1992 born, I got the tail end of that. My mom was a cobol programmer, while my dad was able to get his hands on recycled hardware. Before the house fire, he had at least 20 towers, bags of parts, a closet full of monitors, keyboards and mice.

It was trippy to see the growth of technology from windows 95 to now.

math-magick

My tism found that as adorable as electrickery. 😊

Ultimately though, the greed of capitalism is what bothers people more than anything but greedy thinking is how you make money. The one thing no one can seem to do in this country (US) is not being able to do something without the, “what’s in it for me,” mindset BUT!!! that’s because people want compensation for their time, effort and labor and thus isn’t greed but wanting fair pay for their time. We’ve hit the point where labor and wages don’t make sense to the common worker while the 90k$ and up earners aren’t doing so bad.

That’s not saying the lower wage workers don’t deserve fair pay but at the same time certain jobs have more societal importance and comparing a grocery bagger to a radiologist, it’s like you’re out of your minds if you think a bagger deserves as much of a pay as the person looking inside your body.

So then we look at the other bigger picture which is college tuition so people go the other way around with certifications but then people have to put in field training and labor and get the internship out of the way.

I love capitalism and hate it at the same time I really do! But I also really don’t think I could live in anything else.

Influencer culture wouldn’t be what it is today without capitalism and the spearheading of monetization.

Anything you do: “for the hustle,” is you working with capitalism. Any influencer side shop where they’re the sole creators and using a dropshipping service, you’re enjoying capitalism.

Captialsim is the most under-described socioeconomic-political system ever!!! When you’re a kid they always used to go: Work hard, Play hard but they don’t underscore that greed behind it the fact that at some point in your life you WILL not you might BUT WILL say: What’s in it for me? And that right there is how you make money and that’s capitalism.

That’s the freezing cold, dirty, truth of capitalism: What’s in it for me? - runs society.

https://www.iwfs.org/americas/wine-food---friends-1/articles/one-oenophile---s-opinion-.-.-.-on-cellar-temperature

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Went back to Ubuntu after laying off of it for a while. Now that I’m used to not using Windows, I feel like trying either Arch or Cachy though everyone keeps raving about Bazzite.

Man, I don’t miss windows. My laptop works better without it. Idk what the hell windows does but my internal wifi works better than it did with windows. A 750mbps USB adapter was needed and my 1200mbps internal wasn’t able to capture my 5G internet from 2 rooms away from the router.

I install Ubuntu and I can use my laptop in the shitter/3 rooms away for the router. All or most of the streaming is 720hd or 1080hd and it loads. IT ACTUALLY FUCKIN’ LOADS.

Fuck yeah!!! I’ve been saying for over a decade we need a workers uprising and to halt the means of production.

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, but honestly, did any Americans expect there to be an SA-equivalent in the US that would gun down people in broad daylight and get away with it? How about sending people to torture camps in El Salvador with no recourse?

Personally, no, i din’t think this country would ever have this happen. However, since the Bush Administration in the 2000’s got their hands on GITMO I am not surprised at overseas detention centers being used to enact Torture aka enhanced interrogation which is really what it’s called can’t make it up. https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/library/enhanced-interrogation-explained

GITMO was a terrible idea. anything they wanted to get away with that they couldn’t get away with over here was done over there.

I think humanity learned not nearly enough of our collectively history of wars. We’re still killing each other for no fucking reason.

I’m not trying to downplay it, dismiss it, make it seem like it’s nothing any of that I want to point out something interesting

That every single generation has seen: War and Disease and they usually correspond to each other.

There’s always been a perceived reason on their end but we deal with the fallout. modern day reasons are such odd reasons but are like sort of understandable but there shouldn’t be a loss of life over. like oil and rare earths i get why people fight over that, those make the world run. it still doesn’t make it right or okay.

BUT !!! you know what still bothers me, is how putin pre-emptively tried to use denazification as the main underscoring reason for wanting to colonize ukraine, thinking that everyone would be on board tried to say unfair trade. fuck outta here.

you know what every single war has also shown, we all want the water. most wars are near the coastal zones, inland wars are proxy wars.

They don’t need majority support to do anything, as long as people just stand by and let it happen anyway.

Edit: I do not, absolutely do not condone violent protests. I do not condone extreme actions. The point should be that the opinion gets heard through the voices and good graces of the people; not through scare tactics and extreme actions. the voice of a thousand matters more than the extreme actions of a group because you want people to accept a cause and to not associate a cause with violence and extremism because then that cause gets a bad name and to be honest scaring people and being all violent and shit is never the way to show that you want to get your message across, it only defeats the purpose.

Because when you actually do the actions it takes to make the actions match the magnitude of your words you’re considered a terrorist and what they consider our actions to be terrorism - means more like lawful protests, speaking up in crowded areas with facts, being organized and actually organizing like the 50501 and the state organization sites.

while our government is allowed to be be ran by actual terrorists 😔- means that they go around with an armed militia and fuck up citizens, naturalized immigrants and undocumented immigrants with people who are larping for cash bonuses.

terrorist noun

1. a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims

I don’t accept any of it but there is also nothing I can do without being arrested or shot and that really is the reality of it. If our military turned on our government and a coup happened, that would stop a lot of shit. That’s about the only way I can see all the bullshit stopping. I understand the slow transfer of power that happened and I understand how the Nazis came to be but at the same time, there’s more opposition this day in age and because world war 2 happened it’s incredibly difficult to be able to pull that bullshit again.

I’m not for trump, i’m waiting for the next one and i’m hoping it’s a young person between the cognitive ages of 38-58 and i’m hoping they’ll represent the current generations at play and i’m hoping the next one isn’t a republican nazi.

i voted for the cackling one and i was originally going to vote for cornel west but decided that it would have a larger impact to vote for kamala.

Well I mean there was a major difference because the Axis/evil monarch(Italy, Japan and Germany) were conducting atrocities far beyond just separating families and using cold rooms, starvation and medical withholding. They were cutting people open, injecting them with viruses (human log), the hammer and string tied to hit someone in the head to see how long it would take to go insane, chlorine gas, rape (what they considered forced mating) to produce results of viruses in utero and in birth, destroying and liquiding humans (see also the chambers/human sized ovens).

There’s a comparison in the amount of ruthless use of law but when it comes to the human atrocities that they enacted and the atrocities that are happening now; It’s like a pinch on the arm compared to the kick in the head.

Well it depends on needs too. I tried to explain this before is that if you’re 4 hours away in travel for something that could be done in 1 hour worth of travel, something that’s as important as your mom dying; Are you gonna take the 4hour train or the 1hour plane?

Let’s also compare that time to the round trip of Boston (back bay) to Worcester (union station) and back using the regualr commuter rail. The amount of time it takes to get from Boston to Worcester via CR, is a plane to New York and back.

Driving vs CR is a crazy difference that no one likes to admit or acknowledge.

It takes literally ¼ the amount to drive to Worcester from greater Boston than it does to take a CR from back bay. But not one will ever say it, they’ll all say we need higher speed trains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=062-tfptAcM

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In 2013, I messaged Coca-Cola on Facebook and asked them if Dasani was run off water from their soda factories. They blocked me.

Because subsidiaries.