ELI5 request on lemmy: "You see, dear grandchildren, your grandfather used to have an apple orchard. The fruits were so sweet and nutritious that every town citizen wanted a taste because they thought it was the only possible orchard in the world. Therefore the citizens gave a lot of money to your grandfather because the citizens thought the orchard would give them more apples in return, more than the worth of the money they gave. Little did they know the world was vastly larger than our ever more arid US wasteland. Suddenly an oriental orchard was discovered which was surprisingly cheaper to plant, maintain, and produced more apples. This meant a significant potential loss of money for the inhabitants of the town called Idiocracy. Therefore, many people asked their money back by selling their imaginary not-yet-grown apples to people who think the orchard will still be worth more in the future.

This is called investing, or to those who are honest with themselves: participating in a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme. You see, children, it can make a lot of money, but it destroys the soul and our habitat at the same time, which goes unnoticed by all these people with advanced degrees. So think again when you hear someone speak with fancy words and untamed confidence. Many a times their reasoning falls below the threshold of dog poop. But that’s a story for another time. Sweet dreams."

Deny, defend, delete Windows.

Due to the explosion of AI generated content I feel this applies to the Web in general. I rarely read or engage with anything anymore because what’s the point.

If Emmet/keymapping is important, then https://zed.dev/ is the only editor that matches VSCodium as far as I know.

Not gonna happen. The majority of the USA has succumbed to greed, I don’t expect congress to be different. Society will collapse before the road to a more equitable future will be trodden.

Jeremy Strong was a powerhouse. His last name is an understatement.