One of the saddest things to realize when something or someone dies or disappears ... is that you have moved up in the line for things or people to die or disappear
It’s not people who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our corporate controlled politicians who are more beholden to money than in representing their own country.
According to the old testament ... that is 400 cubits in length ... it's enough length to pack in every animal species on the planet (except for unicorns and dragons)
I don't really care about images on here all that much ... I don't mind them being lost if I lose my instance.
Most of the images that are shared are basically 'one off' images for a quick gag or as part of a conversation specific to that moment. And often that conversation or interact is a 'one off' event as well. Which means it was all meaningful when it happened and when it was read the few times it was noticed over two or three years but then it is forgotten.
If there is anything meaningful I come across that I think is important to me or something I want to keep a reference of or keep ... I'll save it or screenshot it and put it away in my own storage or data.
Otherwise, I really don't mind losing all those other images I had created over the years ... they already did their work when people saw them at that moment.
The only reason anyone would want to keep all that data is to archive it for historical reasons .... or to monetize it by collecting a bunch of unique data, images connected to real people.
It's a way of controlling the software .... it would be a lot more difficult to make changes, even change settings or adjusting the software from time to time if it's constantly being updated every week.
I noticed this with Chrome ... a few years ago, there were lots of settings, hacks and changes and adjustments you could make to the browser to avoid tracking, advertising and all sorts of other things and to generally make it run faster. All that activity is lost now because Chrome literally updates itself every week.
I run Linux and my software doesn't update it self that much ... the only thing that updates itself every week is Chrome .... the entire package about 50-60MB every time, wipes itself and reinstalls a new version every time ... so any changes you had made to the software or any attempt at adjusting anything in the deep software is all lost and reset over and over again.
I agree ... but we should develop the federated social media in whatever way we can, however it turns out or looks like or even operates ... as long as we're using it, it's a good thing.
As long as corporate control is kept at bay and away from federated social media, we'll be OK.
If any corner of the federated social media starts to get infected with corporate control, then that disease will just grow and consume the whole system .... just like every other thing it destroyed before.
They would sell you the rope to hang yourself ... and market you the idea that it would be a good and popular thing to hang yourself with their Deluxe Hangman 3000 Super rope made from naturally sourced hemp.
It's human nature ... the vast majority of people are very decent tolerant people.
It's only a very small minority of the population that cause a lot of problems .... and usually they're the loudest most obnoxious a-holes. They are usually the ones who sway large complacent groups to follow them.
It's only a few people in our world that cause us not to have nice things.
My parents were born and raised in the wilderness of northern Ontario. We're indigenous so I don't think what was happening in the world in the 50s and 60s had much effect on my people who were still surviving in the wilderness away from any one else. It would have taken a full blown global nuclear war to have had an effect on my family from 1963 onwards.
Commodore 64 ... Same here .... but it was with a family friend that I went to visit often ... every time I saw them, we spent hours on their system. I remember sorting through all the ASCII characters to try to make a drawing on the screen ... hours and hours of tip tapping to find the right character for the flag of England I was drawing.
50s .... I was very young in the late 70s when I saw my dad make his last deliveries to the HBC store in Moosonee in James Bay. But our family keeps several photos of mounds of furs that my parents processed in the 60s and 70s ... piles! with a hundred or more furs all processed by hand ... this means weeks of a trapper walking and wandering in the wilderness and covering hundreds of miles on foot, snowshoes and dog team ... then returning all the animals to be processed (we ate most of the meat by the way because it was a way to feed the family at the same time) ... days of skinning animals ... I remember our kitchen reeking of fox, beaver, mink and even wolf with racks drying nearby while mom cooked the meat in a stew. I have fond memories of watching dad deflesh furs on stretcher boards he carved by hand, then tearing pieces of cardboard to stretch the insides of the limbs of the fur. I know it sounds disgusting and even inhumane in this day in age but for us back then it was all a normal part of our lives. And then finally delivering everything to the store for a few hundred bucks ... for work, time, effort and skill that would have cost thousands!
Here Lies Hudson’s Bay Company, Murdered by Private Equity the same greed it was born from
As an indigenous person who grew up under the shadow of this company. As a boy, I saw my trapper father trade his last furs with the company just before the fur trade industry collapsed in the late 70s. Even as a boy I saw how much work my parents put into processing a dozen furs in exchange for not much money. And this had happened to my family for generations!!!
HBC was made possible by directly exploiting indigenous people for 300 years. They basically owned the land where my family lived. Which meant they could do business in whatever way they wanted with my ancestors. They bought furs for the cheapest prices that could barely sustain the lives of the people they paid. Then resold the furs for enormous profit in Europe. They did that for almost 200 years without any regulation or control which meant it built them one of the biggest corporations in the world ...... all In the backs of indigenous people who had nothing much to live on.
Fuck the HBC ...... it's a beautiful thing to see that terrible name taken down and destroyed.
One of the saddest things to realize when something or someone dies or disappears ... is that you have moved up in the line for things or people to die or disappear