they also want skilled labor; they are happy to have it scrape from authors and artists - primarily the same groups who the ruling class despise.

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yup. his only chance at avoiding consequences is to stay in power as a wartime president.

this is why the ceasefire isn’t a ceasefire. I hope Israel does better but… not holding my breath.

If we had done better with trump in 2016 or j6th none of this shit would have happened.

I think it becomes shame because we recognize we’ve benefited from the system that has shit all over so many. Even indirectly, it’s hard to think about all the ways I’ve benefited from - just to say one thing - all the cheap open land (places like texas, nebraska, oklahoma, OR & WA) we got after putting the natives in concentration camps and murdering most of them.

Like, I try to enjoy a national park but then realize: this was someone’s home. Many peoples, in fact. We took it, put up gates, and charge people to harass the animals. And that’s the places we’ve saved from industrial pollution and factory farming.

in my own case, it’s that I’ve (not intentionally but still) benefited from a system that subjugated others (natives, people of all colors, and women) to secure the national infrastructure I’ve directly profited from. Everything from education, clean water and housing, to medical care often shockingly focused on what ails and heals white males. And the sickening knowledge that the same ones who want to deport taxpaying workers who rarely benefit from the enormous amounts of money our country throws around are the same as me, living on land stolen from the people who lived here, who we basically exterminated. Finally, we use the trappings of a pseudo-democracy to declare all men are equal, but really, they mean wealthy heteronormative white men, because otherwise you’re the other and disenfranchisement should be expected.

That’s-just-the-way-it-is? only if you accept it.

i dunno it’s pure batshit most days

I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.

hear me out: an org that guaranteed destruction of any residual data and ensured that no component or resource was wasted, was responsible nationwide for the collection of all e-waste into resource streams OR repair for reuse.

I’m just saying, techpriests might make me reevaluate my views on organized religion.

iirc Silicon Graphics crts were actually trinitrons after 92-3. of course a 21" crt weighed fuck all lol

viewsonic made some damn fine CRTs…

ahhh the truth comes out… ‘why can’t I spam my ai-shitstream to your sub? ugh, power trippin bastards!’

yeah, the way I look at it: VR has happened. The vive/index generation of pc grunt behind vr gaming made it worth it. Quest 2/3 are great headsets too - buuuuuuuttt…

as can be pointed out for so many things, Meta has ruined it for everyone by pouring in billions to make… diddly squat, then retreating to AI and throwing their hands up because their thrashing and flailing never made a multibillion profit.

slow and steady - that’s how new tech advances. not whatever the hell meta did. god, damn, did they waste geometric shittons of funding

no doubt.

sounds dry lol

protip: leave the people in your will with a map to find your treasures in the horde.

because oh holy fuck is it hard making sense of what’s in those stacks when they have to move on to other housing or die.

was thinking this looking at the stack of models I have unassembled.

feck

it’s time we nibbled the casing and come to terms with bite the bullet, it’s just a bad metaphor.

watching the US and UK both slap themselves in the face with trump & brexit has got to be satisfying to so many.

sucks to have to live through it first hand though.

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brexit - 31 January 2020 (voted on in 2015!)

oh there were a bunch of rich people who were certain it was going to be grand for them.

they’re not so vocal these days.

I’m thankful I don’t have to have these discussions with my dad who passed in 2012; I have a bad feeling he’d be all maga.

that’s a really tough experience; best luck with the future as the shitshow progresses; it’s so fucked up that these want to be patriots are destroying this country.