By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026I've written before how conservatives' yearning for "simpler times" is really just a wish to be a child again. 4/ 21179
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026The reason times seemed simpler during your childhood is *that you were a child*, and if your parents did their job, they shielded you from a lot of the complexity of *their* adulthood so you could enjoy *your* childhood: pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/h... 5/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Every complex ecosystem has parasites (24 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 218328
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026That's where the "National Customer Rage Survey" comes in. It's been surveying a panel of 1,000 representative consumers every three years for a decade, continuing a research project that started in 1976. 6/ 1645
FinjaReloaded @finjareloaded.bsky.social · 12/06/2026btw, the origin of the phrase "the optimal level of fraud is non-zero" is from the excellent book "Lying for Money" by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social (IIRC) 120
