Hegar

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 78 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's not outside capital that leads to enshittification, it's leverage that enshittifies a service.

A VC that understands that they can force you to wreck your users' lives is always in danger of doing so. A VC who understands that doing this will make your service into an empty – and thus worthless – server is far less likely to do so (and if they do, at least your users can escape).

Incredibly clear article pointing out that no individuals will ever be able to resist enshittifaction pressures indefinitely.

The only way to prevent people with power from emiserating others is to structurally remove any benefit to doing so.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you honestly believed that democracts and republicans are identical on israel and you care about human suffering you'd look at all the other ways that trump and his fascists have promised to brutalize everyone who's not them and minimize human suffering by voting for a democrat.

Trump killing trans people, immigrants and palestinans is not a moral victory for opponents of our genocide in gaza.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Yeah, that makes it very hard to vote for them, I feel that. But that's a problem that gets worse by not voting for a democrat.

Republicans have promised to genocide harder and trump has already been coordinating with netanyahu to counter anything that might reduce palestinans deaths.

I don't like it either but it's time to be an adult, do the unpleasant thing, and vote for a democrat.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When WC1 first launched the one selling point that everyone mentioned was that if you click on units enough times they get annoyed and say "stop poking me!"

Warcraft was always heavy on the whacky, that's its whole thing.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 16 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

Don't vote "for/against whoever". Vote against trump like an adult - that means voting democrat.

Sure, picking between two options that you don't want is legitimately hard for human brains to do. But republicans have promised and begun to brutalize minorities at ever larger scales, and are objectively worse than democrats on everything that matters.

Handing the reins of state power to fascists has never improved life for leftists or humanity.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 101 points 4 weeks ago

The musician I saw last week mentioned that he'll get more money if you buy a CD from him now than if you stream his catalog on spotify for the rest of your life.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's just a lie. I don't think it's meant to hold up to scrutiny, it's just meant to be repeated.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is the most appropriate response possible. The non-sequitor in the middle makes exactly as much sense as everything that happens in a church.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don't understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure if you're paying for it, that's not love.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 85 points 1 month ago

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

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