People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.
They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as 'the norm' and it fucking makes me ill.
Back in the early 90s we were told in school that 'The total number of LGBT per capita is less than 10% and that makes it unnatural'
One of the grunge kids raised her hand and said 'I don't think that number is accurate, plenty of states still accept the 'gay panic' defense for murder.'
Teacher gasped like a fish for about 3 mins.
Fuck you Mrs. Saunders, you bigoted piece of shit.
As a progressive Christian who hates everything MTG stands for, this is kind of disheartening to hear...
Maybe the fact that conservative governments erode the rights of women?
I think that's probably the biggest driver the last 10 years.
A FUCKTONNE of women I know became a hell of a lot less conservative when Roe Vs Wade was overturned.
Rage and clickbait.
This is essentially a civil case turned into something bigger because the person who got hit with a rock was a cop.
Had it just been another protester, there would be no call to undermine the 1st amendment.
And if SCOTUS goes that route, they will lose a lot of support from their politicians.
I mean of course since current SCOTUS is mentally deranged and highly partisan, they may of course still do it.
And I have a protest bag already packed and waiting if they do.
Remember the important supplies: Bottled water, masks and rags, first aid kit, baking soda to dilute to treat pepper spray
Leave your phone and IDs at home
This isn't hyperbole, you have SEEN what SCOTUS is doing and it is time to rattle their rafters with a unified voice.
Well, back in the day you'd have a series of different services, usenet, irc, email, and for articles (at the time usually scholarly articles) you could use Gopher or follow certain usenet groups to find FTP sites hosting the docs.
So if we didn't have a unified web browser, and those technologies advanced at the pace of other similar services, here is how I see it:
Most services would be accessed by discrete apps, one for your email, one for your chat, one for your remote and local documents.
We wouldn't see the proliferation of siloed services, platforms like Facebook that offer all of these services but only within their subscribers. They just simply wouldn't be able to compete with the established services or add nuance or extra value.
Discord would also likely have come into existence a lot earlier and unified some of those services, but again if they chose to silo it as they are doing now, they wouldn't gain market dominance over already existing wide communities.
Without the profit incentive, existing services have no reason to tie their users to their platform or inhibit cross platform interactions.
Streaming services would still come into existence and fragment and silo like they are now, but that's only because of the cost of providing reliable HD video content isn't easily dispersed across unsiloed userbases.
Web advertisements would be non-existant but you'd still get spots in podcasts and videos.
Frankly I think it would be a better internet than what we have now.
True, but also they can exist in the same statement, and often do.
For those that want the Full chain:
The past: Acacia ants protected acacia trees by biting elephants that threatened the tree, living in a symbiosis where the tree feeds them for their guardianship. Lions use acacia trees as perches to hunt and cover to hide in.
Now: Bull headed ants have done significant damage to native ant populations, leaving the trees unprotected. Elephants strip the bark and damage the trees, now they are no longer suitable for perches or hiding. Bull headed ants being invasive do not form the same relationship with acacia trees as acacia ants do.
The result is harder hunting and shrinking hunting grounds for lions, an already stressed species.
This is a common problem with dictators: One man's arbitrary gut feelings on 'how society should function' being so ridiculously wrong and dangerous that it never achieves the goals set for it.
Like when China started a campaign to get kids to kill sparrows for 'being lazy and living off the farmer's work', when in reality they were keeping the bug population down and their virtual eradication caused several seasons of crops to be lost to insect voracity.
The high minded ideal of a corrupt and out of touch leader who did not understand ecosystems killed hundreds of thousands of his own people due to misplaced ideals and lack of knowledge.
This happens here too. How many more people would have survived Covid if a certain orange twice-impeached seditionist shitstain didn't convince half the country that wearing a mask was unpatriotic.
Honestly I feel that trans boys and men are underrepresented.
I mean trans people are underrepresented in general but I feel that trans men get the worst of it, ESPECIALLY for medical info.
Good job Biden, don't stop now.
Just because we're old don't mean we're wrong.
I remember the first ever popup I got and how it made me fear for the future of the web.
My friends roflcopter'd and said 'it's only a popup'
Now look the fuck where we are now...