So this is pollution of *some* form. We could phrase this as a different _kind_ of pollution? Anyhow, I think your sensitivity here is too conservative. Analogies are analogies. They aren't assignment. And one analogy === every other analogy.
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And, to be clear, we *are* looking at the end of the mobile web ecosystem. It'll become just another sedimentary layer in computing's history very soon unless we change our ways.
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Replying to @slightlylate @mountain_ghosts
I’m not and have never once argued that your facts are not on point. Please stop pointing out thing that make it sound I did. It’s extremely distressing. You are an extremely smart and capable person and I’m sure you can find a way to make this point excellently.
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Replying to @janl @mountain_ghosts
I'm only enunciating it because I'm looking for a new analogy that is both urgent/evocative enough to the scale of the challenge (which most of our community either dismiss or do not understand) and which is sensitive to your concern.
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Replying to @slightlylate @mountain_ghosts
I then hereby applaud any and all attempts to find a better analogy and stay perched about one emerging
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Replying to @janl @mountain_ghosts
So, the thing that's problematic is the collapse of the ecosystem based on direct, anthropogenic, distributed action and externality offloading because the carrying capacity of the clients can't meet the load put on them collectively. Most of the analogies here are ecological
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It's also classist. Perhaps that's the thing to lean into? Rich people fouling the world around them for those less well off has a deep history.
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Replying to @slightlylate @mountain_ghosts
I think a 1% analogy would work very well. I do admit it has less oomph
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Replying to @janl @mountain_ghosts
The "1%" analogy is pretty tough because the accumulation of wealth is something we can remediate with regulation, and I don't think anyone (including me, shockingly) is proposing regulating JS weight (yet?).
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Stretching it somewhat, but isn’t Google doing that to some degree with penalising sites in search that use lots of JS badly==are slow for the 99%? (Not playing on your corporate affiliation there)
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Yeah, the speed update has had a big (positive) effect on some metrics. But again, that's a solution not a description of the situation and it's potential impacts (which is what i'm stretching for).
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