ThatIsNotHowThatWorks
Catbusevery damn time
Hera [Yaseenist] Harper@ancient_catbus “Well how else would you solve all these problems we made up”
catraxx 
@alfredohno @ancient_catbus This. Literally 99.9% of the damn "problems" never were problems to begin with >.<
Shambolic Matter@ancient_catbus You already have a wonderful free solution that everybody likes, but have you considered adding creepy and intrusive surveillance, a giant carbon footprint, and a solution that requires 10 layers of obtuse vaporware to function?
BoredomFestival@ancient_catbus something something Torment Nexus something
b_rawr.tar.xz@ancient_catbus what about the problem of acquiring juice that can seemingly only be solved with pre-crushed fruit in DRM-protected bags for a $200 vendor-locked press?
Bjørn Bäuchle@b_rawr @ancient_catbus Tell me this is a plausible dystopian extrapolation rather than description of something that's really happening. Please. I cannot tell anymore.
@baeuchle It's a description of something that's not happening anymore
PhDog 🇮🇪
Whatever happened to Juicero? The $120 Million Juicer?
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️Isn't it more like, "Isn't this yet another way we can use our Orwellian surveillance hellscape to make even more money?"
Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Inco@ancient_catbus noooo my toaster reported me to the death squads
Yaoi Box Balloon@ancient_catbus Such a rude industry.
Softwarewolf@ancient_catbus How can we corner the market we created and become a monopoly without attracting legal action?
Kobi LaCroix@ancient_catbus More like, “Let’s take a simple solution that already exists and works for everyone and replace it with one that’s complicated and expensive.”
Starstorm (to migrate...)@ancient_catbus Now for the paradox, what if the problem IS an Orwellian landscape? How are techbros gonna escape that? Another Orwellian landscape?
synlogic@ancient_catbus lol. so true. like Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Worldcoin.
"First, let me monetize all of humanity's shared knowledge, without their consent or compensation. Next, I'd like to track every human being's exact identity and financial transactions, 24x7, and we'll lure the suckers in by offering them a.. uh, oh I dunno.. a make believe currency? Winning!"
Aviva Gary@ancient_catbus As long as they can charge you a subscription for it too... 🤑
Ben O'Dell@ancient_catbus Except usually they create the hellscape first and look for the problem later.
Emily@ancient_catbus @malcircuit when all you have is an Orwellian surveillance hellscape, everything starts to look like a problem that can be solved by an Orwellian surveillance hellscape
KitsumeCat@ancient_catbus the current state of "innovation"
Allen Stenhaus@ancient_catbus Should've let Silicon Valley Bank fail. We would have far less of this.
Kevin Karhan 
@ancient_catbus also #TechIlliterate politicians...
Cendyne
Marlene DeepDish, VSOP
Steveg58@ancient_catbus
When you only have one tool ...
When you only have one tool ...
Philip Johansson 🏴☠️💜@ancient_catbus Please, give some credit to our hard-working politicians!
paint-goblin 🐀
Niamiko 🌹 🏳️⚧️@ancient_catbus Brings a whole new meaning to "Literally 1984"