Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.
Fight fight fight!
We can have a UFC match at the white house. It’ll be awesome. Wait…
I don’t recall what podcast, but I was listening to something about the first military academy in the USA that admitted women and how horribly they were abused. Fucking shit.
I never heard of this. Not at an age where this affects me anymore, but cool if true. Meanwhile, I will poor shots in shot glasses if we have company and just down my liquor without measuring otherwise.
Changing where you live can really reverse what you’re describing, but I know that’s not always realistic. I live in the Bay Area and I’m middle-aged. The dating pool is full of people who my values and who like doing stuff I’m into, like going to live music and rocking out. Less than with younger people, but that’s about stamina more than interests.
If I lived in the midwest, where my family all live, there’d be nothing. Conservative bland bullshit. Dunno where you live, but something to consider.
And contributing money to shitbags allows them to keep funding terrible values. See Musk.
At the same time, most U.S. adults say that being an American is “extremely” or “very” important to their identity, highlighting an enduring connection, even as some become increasingly critical of the country’s past or the government’s current actions.
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He has a bald eagle tattooed on his back to represent the United States, its freedoms and “all the things we’re supposed to stand for as a country.”
Most USA citizens are unaware of the degree of propaganda we’re fed starting during childhood. I remember saying the pledge of allegiance (a very weird thing to teach to children) in school every day. It’s like the hitler-youth. And singing the star spangled banner, in first grade, every morning. Very weird thing to make us do.
When I was 18 years old, we rented the animated Transformers movie from the 80s and played it on silent with trippy music while we were on acid. The animation was so cool that we later rewatched it with sound on after we came down and it held up. We thought the GI Joe movie might also remain good and rented that next. It was child-propaganda. My then-gf turned to me and said, “this was Regan’s amerika.” She was right. It was trash.
We were taught how awesome we were since I was a child while the truth is that we brutalize, overthrow, and extract. I read an 800 page history of WWII and came away with the primary thought that the USSR won that war, not the USA. I can’t believe how much we lie to ourselves. But it makes it easier to justify all the horrors. Look at repubs trying to sanitize the teaching of history even further. I wonder why…
Just woke up, not proofing, may have typos, oh well.
I’m sorry, but poor Kensworth threw up and had to take the rest of the day off work. We should probably compensate him with millions of dollars of tax-payer money.
Imagine… people with light and dark skin holding hands. Jeebus.
Dude, have you not heard about Stan? Oh, dude he’s super dark. Like, way worse than Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dalmer. If you wanna be hardcore, worship Stan.
Not anymore.
I was a lot in 2020 and leading up to 2024 USA election. Somewhere along the way, I accepted that we’re doomed and started focusing more on the things in my day to day life that make me happy. I can’t stop the lunatic behavior of my government or the destructive behavior of the people with all the wealth. If they don’t light the world on fire right under our feet, I’ll die from the horrible shit in our food and groundwater.
Whatever… just live.
The Supreme Court has already ruled against this. The point is to let this corrupt court reverse that ruling.
Well, I know who’s gonna take a beating when the bubble pops and the market falls out from under them. What a stupid decision.
“Hey guys, this AI thing is gonna be like this forever. We’ll never lack for insane demand ever again.”
We’re fucked. I told my therapist this. I told our financial planner that I don’t expect us to survive, but we opened the account for my partner to take care of her. We’re gonna destroy ourselves. Will it be on the timeline I expect? Maybe not. But T2 has already proven that things are moving faster than I had anticipated.
Humans: A nice experiment. Maybe talking dogs will be the next ascendent species.
Remember how Jesus pulled out a demon (or demons) named Legion? They’re in me and I desperately need this woman’s help. Please. I’m suffering.
Edit: Actually, this could have got me to go to church.
My friend was blathering on about Cory Doctorow two decades ago and I knew the name, had maybe read a little bit. I was kind of annoyed how ofter he brought him up. Man did he come out ahead of me on that. This guy articulates the ills of society so well.
Maybe I’m just blessed with a nice life, and I try not to take that for granted, but it does give me that feeling unfortunately.
You probably are. Me too, fortunately. But times are hard and bleak for a lot of people. I know cause I went through it for nearly a decade getting to here.
What a fucking pussy. Sheriffs are the most corrupt arm of law enforcement. Every sheriff can suck my dick.
Oh, awesome. Another genocide apologist.
Great job, North Carolina. We appreciate you letting us know in no uncertain terms to avoid you when planning to travel. Too bad, cause it’s a beautiful part of the country.