I feel the similar. There are innovations out there and things that change the world and improve the way we think and, work and develop together, and there is this world of essentially greed, where we all just want to get out of where we are - because, why? We have to sell someone else the ticket out, to get richer ourselves.

Thankfully, this is a bonafied bubble and in a few months, it'll all tank again.

There was never any point in facebook being any "force for good" or "revolution" as people might have hoped for. If you read investors reflections on early FB days strategic meetings, you see the picture much more clearly. Tech gets cheap, people are dumb, surveillance pays, what's not to like about this business?

It's happened: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Revolution

Facebook is the de facto social network and lets people connect and spread information on an unprecedented scale, for good or bad.

Which is very fun, counting that wealthy investor could potentially keep certain areas of the world in an impoverished state so to reap young gifted childs.

Arguably, we do see that happening already today. All developed countries with merit-based immigration systems are essentially contribution to half of this. Not necessarily on purpose, but in effect. Now, realizing that most of western "development aid" achieves the opposite of independent development provides the other half. Again, not necessarily on purpose, but in effect.

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There is a way to bypass CF bot protection, which mostly uses basic HTTP features, nothing fancy (and especially not a security issue).

don't leave us hanging, man

Don't want to, but I am getting a slim benefit from the situation, and I would not like to give that up.