I’d argue most of us are older but not too old to remember what the internet was as well.

Not only does the salary go down in small towns but the number of positions are greatly reduced. All it takes is a layoff and that “cheaper” small town could be too expensive because there are no more positions to fill.

It’s weird that 60 years ago Gary would not be considered a small city. Went to shit real fast.

Nah those are the wizards who use light to carve the rocks. To think it needs software, otherwise it’s like a dead person on life support with no brain activity, there’s no thinking happening.

Just say you do it through god and you’re good

The country can be huge but most people live in urban areas now, it’s not like they’ve gotta waste time and money running fiber all over north dakota. We’re talking cities with populations that rival some countries.

So you teach rocks to use lightning to think

I think religion is the problem and not just bad people in the same way I think fascism is a problem not just bad people. A collection of people who are discouraged from challenging authority and encouraged to operate on “faith” that the leaders aren’t corrupt is inherently flawed.

I’ve done it with paying for dental insurance but not going to the dentist because I can’t afford it.

Totally and the cost of gas or electricity could be higher and that makes it a bigger impact.

Does energy efficiency make a big difference in the UK? I was under the belief yall had a pretty tame climate. In Arizona it’s not uncommon to have days around 45 degrees for months so I know the efficiency really matters.

I’d love to be able to set up a laptop and have much more screen real estate by putting on a headset. The ability to watch something like game of thrones on an airplane without the 6 year old behind me seeing shit would also be nice.

The biggest downside of the apple headset is that it’s apple and their stupid ecosystem.

I’d personally love to see retired people getting into DnD for the first time. I imagine if everyone is retired it’d be easier to schedule out.

They’ll give corporations all the slack and handouts but look at those trying to feed their children and scrutinize every little detail. It’s so sad.

I don’t like calling it overhiring as if it was accidental or something. They didn’t hire thousands of people over covid thinking covid would never end, they just knew they could pick up people to fill the role for now and kick them to the curb as soon as they weren’t needed.

It wasn’t an oopsie, it was by design.

The people shutting it down don’t care about the genocide but the money from military industrial complex.

It works if working is simply not knowing there are exploits happening.

“word scary” is probably the most annoying crowd.

I think decentralization mostly shines in sharing. Comunopedia would obviously do what I’m thinking but I bet there’s some who would feel scared of it.

I think there’s more anonymity away from phone numbers because the way phone numbers are plain text and sold. The only way to really keep a phone number anonymous is to constantly switch phone numbers instead of switching logins.

In today’s world I feel like it’s much easier to whitelist who you want to talk to instead of blacklist who you don’t. It’s way too easy to spin up another virtual phone number and just call again or spam texts.