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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I don’t mean it that literally. I mean just observing swaths of people putting straws into drinks, putting ointments on scrapes, etc might make them extrapolate and try similar actions using what’s available to them.

    It’s not much of a reach for a primate seeing a human manipulate and dig with a shovel, and use that as inspiration to manipulate a bamboo shoot to scratch their own back.

    We homosapiens spent 180,000 ish years wandering around in the dirt like idiots before it occurred to some of us that we could grow food in one place, thus beginning the path to civilization. Even we need examples to extrapolate from.





  • Probably, in the same way Steamboat Mickey is.

    Just part of the whole valuing property, in this case intellectual, over actual labor and people that our species loves so fucking much.

    Imagine if IP from drugs to technology to fiction had a 5-10 year max window before other people could work with and expand on it. It would be a better world for most.

    Oh you only get to make exclusive income on that thing you came up with for SEVERAL YEARS OF YOUR LIFE before you need to contribute in other ways to keep making money, boo fucking hoo. Where’s the sympathy for people working 2 jobs, burning their life up to meet basic needs, who don’t get several years of passive income on an idea that popped into their head 4 years ago.









  • Studies have shown a 4 day, 8 hour work week INCREASES weekly productivity, ie money for the owners. WFH doesn’t decease productivity at all.

    The owners work against such work life balance because its about keeping you busy and stretched, no time to look up or get your bearings.

    …And also schadenfreude, it makes their modern Pharoah, gluttonous, wasteful lifestyles feel all the sweeter squeezing those below them and watching us writhe and squirm.




  • Entire industries cannibalizing one another to eliminate competition and their industry’s ability and desire to make the products/services they existed for in the first place. TimeWarnerHBODiscoveryblahblah shelving projects for tax cheats, making lazy appeals to nostalgia for what the companies they destroyed once made, and cheap reality garbage instead of actual media comes to mind, but it’s terminal capitalism, it’s happening in every sector.

    Then they lay off their workers cutting their workforce to the bone by activist shareholder demand, eliminating potential consumers of the economy.

    Now they want to use AI to cut the bone.

    The economy no longer has any interest in the human beings it was created as a lowly tool to serve. We’re being cut out entirely, except the small class of private owners, of course.

    AI could and should be used to free mankind from tedious labor, that’s why such innovation should have come from well funded PUBLIC research our economy should have been oriented to feed for PUBLIC benefit.

    Instead, like every other technology, it will be used as yet another cudgel against society. This civilization is dogshit.



  • Agreed. In 5-10 years, the owners who already own fhe means of production/propaganda/state violence will ALSO have armies of multipurpose humanoid robots they’ve used to replace the workforce they exploited and left in poverty defending them from us.

    If not now, when? It’s maddening.


  • I’m voting for Biden. I don’t want the world to burn.

    But I also don’t want to hear a single god damned “if only we knew! If only we’d done something! This is such a random act of God!” when a CAT 6 kills millions of people on the Eastern seaboard in the coming decades.

    I taunt because people should be more than ready to fight and destroy the market and central bank servers where the people doing for ego score points store their records of power. If it was just me, I’d die and people would laugh and that would be it.

    But I say what I say to try to be part of that one in a trillion chance of helping to make enough of us angry enough to do it together. There’s approx 3k billionaires on Earth, and approx 28,000 100 million-plus-inaires on earth obsessed with and powerful enough to burn the world for their ego scores. We need to burn the god damned ego scores and their backups. Full reset.

    Until then, they leverage those ego scores to keep us at bay while destroying our habitat. We can stop them, we in all likelyhood won’t, but again, enough angry people have beheaded tyrants. It’s possible… with enough people. Or humanity will just burn 🤷