The author of the ‘backpacks are all bad and everything is worse on purpose’ site works at Palantir.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@skinnylatte

do you actually go outdoors & hike / use backpacks ? because i DGAF who the author works for if they are able to speak truth about the BS we're seeing in the outdoor gear world -- i've experienced this personally

once respected brands are being bought & deliberately turned into **** with AI bots to make sure it's really really really hard for to make returns when you get a "walmart" product when you thought you were getting quality

[gray17@mastodon.social]

@rednikki @skinnylatte rss parrot of Matt Stoller is here: @www.thebignewsletter.com

[rednikki@toot.boston]

@gray17 @skinnylatte Thank you!

[anikeaten@kind.social]

@skinnylatte I felt further depressed after reading two articles like that in one day

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@elfin @flowerpot @vfrmedia @skinnylatte My Timbuk2 messenger bag is still going strong (secondhand) after almost 30 years. They made some quality kit.

[imbl@social.treehouse.systems]

@peachfront @skinnylatte pssst
palantir is one of the ai companies responsible for making everything worse like that. also they kill children

[nothacking@infosec.exchange]

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ... and it's smells suspiciously like AI writing. Unfortunately, LLMs are good enough that you really can't tell until you've read most of it.

[darkuncle@infosec.exchange]

@flowerpot @vfrmedia @skinnylatte +1 for timbuk2; I still have the very first messenger bag I ever bought from them almost 30 years ago and it shows almost zero signs of wear. The cell phone holder will contain no phone made in the last 15 years though

[semitones@tiny.tilde.website]

@Moss @floatybirb @skinnylatte sounds like flamebait -- backpacks are universally loved!

[chetman@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte @jwz Gross but, like, the piece is still accurate, right?

[kkarhan@jorts.horse]

@skinnylatte why am I not surprised?

[peachfront@toot.community]

@imbl @skinnylatte

i get that, so we're gonna let them whitewash what happened to the outrdoor supply industry by pretending the true thing they said that doesn't matter to them is rtrue?

SIGH

i wish people wouldn't assume our opponent is stupid

sometimes they say what is true & it's OK to acknowledge that rather than just knee jerk react and give them a really easy way to play you

[flowerpot@mas.to]

@klausfiend @elfin @vfrmedia @skinnylatte This is good to hear. I bought my son a Timbuk2 messenger bag when he started college, hoping it would last him years into a professional career. It still looks newish and that was 3+ years ago.

[flowerpot@mas.to]

@darkuncle @vfrmedia @skinnylatte "The cell phone holder will contain no phone made in the last 15 years though"

I love hearing about well-used items lasting decades. Few things do.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@chetman @skinnylatte I don't know, but when "the worst person you know makes a good point" I tend to disregard it until I hear what someone who is not ethically compromised has to say instead.

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@peachfront @imbl @skinnylatte

Outdoor gear?

Outdoor gear.

Of all the pitched firefights, you're choosing to die on a small hill that's not unlike any of the other million small hills like it?

Instead of fighting the source, you want to fight the symptom?

Is this a prank

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@flowerpot @elfin @vfrmedia @skinnylatte I got a free one from a job as a welcome gift ten years ago that I said I'd start using when my current one gave up but that was ten years ago ...