I am quite sure humans started eating fish as a way to get people off their back and let them sit in peace without being disturbed for not appearing busy.

This timeline is so fucking dumb, the Ellison’s are evil people and what makes them evil has nothing to do with their ethnicity or religion and everything to do with them being rich oligarchs who are actively tearing the fabric of society apart.

This doesn’t deserve a response in kind

om… then why did you… respond?

Yeah I was going to recommend the film too, of course it is narrativized in many ways in the way big budget movies like this are, but I also think it does a better job than The Wolf Of Wallstreet at NOT making the villains unironically look cool at the end even though the takeaway is supposed to be that the villains are bad.

This is also a decent list of stuff to check out.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/02/04/facebook-booklist

No Zuckerberg made it to browse through all of the hot women at his school with other men more efficiently.

Facebook was conceived as a way to browse a web store of “female objects” easier.

Boys using toys for exactly what Men made them for…

ughhhhhh

I mean why did Zuckeberg make Facebook in the first place? The throughline here is direct.

The Iran War has been a MASSIVE gift to Putin.

Looking at your post history, it is clear you are obsessed with China to an unhealthy degree.

Answer my question

Do you not agree that Canada is far more directly complicit in the Palestinian Genocide and thus has far more agency and leverage to stop it than it does to influence what China is doing?

I think this is continually brought up as a way to distract from the fact that the US and Canada are DIRECTLY complicit in the Palestinian Genocide whereas the situation you are talking about is under the the umbrella of another empire.

Alex Cosh, the news editor of The Maple, has explained: “First, and most obviously, these contracts use taxpayer dollars to help sustain the profitability of Israeli companies that play key roles in supplying the Israeli military with the tools it needs to carry out the genocide in Gaza. Second, by feeding the growth of Israel’s domestic arms industry, Canada is helping Israel to reduce its reliance on foreign imports, thus weakening the potential impact of current and future arms embargoes on Israel.”

https://pbicanada.org/2026/06/29/israeli-arms-exports-reach-record-levels-in-2025-as-does-the-killing-of-palestinian-human-rights-defenders-and-journalists/~___~

I hope you also support divestment from Israel.

before anyone says Microsoft/Xbox are idiots and are sabotaging themselves… yes they are but also this strategy is an extremely successful longterm strategy so long as you have enough money to survive the temporary collapse and can buy up large chunks of the industry during the downswing.

Eventually if you keep doing this then you own most of the industry and neither developers nor gamers have any choice but to accept the crap you serve them. Problem solved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

No, that is the healthiest/least draining thing to do, the militant and most effective thing to do is relentlessly shit on corporate social media with your old corpo account while moving the rest of your social identity to the fediverse.

Obnoxiously link to the fediverse, talk about it unprompted, strip mine the relevance of your posts to the algorithm before you leave.

I am not saying everyone has to do this, I am not even necessarily recommending it as a general suggestion but this is clearly the best way to hate on billionaire social media and fight back against it. If you have the energy, don’t throw away the value of your social connections to the corpo algorithm without first converting as much as possible of it to awareness of the fediverse and how shitty corpo social media is, if your objective is to fight as hard as possible.

edit corporate social media is toxic as hell, I make this point not as a judgement of people who just log out and never log back in to corporate social media, take care of yourself, this strategy is for if you have the mental headspace to do it.

Do Both

Imagine if ANY OTHER COUNTRY had done this?

This is one of the reasons why the narrative is nonsense that renting games is better because you can easily own “too many games” if you keep buying them and then… oh no!!! You own too many digital games!!!

When you buy an indie game you are supporting art whether you get to the game or not, remember that, which isn’t to say buy random games but I think this statistic underlines how much it does matter to the smaller game developers to take a leap and buy their indie games. It helps that they usually cost 1/50th the cost of a AAA game lol…

Fuck this, I lived through 9/11 and the stupid fucking Islamophobia that strangled NYC for a decade plus, fuck the NYPD for surveilling innocent muslim New Yorkers just trying to live their lives, fuck Christians who ignore the permission for violence in their own religion to clutch their pearls and fear monger about Islam, fuck dumb bigots who make generalizations about ~2 billion people.

TWO BILLION PEOPLE

How can you possibly deduce ANY meaningful generalization about 2 billion people that isn’t just a generalization about humanity more broadly?

Stoking Islamophobia has lethal real world consequences, people will and already have been radicalized into real and pointless violence from seeing these kinds of ideologies proliferating.

I don’t even think it will take many jobs permanently, but to your point it never mattered if AI works or can actually replace human beings at work, all that matters is that people believe it will and then that means that companies can fire large amounts of workers and hire them back under permanently “temporary” positions that pay less, have less stability and condescend the humanity of the worker at a basic level by framing their labor as a temporary substitution for a superior LLM/“AI” to eventually step in and replace.

It is the SAME EXACT STORY as how Uber from the beginning framed its human drivers as temporary… even as dreams of self driving cars have faded from any serious discussion in the near term… the mistreatment, devaluing and dehumanization were successfully codified into the rideshare industry which was always the goal in the first place.

Which isn’t to say that plenty of CEOs haven’t drank the KoolAid on AI and are totally lost in the sauce, but two things can be true at the same time…

Radical change is hard!

Every problem that women have is debated constantly in a zillion monthly publications, and daytime talk shows. Women can turn on the TV and spend all day seeing every nuance of their lives endlessly debated, and not once will anyone mention that men might be struggling, too.

lol you want to back that statement up with evidence?