That’ll work for individual users, but getting all that chat history out will be a problem for the owners once the users dry up.

And I’m sure Discord will do their best to make it impossible.

Serves them right for picking chat software in the first place, let alone one they don’t control.

One problem will be that there are way too goddamn many software projects that use Discord as a shitty replacement for a blog and documentation, and they’re gonna be a pain to move to proper content platforms.

Humans are very good at justifying their actions after the fact. There’s a lot of research about this, especially when our right brain does things our left brain doesn’t know about.

lol, no, but thanks

I was commenting that even Disney has to deal with arbitrary paywalls

It’s paywalls all the way down

Given the demographics I’d be really surprised if we didn’t.

It’s the same model as religion and cigarettes: Get ‘em hooked young and you have a customer for as long as they live.

When Apple was the underdog they wanted open standards, and weren’t above reverse-engineering things like the DOCX format to make software. Hell, the original graphing calculator was written by a guy who’d been fired but kept working because it was a passion project.

Now that they’re dominant they want the same walled garden that they accused Microsoft of making 30 years ago.

When I said take me to the moon I never meant take me alone

I thought if mankind toured the sky it meant that all of us could go

But I don’t want to see the stars if they’re just one more piece of land

For us to colonize, for us to turn to sand

- Penelope Scott, Rät

Every day I experience a novel disappointment with my species.

I never thought I’d see the phrase “orbital data centers” and not think it’s cool, but here we are.

I’ve done that before when I’m in a hurry, but this was actually people waiting for that initial left turn.

Also this was back before smart phones, so things may have changed. Culture evolves.

One insight was the different behavior when a light turned green with someone at the front making a left turn.

Where I grew up that person would just have to wait, but in the city where I went to college they’d let one car turn left before opposing traffic started.

It was a bit of a culture shock being honked at for obeying the actual law.

I once got an A on an anthropology paper by analyzing body language in vehicles and different driving cultures in different places.

Republicans are just better at this.

I once killed an entire party size bag of Doritos by myself.

To be fair I was really baked at the time.

Imagine thinking this government would pay you lol

The fact that they can’t find enough utility in AI to make people want to use it is telling.

So we can have more angles of them shooting people in the street?

Who am I kidding, they won’t even be on