taanegl @ taanegl @beehaw.org

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EDIT: it's like a one time payment of $4. Well worth it imho.

Now announcing the Nestle space program and space property agency... we claim all water outside of earth as sovereign property.

In other news, we are introducing the water subscription service. You can either pay $1000 subscription, or lease our water for $100 for each bucket of water you get from space...

...because we're so free market.

You know he has to kiss ass to ensure access to funds and technology.

Translation: Palestinian families and children will die.

Can't say this isn't deserved though. Gedaffi is to France what Sadam is to the US: a giant power grab that deligitemised pretty much all western support.

I hate that we are governed by idiots, and the people who vote for them too.

I'll tell you who it won't benefit, Africans ruled by oligarchs who continue to screw them - and Westerners, Russians and Chinese who see it as a big ol' fat juicy peach just a' hangin' out...

Worst timeline.

It's not that people are dumb, but that they're numb. People seek easy answers to their problems when they can't handle reality.

Yesterday I was sitting at a bar while this African dude blamed all of Africa's ills on "white people". Dude didn't know about the IMF loans, belt and road initiative and thought Oamar Gedaffi would have saved Africa from the clutches of dirty, old white Europe, like he could have paid for everything and become the hero Africa needed - you know, idolatry. I just sat there and took it, more or less, because he was not what we'd call an intellectual.

If you do however sit and talk with African intellectuals it's clear it's more complex than that. Economic and judicial precedence, African feudalism, corrupt governments making deals with the west and China, misappropriating loans and pushing the cost over to the people in the form of austerity measures which yields no taxes for infrastructure and whatever taxes they do collect partly goes to the default, partly into the pockets of the corrupt officials and their lackeys. Add to that having to sell raw resources at cost as a result of said defaulting, yielding literally no profit for any companies or any raise in median wage and then turning around and going "evil westerners, evil white people".

You sort of feel bad in each instance, because the former is aggressive and downright disrespectful against the country they are in because of victim mentality being part and parcel of African propaganda, and the latter is just emotionally worn down because they always have to argue with the former and correct other westerners who are either subverted or overt racists, torn between two polls like a horse ripping them apart.

In both cases I just let them bend my ears. I don't accept that from my family though, because they are not only dumb, numb and zealous, but privileged.

At the same time, they get fed with propaganda, FUD and disinformation that they swallow every day - because their easy easy to all of their ills is nationalism and Jesus and they will harp on about how Hamas and Palestine are one and the same, because they also pine for the days of theocracy, what with being under educated and frustrated out of their gourd about things they can't or rather won't understand.

They all bury their heads in the sand and scream their cries of agony, like confused plants that subsist off misery. The world that we built is literally insane and it drains every last one of us.

This is a careful reminder to treat yourself well, or your subconscious will hate you... this includes how you think of yourself and the world over a longer period of time. Some patterns are hard to unlearn.

I just tried to explain what I thought the commenter was saying. He was being glib, and a little derisive. In any case, you play the same game and I can read your frustrations clearly. You justifiably tried to defend your position, but chose the wrong way of doing it.

I recommend taking a break a few days from comment section, even social media. Just get it out of your head for a while, try to find balance again. Social media can be very provocative and even infuriating at times. But it doesn't help you to fight passive aggressive statements with aggressive statements.

In any case, I hope you take care of yourself and that you are well.

The app is being used by police to persecute sex workers and marks, not to find children who are victims of child sex trafficking - because child sex traffickers are not stupid enough to give their "product" to anyone who would instantly put their faces on the internet for anyone to find.

Sex trafficking is a serious issue, but Kutcher nor his company has done their due diligence and are actually helping to persecute sex workers.

I'm not saying that it was intentional, but it does make the whole supposed effort seem like it's more about optics and marketing.

I have this personal belief that a lot of problems in this world would be solved if we ended poverty.

The mental health pandemic, conflicts, corruption. It all gets exaggerated because people can't fulfill basic needs or even pursue happiness. People are then more easily weaponized and subverted.

A little rant here, but I blame liberalism and US politicians purely for abusing their influence on a worldwide basis. Not that Europe isn't part and parcel of the issue, but if we look at Nixon, Reagen, "new public management", "trickle down economics", not to mention subverting US labour in a capitalist persuit to export manufacturing and fabrication to COMMUNIST CHINA, we see that "leaders" of politics and industry ruined modernity with their hypocrisy and social manipulation to justify degenerate greed, narcesism and idolatry.

I don't think it was fully intentional. I truly believe they have swallowed their own KoolAid - in that they are delusional, as well as degenerate while wearing "the emperors new clothes" and manipulated politics to conform to their delusions. This should be the issue of our time, in that poverty can be eradicated if we just got our collective heads out of our asses.

End rant.

They could, but they won't. The threat model is low because McCarthyism is over and done with. Your CIA agent however sees your posts and is very disappointed with you.

Gubmint

I think there's this idea of historical tick-tock, that goes from faith or belief to enlightenment. It swings back and forth depending upon geopolitical development.

But that aside, I believe that after the digital revolution, getting people to believe bunk en masse became easier. This has amplified the grift economy, which in turn spreads disinformation, fronts logical fallacies as a debate method and puts bad faith arguments on a pedestal.

Take for instance that guy who illegally experimented on kids because he thought he had a better vaccine than the multi-purpose vaccine that was standardised. After he lost his medical practice he has been forced to rely on financing from conspiracy theorists and socialize with flat earthers because he is now an anti-vaccine icon.

He has to do that because his name is synonymous with malpractice and needs to play the part to feed his face.

This is just one example of the grift economy. For more, seep up "savage alpha male podcasts" to see an even harder grift.

One continuous issue I've come across is how your environment, your surroundings, your inputs and your outputs define you. Social paranoia doesn't necessarily need to come from a nefarious source, but it can be cultivated and people can be indoctrinated.

People in bad situations can do bad things. This is what I'd call a universal truth.

I also don't believe in good or evil, so the good vs evil dynamic means nothing to me. I do believe in delusion, self-delusion, egomania, etc. I don't believe hatred is a source of an issue. Anger issues is definitely a thing and is also symptomatic.

I'm not even sure I believe in the concept of hatred anymore. Maybe using that word was a mistake.

I don't really believe that my friends and family wish anyone harm. I do believe however that they, like most people, have had their impulse control thrashed by modern media. I'd go so far as to say it started with the radio, then films, then TV and finally the internet. An escalating curve whereby people allow themselves to become impressionable if the setting is right.

Media is a double edged sword and I don't really think we've learned to live responsibly with it yet. The same people who find drug use degenerative and that all drug use is drug abuse are them selves most likely victims of their own weakened impulse control, which is the psychological rabbit hole modern psychiatry starts with when discussing and analyzing drug abuse.

The easy answers we crave, the antagonists we seek.

I live in a port city and we have cruise tourism... maybe that's the outlier.

Though I did read in the news once that Chinese tourists would go into people's homes and even crash a funeral to take pictures...

That's pretty fucked up.

Ever since I saw DS9 all those years ago Sisko has been my captain, my captain..

What domination? Anyone who isn't a defeatist in Africa knows that corruption from within Africa is the biggest problem. Oh sure, you can blame the IMF, or you could blame the US, Europe, Russia, or even China, or you can look inwards to which politicians fattened their bank accounts from acting in bad faith with any of these nation actors.

Other than that, if WW3 happens... Africans are not going to be on any winning side, I'll tell you that much...

I'm sorry man, but from what I've heard in the tourism industry yanks run third place of worst tourists. Second? Germans. First? The English. It's always the goddamn English.