The VergeThe US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban
The Orange Theme@verge @octothorpe No airplanes. No healthcare. No computers. Well, the future was fun, I guess.
Nazo@theorangetheme @verge @octothorpe We had two visions of possible futures: dystopian nightmare in which people die left and right and no one hardly even notices that they did or an optimistic future where tech is used to solve crises and improve lives.
Every single person we put into power really loved the idea of being the bad guys in the dystopian nightmare, so here we are.
We had Star Trek and we had Mad Max. They picked Mad Max and we gave them the power to do it.
Yora@nazokiyoubinbou People went to elections to vote for Mad Max.
This is what the people voted for.
This is what the people voted for.
@yora All for the sake of hate. Hate won and it's destroying the world at a pace so fast it makes all our heads spin.
It seems people will hack their own foot off with a hacksaw if there is a *chance* it might hurt their neighbor in the process.
@nazokiyoubinbou I think ultimately it's greed.
People used to hate but keep much of it to themselves. Then klepto-parasites realized that there's a lot of money to be made by encouraging people to hate openly.
But it's also classic old conservatism: Make the people believe that they are part of the elite, and that a fairer society would make them less wealthy, and being already destitute they support more unfairness to benefit the rich.