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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bear_delune@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

How are you feeling these days?

We sure do live in interesting times

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[–] Tragic@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We didn’t start the fire, it was always burning since the worlds been turning

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

🎵Schools close, Tom Hanks, trouble in the big banks,

no vaccine, quarantine, no more toilet paper seen.

Travel ban, Weinstein, panic COVID-19,

NBA, gone away, what else do I have to sayyyyyy🎵

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

This was my reaction. There has always been a revolution brewing among the discontents. Everyone alive realizing they need to be part of it is late to the party, because the party started long before any of us were born.

[–] yozul@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yup, but on the other hand as technology progresses the consequences for screwing everything up get more and more severe. If we don't put out this fire soon, we're gonna burn the whole house down.