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And just to think, San Francisco almost wasted its effort renaming the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to George W. Bush Sewage Plant, but didn't. Well well well, what an opportunity!

on I'm down with this · c/historymemes · 14 pts · 7d

This guy is doing it https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline

AI was the last straw. Have you heard of that island off India where the indiginous population kills any outsiders fool-hardy enough to land? They are doing the rest of us a favor by preserving a way of life we may need again someday, or at the very least should not want to see completely extinguished. A reminder. Never forget your roots. Here in Pennsylvania we have the Amish performing a similar function. Significantly less hostile, though still set apart, they bear witness to what was normal for all of us a couple short centuries ago: horse and buggy, wood stoves and lanterns. My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980. Neo-Amish. I'm fine driving a car and flipping a lightswitch, by which I mean that they don't make me into something I hate, which AI and doomscrolling do.

I wish big tech had stayed on the peninsula and south bay. When I came to San Jose, most folks said SF was a place to play, San Jose was a place to work. Those were great days. Now too many techies work in SF and play … I guess somewhere else, if they even have time to play after their grind.

on Me_irl · c/me_irl · 34 pts · 9d

As a previously poor person, more poor people need to realize where they stand tax-wise, and that they are the beneficiaries of tax increases. But also, tax the fucking rich! The 50's had 91% tax on the highest tax bracket. That's what made the golden days that conservatives want to return to so golden.

on AI = Fascism · c/fuck_ai · 4 pts · 10d

I'm so lost. Not only does JJ's response not seem to address what was said by JB, but also I live in a middle-to-right-wing area and almost everybody is anti-datacenter. The unity is actually refreshing, pretty much everybody is talking about going to city counsel meetings to speak up about how we don't want datacenters in our area.

The hospital thing is a big one. My wife and I had considered moving to a remote location but the risk of significant injury without nearby medical facilities was one thing that changed our mind. It's hard to accept that risk, even when you think it would probably be worth it. Medical problems ƒ suck.