neither were/are gay/bi people. Still got thrown in prison for the last few hundred years for daring to love.

While I’m not saying they don’t both exist, there are plenty of people writing the original definition for tech products, too.

And I’d argue that purely scientific papers are often written to promote products and viewpoints, too.

some counter examples:

• https://cs.umb.edu/~poneil/lsmtree.pdf

• https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/papers/lakshman-ladis2009.pdf

• https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/atc10/tech/full_papers/Hunt.pdf

developers want to read documentation

they won’t look at any white papers

?!?!?!?!!

In summary, do not expect honorable behaviour from the present day British elites, especially not the English ones

I mean, read Wilde, Wodehouse, Austen, Dickens… That’s always been the case.

even more so when you open the bag

Marv is transmasc

are you looking for engagement or an archive?

If it’s engagement, and you want the most engagement - then reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, tiktok, youtube.

If you have a moral objection to those then pick a federated or independent alternative like Lemmy, Bluesky, Pixelfed etc

if it’s just to archive them then build a simple WordPress blog which you can choose your provider or self-host. Or just back them up in a 321 method of your choice.

art can have function and vice versa. A door handle is art. A lightswitch is art. They were designed and manufactured. Do(e) A Deer from the Sound of Music is just the most basic scale in music theory pretty much in chromatic order. It’s still a song. Same for the Alphabet song, it’s lyrics are just the alphabet, it’s still art.

Toilets are also art. If you really wanted a toilet that had no artistry at all it’d be an uneven hole in the floor made with a hammer.

Reagan the COMMUNIST?!?!

Who do you mean by far left?

the mob still has to operate in secret, it’s not like everyone’s standing around going, “gee if only the national guard were here there’d be no organized crime!”

if it were that easy the national guard would’ve been on tour since prohibition

making a decision and having an opinion is not rude. And actually, often people are glad that you’ve removed the mental labor and discussion.

Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.

you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce? #winning

we understand the value of resources now, just in your example the availability and the macro-economics of what a resource is changes.

Crude oil existed for millions of years, but wasn’t a resource until it could be refined. Salt used to be a premium resource, and now is considered a basic one.

So you mean “will gradually readjust to the new value of new reources”

Also, we don’t have “total control” over anything now. Crimes go unreported, unprosecuted, unsolved, rebellion and revolution happens across the globe, protests happen, democracy happens.

You can also choose to start an autonomous community if you want right now - just that most people actually want sewers and toilets and hygiene and warm water and transport and food variety. But if you don’t- you can just go live in the forest.

Then you pivot to saying “I’m being sarcastic - it wouldn’t be a utopia because we wouldn’t have AI”

AI is just matrix math on byte encoding. Just like life was pretty good in 1985 before the internet was popularized and marketed, this one tech product does not drastically affect society.

I would also contend that society isn’t drastically different post-internet. It’s the media of the message that changed, but human communication and structure is still roughly similar to most post-WW2 standards.

I dont have kids but I’m given to understand they are pretty much constantly naked until they are 4 years old.

Side just means no penetration. Usually it means ok with oral, manual and frotting. You can indicate both (vers, side ok) to indicate you don’t mind someone who isn’t into penetration.

well so is federal debt, which was your justification? And arguably even more fictional.

Nah Dylan Thomas and Jack Kerouac