Saving logs has been essential for work, in the past, because we were always to write real documentation when necessary. Mind you, this was local to our machine.

The corollary to times changing is that periodically what's old is new again. We can't have our cake and eat it too; if the gripe is that for-profit services become enshittified, then necessarily FOSS should be given a shot, but adding to that I'd say some of these platforms re-invent the wheel or add a coat of paint. What you can do with Discord you can already accomplish with a mix of IRC, vbulletin forums, email, Mastodon, and and others in decoupled fashion.

I take the point that a one-stop-shop is nice and probably viable leveraging this tech. At the same time, users already use a slew of different social media platforms that are usually redundant or overlap in some way. For most their mode of consumption is "the algorithm", endless feed of videos. Discord's core offering is not that, it's an orchestration of chat, video-chat, forums, notifications. It's a swiss-army knife.

What we really need to get rid of is platforms. vBulletin sells you software. It's up to you what you choose to use it for. Platforms like Discord and Reddit need to have final say on a lot of things because they need investor/advertiser cash at some point. And by 'get rid of' I mean avoid using them in settings that would be severely impacted by a platform's decision. For example, I don't want to have to upload my ID just to ask a question on the DaisyUI discord server.

My cynical view is that this already exists, and people will still move to platforms, either because it's the next-popular-thing or there's less friction.

Corollary: you don't really need more software engineers.

Who decides what we "need"? Software provides value, and if we want to keep providing value moving forward there will be more software

If you're a gamer, pick up Thank Goodness You're Here!

There's more than one form of English humor. Last year I played through Thank Goodness You're Here!, which I think borrows from a lot of late-20th Century tv including Monty Python. It might be "nihlistic" in the sense that it's absurd but not depressing.

I'm not sure it's generally true that funny English characters aren't sympathetic.

You're right, there are plenty of sympathetic ones too, but it's the unsympathetic ones that really don't do so well to a US audience. There's a reason that The Office (US) hard pivoted Michael Scott after season 1.

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is both hilarious and sympathetic so there's that.

In terms of social issues, he could not be much further left

Well, there’s the entire NDP…

Trudeau outflanked the NDP if you recall the election vs Mulcair, who I liked. Singh for his part did not sound deviate much from Trudeau on social issues.

Which he had a supply and confidence agreement with because they were indistinguishable during Trudeau’s reign.

First Trudeau government was a majority; confidence and supply was in effect only 2022-4.

It didn't land, but bad jokes aren't a crime

Don’t tell TSA that.

That's a pretty wild take. Maher's views have been basically consistent, the others have not. Musk has also veered hard-right

What do you expect from 3-panel funnies exactly? Biting deep social commentary? All of these were formulaic, they were pumped out every week.