Big Limber Male officials.

That risk became an issue decades ago.

That’s how you get a Manson family with 70 million members.

Reddit is fairly left-leaning

Anything left of Biden/Harris is met with a torrent of abuse. If anything, Reddit is split between centrists and fascists. And some of the mods will ban anyone who’s active and doesn’t agree with their politics.

I cut the umbilicus after getting banned on fake pretexts from rightwing mods. Fuck 'em. And fuck Spez.

I was a highly involved redditor, but now I realize I was being suckered into engagement by ragebait. Now I use Lemmy a bit, and have reclaimed my leisure time to walk, cycle, go to the pub, play music and hang out with family and friends.

That’s the classic example of enshittification.

And the infuriating thing is that there’s nothing about electric cars that inherently requires constant internet access. Built-in GPS is easily replaced with a Bluetooth link to the GPS on your phone. Anything else can be enabled when it’s actually needed, which is almost never.

That was when innovation slowed down and rent-seeking increased, once the big players started exploiting their oiligopolies in earnest.