Individual actions rarely cause big changes, but they help individuals all the time. Nothing wrong with that.

Interesting, now I know that type of argument has a name. I think many rationalizations are a veneer for laziness. Taking the stance that doing something is useless means you don’t have to feel guilty about not doing it. Likewise, when there’s a widespread delusion that simple, ineffective actions make us heroes, people will do those actions and nothing else, because giving themselves a gold star is all they really want. It’s important not to confuse spending hours in social media circlejerks with “spreading awareness”.

or: He’ll be eligible for parole in a few months.

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That’s just politicians caving to their financial sponsors. The American entertainment industry tried and failed to make the same case against VCRs in the 1970s, and audio cassette recorders in the 1960s. Downloading by itself isn’t “piracy”.

Panders to the pro-Trump views of tech billionaires? Strangely counterintuitive.

Sadly, many people born with perfectly functional brains are spending hours every day eroding their own cognitive abilities. The habit of taking in minimal information, making an instant value judgement and moving on to the next item, is shrinking attention spans and degrading decision-making skills.

At an online gaming company back in the late 90s, I deleted a file folder whose name was my first name. I had been there about a month and figured I must have created that folder for some dumb reason while I was ramping up. Turned out it was created by a previous software dev who happened to have the same first name as me, and it contained the production software. Essentially I blew away a good part of the external website.

Fortunately somebody found another copy and restored everything, named it something sane and put it in a sane place with access control.

Admittedly it was sloppy of me to delete a folder without at least looking inside it, but I really didn’t feel too bad about it because standards at this place were so low - they had no concept of source control, dev/test/prod environments, or much else. Everything they did was cowboy.

Exsanguination?

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Right, its answer would be a distillation of what humans have written on the topic of how to save us.

New executive order: From now on we’re calling it “Stupid Intelligence!”

Crotch nacelles.

One time Data started a conversation the same way. I forget who he was talking to but it went like this:

Data: “May I ask you a question?”
Whoever: “You just did.”
Data: “Very well. May I ask you another question, after this one?”

Alright I understand the distinction now, although I don’t think either kind of degradation creates a worse user experience than the other. I wonder what term will be made up to describe the situation when corporations have spun up their own instances of lemmy etc. and promote them so they attract far more users. Maybe disillusionication?

Thanks, silly me assumed a word like “enshittification” would just mean “made shitty”.

I would say sorry it’s just junk mail.