Pretend what? Pretend that you (and also everone else) don’t have an insight into how their algorithms work, besides their words? We need to pretend that?

Printing new editions of a book was always a thing

You don’t know that, like at all. They say that it is, but there is absolutely no reason to belive them, musks and zukerbergs are lying pieces of shit.

How a noob supposed to know anything? By learning. You pretend that learning how to click through 5 confusing sumbenues is easy as fuck, but learning how to read basic ass words is an esoteric knowledge that only wisards can learn.
You pretend that nobody can comprehend that apt-get install steam will install steam, but searching through the website, downloading an installer, looking through your system for a file, executing it, and following through twelve steps of a wisard is suddenly magically a knowledge that everyone just grasps.
You pretend that “find this file, find WhateverBullshit=1 and change 1 to 0” is incomprehensible and requires a whole new language to understand, but “click this menu, open this submenu, scroll untill you find this subsection of subsection, look for the menu that opens a window of menus and then look for a tickbox that they actually moved three versions ago” is so simple you don’t actually need to even think about.
But as an experienced system administrator, I can tell you from an experience, if the person doesn’t want to learn, or can’t, they will not, and it’s not because they’re intimidated by the concept of letters, but because the whole idea of learning a skill is confusing or intimidating. When people aren’t in the mood they will look at the window telling them to press the only button on the screen, and they will call for help.
And if they want to know their instrument, they will learn whatever they need, and since reading is one of the fundamental skills we have in the modern society, they will learn how to read configs and write commands without the problems you envision.

Oh how you would love to be absolved of any agency. Of course there were billionaires, you were supposed to fight them, you had the whole system for it, your whole country was built on it. Instead you capitulated the second they got bold.

Your response doesn’t contain anything to think about. You believe in some version of the antielectoralism and there is no version of that that is serious. You just want to feel cool and above everything, while doing exactly what the right wants you to do.
Alternatively you know exactly what you’re doing, but that’s worse, that would mean I am wasting my time trying to convince a biorobot, and I don’t want that to be a reality.

I don’t know anymore. Maybe not outright fight with the EU at first, but I completely envision US army invading something on the European continent to help their best friend Putin. With Musk in charge and Trump also running around like a headless chichen, I don’t think I can be sure about anything anymore.

And the alternative was what, to firebomb a wallmart? How many wallmarts you firebombed, how is the glorious revolution going?

I never used T9 because of that. It never knew what I want to say.

US is still unbelievably rich and has an enormous army that they love to use. Europe will not bend the knee, but the shit will be very unpleasant after that.

They gonna order his bitch Trump, the wannabe emperor of the US, to pressure NATO. And the bitch will oblige.

You need to adjust your patterns to it, but when you do, oh boy is it convenient. I still can type on it blindly almost as quick as I do with full desktop keyboard, and I’m pretty quick with that

This mess is here in big part because you and your fellow children never had faith in politics, and people who do have this faith decided for you.
You had a chance to prevent it, multiple chances if you’re slightly older, but you threw it away, multiple times.

That’s what this ghouls want, it’s their wholr purpose and their whole deal. If you don’t have political institutions to protect you, they can eat you whole. And the best way to destroy political institutions is to errode public support for them.

It’s better if the titular Steve isn’t from US. Right now at least.

You are being unnecessarily pedantic. “A person can be wrong therefore I will get my information from a random words generator” is exactly the attitude we need to avoid.
A teacher can be mistaken, yes. But when they start lying on purpose, they stop being a teacher. When they don’t know the difference between the truth and a lie, they never were.

No, obviously not. You don’t actually learn if you get misinformation, it’s actually the opposite of learning.
But thankfully you don’t have to chose between those two options.

We Must Cultivate Our Garden

You organise community, do local political activism, support candidates and run for offices. If there is enough of you, you will get your non-nazi government in 50 years or so.
That’s what nazis did for the last 50 years, and that’s where they are right now.

There are industrial uses for it, so it doesn’t have to be stored forever.