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There is no 'solution.' This crisis will not be 'fixed.' A few of its symptoms will be alleviated, a little bit. Maybe. For some people.

An uncaring and uncontrolled juggernaut of changes will run its course across the fields of humanity, leaving ruin, death, poverty, and confusion in its wake. No, it is running its course as I write this. It cannot be stopped, slowed, or hastened to its destination. It will have its way with us before the survivors are left to build yet another empire from the rubble.

And we shall make up a story or two explaining why it all happened, what we did wrong, and how to avoid such things in the future. But it won't make a lick of difference because it's too late and we're fucking hopeless when it comes to finding out where the next juggernaut is coming from.

This is not the end of days, nor even the end of civilization. Do not be so optimistic. Humanity has prophesied its own demise a thousand times in the hopes that the next big catastrophic clusterfuck will be the last one we have to struggle through. The doomsayers are the hopeful ones; once humanity is destroyed or reduced to barbarism it won't have to live with memories of the disasters it can't believe it didn't see coming, and the torturous knowledge that it will happen again. And again, and again.

But humanity is big, dumb, and resilient. It cannot be destroyed, not even by its own hands. It shall lumber along as it always has, clumsily and nearly-blind, crawling and drooling its way into the future.

There will be another huge fucking disaster; a maelstrom of blood, anger, and misery. And when the dust settles we'll have lots and lots of dead people and still no answers.

It's what we do.

Protip: plug your dual-port usb flash drive into both ports at once for double the transfer speed (probably)

@pharmafemboy @lexi you know what I don't know enough to argue so I'll accept it

Nix users can have tax fraud, as a treat

@lexi no this is a spitroast

If the contributor line-up doesn't look like this I don't trust the project

Github contributor list pfp's all of which are furrys, memes, anime girls or githubs default picture

@kirby @thegreatape >tfw nonfree javascript wants you to starve

@RyanGosling @thegreatape listen I'm not racist but we have to make sure we know who is coming from Ohio and where they're going etc.

@iceloops @bot 🔧 correction needed

@scathach the water coming from my tap:

@Basedshibe charcoal. Cope Texan

>pick a tick off the dog
>she wants to smell it
>she eats it before I can stop her

Problem solved.

hot take, salad
@Clover iceberg doesn't belong in salad. Romaine is fine and good

it really doesn't matter what eugen thinks or does, mastodon is open source and we can take the ball, the whole field, all of the goalposts and the players, and go wherever we like

tbqh it's us who need to stop treating eugen like some tech CEO who must be deferred to, and .social as 'too big to defederate'

.social would be a pretty terrible social network all on its own, so it's actually us who give them legitimacy, and not the other way around

Reminder
Mayonegg

@Tony MY WIFE WAS FUCKING EVERYBODY IN BISMARCK

@pharmafemboy well have a good time, but don't get out of pocket

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