Let me guess: "This, Jen, is the Internet".

...Nothing on them but cranky bastards contributing to climate change while moving between ticky-tacky, 40+ hours of indentured servitude, and temples to Mammon.

I largely agree with most of Klee's points, but there's a serious bias issue with his conclusion: "The internet" is just the road we use to get somewhere. Where we go is up to us most of the time. And in this case, the "old internet" is still mostly there - Case in point, I still have a crappy static personal website up that hasn't been updated since the 1990s.

Problem is, nobody wants to read my ramblings from 30 years ago any more than they did 30 years ago. People want FAANGs, even while they may openly resent those same platforms. Sure, Amazon is evil... But the alternative is leaving the house and going to a store, eew! NetFlix kills everything good after two seasons, but two seasons on-demand beats a 30-second stick-figure animation that takes six weeks per "episode" and depends on the unpaid hobbyist creator not getting bored with the project. TikTok is measurably destroying the attention spans of our youth, but we can't risk missing the next big "hold my beer and watch this" moment.

The problem isn't "the internet". The problem is us as a collective whole. When there's demand for trash, sanitation engineers flip to supply side.

The primary reason companies advertise with Google is to drive search results to their site.

If AI summaries become good enough that nobody needs to click the links anymore - What are advertisers paying for? "Brand recognition" only takes things so far, at some point they need real customers to drop in and throw money at them or they won't have anything to advertise.

My company ships data dumps like this to multiple vendors on a monthly (sometimes weekly) basis.

My side of that equation takes security very seriously. The recipients... Well... When someone offers to send you credentials out-of-channel, the right response is never "Just email it, this isn't a shared account" followed by getting cranky at being told that ain't happening.

Ah, so the republican voters will happily pay additional taxes to service the record debt the orange shitgibbon created? Nice.

the germs to punish humanity for allowing transgender Muslims to practice Sharia law while eating your pets! Repent, heathens, or you'll end up with a brainworm like RFK's and low testosterone!

for the New Horizons probe to explore, like they did with the "snowman asteroid"*, but the area of space it can reach is rather limited, as it can change its path by only about a degree with the fuel it has left.

It's still amazing something going that fast can change its path by a whole degree. Due to luck, it didn't have to use much of its onboard fuel to get to its last 2 big targets. I hope it gets a chance to use it on something important.

* Found the by the Hubble scope, actually. They keep changing the rock's name, so I just call it by its nickname.

...one way

There are other options besides QWERTY and DVORK.

"Plutocrat 'A' grew too big for their britches, so lets give some of the business to Plutocrat 'B'."

What could possibly go wrong?

Google "Dark pools". Currently they account for slightly over half of all US transaction volume. Yes, they're still regulated; no, we do not have visibility inside them.

First, eat a dog.

> that in voting precincts are local, so there are likely to be people there who know the person voting

Most such fraud would be done in bigger precincts, not small towns, so as to blend in better.

> so if it goes bad, you're right there to be caught.

Somebody who ready to run can outpace Barney Fife.

> you have to research the particular details of a specific person.

I'm sure Putin and Xi have a copy of everyone's drivers license.

From the 30's to 60's one got too much lead from rigged gas, and 70's+ microplastics.

Gotz more! Names Jimmy Kimmel called Don: Trumple Stilskin Trumple Orangeskin Troompa Loompa Donny Boo Boo Cheeto Chief Unhappy Gilmore Commander in Beef Mar-a-Lardo Donny Bone Spurs Colludicris El Crappy-tan Hairy Poppins King Tutan-con-man Abra-scam-lincoln Douche-olini Typhoid Donnie [got staff sick] Flabbio Tangerine Twitter Machine Tandalorian Darth Tax Evader Jabber the Hutt Orange Julius Caesar Spready Krueger [Covid] Dingus Khan Putin's Pee Pee Pal Lie-ger Woods Tweety Gonzales Tanny Soprano Q-A-Don Dictator Tot Quid Pro Combover Prisoner-Elect Star Spangled Tanner Gaseous Clay Smellvis Yellvis Fibberace Reich Tyson MAGA Teresa Pork Choppo Commander & Thief Tannie Oakley Magaroni & Cheese Scamburglar Gassolini Groper Cleaveland Mar-a-Cloggo Vladimir Gluten Carrot Bottom Tannibal Lecter The Tanchurian Candidate Kim Don Un Donye West Genghis Don Burger Jean King Julius Squeezer Uncle Scam Merrill Flinch Keester Bunny King Hungry the Eigth Petty Rosevelt Gangus Conman Lie-a-tollah Founding Frauder

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