I was more disappointed with Mike's performance than any stream hiccups. I really wanted him to come out of retirement and humble some dumb influencer faggot.

That's not what the last week of porting data out of my old rig and into the new one suggests...

It's actually been losing that status for me. As I grow older I look to the future and to the inevitability of the platform being enshittified once Gaben kicks the bucket. Now I buy games on GoG because I value an actual installation executable more highly than the conveniences Steam offers.

They recently kicked off some sort of game preservation initiative, which might just be some clever marketing but I'll be glad if it continues gaining traction and becomes an industry standard practice: https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program

Can you imagine? Full Software Lifecycle support for decades old games in perpetuity? It sounds like a dream.

and I'm telling you that that is surface level shit compared to some of what I've seen collected during my time as a federal contractor.

Crime statistics? Go ahead and publish it in full.

Literally everything they've ever collected? Bad idea.

No, I understand that perfectly. You mooks are missing the key word in that tweet, which is "maximally". The type and magnitude of information that the government collects behind the scenes is truly upsetting and not all of it should come to light for the same reasons you don't want your browser's search history published for everyone to see. This isn't about the government, this is about shielding normal people from having the government dump all of said citizens' dirty laundry out in the open.

Every day I see more evidence that asylums are an important component of a functional society.

How do they expect people to prepare dinner?

I'm not even sold on it publishing what it has simply because I have a better idea than most about some of the kinds of data it has. Can't really say more due to NDAs and not wanting to get gulaged, but yeah. It's a good sentiment but I would carve out exceptions specifically to protect normal people.

We're not out of the woods yet. The demographic time bomb is still in the process of going off and ensuring a proverbial thousand years of darkness.

Particularly since a non-trivial segment of Trump supporters were carved off from Bernie Sanders' base back in 2016, which would of course include a ton of people who still harbor resentment for that family from their involvement with the Bush presidency. This seems an obvious blunder to me but perhaps that's just because I'm part of the demographic that looked at that endorsement and immediately laughed at the absurdity of it. You thought that was gonna do anything other than reinforce my opposition to Kamala's candidacy? Hilarious.

I don't want the government autistically collecting information since I've seen firsthand just how much data the government can collect. There is software out there that straight up should not exist.

Justifying their call to ban political opponents by claiming said opponents are anti-democratic...the irony would be delicious if the consequences weren't so dire. I hope the political class gets thoroughly ousted and they all end up penniless pariahs on the streets like they deserve.

I hope Gaben's tradition of doing nothing and winning continues.

The firmware update has already been pushed to all the normies. I hate watching everyone just unthinkingly accept it. It's an unpleasant reminder that the vast majority of the population is subhuman.

I think this backfires by providing lawmakers more incentive to legally define speech they want to prohibit, just so they can ban mean tweets. I hope I'm wrong.

Whoah there, cool it with the antisemitism.

The Nigger License is already a thing.

I'm a contractor so I'm not too worried. There's always a next job and the axe swinging this time doesn't change that a bit for me. Besides, I've got enough savings to weather this storm for a number of years if things get well and truly dire.

For real though there is so much dead weight in government it is unreal. Incompetent low-IQ NPCs as far as the eye can see. I've seen at least two utterly useless(as in hard zero productivity rather than just substandard) people scrub out of my office in the past two years and we're not even a sizeable outfit.

I support Full Meme Politics.

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that this ultimately increases political tensions because there's no more "mainstream media" to loosely tie the country in to a common narrative. Instead of just the terminally online retreating into our respective echo chambers to radicalize, now the normies are going to be joining us.

Though more like 95%.

I have never been so excited to get shitcanned in my life.

Omnibus bills should require a blood sacrifice of at least one politician.

I'm convinced that at this point many of them have suffered permanent mental damage as a result of the industrial grade propaganda turrets firing into the prison yard of their echo chambers.

nah, fuck you. We're living in an age of active and hostile propaganda as evidenced by at least the past decade. Everyone should actively distrust things that can't be verified. If you have a problem with that then you're a malicious actor and we should bully you out of our community.

Oh.

Oh that's no good.