You’ll name a thing that we used to have and suggest we can just have that again and centrists will tilt their heads to one side and mew “how will we pay for it?” and I’ll reply “tax the rich more” and they’ll go all “the princess is in another castle” n shit.

I’m with you, for me it was summed up when I downloaded Audacity in 2022, and it was still doing, for free, everything it was doing in 2001, which was just about everything I could need even then.

There was an article in The Guardian a few weeks back about how Gen Z find bookshops preferable to online shopping, and a key factor was that an algorithm will offer you 6000 books identical to the one you just finished whereas a bookseller will offer you three that are different but meet the vibe.

All will be well

I’d cross my fingers for luck but then they’d even worse at operating the machine

It was a miles away from astute psychoanalysis, a huge distance from knowledge of film editing and a couple of punchlines away from a solid diss track

YA SMILE! YA SMILE! YA SMILE!