SpiceDealer

I feel that the whole "Woke/DEI" era will be remembered as a poorly timed inflection point. On one hand, you had the media conglomerates, who, instead of investing in original content decided to put stock in continuations of established franchises which often had poor writing and were poorly executed. These works also just happened to have a "diversity" angel to them. At the same time, we saw the increase in right wing voices online that started to infiltrate the fandoms of those already established franchises.

Social media algorithms also began to push this kind of content to a wider audience. How many times have you seen a random Youtube video with titles like " X is WOKE PROPAGANDA TRASH! Hollywoke is in DECLINE! " appear in your feed or homepage? If the work in question was a critical flop (i.e. terrible), it was not a flop because of creative deficiencies. No, it was a flop because it had a non-binary black character!

You never heard legitimate criticisms like "Hollywood is putting profits before good entertainment" or "[Show or movie] had poor writing, bad acting, terrible direction and didn't contribute anything to already established canon."

Take Deep Space 9 as an example. A great show with a very diverse cast but that diversity would be useless if the characters weren't as fleshed out as they were. Now imagine what the discourse around DS9 would look like if it were made today:

"A New BLACK Protagonist? Star Trek Has Gone WOKE!"

"Jadzia Dax and Odo: Trans Ideology PROPAGANDA?!"

When a new piece of media comes out and there is a massive stir attached to it, ask yourself this: is the criticism warranted or is it ideology driven?

Long live the numpad!

Some those did get their start in the 80s but all of them hit their peak in the 90s.

Title: 90s bands

My brain: Morbid Angel, Obituary, Sepultura, Corrosion of Conformity, Eyehategod, Dissection, among others.

Older sister's emo phase. Mom's Honda Passport. 'I Write Sins' blasting through cheap car stereos. Mandatory trips to the mall. Those were the days.

Forget about growth. Forget investors. Forget about all those capitalist nonsense. What good are profits if everything goes to shit? The best thing about Lemmy is that it doesn't give a shit about that. It's decentralized and community driven. Capitalism prioritizes money not people.

That's why I installed Arch instead!

Second this

Asylum For thousands of refugees, expellees and displaces person

Correct if I'm wrong but didn't Operation Wetback (actual name, no joke) happen under the Eisenhower administration?

Enshittification is the end result of putting profits above everything. There's a reason why XJ Cherokees are still running today despite being over 40 years old. Their internals were so simple that even the most mechanically illiterate could work on it with basic tools from the hardware store. Something like that wouldn't be make it past the pitch meeting today.

Just one caveat: they can only target cars.

If this was a CS major, 1994 might as well be Antiquity