nilskidoo

We help the most when we elect to do so ourselves, not when we leave the options to be considered by those with more resources to spare. If they entertained any inclination of helping those outside their own closed circuits they’d never have accumulated and stockpiled such resources to begin with. I explain this further over here: https://nilskidoo.blackblogs.org/lady-windermeres-fanzine/

But if you'd prefer to restrain all preaching to the choir, to persist with fantasy, then by all means rub your mighty ban-hammer.

And how does one accumulate a nest egg when every employer I have ever dealt with cannot afford (or outright refuses) to do better than paying late and/or less than agreed, if at all? Believe it or not, not everyone can live off their parents as adults.

As a former bell-ringer for the SalArmy across two time zones, the people who give the most are always the ones who look like they need it the most. No different from how the biggest tippers always themselves work in the service industry. The lower class isn't surviving because of WIC or unemployment insurance, or from the .ooooo9% billionaires part with in exchange for additional tax breaks, but from others out here in the streets.

People of the US are scared to address how the vast majority of taxes paid are not going to the general population of the US, not infrastructure or anything else outside of the private coffers of the biggest con-artists alive today or the largest and most expensive enterprise in all of human history- the US military and its 900+ bases thrust around the globe to better serve those same con-artists.

Quarantined for limiting the business of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

We've been confronted by the effects of the SCL Group and subsidiaries for well over a decade now actually.

That is incredibly naive. Wealth is the only thing that guarantees anonymity.

For anyone without a private jet maybe. Does anyone seriously think the FAANG corporate boards will ever in their lives have to undergo this? If the feds wish to be paparazzi, then we should all give them something to really behold.

But the inability to infringe on the rights of others is not itself an infringement of any actual right. That is an impossible lesson to be learned by us here in the west.

As does Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley. https://surveillancevalley.com/

And I realize anti-establishment innuendo is taboo here, but if yc is focused on bringing forth more products and services to the world, then doing so without understanding what things the world may honestly want or need, without some pretext of empathy for the source of those wants and needs, is as reprehensible as it is ineffective. When nobody today is satisfied, to the extent the richest man Bezos feels the need to upgrade his life partner, then we are not doing ourselves any justice in thinking technology can either save or replace dying virtue.

And we should all pretend that the internet resolves conflicts at any level? I think the widescale lack of communicating without empathizing pheromones is quite obviously making a shitstorm of the whole wide world. But keep culting with your bad self.

I was thinking along the lines of this:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133936-using-wifi-to-see...

It was always about surveillance.

How quickly everyone forgets this, and how desperate is the urge to deny how all-encompassing a thing it is: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/26/way-gchq-obliterated-gua...

Or another purpose altogether.

I'm sure a lot of folks have heard of the Amish practice of young adults living among the normals for weeks or months, sampling modern life before making the decision to settle down back on the farm. I wish that was a common thing among everyone, with teens out of high school given a year on their own before college, to exist as legal adults while supporting themselves with whatever entry-level, minimum wage job. I would imagine the numbers of freshmen dropouts would drop considerably, with more young adults in general being more willing to apply themselves toward realistically achieving goals, having tasted how hard things might be.

But if parenting has much in common with management styles, there would need to be a balance equally between super cool bro and anal-retentive wretch.

Lecturer and teacher Scott McCloud once said this to the effect of hiring practices, how there are three anchors from which an employer of any variety must seek out among potential employees.

To turn in work of professional and skilled caliber, to do so always ahead of deadlines, and to be easy to deal with generally.

A person only offering one is not providing enough to make their employ worthwhile or long-lasting, while the chances of someone realistically offering all three are extremely rare. So, the idea is to look for somebody what can comfortably guarantee any two of the three anchors. For example, a person may only submit average-quality work, but if they are reliable for at least that much and are easy to work with, then they are employable. Or, a person might be notorious for blowing schedules, but if they are always friendly about it, and their end product is always outstanding even though late, then they themselves are worthwhile.

But no psych test in the world can guarantee with 100% accuracy exactly how people might work together. Too many variables and too many subjective variables.

As if mainstreaming weaponized radiation poisoning weren't enough, let's unemploy weather-girls in the same swing. It's like Rod Serling took the brown acid.

I could see this as a prompter to get folks to police themselves, like to rat each other out over the articles 11/13 crap, similar to how the Americans were offering terrorist bounties in Afghanistan, prompting folks to falsely accuse annoying neighbors and the like.

But I really want to see it as a political fail-safe against multinational corporations.

Because Capitalists shitting on themselves are not being productive enough about it so once again globalist out-sourcing is the solution to the problem of globalist out-sourcing.

Downvoted so hard.

WL publishes documents with minimal context and no subtext, no added commentary or presentation whatsoever. Which shows how dependent on presentation has news reporting become. What Assange accomplished should be viewed as a priceless resource for journalists, reams of data and pure info, in unedited original words, there to speak for itself. If "fake news" is the grand enemy today, then the feds are after the one and only purveyor of hard facts without color, what they purport to favor in reactionary ideology.

But there is a difference between an opinion, like the earnest word of mouth bit concerning personal experience, and people paid entirely too much to convince strangers how incomplete they are. There was a lot of history before Bernays taught the western world to underestimate the universe. A return to landscapes free of billboards could be as therapeutic as aesthetic, but we'll never know that again.

Jesus surrounded himself with lepers, whores and thieves. I'm sincerely not trolling here, I just don't see a point in preaching only to the choir. I respect values of information here, like how Snowden landing in Honk Kong was announced here before any other website. But comfort zones, echo chambers, safe spaces and news bubbles are the same as any gated community, in that they block out most of reality by design. Including quite a lot of truth.

"For if there is a god it is the future. None can define it while many presume to speak on its behalf. All wish for it to deliver unto them, yet within it lies the destruction of every last one of us." - Richard Caldwell

Exactly, we've all been shepherded here and now have nothing to show for it but increased rates of cancer, illiteracy and suicide. All thanks to PR.

Rich irony in how someone probably making 6 figures a year had to go digging around in garbage cans, to spite a guy whose livelihood is reselling stolen dirty laundry.

If people honestly wanted or needed a particular thing, then marketing would be irrelevant. We've been manufacturing demand to meet supply for decades now. It is fundamentally a disingenuous act.

Whether the unwashed are hopeless or not, victim-shaming to protect a corporation is never a good look.

And "horrible fucked up shit" amounts to clicks. People don't stream Lawrence Welk for their modern entertainment needs. I say the company knows damn well what content it leaves untouched. It caters to enablers.

Even more shocking is how there are still folks believing emphatically that Capitalism leads anywhere else.