WHYAREWEALLCAPS

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[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

Our modern economy and world are built on the need for wage stagnation. Unfortunately that only lasts so long and we're reaching the end of it. That is going to come with a massive correction that is going to be pretty painful for the masses because the last thing the rich want to do is not be making as much money. So how they handle it will determine whether they live through it or find out what it's like to be looking at the inside of the basket at the end of a guillotine.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Republican voters showed up and Democratic voters didn’t.

This is the way.

Seriously, this is how it always is in Texas. The Democrats here don't bother to get off their lazy asses.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Back in the day I'd use UUCP over dial up to the local university to get email and my chosen usenet groups. Ah, the nostalgia of coming home to find my Amiga's floppy had run out of room...

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

I think it comes to down to the definition of "dead". Both are certainly dead for the reasons they were created.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Crypto in a nutshell right there.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is the reality GOP voters don't want to confront. The migrants are the fucking backbone of America - moreso than anyone born in this country. If it doesn't have an underclass to exploit, this country cannot be as successful as it has been. They provide the underpaid workforce that has allowed for wage stagnation to persist for decades.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Wow. I'm in a competitive exurb market and I'm paying $60 for 1.5 Gbps. It's $25 for 300. $40 for 600.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The DNC has ceded Texas to the GOP. Especially after Beto lost his bid for Governor on the heels of the Uvalde mass shooting and Abbott's bungling of the aftermath. This state is owned by Republicans lock, stock, and barrel.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Maybe modern Apple, but the GUI wouldn't be where it is today without Apple and specifically Jobs's Macintosh team, especially those who followed him to NeXT and what they accomplished there then brought with them when Jobs was brought back to Apple.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Invention is not innovation. They didn't invent the GUI but they innovated it. They blew away what Xerox PARC had been working on. They saw all the ways it could be better and implemented them. They didn't just package up the GUI and market it better, they made it better.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

It was mostly marketing. Especially back when they started and the market was saturated with computer manufacturers all churning out their own computers that didn't interoperate well with others. It saved educators and then businesses time because they didn't have to waste time re-educating students or employees on a new system. This especially bore fruit as computers started gaining power and the ability to perform functions that had been relegated to mainframes, meaning experience with computer type X could become central to that role. I really think Apple took Moore's Law to heart and projected out the future of the role of computers in business as a result of it and the increasing shrinking of components. Why pay for a super expensive powerful mainframe when only a few people in a company might need that much power and the rest need far less? More cost effective to buy a few powerful desktops and save tens to hundreds of thousands on a mainframe.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

Racists doing racists things in a severely racist state ruled over by racists that were elected by racists.

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