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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If I can use a floor cleaning metaphor:

The floor was pretty filthy in the 20th century, but a lot of it was swept under the rug so it looked pretty clean at casual glance.

Thusfar in the 21st century, we threw out the rug and bought a smaller one, did a modest job at cleaning up some of the dirt under it, and there's a small number of people who deliberately shit on the rug because being decent human beings isn't a thing they can do.

And I think that brings us to 2024.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

That’s really well done!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

there's also a fully automatic turbo-vacuum sitting in the closet, which the people who shit on the carpet are actively restricting our access to and trying to make us forget it exists.