Donald Trump taste in everything is a reflection of him: concerned 100% with what he THINKS a rich and powerful person has and looks likes, as well as the superficial and gaudy displays of wealth that historically have garnered nothing but contempt from everyone.
The 2001 game Arcanum (a steam punk fanatsy hybrid) had that perspective. You had a world based in late Victorian industrialization and you had elves and dwarves and stuff… but those same dwarves and elves had VERY different views on technology. This is because they live for centuries while humans just decades. They make it clear that the two longer living races often approach technology (elves hate it btw, dwarves like it but are cautious) with caution specifically because they can see the effects of their shit from a hundred years from now while humans simply cannot.
They said that to me when I was a kid… and I was born in the 80s.
Some say that cars represent freedom and the ability to go where you want when you want.
But tech oligarchs want to destroy that, too. Basically by having their cars require a connection and monitor your every movement within the car and where you are going and when. They also are obsessed with self-driving cars because they then would have more control over your movements.
In short there will BE no plus side to having a car in the very near future. They are enshittifying everything.
This reminds me of a Mad Magazine comic from the 1960s (or 70s I don’t remember) that had a secret agent or someone like that use a computer to ‘calculate the fastest route to his destination’ and it drives him through every building in the city since that would be a straight line…
Some shit doesn’t change.
Is something like that is that wrong it cannot be admissible in court.
Money doesnt mean anything to them. I will never forget what Elon said when he was told that Disney and other companies were pulling their accounts off Twitter due to the rampant Nazism of its base. He just was shocked and said ‘you’re trying to blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself’. He outright said go fuck yourself, but I don’t remember exactly what he said before, but it was to that effect.
It is entirely about who controls what. Again, Musk lost his shit recently when Trump threatened to start giving NASA contracts to do stuff to replace what SpaceX is doing. Money isn’t the matter, it is controlling the levers of society.
I remember the smug internet atheist era that said that Christianity would fade away soon to science… and then slowly but surely many of those same atheists either became Christians or allied themselves with the same vile Christian nationalists who are actively exporting their filth all over the world.
That coin arrangement hit me like a brick. That is exactly how I arrange coins and bills.
Wait the state is suing the company? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? The company suing the CDC and RFK Jr. personally due to the clearly slanderous statements?
Johnny walker gold and platinum are both over 100$. What is your definition of good scotch and how much does it cost?
I made jokes about buying a very expensive bottle of scotch (something like Johnny Walker gold label, or even platinum) when Trump dies… but maybe I don’t.
They really do believe that having a lot of money is divine providence and that it means they are blessed by God.
Why not just have one horse pull their balls in one direction and their penis in another? While they are strapped naked to a bench.
New York City is, and has been for a very long time, one of the most iconic and influential cities in the world.
Exactly. It doesnt fucking matter. Even if an actual honest to God leftist does do a terrorism against the establishment, it wouldn’t change anything.
This is the one assassination that I know would be a real inside job. Kirk was killed by a nutcase groyper, and whoever killed Thompson was pissed off at the ‘healthcare’ system (and no it wasn’t Luigi).
Tech feudalism needs to be made 100% illegal.