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People treat deleting like some dirty word, but all good collections need to be organized and pruned.

Definitely degradation. Deskilling is a well-established phenomenon.

Frank Herbert knew what was up. Butlerian Jihad now.

I’m still a little suprised the Steam Controller is this popular. Aside from the trackpads (which is a big ‘aside’ to be clear) it’s such a mid controller spec-wise.

What are people’s use cases for the trackpads? I still swear by my OG Steam Controller and love the trackpads for playing, like, visual novels on Steam on my TV (through the OG Steam Link) or controlling my browser if I’m watching Patreon videos, but those are pretty niche uses.

Have you seen the movie?

No, my academic background is political science, not history, but they overlap. ‘The exception that proves the rule’ is generally trite, but I think if holds true in the case. Part of why revolutions are studied is that they’re rare. Most modern human history is a story of unequal distribution of wealth and the exploitation and coercion required to uphold that, and the moments in history where that bubbles into revolution are rare. It’s easy to say the French revolted in 1789, but that ignores centuries of the ancien régime remaining in power.

Conditions won’t just deteriorate until an eventual revolution. A revolution itself generally can’t be planned, but successful ones take a lot of groundwork.

I want this to be true, but history seems to me to show that most people just tolerate increasingly worse conditions indefinitely. Exploited/oppressed people rising up seems the exception.

Wild that people just casually admit to outsourcing their thinking to a machine. I’d never willing post something that embarrassing. Butlerian Jihad Now.

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Kobo has it’s own ebook store, plus it connects with Overdrive (outdated version of Libby) to handle library checkouts.

Kobo is also really easy to sideload books on to, so you can, you know, just get them from wherever…