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Last year Minnesota finally laid the groundwork to eliminate shotgun-only deer hunting zones. 2026 will be the first year deer hunters in the southern half of she state will be able to use rifles to hunt deer. This has a lot of fudds bent out of shape for no reason.
In the pursuit of quick fixes, people often focus on "miracle cures" rather than guaranteed wins.
If you spend much time online (which I recommend against), over time you'll learn that everything you use is bad. But is it really bad or are people just saying that because that's the current trend?
Enshittification was once largely relegated to online services. Now so much of every day life is tied to these online services that enshittification is spreading to everything. Today I look at the enshittification of policing.
Credit cards. Smartphones. Social media. All of these technologies are widely used. All of them are sold to us as being fun, conveinent, and practical. All of them are being used to build a cage around us.
The tech industry is abuzz with fears of AI developing sapiance and taking over humanity. I agree that AI has a chance of taking over humanity, but not because it'll become sapient.
This posts continues from my previous one. I highlight another egregious exampls of how we're being coerced into using approved smartphones.
In the past, anybody could buy concert tickets and have them mailed to their home. Then the Internet allowed people to buy tickets and print them at home. Those days are gone. Now you need an app on your venue approved smartphone.
The world is caught in a seemingly endless cycle of enshitification. This is my rant.
Dinosaur OS has required very few changes since I first created it. A recent change in the updating behavior in Bluefin encouraged me to finally go forward with a change I had planned initially but decided against.