Actually, I wonder if people who have difficulty visualizing from words would struggle to, like, make their own pictures.
grrgyle
We've all got to start somewhere.
A book.
God damn, it does.
I mean, aren't we changing things right now, changing the way it goes?
Sorry for all my railing against the mainstream, I can't resist quoting T2.
But yes, I suspect you're right. Really, it's a kind of return to the pre-commercial internet, before corpos started trying to capture, valueize, and monetize all of our freely given interactions on their platforms.
Yeah I finally made an account and there is more than enough here to satisfy my mealtime watching needs. Still not a lot of content when compared to the mainstream platforms, but that reminds me of all the fediverse offerings a few years ago.
I feel like it's only a matter of time before there's enough on peertubes to keep me off the mainstreams almost entirely.
The spirit is there
Same thing with open concept offices. To extraverts it feels more productive and collaborative, but it's actually the oppo to anyone engaged in any kind of focus work.
That's great. It's like you were temporarily a worker's co-op.
I remember my company at the time also admitted that COVID was threatening the bottom line and many in the all hands and public chats suggested just what your company did.
Instead we got multiple rounds of gutting layoffs mid-pandemic, a mass exodus of core talent, and the founders selling out to some B tier silicon valley fucks who fly in every now and then to complain about morale.
I only had a 360 back in the day, and I feel like I got in and out at the absolute peak. So many great couch coop with roommates memories.
Do you enjoy graphic novels?