“I have decided to go to space and upload my consciousness into a blue alien furry and find a girl alien and we will kiss and it will be beautiful and deep and I am keeping all my Oscars.”

That is true, and I used “bank account” as a stand-in for what I really meant, which is “financial options”. By not spending money, you have the insulation of not panicking when expenses come up, you have more general leverage over your life, and you get the peace of mind that comes with it. Of course, there are better places to PUT it than a bank account.

It’s also a virtuous circle… if you don’t spend, you don’t have as much financial stress, which means you need less distraction to take the pressure off, which means you spend less money on things you don’t really want, which means you save more.

I beg to differ. Time is shaped like this:

You’re missing the fifth panel where it doesn’t bring the joy she thought it would even after she comes to terms with having spent the money.

It’s okay to spend money to be happy.

It’s also okay to sit there with a full bank account, reading a library book, and smiling about how the marketers didn’t get you this time.

Modern Devs: “8 Gb??? That’s 2 chrome tabs!”

Let your fingers do the walking!

It’s depressing how much history is going to be lost. Entire movements have been launched on videos that are now private or removed for copyright violations, and now they are gone forever to future historians. Even looking for information or knowledge now… 80% of your results are YouTube videos. All of that knowledge will disappear forever, and it doesn’t even take a cataclysmic event - YouTube’s search is so actively hostile that even if you know exactly the name of the video you’re looking for, you will NOT find it unless it happens to already be algorithm aligned. YouTube is BY FAR a bigger danger to the throughline of history than ANY social media platform.

The simple solution is to just… stop using video so much. Video is riddled with problems as a long term human record, doesn’t scale, increases perpetually in requirements without actually improving quality of CONTENT, isn’t indexable or searchable, isn’t easily translated into multiple languages, not as easily shared, not as easy to back up… Text is not obsolete. It was our main method of information transmission for tens of thousands of years, and NOTHING will convince me that it should be replaced as the primary method.

Again, it’s a human problem. If humans accepted text and images again for the majority of information transfer, the problem would go away.

Yeah… the very fact this is posted as a youtube video reinforces the point of how far we are from this. The issue is, the enshitified internet is not a technology problem… it’s an education/people problem.

The internet will not be better until people are.

You don’t NEED to be fixed if you complement each other’s crazy.

Is that the Crystalline Entity?

Okay, it isn’t 100%, but it’s certainly MORE consistent than GUI, and since GUI is generally just a front-end for CLI anyway, if the CLI is inconsistent, so is the GUI, so it’s not as if GUI avoids this problem.

I blame absolutely nobody for wanting a GUI tool for things. But the idea others are at fault for being hesitant or unfamiliar with the tool is also disingenuous, especially when the GUI just adds another layer of abstraction to the tool while removing some of the functionality (as GUI tools often do).

It’s like you’re learning to ride a bicycle. I get that you like the training wheels and they are extremely useful for you, and more experienced cyclists SHOULD be understanding and accommodating, but they can also see the ways they’re holding you back, and it’s natural for them to want you to take them off as soon as possible.

Also, CLI is consistent across any distro… GUI tools, however, vary depending on your desktop environment, distro, version…

“He’s just a dog, Carl.”

In a sane world governed by rules, yes… But everyone from the market makers to the banks to the investors to the SEC are complicit in the need for this bubble NOT to burst… It wouldn’t surprise me if the system starts eventually making up numbers out of whole cloth to prevent it.

It would also help if they didn’t spend every single interview rubbing their hands together with evil glee while they talk about all the anti-consumer features they want to implement and think Steam is crazy for NOT implementing.