Sorry, while I'm here

So, a common refrain from the cheap seats is "I can't believe we let CORPORATE INTERESTS take over the NET and we could have been DECENTRALIZED and done it RIGHT and have our FREEDOM"

You know what, no
No, no. Because when you do that whole "we'll just make it all work together thing", you end up with a spaghetti code birds' nest nightmare that interlocks and falls apart if a bat farts on it from 800 feet, and you have to get basically hope the Weirdo Batteries fix what's broke
And corporate, says this:

"We will make it work. If it doesn't work, we'll provide you a number to call."

Which is far and away the best thing if you want to get anything done; telling me to go down to fuckstick-mailing-g and beg to get help only to be told RTFM is not a fix.
And that's how github made five hundred billion dollars and has the greatest employee lounge I've ever been in

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