Just because people in power are getting worse, doesn’t mean we can’t strive to be better.

Yep, let’s rake our forests and rinse our recycling to handle climate change!

If your house burns to the ground, no worries, you can just collect floatsom from the beach and build a new one!

Dude, some things cannot be solved via positive vibes and being a good neighbor, and if you want my honest opinion on it, I think pushing everyday people to be accountable for everything while the broligarchs are accountable for nothing is a big part of the problem.

In other words, you should strive to be better than an apologist for the system.

I mean I understand the 1950s and 1960s werent some utopia either, but before we just let capital run everything some aspects were better.

For better or worse that’s how we get hivemind echo chambers and I’m not sure it’s even in human nature to seek anything else.

There it is, in every shoddy analysis someone has to mix up the thing we have with “the only thing possible”.

Echo chambers aren’t part of “human nature”, they’re designed into the algorithms by the broligarchs to rachet up engagement – giving them $$$ – while making it impossible to build consensus and community in a way that threatens them.

Up until a couple of decades ago, there weren’t widespread echo chambers on the Internet. The first version of websites (even social ones) were simple chronological feeds. Nowadays, thanks to the assmasters in charge you don’t even know what you aren’t seeing online on most of these sites. Comments look completely different based upon even simple things like gender.

If nearly everything currently wrong with the country weren’t due to capitalism run amok I could sympathize. But unfortunately it’s not the 1960s anymore.

Why do i want a copy of something I am only going to watch once? And why should I keep a copy if I can just stream it again from the same or some different site for free in the future?

1. you’re downloading a copy no matter which way you do it, you’re just tossing the copy as you download it with the streaming method

2. aside from the wastefulness of downloading the exact same thing multiple times, the source might vanish leaving you with nowhere to stream it from again

Private equity is so pumped full of cash that they basically have nothing better to do with it.

No.

Is this the new “maga supporters are thinking of not supporting trump” headline for the next ten years?

Sell it or don’t sell it. Who cares? 🥱

That site went from useful to a complete pile of trash. Maybe the chat bots can use it or something.

Sounds terrible. I’m sure it’ll happen cuz we live in hell.

This is like adding ESPN to the live TV package.

This scenario has already inspired a lot of high-quality entertainment (i.e. Severance and the Stanley Parable).

Our ancestors had intelligence in spades. They figured out an insane amount of stuff just to survive;

The idea of “surviving” doesn’t even come into play in the evaluation of other species. Stupid as hell species survive for hundreds of thousands of years on Earth, that’s how conducive it is to life. You seem to have some unfounded civilized cavemen POV on our ancestors when really we’re still all apes + advanced language.

The dawn of civilization wasn’t us going from some lone person survival style steam game where we came into the world solo dolo in a pair of underwear.

This is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to suing someone for sucking. Which, for whatever reason, was a childhood trope in my family. I love the idea of that being an actual thing. Many companies would be open to lawsuits if you could sue them for sucking.

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn’t worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that’s what you’re thinking. Definitely not.

I like how in the menu the chef is like – and I’m paraphrasing of course – you assholes can’t have bread cuz you don’t deserve it.

Same for me but with beers

How about “billionaires are edible” or “Tech bros are welfare queens” or “Watch out for a-luigi”?

He’s otherwise a really nice guy

Doubt

The thing that gets me every time is actually being funny gets shot in the head instantly in the cross fire.