That guy had a point. And I don’t have an answer. Maybe reallocate some of the defense spending that was already insane at that time?
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And technical innovation has been stagnant ever since. Keeping most people, some of whom could be coming up with new ideas if they had time and resources to explore their passions, working dead end service jobs and exhausting themselves just to make ends meet so 12 people can have all the money is more important.
Yes I know the phone in my pocket is more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer by many orders of magnitude, but that’s just iterating on an old concept. To me, innovation is jet engines for airplanes, or rockets capable of escaping earth orbit when nothing like it existed before.
Flush all the tech boomers out and mean more job security for me. I’m game.
obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.worldto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Every now and again a voice comes into my head telling me to install Arch.4·1 day agoSame thing happens to me but with Gentoo. It’s like rekindling a doomed to fail relationship over and over again.
obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•MAGA Is Coming for Legal Marijuana12·1 day agoAnd democrats will still find a way to lose.
obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Should Jon Stewart Run for President in 2028? The Movement Is Growing — and It’s No Longer a Joke199·3 days agoWe need someone willing to fight fire with fire and John Stewart isn’t it.
Assuming the law is written around the paradigm of HTTP.
I have a gen x cousin that still rants about millennials, quickly becoming the new Facebook uncle
this is eventually going to restore the internet to the 1990s on alternate protocols like Gopher or breathe new life into IRC and Newsgroups.
obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaroundEnglish1·3 days agoIt’s Chromium based, has a history of doing sketchy things, and spite.
obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaroundEnglish31·4 days agoNever. I hate Brave more than the few ads that get through on iOS with AdGuard or the recently released uBlock Origin Lite.
obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaroundEnglish26·4 days agoPeople still use Ad Block Plus? Didn’t it start allowing sponsored ads like 10 or 15 years ago?
A lot of people mark that as the downfall of the internet.