find on Amazon.

Friendly reminder that it should be 100% illegal for law enforcement to wear masks and hide their identity.

We pay their salaries and they have ZERO accountability.

These are domestic terrorists.

I’m disgusted by it.

But I’ve also reached the point where I’ve accepted that humanity will absolutely destroy this planet and there’s not much that we can do about it.

I still try to minimize my waste, but I do so simply to make myself feel better in the short term, not because I think it’s actually going to make a difference in the end.

As a help desk tech, please don’t get me started.

But in the spirit of contributing to this post…focused inbox. No Microsoft, I actually wouldn’t like to see all my messages and would prefer if you could hide them from me so I miss important shit and get chewed out by my boss.

Came here for grape stomping lady. Knew I wouldn’t be disappointed.

If the internet didn’t exist we wouldn’t be in the same political situation we find ourselves. So it’s hard to say.

That being said, I’m old enough that the internet wasn’t quite a household, in-your-face thing until I was already legally an adult, and I was already leaning left by then thanks to people like Rush Limbaugh who made me realize how selfish, racist, and uneducated conservatives are and I didn’t want anything to do with that. Life’s too short to waste time being a self-serving piece of ignorant shit.

As far as religion I knew that was all bullshit well before I reached adulthood. Internet wouldn’t have affected that at all for me.

Eh.

They’re closing because they couldn’t find mods to continue running it.

In the Fediverse instances are like subreddits. Do you know how many subreddits I’ve come across that shut down because they couldn’t find mods to run them?

Lemmy will be fine.

Beavis and Butthead

It’s a combination of them being young and dumb, but also being brought up mind-fucked by social media from the beginning of their lives.

The Mandalorian

Noped out after season 1. They revealed his face during a filler episode, during a boring scene, instead of waiting an episode or two longer for the real gut punch reveal at the end of the last episode.

It was stupid. It killed what would have been one of the best face reveals in cinema history. I had no patience for the show after that. Almost didn’t bother finishing the rest of the season. I don’t really care what their reasons were. Contractual. Whatever. Don’t care.

I feel this so hard.

Looking into purchasing a firearm. Too many stupids in this country. Have to protect myself.

If they’re American I would point out that they have no representation for their conservative views because there is no fiscally conservative party in the United States.

I suggested lobotomizing all conservatives. I’d 100% live in that world and love every minute of it.

Lobotomize all conservatives to see if their IQ increases.

We’ve exhausted all other options.

Eww. lemmy.ml is gross.

Sorry bud. We’re in a downward spiral that ain’t ending any time soon.

You’re gonna be waiting a long time. If ever.

don’t know why I was downvoted

I’m convinced there are people out there that just downvote everything. They get some kind of chemical release in their brains when they hit the downvote button. You could say “being happy feels good” and someone out there will downvote it.