They won’t learn. They can’t learn. Their ego is too fragile and too wrapped up in disinformation and nonsense. Accepting that conservative policies are bad actually would break their shitty little minds.

Conservatives will say anything to align with the in-group, to hurt the outgroup, or for personal power. They have no internal beliefs beyond those.

They want hierarchy. A king, nobles, and an underclass. They don’t care if they’re on top, just so long as someone is below them.

Rather, it’s the presence of a competitive market.

Competitive markets are hated by private business owners

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro-masculinity

Weak shitty men know on some level they’re weak shitty men. They lash out and desperately cling to toys to prop up their failing ego.

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

The goal is better-than-human. It really shouldn’t ever cross a solid line, though.

The goal should be far fewer cars of any sort on the street. Investing in self driving cars instead of better infrastructure is stupid. Especially when the cars are privately owned

Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

I wanted this to go to trial so the jury could nullify, but this is a shit timeline.

Of course they are. I’m happy to never use twitch but I feel like most people don’t care or don’t have the self discipline to stop.

It’s because the decision makers are fucking stupid.

I would be happier at work if we could just solve interesting problems. Instead we have mandates from management to do nonsense, or work in nonsense ways.

The people at the top are so removed from how work gets done, and how normal people live, they’re useless. Worse than useless.

It would still be anti-labor and a force multiplier for confident stupidity.

I mostly get music from Bandcamp. They have a pretty big library, but it’s mostly newer and independent bands on there. You won’t find, like, the beatles or taylor swift.

Sometimes I’ll buy stuff directly from bands, if it’s not on bandcamp, via their store or label or whatever. I used to get CDs, too, and rip them, but I haven’t done that in a while.

I will continue to not use Spotify. Buying drm free music is a long term win.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

I’m pretty happy not using Spotify. I will continue to do so. My library of drm free music (mostly from Bandcamp) is just fine.

I’ve used example.com in tests because my understanding is that domain is for examples and tests, and it’s pretty harmless if something accidentally really sends an email

Happily using Linux at home. Played some elden ring today, and the original fallout last week. Did some writing in libre office. It’s fine. And free. I never have to tinker with it.