UlyssesT [he/him]

I remember having some reservations and skepticism regarding the ongoing good faith of Netflix when it was the new hotness.

I was called, you may have guessed, a Luddite, and told that "it would be bad business" if Netflix fucked people over and that it’d be silly to hold on to physical copies of entertainment media.

Now I’m basically this face to the same people

Forgetting someone, bucko?

Mates, tell me your troubles

what bothers you

That guy’s thumb in that pic.

And what’s his other hand doing under that paper?

beautiful

I’m glad I never got started; what pushed me out was when I peeked in and found it it was yet another capitalist realism ideology pushing setting where your choices are space libertarians or space neoliberals and ultimately even that choice doesn’t matter because of the lazy and pretentious asspull of (ending spoilers here)

REACTOR: ONLINE

SENSORS: ONLINE

WEAPONS: ONLINE

ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL

How about not putting a bunch of janky constantly-needing-replenishment laggy-internet satellites into orbit to begin with where the only real beneficiaries outside of bullshit “remote” excuses is the US military?

But progress is just launching a bunch of bullshit into orbit to avoid real investment in infrastructure like fiber and other telecommunication lines.

With sufficient tweets/xeets/whatever about how “we can’t stay earthbound forever” and “we must spread the light of consciousness to the stars,” extremely credulous “I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE” bazinga brains will happily see actual science being trampled upon in favor of performative spectacle bullshit.

I already knew that; my point was that letting your euphorically under-regulated corporate saviors do whatever they please (which can and probably will include higher orbit satellite junk later on) under pretenses of pretentious “reach the stars” platitudes is interfering with actual contemporary scientific inquiry, right now.

The pollution of each launch is significant, and the benefit of the janky low orbit network is questionable (except to the US military), especially because it requires constant additional launches.

A hype-riding not-actually-a-scientist billionaire apartheid prince says it can’t be done, and no one that works for him wants to say otherwise because they don’t want to be fired.

Just use fluffy euphoric speeches about destiny and reaching for the stars, prattle that could fit in a movie with a soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer, and you can sell the “I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE” crowd almost anything, including actual contempt and dismissal for actual scientists (astronomers in this case).

Throw enough glittering trash into orbit and your “can’t stay earthbound forever” platitudes become self-defeating because at some point nothing could be safely launched.

If free will is an “illusion” by whatever standard is used to determine that, then free will doesn’t functionally exist anywhere that we know of outside of that “illusion” anyway, which means the concept is meaningless, even in a negative, at that point. It’s like telling people they aren’t unicorns while no unicorns are around to even compare their not-unicornness to.

:spidermanpointing1: :spidermanpointing2:

Air Bud’s episode on Inside Job was really something.

Sunk cost fallacy compels “renew your man card with le epic bacon and epic le steak” consumers to ignore or outright angrily reject such information.

One of my favorite player backstories was a well-to-do guy having a midlife crisis and going on adventures while still writing home sometimes to assure The Wife that he’s just on a business trip.

virtue-signaling

Greedy and hostile practices are cool and good as long as they’re not pretending to be nice!

The OP, among others, will keep criticizing it. They consider it to be shady and with dubious claims to privacy that are subject to the whims of the owners of the browser franchise, doing shady things with user data against users’ consent. Deal with it and stop telling people what they should and shouldn’t criticize.