It’s planned obsolesence. They make more money by marketing high tech/luxury stuff and having it break on purpose in a defined amount of time.

I got some Carhartt “worker” jeans, advertized as nice jeans for manual laborers.

I work from home in my home office. The crotch tore in less than 6 months of hard… sitting.

Expensive shit they want you to buy over and over again because they think you’re an idiot. I learned to sew, learned to darn my nice wool socks that tore predictably in 6 months, repair and maintain my motorcycle, repair my plumbing, because fuck all this enshittification.

My new MO is to buy your shit once, and either i will say your brand is great or keep wearing my torn/repaired carhartt jeans and keep reminding people never to buy them unless they want to learn how to sew. Fuck these greedy pieces of shit.

ive seen þat several places. Apparently the german printing press didnt add it so it fell out of use.

I think it would confuse people tbh because there’s þ and ð.

ðis is soft, like breaðe

þat isnt, like þink

th replaced boð

lol no i’m not at all making a point about freedom being bad. No idea how you got that.

i feel like way more people should learn to meditate because this level of brainrot addiction is disturbing.

i think one thing people miss is that counter culture movements sometimes win people over in the worst ways and they get really extreme ideas, or really extreme people get spun up in them and become little evil vorticies of power and influence. The sixties spawned the civil rights movement, peace movement. It also created the Manson family. There’s a sort of yin and yang to these things IMO, creation and destruction. It’s like a period of high energy and change and that can get used in many creative and destructive ways.

Some people see today as terrible and think socialism will fix it. Others, fascism. Two people agree that current leaders are failing, but for different reasons. And when everyone is demanding change, you can get some dangerous people to pop out of the wood work.

People like Musk and Thiel grow up in free thinking environments and in counter culture meccas and are a direct result of that energy. They dont run counter to it. They are a product of it.

bottom right corner still

and dont forget to take your amlodipine

the issue is a lot fucking bigger than that. It’s an era of mass surveillance where we all willingly chose to carry tracking devices and microphones.

Unfortunately, removing instagram, reddit and facebook isnt enough to stop that.

please tell me they used mf doom somewhere in Doomsday

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Yeah, i think we were raised in similar narcissistic households and maybe others didn’t share that experience as much. My parents got a scent of the gifted child effect and tried to do everything to nurture it.

For so long they made me feel like I was super special but as an adult I can see how unhealthy it all was, and how much they fed off that attention.

Maybe for some children it was a normal gauge of how well the child is doing, but for myself every little achievement felt like, “oh so you felt okay with x? let’s see how well you can do x+1. You know there’s a kid who took college classes at 16? I think we should sign you up. What about astronomy? Have you heard of space camp?”

I felt like failure was terrible because of how disappointed they’d look if i didn’t take well to some new assignment. Completely fucked way to grow up.

I never thought of it that way, but now that I look back at it, it’s true. It was all way more for the parents. The kid was an essential asset for their ego. They were competing for who had the most successful child.

What can kids do? Read, and books=smart, so they were competing with each other at how good their kid was at… reading. So they came up with bullshit metrics like, “my child is in 4th grade but just finished a book at a 9th grade level… isn’t your child in 8th grade? Wow, my child is reading books he can’t even understand yet.”

It was always about the fucking parents.

there is one financial bubble and it is purely about unsustainable investment, as that is what defines a bubble. Like when they started throwing cash at the pet food company pets.com because it had pets.com even though they were shipping pet food and selling it below cost… These companies are just doing bad business and surviving because people throw money at them hoping to get in on the action.

It’s like if you had some uncle who drove a fancy car and said he had some big business k idea and he was going to make the family rich, and your dad and grandma started giving him their life savings as an investment, but you knew there was no business, he leased that car, and he lost most of it gambling and continued to gamble.

At some point no matter how much hype he generates, your grandma and dad run out of money, and the entrepreneur ends up in debt.

There are companies right now with sound business plans, and then there are OpenAI’s which sell their service below cost and wouldn’t be able to keep the doors open if investors stopped investing. WebVan closed their doors the day the dot com bubble popped because they literally couldnt pay payroll anymore. One day similar will happen and some companies will collapse.

One will be the next Amazon, the survivor that proved it had a sound business, and everyone is hoping they invested in the next Amazon. But tons of people right now are investing in the next WebVan or Pets.com, which might have been good ideas but too much too soon.

I blame the news cycle and blatant market manipulation that goes unpunished. Making ground breaking technology isn’t enough anymore. It has to be “Machine God Will destroy us all” level tech to make the headlines and subsequently make the market truly react in a way they can profit from it.

Someone could literally be on the verge of fusion energy and it wouldn’t make headlines as much as AI does today. It’s all about the marketing and hype, and they are going to make this AI bubble grow as big as possible then eject in time to save themselves.

I swear, people either think it’s a wish granting genie or a worthless hallucinating scam. There is zero room for actual rational discussion. It’s either magic and perfect or the exact opposite and a curse. It’s either the coolest modern tech or an environment destroying disaster. Either we should invest all our money in it, or none.

This entire article is just “can’t you guys see it isn’t a magic wish granting genie!” I’m kind of sick of this side to the argument even though it’s mostly just people trying to fight insane push from board rooms, wanting everyone to adopt the tools.

I’ve been coding for decades, and I’ve been pushed to use the new tools, have, I’ve been a lot more productive in some ways, but I actually read every fucking line of code it produces. It’s not perfect but it has been useful. It’s not a wish granting genie, but it has helped me. And if it goes away I could give a fuck less and would go back to doing things the way I always have.

This bubble is gonna pop some day, and it’s getting there I think. But I don’t see AI disappearing after either. I do look forward to less icons on sites like ✨ “click here to use MAGIC” like no motherfucker I don’t need a random ai helping me write a description for a calendar event, fuck you

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOrville/comments/b65nct/porn_addiction_cigarettes_can_drive_a_moclan_to/

Sigh sorry for the reddit link but the only place I can find the video