The only meaningful theft, by the numbers, is wage theft.
ITT: People who haven’t been on the internet long enough to know what BoingBoing is.
I’m old.
If you know what BoingBoing is, your knees probably crackle when you squat and stand.
Yup. I also groan when I sit down. You just had to call me out, didn’t you?
At least a decade old and still has a better reading experience than that “paid” news sites.
It really went downhill when Doctorow left
I feel seen
Damn you had to come for me like that
I wonder how Slashdot is doing…
Looks like it’s still going strong, but each article has like 15 comments. And the poll has a CowboyNeal option…
3 digit UID here, I still visit daily but rarely comment
I doubt I could log in now, since I haven’t for so long
Edit to add: nope. Browser doesn’t know, password manager doesn’t have it, and it’s not tied to the oldest email address I still use :(
I have a 5 digit UID, and I just checked that I can still log in. Looks like my most recent comment was in November of 2015, which is a lot later than I would have guessed.
I visited a few times right after the reddit blowup, while checking out other options for this sort of thing. I might have to go back more.
Oh wow, forgot about Slashdot…
Fark, Slashdot, and BoingBoing were pretty much my daily go-to in the pre-Digg/reddit internet
I skipped the Digg era. I didn’t join reddit until probably 2015, after I kept coming across extremely useful information there that wasn’t available elsewhere. I think it was the advice on what to do with asbestos that finally tipped it over for me.
I was an early reddit adopter. I preferred its hyper minimalist style, as well as the type of conversations I saw, to Digg at the time. Well before the whole Digg 2.0 debacle.
Remember when Cracked was good?
Fuck Auntiememe
If you liked that and aren’t aware of Some More News channel on YouTube, then… well you’re welcome I guess?
I’m tired, boss.
It’s one of those new upstart weblogs right
I remember getting something I did linked to on BoingBoing back in the day and I felt like I was famous for a little while.
Yeah I think i was visiting Boing Boing on the regular a couple decades ago or nearly so.
I was just thinking about 1up the other day
This turning out to be true is unsurprising, but if it were, follow it to its logical conclusion and you would see large retailers lobbying the government to increase wages. Like, we live in a fucking police state, the problem is not that we’re suddenly an outlaw country, the problem is that people don’t make enough money or have enough safety nets to live. It’s the same with all of the “Americans feel bad about the economy even though the dow is up, why?” Well, because we can’t afford housing and groceries. Simple fucking problem.
Those stock indexes only show how the top corporations are doing. A company gets removed from the index if it performs poorly and is replaced by another company that has increasing stock price. The markets as it is displayed in media only show how corporations are doing. So basically the ruling class is selling economic performance to everyone else to keep people in line and their heads securely on their bodies.
I was looking at Bidens approval rating compared to other presidents on 538 and it’s crazy seeing the last time this really was so bad, aside from Trump, was the Great Depression…which says alot about the disconnect today spouting Dow successes but normal people struggling to stay afloat.
No one is going to do that, because if the peasants have more then the nobility can’t mock them for being lesser.
Don’t worry, people will completely ignore the retraction and continue to blame their fellow poor people (just not themselves) for the outrageous behavior of our corporations.
Kind of like how any game developer who says that piracy is the reason that they failed financially, even though some of the greatest games of all time are the ones that get pirated the most.
Does this qualify as a news article?
It’s a parody website, I’m a bit surprised it isn’t marked as such as people seem to think otherwiseGoing to leave my comment but I am thoroughly impressed that this is not a parody.
Thank you for the link! I am so used to seeing headlines like this that read like a joke. I stand very corrected
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