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hayden_horn

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  1. enshittification
  2. why is it that cops never ever ever direct traffic in this city? stoplight out? thunderdome. stalled car? thunderdome. closed lane for construction? thunderdome. also the way the stoplights are programmed in this city is fucking stupid. sunday morning stoplights shouldn't run the same exact way as Tuesday 4pm stoplights. stoplights at road closures for construction should be turned off or blinking. hell, we need more blinking red and yellows at night and on Sunday mornings. wtf.
  3. so they basically threatened his family or something right? this dude is already wealthy wealthy. what else can it be? the kompromat i mean. is he blinking torture in morse code?
  4. it won't last. i played kotor. living that long on the dark side has effects
  5. then thank god they aren't
  6. dipdipdip tatsuya gives it a real go.
  7. is this the next annoying thing that will totally make people watch football not that much anymore?
  8. because they don't know this one weird trick
  9. why did you stop i was almost there
  10. also, to build more on the op, the fucking algorithms are not our friends. they are chisels. and they wormhole all the fucking time. when we had to, ahem, recently subscribe to netflix, it was a fucking revelation, because we started a brand new algorithm and discovered all kinds of new shit. the problem is that the algorithms are just trying to supersize you, not actually engage you. they are trying to get you fat and reliant on their nutrition so they can bilk you once you're hooked. search and rec isn't about actually helping you, the consumer, any more than this splintering of content has (and i will take a moment to say i told you fucking so on that front, for years, that this would happen), and once you realize that you are just a bank machine for corporations who are increasingly taking withdrawals without making deposits into society. it's not sustainable.
  11. so i've been meaning to make a post about this. i've likened it the great chiseling. i think that's where we are. i feel like everything described in this thread is very true and depressing but i think it has something more to do with wealth coalescing at the top, and i think covid accelerated it. where is all the money going? it's all being funneled out of the working class. as a result, the chiseling. everything has to cost just $5 more for this or $3 for that, here's a microtransaction; fees for concert tickets are like 50% of the total cost now, which should be illegal. is that money going to the artist? very rarely. i have a feeling that we are in an artificially good economy. it's all a fucking sham. it's simple math. low unemployment? we have a border crisis! these are both artificial problems. everyone has a side hustle. everyone working two jobs. everyone complains about the tip screen tablet being flipped over, but that's just corporate costs being passed onto the customer. all the money is funneling to the top, as ever, but we've reached a tipping point where the dollars are fewer because wealth is accumulated and just sitting there, doing nothing except act as a societal anchor. so they (everyone selling something) are chiseling. pay your workers less, or only just enough, and try to cut every corner in the name of the next quarter's earnings in a similar manner to how mankind has treated the environment. but i thik it all boils down to the greed and competition of wealth accumulation. who are the shareholders? you? me? our 401ks that we can't access and therefore serve as a bullwark in boosting stock prices? lol. no. i'm not going all bilderburg or whatever here, but i think the competition for fewer and scarcer resources makes people desperate and makes humanity steep in its worst stink. so everyone is hustling to make it, but no one is getting anywhere. everyone around me seems to be fixing, and nobody seems to be building. if any of that makes sense.
  12. oooff. that's poignant af
  13. grimes left him because he couldn't handle his drugs. she introduced him to the hard stuff particurlarly meth. i mean it's obvious right?
  14. man the halcyon prosaic days of a folksy war criminal
  15. i am trying not to hate. I'm trying Ringo. but I'm pretty sure i fucking loathe this person
  16. oh no anyway
  17. but it's a cowboy church!
  18. what does all this contempt do for you? do you wrap yourself in it? does it help you face the real world, this idea that you are so much better than those who suffer? when you've reduced them to savages, what's next? shall we get rid of all of em?
  19. grace is. or should be.
  20. sometimes people have the capacity to ask for and/or accept help/opportunities. sometimes they don't. but we (the responsible ones) shouldn't give up because someone isn't ready or whatever
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