chat chad is this real

Yeah man if I were in charge of the post office I’d definitely push for that AND the return of postal banking. Every post office in the United States would be your one stop service for this email so if there are authentication issues or anything you can actually go there and talk to a PERSON, IN-PERSON.

You would use this system specifically for official government correspondence, and also it’d be better for job seeking too - any situation where you need to be communicating as YOURSELF, fully verified.

I’d even throw in social media features. Forums, microblogging, live chat groups… however, everyone’s identity is clear and certain. No anonymity here. There is privacy insofar as what’s between you and the government stays between you and the government, but if you want anonymity and to express opinions without someone knowing who you are, that’s to be done elsewhere.

Instead of a social media website that lies to you and pretends dishonestly to give you privacy, this would have to be up front about the fact that it’s public property. A town square where you’re wearing a name tag. If you don’t want your neighbors knowing your rhetorical positions, post them elsewhere. Those other places, private services, and important and need to exist as counterbalance.

I’m sure many criminals would be stupid enough to use it for human trafficking and contraband smuggling shit though so that’ll help uncover and discipline rogue elements.

… but lemmy and masto do completely different things

masto’s a microblogging platform like twitter and lemmy is a link aggregator like reddit

honestly i kinda wish there were a rebuild of email that is compatible with the old system but was redesigned from the ground up to do the job better

ZING!

And dipshit elon literally argued in court that “twitter doesn’t exist anymore”

HMMM MAYBE SOMEBODY SHOULD INVENT IT

🤔

because its name is Mastodon, something that when people google it pulls up a band.

Also because it’s trying to be a hot fresh new thing but it’s literally named after an animal that’s extinct.

If it had a catchier and more unique name it probably would have caught on more.

we’re tired of being sold a shit sandwich that may someday become edible? wow who would have ever predicted this utterly unprecedented turn of events except absolutely fucking everybody.

2012 does indeed still feel like a major inflection point.

the internet was awesome for like … twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden…

Plus you can pull the neck of it up around your mouth, draw the neck hole tight enough to form a loose seal, and exhale into it to inflate it like a balloon :D and then your voice sounds neat and echoey in it! Wet fabric is not as permeable to air so it will actually stop it from escaping too fast.

YES
END THE HYPOCRISY
👏 FORCE
👏 MEN
👏 TO
👏 WEAR
👏 SHIRTS!

^^^apologies, i should have appended an ‘/s’^^^

This is nauseating to me.

Bullshit. ISO 8601 IS THE SUPERIOR DATE STANDARD
Tomorrow is 2024-08-30. DEAL WITH IT.

Especially now that aniwave is dead ;_; good night sweet prince

WoT references! a rare treasure from a long lost age (which may hopefully come again…)

a fun little rule of thumb that I like to apply is that whenever an article’s headline is a question you may safely presume the answer is usually no.

Central planning committee knows what’s best now eat your slop or it’s the gulag for you /s

You wouldn’t have to live with your parents if the people who still have a good relationship with theirs stayed there.

I literally won’t be able to live “with” my parents because my father was taken from us by covid in 2022 and my mother is on her last leg after a stroke, furthermore I don’t plan on becoming a parent myself - BUT I do entirely plan to fill this house with found family.

If you’re a loner who doesn’t want to live with anyone, ever, then that’s great for you. The majority of people are generally more socially connected to one another and naturally gravitate into tribal groups. If more people embraced that instinct, that’d mean more potential places to live opening up for loners like you.

if we let all the land fall into the hands of real estate holdings firms controlled by foreign billionaires you’ll be freezing to death under a bridge.

another force acting upon me is the sickening realization that just about anyone selling a house right now on the open market who isn’t selective about who they’re selling it to is, all too often, letting it fall into the hands of some foreign billionaire’s real estate holdings firm where they will use it as a personal investment-speculation-based piggy bank and transform it into, at best, an airbnb where people are charged four figures per night OR at worst, nobody is allowed to live there just to drive up the value of their other properties through artificial scarcity.

I want to see people continuing to own property. Families continuing to own property. Not corporations asserting neofeudalism.

i wonder how much of “other” is multigenerational households.

Personally I’ve come to consider the dominant meta of suburbs full of single (nuclear) family homes has been utter trash and a total disaster for society on the scale of the entire economy. Sending kids off to go into debt for thirty fucking years the moment they turned 18 was a massive mistake and now they can’t even get a HOUSE out of it because that debt now represents fucking student loans.

I believe we should return to the strategy where a family holds a piece of property generation to generation, continuously expanding and improving it to accommodate more and more people living cooperatively. Multiple sets of grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, all living in the same parcel if not under the same roof - the ‘it takes a village’ approach. Need more room? Fuckin BUILD some. Need to afford materials and labor? Pool the earning resources of all the working adults… And/Or opt for traditional construction methods that utilize the materials of the land itself, maybe conscript the cousins if necessary. Even if municipal ordinances are opposing the expansion, an extended family working together is stronger in challenging those power structures than any one or two parent(s) would be on their own.

And also we should stop building houses out of fucking paper.