Spin it! Bebe. ;)

[To make a cheap adequate equivalent centripital force (centrifugal force?.. whatever) simulating gravity]

There be ways.

Bezos defo is lying to us though. … bwahahahaha, “rockets” XD Yuh, cos that’s how one travels through space. XD

I know I’m an asshole, but I was legitimately hoping that covid was going to wipe out a more significant amount. At least all the anti vaxxers, but that didn’t happen.

I’m the jackass that watched Endgame and was like “goddamn that abandoned neighborhood looks peaceful”.

Well, at least you know to some extent that that’s in the wrong. Better than still being in the terrorised totalitarianised fervor and seeing such atrocities (not as making you the asshole, but instead) as a necessary virtues.

It gets better when one realises where that [headspace] came from…

I’m glad most (all?) of the replies here get it, and get it so solid, like this.

Yeah, we don’t see e.g. the heads of the BIS etc swanning around doing the fauxlanthropist whitewashing bit on the podcast circuit.

A bygone age, where polymathy was still more the norm, before the corporation separated us into maximal-bar-one ignorance, of “specialisation”,

and (I recently read, in the new book I’m reading) they lopped off the latter half of the expression “jack of all trades, master of none” [something like, “… is more often better than a master of one.”],

and they convinced us the specialists were the “experts”, the sages of the enlightenment, the wise ones with superior knowledge. … All the while they’re one step away from maximal ignorance.

I wonder how much better acting (and all “professions”/skills) could be, with a broader range of skills beside.

Yeah. If anyone can propose an exception, I will show them an example of effective image whitewashing.

Well said.

I tried say that too but probably got lost in my verbose rant.

Yep. So much wasted human potential.

Fuck billionaires, and their rigged game.

With proper resource management (up to and beyond availing and provisioning all emancipatory technologies), such that we could build vast multi-layered forest arcologyscapes, we could increase the carrying capacity of earth, for humans, to over 300 trillion, living in vast spacious lush garden abundance. Not saying that we should. Just that we could. Such is our headroom.

But we don’t get to have nice things, because of the likes of Bezos.

Industrialists, monopolists, “globalists” [oh they love that one, a flowery euphemism for more like “megalomaniacs”?], who eliminate any competition, by whatever means necessary to attain and maintain an imbalance of power.

A few years back I recall some journalists unearthing a study that showed how Wall St (and other stock exchange centers), were not only not “making” money/wealth, but extracting it from the economy, and further, for every dollar of wealth they extracted from the economy, they destroy another 7 dollars of wealth. … Takes a moment for the magnitude of that to sink in.

So then we get these fauxlanthropists, swanning around, like Rockerfeller, giving a dime to someone on camera, in a community from whom he’d stolen millions, to whitewash their image.

… by whatever means necessary… a lot of that’s just by the patents system and the legal system. How many patents get secreted a year? How many merely get sat on? How much lawfare’s done to scare off inventors of technologies that would out-compete and obsolete enshitified rent-extraction maximisation technologies? How much else? A spat of inventors disappeared or died in suspicious circumstances recently. How far would you go to protect a multi trillion industry? As far as to actively prevent a better world without resource wars or poverty from ever happening? How far would a psychopath who’s drawn to power go, with exacerbating tragedies of the commons for their own selfish short-sighted power-grab and resource gain? There’s nothing stopping them…

We can all be polymaths in the making,

not slaves in training, lapping up the platitudes that placate us, from those who enslave us.

(PS, I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 2004, waiting for everybody else to see it. Maybe now with their participation in vast rampant destruction of rare books to feed their AI for cheap, to become the info monopoly, able to shape our agnosis, more people will see it and stop falling for it, in this small window we have, before their total information management becomes complete and we become a cosmic dystopian tragedy, with our minds entirely curated by the everpresent cold-reading psychopathic ai hypnotist, not just coercively hoodwinking us to carrying it in our pocket, but skynet, will be everywhere, especially in our mind. Except it wont be our mind any more. It will be the corporation’s. Maximum capitalisation, reducing people to the numbers. … Bezos, a trillion humans? Sure. But we are not the same.)

“A poor workman blames his tools”

studies show a clear trend – output is up (more code, more commits, bigger diffs), but outcomes don’t reflect that trend. If anything, the average team is taking longer to ship worse software

&

burning out sooner,

suffocating high pace churn,

debugging bad code.

I am so glad I switched.

Better to face the horror.

If ignorance is bliss, give me agony.

gotta rest too.

unixporn

19 years ago.

Or if on bedrock, fetch/import a stratum of something Arch based to access the AUR.

I was doing that. Artix (and Arch before it) always been a cornerstone of my bedrock installs. No more now after the AUR’s troubles. Now I have a tripod of Gentoo, Devuan, and Void. Making do without the AUR. Can, but won’t.

I knew there was another reason I love Carbs Linux.

I realised…

I wasn’t going to do that.

And I was only using Artix for the AUR.

So I stopped using Artix.

Not responsible enough.

Responsible enough to stop.

Just remembered this piece, answering a similar question, “what woke you up?”