SlothMama

The 'and they have a plan' is Battlestar Galactica

Big Salmonella

Cool but what your want is more people believing your ideology, so it's strategically best to convert and understand. Ignore and block is a losing strategy.

Eventually decentralized services with anonymity will be killed by the EU, they already want to stop all text encryption, the way anyone can stand up a server and run it however it's already in conflict with the GDPR.

Microsoft saw Google and Apple do this with phones, and Steam do this with games, and that's why they made the Windows store a thing starting with 8.

They wanted to go the same direction.

Yes, that's the implication, and it's certainly intentional for you to think of it like that.

It is planned obsolescence

Unironically yes, you would not know who Spiderman was without viewing a copyrighted work demonstrating what he looks like, and now you understand while generative AI fundamentally has to ingest copyrighted works.

Not true in the US, but commonly stated by Americans like it's fact.

European Union regulation will probably threaten the very principles that the Fediverse functions on, potentially making Lemmy illegal anywhere in the EU because it's not auditable enough, or doesn't meet data retention or some kind of consumer privacy law.

The EU is a threat to the Fediverse unfortunately.

We don't have a century, we barely have decades, your scale is off, and honestly I don't want to be right, it would be amazing to be wrong about this, but I feel like I know with absolute certainty that we've really just got a few decades max before the planet is unrecognizable in significant ways you are probably thinking won't happen until centuries.

It'll be too hot for roads, solar panels, and conventional air flight much sooner than people realize. The first springs that trees fail to reproduce will honestly probably not be noticed, it won't happen everywhere, all at once, but eventually the lifecycle of much of the plant life will be so misaligned that you'll see the failures of entire areas of plant life, but by that point too, you'll probably be more aware of how silent it is outside except for cars.

We're already at the point that localized heatwaves are killing a huge, like unimaginably huge amount of land animals, and ocean acidification is preventing shelled creatures from forming or maintaining shells, all while coral reefs bleach, and fish die off due to changes in oxygenation.

I wish this sobering reality wasn't happening right now, but it is.

I am absolutely insinuating that yes, when it comes to the biosphere and climate change the situation is irreversible and catastrophic and the level of certainty I have is unshakeable.