The API change wasn’t it, it’s when it became clear to me they were selling all my data to Google. I frequented mental health subs, and I started getting Google ads for scams TARGETING people with mental health issues. Just sick.

You’re talking about rebuilding and continuing society; I’m talking about hospice. It’s like making sure someone on death row is getting plenty of exercise and eating healthy.

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For what? They can stock pile 200 years worth of food a supplies now and just sit on it till they run out. At which point they will die.

Probably not. I believe if we look at how poorly humanity as assimilated information about climate change, I think it is more or less a given that we will manage to kill ourselves off. A few stragglers might live in the bunkers the tech giants made for themselves, but humanity as a whole will be on the way out.

I have a very small set of friends, and I got my PhD in Indiana. Randomly, while renewing my visa in England, I bumped into some friends who were just traveling.

It’s almost as if there is a financial incentive to enshitify everything.

This was maybe five or ten years ago. IIRC it was some sort of “insurance compliance” thing, but for legal compliance everyone accepts electronic document AFAIK, and they were providing electronic documents in the end so…. It sure seems like the profound ignorance of technology which is raising your blood pressure. 🤷‍♂️

Fair. I did mean shred the printout of the PDF.

I know someone whose job was to print out a PDF, highlight a set field on the PDF with a highlighter (say, SSN or sometning) then scan it back in and shred the PDF. All. Day. Long. Surely pushing a boulder up a hill is better than that