I wholeheartedly agree with this. But what about nontraditional marketing? Should be some ways to market to the desired audience?

I think the Internet still has lots of promise. We just did a capitalism on it. If we can get the cancer out it’ll be an amazing thing again.

But I do think some of that early promise was overestimated because mostly smart people were on it then. We thought it was the medium, but it was just techies or people with hobbies or interest that made it that special place, now that your average Joe is there it’s mostly shit, but go somewhere with a little barrier to entry (like Lemmy) and it is pretty cool again.

Are you not from USA? No.

Yes, the police go around shooting and abducting people and taking their possessions, but if we didn’t have them we’d have gangs going around shooting and abducting people and taking their possessions.

I feel like we are just a few years away from having to have papers to be alive.

I mean if not having them can already get you sent to a prison camp in a foreign country for life, or if being a citizen of the wrong country can get you killed in your sleep and then the empire will act as if you didn’t ever exist, it really isn’t a stretch.

More legalized. Lobbying was already legalized bribery. Citizens United was just them making sure they get to pick who they bribe.

PBF is one of the funniest strips on the Internet for like 20 years straight.

I’ll check his stuff out lol

Straight men like rough things. Whiskey, cigars, trucks, guns, etc. Therefore when given the option of something soft and perfumed and feminine (woman) or something calloused and firm and dusty (man) to a truly straight dude the manly choice is obvious. Hairy rock hard buns? Sounds pretty damn straight to me. A pretty pink pussy and soft breasts? oh no I just almost got gay saying that.

We are going to build a new prison though, and that will fix it you’ll see…

Now look at smelting plants and other toxic industries…

True. It’s partially just a dropping of pretenses, but to keep up those pretenses we sometimes had to have justice. Now that the act is gone I’m afraid the small bit of justice the disenfranchised did have is gone with it.

Oh there is. There is no rule of law, no equity of law, but there is law. And it will be used as harshly and aggressively as possible on the poor, minorities, Democrats, the press, universities, etc.

It kind of sounds like a form of exposure therapy.

I was not able to read this, as I am an idiot, but I upvoted just for the effort.

It’s not weird. I would affirm yourself that they did not do everything right, and the things you’re angry about you have good reason to be. But let the anger and hate fade. They were probably trying their best. And the older you get the more you realize that we are all winging it. Now that you are an adult you can set healthy boundaries and interact with them on your own terms.

There’s some stockholm syndrome between children and parents and I think it’s natural to get angry as you move past that. But as an adult you can have a relationship with them where you see them more as flawed peers than omnipotent parents. Of course not everyone will want to have that relationship, but if you can and want to then I think it’s worth it.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex/

We’ve proven most of us Americans don’t have spines but I’m glad our northern neighbors can still stand up for themselves.

Probably toilet water if they don’t keep it closed.

If AI is so smart, why don’t we just ask it to fix the power grid crisis?