I mean if you don’t like camp, maybe. If you do, then this movie has some big shoes to fill!

Very nice. More democracy.

What are you suggesting then?

barf. barf barf barf barf. wtf!!!

Above and below the page/plane is the z-axis.

But some people “hold” the page up in front of them, or down on the table.

Oh fuck

Ds9? I don’t watch shows anymore, though I like remembering it

The underwater episode is great though, tbf

I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.

How?? I suppose I did this like a decade ago, but ever since I learned to cook / budget, it seems untenable.

It’s Platform Capitalism.

You insert yourself as a convenient middle-man then jack up the rents once enough people move on to your platform to trigger network effects.

Enshittify until basically no one but a few execs and investors are profiting.

And to any engineers who think they’re on the winning team: look at the gig workers you help exploit. That’s the future of your vocation.

I certainly wouldn’t know what this could possibly be referring to since I’m on a yacht and have just taken some very powerful amnestics. As far as I know I’ve never been on the internet.

There are a bunch of people here wearing baby masks. They all have hammers, which is odd because as I said we’re on a very large (expensive) yacht.

It’s the bear all over again innit

Why do you assume the least charitable assumption? It’s good advice in appropriate contexts

I’ve heard much the same thing from the world of biz. People think the CEO is the ultimate dictator in the corpo world, but you don’t get to that position without being useful to the upper classes and financial automations. The moment you start going out of sync with those forces is the moment you will feel you “power” rapidly decreasing.

It’s only the power to enunciate the will of capital. Never to act against it.

Damn, I want to know what this said…

Yeah it was never really real, except as a dream. But real people did actually come the murica to try to dream it together. It’s just the money men got there first.

It could be! You were once the great hope for democracy and working people everywhere, until you were captured and contained by the aristocracy. You could be that hope again.

I think that’s overly simplistic. Power does attract people who want to abuse it, but it also attracts people who want to change their world for the better.

The latter group view power more as a weighty responsibility than a privilege, but the power still exists.

Although that latter group is also more likely to spread their power around, thus reducing the opportunities for abuse by the former group, and… I kind of see your point. But I view it a bit more systemically.

In some countries, people make a big enough stink to actually send people to jail rather than write them a cheque.

It can happen.

You could also just show up to a board meeting or similar and keep pushing them to the ground until they stopped trying to stand up, then tell them to give all their money away or you’ll just keep bullying them in increasingly humiliating ways.