somehow they stayed away this time. lol

the us empire is about to demonstrate to the world that my other country of citizenship is still a helpless vassal state despite the incredible progress at self determination they’ve made in the last few decades and my recent career change has proven that savings were a thing of the past despite earning the american average salary.

i wish canada were an option for me, but the best chance that canada would consider me for permanent residency status is if i went back to the old career field that was giving me anxiety, depression, and the perpetual need to disregard reminders that i was helping the ruling class further fuck over the entire world.

i use zsh on my work macs and now i’m thinking of doing so too on my linux machines because of this lady’s videos.

i’ve been using bash for 20+ years and my work macs keep reminding me that the transition is going to have hiccups because bash has become muscle memory for me.

Not a canary or anything

we’ve had enough of those lately and i’m going to miss kimmel.

mcdonalds helping isreal w the gaza genocide; get chicken tendies from almost anywhere else.

it’s hard to imagine anyone using lemmy wo excerpts to articles since lemmy is 90% links to articles.

she doesn’t have to be; her beliefs are funny enough on their own.

especially if they’re poor and desperate enough.

aka the yin to the fascist yang.

in other words: make them so worried about trying to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table that they’re don’t have the energy & time to think about why they have to do this when there are litterally billions of other people on this planet who don’t have to worry about doing the same thing.

… now I’m much better prepared for escaping the worst of the acute fascism than I was before.

i’m expecting it to smack me down hard since i already was not having a great time under non-fascist capitalism.

you should teach a class on how to prepare for it. lol

no one is immune to propaganda and i suspect that a huge majority still thinks gates and other oligarchs have become good guy because of it.

so much more fitting. lol

Gates is a good guy now

gates has put his money into a charity to protect his money; charities are only required to share a pittance of their wealth by law and lots of oligarchs have been putting their money into charities because of it.

it’s troubling to read that people are actually buying the bullshit that the pr firms are putting around this activity.

… I’ve seen videos and read articles predicting an imminent catastrophe, and corporate greed tells me that this catastrophe is just around the corner.

my own doomerism had me believing this as well, but then learning about texts like the ones cowbee has shared w you has shown me that our situation was predicted a century+ ago and I found it reassuring.

The most wild part is that it was never just some fringe leftist prediction; even liberal & conservative scholars from a century ago also predicted it like Keynes, or Polanyi, or Roosevelt (yes the president). It turns out that almost a century ago americans and other westerners just stopped paying attention to all the warnings from all of the scholars that they used to listen to and now we’re in this doom filled future because all the people who benefit from the status quo have successfully created an environment where the future is seen as either more status quo or nothing but abject horrors to scare us into drinking the kool-aide of inescapable climate change and perpetual oligarchy.

Once I developed a rudimentary media literacy because those texts; the mainstream media became transparent and it became clear that everyone, but the people of ruling class, are kept ignorant of reality because ignorant people are easier to manipulate into all the unnecessary asshattery that we’ve been doing for the last five generations.

i didn’t know motorola did IP69K capable phones. lol

some people believe that the extra steps prove that it’s not slavery. lol

are the goats still pissed off about mussolini? lol

or contractually obligated kissing lol

i got my hand slapped for describing a project that i put together for an old-silicon employer in the recent past; i reverted it back just before i left. lol

the us gov’t forced the linux kernel group to kick out its russian contributors that us gov’t considered problematic and it will happen again as more people try to contribute to linux and the us gov’t approve of them either.

so it never happened?

please say it never happened because it sounds terrifying to me.