I think organizational inertia plays a big role, including the detachment of the PR/media relations staff from either the academic research or the non-mainstream news outlets tracking just how bad X has become. This gives me hope that a "divest from X" movement from within might get unis to change.
The wheels of government are starting to turn. Regardless if it meets your exact position (nothing will and nothing will please you) this stuff is positive steps in the right direction and movement compared to 14 years of inertia.
Realistically, it's inertia. The social media "box" is considered ticked. Reopening a closed issue like that would require overwhelming proof of the neccessity of doing so.
well, first you have to fight your way through Big Fossil Fuels not least of whom was the squatting Dem senator. then the culture wars. and then establishment Dem inertia because it's a "red" state and not that valuable in the greater scheme so fuck 'em.
I broke the cardinal rule of ADHD about an hour ago. Help, inertia and I have had an argument, and I need to move again. But it’s winning.
Alt: A large brown bear slams a fluorescent green plastic chair down on the grsss outside. The bear then turns around, stands back up into, and then sits in the chair.
You could just imagine what the reaction would be if an emerging social app (like BlueSky or Mastodon) didn't have a repost button, or had one that worked in a user-hostile way. The big advantage Facebook and X/Twitter have isn't technical. It's inertia.
Oh, same. Digestion at *any* speed is lovely, though I'm of course most partial to that weight sticking~ And yeah! Yeah, I'd also mean more inertia to deal with — but on the other hand, that's just more momentum, so. -w- I almost think you could be even more ambitious~
This the core issue. We need to do a dramatic societal restructuration but it face deep societal inertia.
Still catching up. I'm not sure how to answer this, since I'm not starting anything new in November. I've finally got some inertia going for my current story, so I don't want to switch. But there is quite a bit planned for this one. #NOVELMBER
giving money and cushy jobs to your friends, trying to crush the left, not willing to actually put in the work and planning time to even be effective on this and relying on sheer reserved power and institutional inertia to do most of the work for you: every dem motivation wrapped up in one