Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
13+ years ago when I’d say why I hate social media, cloud services, all this convenient dependence, everybody would act as if this was stupid.
My logic was that if there’s a mechanism allowing such influence, no matter how small, its power will grow almost until the death of such an ecosystem. Because the returns of abusing it will always be more than the expenses.
I don’t like this Cassandra feeling really.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Most people have an astounding lack of imagination. Its like they thing that things can’t get much worse because that would be too different to now…
balder1991@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
At the same time, they unfortunately can’t imagine things being better. That’s why societies differ a lot between cultures in different parts of the world.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Well that and the fact that some of us define better in such ways that others think may be worse. For example there was a trend some years back where Instagram models were damaging Joshua trees, I am of the complete and unshakable opinion that their blood shouldve water a new Joshua tree and their corpse reduced to mulch for said tree. I aint got nothing against whoring oneself out after all money is money but hurting the Joshua trees is a worthy of death.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Instagram isn’t for sex is it?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, see, I even have a mental condition which should supposedly make that my problem more than that of most people.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Aphantasia?
I think there’s more than one kind of imagination. It’s like the opposite of ‘thinking outside the box’.
Theirs is more like ‘wow this box is big! I’m gonna get inside a smaller one’.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Not exactly aphantasia, though some kinds of imagination are close to that for me. Rather that something remote is very hard to imagine, while triggers, like sounds and smells and physical feelings and harmonic progressions, make something very easy to imagine.
So if I know that I have to do something or else my head rolls off, the deadline being in 3 hours, I won’t be as concentrated as the typical person.