Warning: Cringe stream of consciousness bullshit that I do not completely stand behind but felt a strong need to externalize. It is very tl;dr and kind of dumb.
fuck plastic & fuck 3D printed garbage & fuck corn syrup drinks & fuck starbucks & fuck industries built around federal subsidies & fuck ai grifters & fuck ambulance chasers & fuck the growing nihilism of elite & fuck unnecessary data centers full of ai generated content & fuck that you have to listen to college stations if you want decent terrestrial radio & fuck people with an "I've got mine" mentality & fuck ewaste vendors who just resell shit on ebay anyway & fuck cyber insurance companies that are in bed with ewaste vendors & fuck speculation markets & fuck overpriced AV "solutions" vendors (your days are numbered) & fuck like 70% of proprietary software (some stuff gets s pass) & fuck people who make their living speculating in speculation markets & fuck the vet industry raising costs so they can push pet insurance as the norm & fuck grading companies & fuck the auction houses that are in bed with them & fuck multi-generational wealth & fuck how overly complicated the tax system is & fuck people who get insider tips because of course an overly complicated tax system only benefits the rich and well connected & fuck florida (same reason) & fuck pay inequality between workers and executives & fuck rich assholes with fleets of air bnbs & fuck spending gov't money on locked down, proprietary solutions & fuck hollywood tax credits & fuck all of the assholes in hollywood who've done worse than d4vd but will never be caught & props to whoever his fixer was for doing the right thing and letting that d4vd get caught & fuck hollywood tax credits and write offs & fuck not having foss voting machines & fuck the perverse incentives of our legal system & fuck intentionally cost prohibitive the legal system is & fuck assholes who've worked their entire careers in LLPs and LPAs and are shielded from the bullshit of the regular corporate world (while sometimes regulating it) & fuck idiots from gov't agencies who are so determined not to do their job that a box that says "do not do their work for them" comes up when they call in for technical "assistance" & fuck at least half of all ivy league alumni & fuck credentialism & fuck industries that are trusted to regulate themselves & fuck non-profit cleveland theater organizations that act like they're a poor, down on their luck charity (instead of a thriving one) and underpay and treat their admin employees like shit despite making bank and running hamilton yearly & fuck wikipedia's insane cash reserves & fuck mass layoffs done strategically for short term shareholder gains & fuck the concept of publicly traded companies & fuck min-maxing & fuck anyone being a trillionaire & fuck anyone being a billionaire
Side note: being a trillionaire is such bullshit that my markdown editor (easymde) thinks it's a typo.
Money is fucking evil
like, obviously, you need it to incentivize labor and all that, but the act of handing money to someone else, to me, feels like a lewd act. people do horrible, dishonest things to get money. every dollar is stained with the suffering of others.
Humanity feels just like an unbalanced TCG. It's always been unbalanced, but it's so much worse now IMO. We're extracting and wasting more resources than ever. There are more humans alive than were ever supposed to be living. We went from 1.6 billy to 8.3 billy people in the span of 125 years. Those are insane numbers. We're not going to be able to support this exponential growth shit forever, not without mass deaths at some point. I'm not ready to witness cruelty on that scale. My family's descendants are not ready for those cruelties either.
We're at a point where we've achieved so much for progress. Humanity is so close to being cool and living its best life. It sucks. I just don't see continuing to worship money as a long term solution. Money isn't always the key. There are a lot of "3rd world" countries with better healthcare than the States.* So much gets eaten up in bullshit admin costs or pocketed.
Money is like dog treats. If you give a group of dogs treats, even ones that have lived with each other for years, and one dog gets more treats than others, there's a chance one of these treat depraved dogs will snap into food aggression and kill the other over treats. It's the saddest thing in the world. We need human treats to be regulated, but we also need fail safes for regulators. More game balancing. IDK how you're supposed to do any of this btw, I'm purely talking out of my ass (per usual). I'd say we should bring in speed running experts to figure it all out, but I'm sure the emotional weight we all carry when it comes to humanities based problems would crush any rational solutions they'd propose.
Also, I kind of like some of the effects of the surveillance industry. If you watch true crime you'll know how hard it is to not get caught for a crime. Tho, I wish rich and connected people couldn't just call a buddy and have themselves removed from Clearview AI and Palantir systems. That part needs to be patched out before I'm actually sort of maybe ok with mass surveillance. Why is it even legal for the gov't to use proprietary software? What's the reasoning against that, besides laziness and paying off people they know? America has enough money to where if their hands were forced, they could fund FOSS development for like a decade and be 100% external vendor free. We the people should own the code that we're paying for. Instead almost every agency's emails are hosted Microsoft's 365 cloud while they pay for millions of Adobe licenses. We could choose not to do that. Again, I'm not sure if that's out of laziness or lack of technical understanding. As a lifelong office worker wagecuck, I can say that Office suite and Adobe suite alternatives are not even close to being feature complete. Sorry OnlyOffice, I know you're trying. Sorry LibreOffice. Sorry Krita. Every wealthy country in the world should be funding development, and well. Shit is never going to be feature complete if the top engineers are wasting their time reinventing the wheel at shitty startups. Fuck, I didn't touch much on AI, but that. Shit is too depressing.
Sorry for the weirdo vent post... I just feel so damn powerless. How do you realistically unfuck all of these complex systems? I'm trying to put together and distribute material to educate people. I really am. But is that really enough? I don't want to make any (meaningful) political change because politics is violence. Violence is lame. When you fuck with that, you get money aggression, and you don't want that because you'll get Khashoggi'd.** The treats aren't worth it. I'll stick to distributing JoySound Karaoke guides for the next generation of weebs.
*america does have the best sports doctors and the best medical in the world, but only for the ultra-wealthy lol
**ok, I probably went a little to political here, and not in a safe way. Damn it. It's just so hard not to.