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xkcd #743: Infrastructures (lem.trashbrain.org)

Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.


Transcript2003:

[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]

Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we're building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:

Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they're DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]

Bearded Fellow: It's the world's tiniest open-source violin.


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[-] lapingvino@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Hot take: people being annoying doesn't make them less right about things and if you disregard the warnings you still only have yourself to blame.

[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Hotter take: Dismissing a warning because it's annoying is a tacit admission that they are right and you just don't give a shit. People are lazy creatures. We have to make fire alarms the most obnoxious and loud sound in the world because otherwise people wouldn't leave the flaming building.

this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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