Look, there's president Musk and the first bro.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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I can't help feeling that the real bad news is not that online platforms have been ruined, but that people have been and remain dependent on them.
Yet it is so surprisingly easy to not use any of them.
Just like it’s easy to quit smoking — for a day or two. Much worse is the fact that so many traditional institutions have been supplanted by online ones. Try getting a job for example.
And in a diaper
It’s been in Washington. Are we really gonna pretend the government is only just starting to suck? The level of suck is going to jump 1000x in the next 4 years, but this is hardly new. It’s just more idiotic and in your face.
Enshitification? .... at this point it's all dissolving into that putrid liquid dumpster juice.
Pedos unite!
“So, again, there’s no air. That’s why.”
“So no gas stations. No hotels.”
“Right.”
“But you said people are up there.”
…
“I’m gonna be in a selfie!”
- Jr. Jr.
“I’m here to claw back value for the owner class”
It's been there for a long time but ok, sure!