So you could advertise on via own platform as much as you want? Billboards, sign spinners, flyers, door-to-door sales.

It would kill surveillance capitalism as we know it, I guess, but it seems like if you’re killing advertising you might as well go all the way.

The small business carveout is nice, though.

Pretty much. That wasn’t a complaint - it’s not sexy (it actually tends to liminal, with weird holdovers from multiple eras), but it works, and the healthcare received is seamless as soon as you’ve been identified as reasonably sick.

Or the old repurposed Tsarist ballrooms.

Very identical, sprawling lowrise construction, and not necessarily used as originally intended. I swear the pre-op area before my last surgery was originally a parking garage that they’d put up room dividers in. And just an absolute maze of them, backrooms style.

Valid.

It’s cheap to build and maintain. It just gets called “institutional architecture” sometimes.

Some of the schools I went to were architecturally interesting, but you bet there was still a lot of cinderblock, steel and harsh lighting.

Hospitals in my Canadian province often have the same vibe, although they start getting into that communist architecture feeling a bit, too.

I always worry about getting one that just naturally is. You’ll hear people say it’s all up to the parents, but if it was really like that shitty people would have died out. (Since shitty parents sometimes raise nice kids)

Like, what do I do then?

It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it’s hard to do education any other way.

Which I think just illustrates that take-home essays aren’t a great way to do things now, if they ever were.

Skill issue. Used an implied “of them”, which is idiomatic in the language, but forgot to update the value of “them” first. Without that, taking the first value is compliant with the standard.

/s, but only if we assume us programmers have common sense. ^/s

How?

Like, it’s hard enough for a group of humans to credibly do, because of the whole “who minds the minders” issue. The internet infrastructure itself couldn’t even tell Scunthorp from profanity very well, until recently with the advent of LLMs.

I’m pretty sure this part of Lemmy has already outgrown that part, though. Probably, “weird conspiracy people started Lemmy” will just be a fun history fact one day.

They say, on a free email-like service.

TBF Lemmy might develop a spam problem yet, so that’s a little unfair. It really has to be per-message microtransactions to make a difference, though.

This thread is mostly that, and then the one person like “127.0.0.1 is too tricky to remember”.

It’d still get there, probably; technologies tend to arise over and over again. But much more slowly.

Maybe illegal, small-scale commercial activity would fill the space until they’re forced to open it up. Maybe it would develop first in a non-Western nation with lax regulations.

I wonder if Gates would still have the personality trajectory he’s had if he was even more powerful.

You’d need to still have a whitelist, so putting the name of your store on the front of the store or telling a friend about a cool new thing you bought is allowed. But yes.

In a similar vein, letting websites render whatever they can imagine has proven ripe for abuse. Basic HTML is a kind of whitelist of it’s own.

/s was invented for a reason.

We’re not dumb, it’s just that the internet is so full of incredibly crazy takes nobody can tell.

Here’s an esoteric one: Kill the internet (as we know it) before it begins.

Okay, hear me out. Internetworking existed before HTTP and websites, and once the system of routing was there it was inevitable it would be used for all the things it is today. Email came first, and what is the Fediverse but an automated, abstracted-from-the-user email system?

With no HTTP, somebody comes up with the idea of an application that formats your mailing lists into one navigable page, and then somebody else starts caching mailing list emails at the server until requested by a user (like an instance). SMTP directly transitions into ActivityPub, and there’s no need to build platforms overtop which can be monopolised. We might get to skip the Zuckerbergs and surveillance capitalism entirely.

Really obscure or local stuff is going to be just on Reddit. But yes, I definitely have noticed Lemmy used to appear in search results (Bing via DuckDuckGo usually) but hasn’t for a while.

If it’s Venezuala-ish economic collapse, fertiliser will probably still be available. Heck, with thorough composting need for that is pretty reduced, even. My buying advice leans towards unusual or higher-tech things as opposed to bulk products.

If it’s war/apocalypse/disaster, a few acres will help or could even feed a whole person, depending on where in the US. A mix of things is advisable, maybe including animals, since it’s less likely everything fails at once. Medicine, fuel, water treatment supplies, batteries and ammunition are also recommended bulk items. Water itself if you’re in an arid place, and nonperishable food including cooking oil in case your minifarm has problems.

If it’s a recession like 2008, just get your finances in order and an emergency fund. Life will go on.