Just Your Average Nerd

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

From the article:

In a state of nature untouched by man, [saltmarsh sparrows] would build their nests in higher-elevation marshes where the threat of flooding was rare. But coastal development over the last 200 years has seen most of the higher-lying marsh cleared, forcing the sparrows to move to lower-lying marshes like Jacob’s Point that are routinely flooded by high tides. The citizen scientists, under the moniker Needle in a Haystack Society, have for the last 10 years conducted a monitoring/intervention project in Jacob’s Point that has seen them floodproof the sparrows’ nests. By placing a rigid coffee filter under their conical nests of intricately woven grass, the whole thing, eggs or chicks and all, rises and floats until the high tide or flood recedes.

Though some scientists have expressed concern as to how adding coffee filters could impact mother sparrows, data collected by the citizen science initiative found not a single nest abandonment after the filter "ark" was installed. The same data showed that adding filter "arks" decreased the nest drowning rate from 18% to 8%.

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