AllonzeeLV @ AllonzeeLV @lemmy.world

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I wish I could snap my fingers and put these people in uniltateral charge of every central bank board on Earth. Seems only fair as they've literally been stealing the very ground beneath these people's feet without a thought. Externalities, amirite 🤷

Maybe then consequences of sociopathic, profiteering policies on real human beings might actually be a consideration instead of "How do we grow/metastasize/get moooaaaaaar for ourselves" exclusively.

"But its got electrolytes earthy flavor!"

If you want to congratulate his corpse for what he didn't engineer or design, go ahead.

He's one of those people who died at the right time to preserve their own legacies, before public reckonings for non illegal bad behavior became common.

I think marketers should get to take credit for ad campaigns they create, and engineers should get to take credit for technology they create.

Capitalists just want to take the credit for what others do. Societal leeches. I don't buy into their false narrative that providing the means of production they hoard out of greed means they deserve most to all of the credit for what they permit talented people to engineer and produce by the swear of their brow and the migraines of their solutions.

We should be rewarding the Teslas of the world for what they invent, and punishing the Edisons that would claim other's inventions as their own. But we suck, so we won't.

Steve Jobs was a piece of shit human being who contributed nothing to technology.

That said, he was a hell of a skilled bullshitter/marketer. Most people fucking looooove to be bullshitted, and Americans more than most.

It's why we elect virtually no wonks/technocrats, even though thats who we should elect almost exclusively. We'd rather some snake oil motherfucker sell us on magical lies while telling us we're pretty.

Eh, I have a lot of questions after articles, few are worth going down the rabbit hole for unless others show interest, no worries!

I dug into the RIAA Source PDF the article references for what "other" means:

"Includes CD Singles, Cassettes, Vinyl Singles, DVD Audio, SACD"

We are obsessed with quantity, but I never hear a good review beyond 50 irl, just a list of pain.

I've seen some cool shit and tolerated more than my share of strife. First chronic health problem, I'm out. I'd rather choose when then have it chosen for me.

It's selfish of the people in your life to expect you to suffer for them until that suffering finally consumes you whole.

I don't blame you. My core value has always been truth over comfort, but I fully admit, that value only leads to pain.

I vote for the lesser evil(D) like clockwork so I can sleep at night, but it is water pumps on the Titanic, I don't do it with hope, it only slows the path we're on slightly, because both our fascist and neoliberal parties worship the same groups of "donors" who are the root cause of our decline. Our government officials are the owner's well bribed middle managers. That's what happens when political bribery is legal and corporations have more rights than people. Neither Biden nor Trump nor all but maybe a half dozen people in Congress are less than hyper-capitalists. Most got into politics to be bribed because that's American politics.

Without revolution, there will be no hope for a better future until collapse. Fortunately for future generations long term, climate change is likely going to force the second one, because we're too chickenshit and social opiate addicted for the first one. Better painful collapse and rebuild than multigenerational subservience under the Bezos/Zuck/Musk dynasty.

I know what he said, but I wish he added "...so shit or get off the pot" to the end of it.

Because it won't get any easier when the owners have armies of humanoid robots defending them in addition to the means of production/propaganda/state violence/governmental capture that they already have to keep us under this class occupation.

Modern Apathy failed to repair the damage, but the ENTHUSIASTIC giveaway of the country to the rich in both capital and power, the "Reagan revolution," is most directly responsible for the later Citizens United, Trump, and our imminent collapse.

Apathy didn't destroy this country for the people, Enthusiastic greed worship BY the people did. Greed is a personal failing, character deficit, and is every bit as dangerous and destructive to society as hatred. The Gordon Geckos and Mr. Potters of the nation are supposed to be hated, booed, and shunned by decent people for their antisocial activities, not worshipped as the celebrities and...🤮... Role models they are treated like today.

The owners have spent decades propagandizing us to forget what a societal poison greed is as they took over.

Oh I'm sorry it's not greed anymore. I meant greed rational self-interest. Shout out to George Orwell.

This is the boiled frog effect.

If the SCOTUS creates enough national crises, and that's what they've been actively doing, rolling back the rights and protections of individuals while further empowering capital as citizens discover there is just no recourse, then the crises they continue to create, as dire as they are, just feel like another tuesday.

-This SCOTUS, unironically unfortunately

The Federalist Society is an organization of right-wing extremists conspiring against the United States as far as I'm concerned, and they have won.

Yeah, I learned my lesson after completing my master's.

It's all a scam based on pre-existing connections with the right socio-economic circles. I won't be here to see it, but hopefully the next iteration of human society will be less regressive.

https://youtu.be/8Pj-YEQbojk?si=y8fXIftcFZUa8dDb

May god have mercy on your soul.

How can anyone not remember the name after hearing that earworm capybara song on social media?