Every site is trying to pull a Bonzai Buddy now.

“We need all your info for advertising, not you can’t opt out unless you make an account and give us your email. Oops, looks like I hid the opt-out under a subheader. Amazon is now profiling you.”

WE USED TO CALL THAT SHIT A VIRUS.

ITS EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. NOW

“Hi I’m going to block this entire site until you give me your info, this is very cool and normal.”

Capitalism ruined the internet. The whole thing is malware now.

  • rottingleafEnglish
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    11 months ago

    because you don’t actually give a fuck about history, you want to keep inbox notifications at bay. Prove me wrong tho.

    Why, you’re right, it’s a reflex.

    Simon Sebag Montefiore

    Not that guy, please. My classmate 12 years ago advised me to read him and I tried, this almost made her less cute for me.

    You can always cite these examples you know instead of just linking to a Wikipedia article.

    I can’t (don’t have time to look for sources), because it’s of the “common knowledge” area. I live in Russia, many people in my family worked in rather big projects as engineers.

    I think you are overestimating how powerful the computing systems needed to operate air defense back then were. Some of that shit was pretty analog.

    The precision of Soviet planning allows for use of analog computers.

    And I’ve said already in another comment that it wasn’t about computing power, there actually were computing centers for the purpose of planning belonging to different ministries and organizations, just they didn’t cooperate with each other, it’s about openness of data.