It’s a relief valve though. As someone who has suffered from unavailable care, black market drugs probably saved my life. I’m not terribly against adults being able to make such decisions on their own judgment.

Oh snap

The same story of publicly traded companies again and again.

Your steady growth isn’t good enough.

Your growth has to grow - and if it’s not growing fast enough then you’re not doing your duty to the shareholders.

Add in the fact that we’ve let businesses get so large they empty all the air from the room and we’ve managed to enshittify our entire society.

I had to explain to a friend recently why

“I’m at Steve’s house”

Was fine but

“I’m in Steve’s house”

Was weird. Like, get out of there before you get arrested.

Haha oh man it’s weird to see this mentioned so many years later.

I helped organize that protest. Thanks for coming down with us!

EVE has been combating bots for years, optimal gameplay is often relatively simple to automate. I’m not sure they’ll be all that disruptive.

(and the time it would take to implement data collection for a learning model is unlikely to be spent by anyone, for how much effort it would be considering the questionable gains over ‘dumb’ bots)