Which website gave you those instructions? Name and shame.
What a macabre rhythm game.
Promise him eternal life if they let us freeze him in a cryonics facility and then let his loyalists maintain the freezer with his disembodied head in a jar figure out how to make him their God emperor or whatever.
As a member of the Navajo Nation, I prefer leaders who believe in rule of law. They're the ones least likely to try and nullify peace treaties on a whim.
It only takes one person to make 1 cubic meter of black hole to destroy the biosphere by ripping Earth into an acretion disc.
The direct counter to enshittification is interoperability: the ability to pack up your content (likes, followers, messages, uploads) and import it into another service provider.
Since Signal is open source and mostly FOSS, you can theoretically create a Signal fork that can import Signal backups. I know because this program can read such backups and convert them into other formats. Ideally, the Atlantic reporter could have exported a Signal backup with the offending group chat messages before they expired.
Metaphorically, the US does this every election cycle, hot swapping elected officials peacefully, usually without replacing incumbents. However, the problem is that your kid brother insists on trying the same corroded cartridges again and again because he loves seeing you squirm in frustration more than actually having a functioning system. Also, you don't get to play until he gets a game over while you, in contrast, are on a set time limit.
What if you take the speculative execution strategy and have multiple interpreters translating every possible semantic branch and then throwing out the recordings of the interpretations that were incorrect? 🙃
I've got a list of backups:
- cooked
- spaced (see The Expanse)
- inhumed (as opposed to exhumed as one might do in removing a corpse from a grave; see Terry Pratchett's Discworld's Assassins Guild lingo)
- processed (as one does to food using a food processor)
- isekai'd (for the weaboos)
- truck-kun'd
- terminated (for when the Terminator movies become popular again)
- old yeller'd
- returned to sender (until the postal system collapses)
- X trimester aborted
- Peter Pan'd (as in, thrown off a cliff and expected to fly)
- Mufasa'd (or any notable fictional character whose death was a major plot point)
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Here is a relevant excerpt from The Ministry for the Future (2020) by Kim Stanley Robinson. The context is a meeting between experts of a fictional UN agency looking for weak points in capitalist governments in order to implement carbon capture laws to reverse climate change that has already killed millions in a heat wave in India.
from chapter 15
Long story short, central bankers of all nations force governments to adopt China-style capitalism-subject-to-socialism so insurance companies can continue to exist. The socialist components tie the issuance of money to provable carbon capture such as by pumping supercritical carbon dioxide underground. Also, billionaires eventually realize civilization is ending though persistent assassination attempts by survivors of worsening climate disasters; they find the assassination attempts don't occur when they fund projects to mitigate sea level rise by halting glacier movement and promoting ice formation through massive pumping of water. It's science fiction, yes, but one of the more hopeful kinds.