I see. Yep, I can ignore them. And I share most (if not all) of your view.
Thanks :) Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, October 14th, 2026 at 9:46 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > Comment to the OP (and the list), given the current situation, I'll > follow up off-list if necessary: > > Of all the Arch mailing lists I'm subscribed to, this only affects aur- > general. It's annoying that the whole world is getting dumber, but at > least with the low traffic, you can filter out the few "Leave" messages > or, if necessary, manually move them to the trash, they only seem so > numerous because the overall traffic is low, there aren't really that > many. We're seeing these kinds of developments all over the world right > now, from small social circles all the way up to high-level politics. > Stupidity is, after all, the trendy thing these days. Ignore it and > distance yourself from it wherever possible. It's a shame, of course, > that AUR itself is currently suffering from an extreme attack. But > people have been begging for this for years, after all, the demand for > increasingly pointless nonsense has skyrocketed. If you fill your head > with nonsense all day long, even the few side effects add up to a > serious problem because of the sheer volume. And the few people who > don't do that still have to put up with the crap from everyone else. > That's just the way it is, there are certain things people can't learn > to deal with, and by endlessly escalating measures and countermeasures, > you just fuel the spiral rather than solving the actual problem, no > matter what it is. Whether it's teaching kids in school how to use > WhatsApp "properly" or a government cutting social services to buy more > "defense weapons", it won't lead to anything except even more stupidity. > Destroying the internet is really one of the easiest things to do, since > that's exactly where the demand for stupid crap is the greatest. Do > people need the choice between millions of hours of (sometimes AI- > generated) music and movie downloads, even though the average person > lives for barely more than half a million hours? >
