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Well… Only if you “combined it with a form of fusion”.

Er, k, not American. I’ll try not to be insulted by the slight, I know my accent probably is indistinguishable from theirs. Its ok. You’re growing.

I mean… Are you “at war” with every enemy all the time or can one have an enemy and not technically be in a state of war?

Ok sure “frequency-of-accessibility-comments-suggests-conspiracy” guy.

Riiiiiiight. Right! Those QA testers were kept in pods, had no friends or interactions outside of their jobs, and ZERO motivation to espouse accessibility standards to me outside of those professional boundaries.

None of them were color blind or hearing impaired. All perfect humans just like everyone else. No stories or personal anecdotes to make an impact. So few good examples. Sigh.

We never, ever, ever went out as a group with the designers or anyone from any other walk of life, never talked about our siloed skillsets, never met each other’s friends or spouses.

Not once did we have a discussion about the selection bias you referenced.

Fucking /s if it’s not obvious, and I suggest getting to know your peers better versus your rather peculiar brand of solipsism

Uhhh. You’ve never had a beer with a QA tester I’m guessing. I was getting grief back when apple still made and sold iPods for this. Categorically; not a new phenomenon.

What good will that be 'gainst the 20 stout men and their crossbows that will besiege you on the high road as you go to market on the Lord’s Day?

I just point and bray laughter while looking them directly in their faces. The forehead veins are all a-throb.

Lol no these are not adults. At least not in any emotional maturity context. Chronologically maybe…

The wound must be lanced and purged lest infection set in.

Now: as a Canadian, if we must amputate…I think I know where I’d tie off.

For a good laugh have a stroll through the yahoo finance comments. It’s bounced back up to 126ish now. The hooting noises are just…so funny to hear.

Yeah that’s… probably not why.

Or, the internet, the same medium upon which the noisome roots of social media depend, has some induced self-selection bias for increasing connectivity. It’s basically behaving like a weird superorganism and advocating for conditions to make it grow. At, I might add, the expense of the host species.

The Romans devalued their currency too. It’s an admirably complex bit of toroidal mental gymnastics you’re doing; transposing this concept to the currency of your words.

All that happens is more gpus spin up though. Just more waste. It’s indefensible.

…and it happened in a vacuum, just all by itself.

Ok but your not speaking to a Chinese, but to a Canadian, so don’t make me laugh any harder than you already have or I’ll need to go see a doctor for free.

Imagine how much more successful any given business might be by simply… ignoring Twitter.

Doesn’t America also have near universal healthcare then

Lol wut. Not even remotely.

I’m from the 90s Internet. Geocities. Tripod. Webrings. My awesome gothy co-worker staying late after work to update her vampire fan-fiction site because hardly anyone had a computer and the boss let her use the company’s windows 95 machine.

We are categorically lazier as a culture now than then. I expect things to enshittify further until we collectively take responsibility and accountability for our own culture, engagement and entertainment online. As we used to. We need more stupid web tricks, this place used to have all sorts of public art and weird monuments to human quirkiness.

Until they take away from us the ability to purchase a 10$ domain, use DNS, and make HTML forbidden knowledge, anyone can be out there contributing. I realize, however, that most will not; I’ve recently started getting wide eyed stares of amazement because I have my own domain and use it for my email address, so we seem to be sliding further…

Not sure how we fix this.