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It's staggering how the web is devolving into long forgotten shittiest practice. All that 'compute power' only to end up like this.
by agumonkey 4y ago
It's staggering how the web is devolving into long forgotten shittiest practice. All that 'compute power' only to end up like this.
- realce 4y agoComputers only empower human nature, so it goes.
- swayvil 4y agoThat's all empowerment. Time, money, even self-improvement meditationy stuff. It's invariably no taste and petty power struggles, magnified. Like one of those 1950s giant insect monster movies. Power needs to be coupled to cultivation or something.
- agumonkey 4y agoYes, society rebase itself on any layer it can; I'm just surprised nobody saw it coming earlier.
- willnonya 4y agoHard not to long for the days when the internet was only for geeks and porn eh.
- randcraw 4y agoBricks and mortar retailers have long been prosecuted for fraud by law enforcement, local or federal. But “marketplace” e-resellers circumvent enforcement because their e-tail hosts (Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba…) don't hold them responsible and are not held responsible themselves for abuse of their service by others, no matter that the level of fraud has risen to become the norm. The cause for this is, of course, we, the willing victims. And it won't change until we insist that government NOT be just another reality show.
- the_snooze 4y agoTrust and reputation don't scale well. An uncurated global marketplace means the most underhanded players win out.