Everything is politics. Avoiding thinking about or discussing consequential things is a political position which is well served almost everywhere else on the internet.

I’m in a US state with a submissive to authority government. As of today it’s still giving me an “unable to connect” page.

Yesterday the site and its mirrors redirected to an eero page saying it was blocked because it was “dangerous.” Today it was a more general couldn’t connect page.

My eero router recently got an update which permanently blocks archive.ph . What a coincidence.

Israel would look very different if they didn’t have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US’s responsibility for decades. The US doesn’t give Israel privileged treatment because they’ve been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.

Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.

Addicts. They were/are in a vulnerable place and a religion took advantage of them nurturing their vulnerability and dependency to profit from them. It was this or heroin basically. It would be nice to live in a world which doesn’t traumatize people and then profit on their trauma-driven trigger responses.

It is racist. I hope one day you will undersand why it is instead of becoming defensive about it. Just know that regardless of your intentions or understanding, when you say this word other people will correctly interpret that you are being racist.

The nerve of CNBC to use the word “hoarding” and and not mention the actual cause of the problem being the declining wealth of the median household relative to wealth hoarders.

Cynics are dupes who are easily utilized by the forces which deliberately made them cynical. The foundation of conservative politics.

Going to the gym is way easier than the infinite treadmill of trying to fix relationship which was never going to work. Having a stronger body helps to deal with the physical symptoms of trauma too. It can build confidence because working hard in the gym yields rewards but working too hard backfires. You have to listen to your own body and your own feelings rather than have them dictated to you by a toxic partner, or it won’t work.

That is quite a headline. I just got on but that’s already enough internet for today.

Too often this option is presented by people who are deliberately manipulating you and causing you to think that you only have the two choices which each benefit them and neither you. Always consider who is offering this choice and why. The true lesser evil here is whatever you have to do to get out of the situation where this choice is being presented to you.

The actual bubble that needs to be popped is financialization. The US economy is now completely detached from productivity and is now running on speculation only through financial valuation. At the same time, people are starving, infrastructure is falling apart, the birth rate is plummeting, and suicide is on the rise. It’s time to stop taking “job creators” seriously and use all this fallow professional experience and skill to restart the material economy and forget this pretend crap that keeps plutocrats busy doing nothing of any value to anyone.

This is really interesting. Faking an endorsement by someone who is accused of preventing thousands of needless deaths to sell shirts is on one level nefarious but on another level incorporating Luigi into mainstream pop culture. The plutocracy wants people to think this kid is the worst monster who ever lived, but the average American is so pleased with what he is accused of doing his likeness can be used to sell clothing. I am not totally opposed to the mainstreaming of this kind of folk hero. Optimally he should at least get some royalties to pay for his legal fees, though.

It’s an inhuman facsimile of the expression of humanity.

China has for decades deliberately designed their economy to provide affordable and quality labor to the capitalist world, and in all of the English speaking world capitalists are free to invest their money however they please wherever they please. Since it is cheaper to produce and import particular similar quality products from China than produce them domestically, that is what the right business move would be to minimize costs to maximize profit.

This is not a universal phenomenon. This is the result of stress affecting sleep by causing sleep latency problems or the quality of the sleep itself leaving the individual non-refreshed upon waking and needing a refractory period to recover from sleeping before getting out of bed. The reason it’s coming up a lot more often is that greater numbers of people are experiencing the health consequences of chronic stress.

If it brings me pleasure it is something I need, as I need to enjoy my life. On something like this I would just think about whether the cost justifies the amount of pleasure it would bring me. If I know I would get tired of it after a few weeks, I’m not going to blow thousands on it. If it’s a major enhancement of a hobby I’ve had for a long time which deepens my ability to enjoy it and I’m not risking anything else by spending the money, then it’s a decent investment in my happiness.

And the Nintendo of my childhood was responsible for pretty much every anti-consumer practice and cultural trend concerning videogames during my childhood:

Inventing the idea that videogames are toys only for little boys only for marketing purposes. Betraying and exploiting established relationships with developers. Screwing over partners on disc technology and reversing course to limit technology to be under their control. Supporting Jack Thompson throughout his campaign to ban all videogames with any adult content at all. Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit to hold the entire industry back. The list goes on.