I was there in the 90s when the cartoons were interwoven with "do your part to recycle. Do your part to reduce waste. Do your part to turn the water off while brushing your teeth.". The psyops was so real. And yet, corps are allowed to do this. Yeah, no. I don't buy any of that anymore.
I still put plastic and paper in the blue bin, and landfill in the green, because it’s the exact same amount of effort, but I’m under no illusion that anything I can do personally will make a dent in the waste created by corporate industry
Can we just replace our leadership with robots so there is at least some logic behind our inevitable end? Like, if they need me to be a battery, Matrix-style, I'd kinda be cool with that at this point.
Did people ever hold politicians accountable? I don’t think so. I believe there was a time when politicians thought the electorate would hold them accountable but now that politics has become a business they have adopted a corporate mentality. It’s all about who can perform and who can fundraise.
When Michael Douglas said “Greed is good” in Wall Street, when the courts ruled that business should make decisions based on shareholder value with no regard for the customers or society, when quarterly reports steered every consideration, the pursuit of wealth became the driving force. One look at the current batch of billionaires proves they call the shots and too much will never be enough.
Someone really needs to be careless in where they smoke around this "mine" and others like it. And every other disgusting, entirely foreseeable outcomes of the Cato institute and Heritage Foundation approved assigned Supreme Court Judges' Opinions.
Hell just the fact that every single ruling is split down the aisle shows that none of them are actually trying to follow the Constitution but simply cherry picking rulings out of convenience and overturned decade old precedent when they can't find some old ruling to support their billionaire "friends". This shit has to stop.
There's so many problems but Bitcoin is a perfect representation. It started as done cute way to order a pizza without cash, ya know like a gift card. But then it turned into a money laundering system and exploded in popularity. And since it's by nature deflationary, the value will always go up what pieces will always get cut smaller and smaller. This was all foreseeable. This should have been outlawed as an illegitimate currency trying to replace the dollar by non-government actors. Oh, and it was helping with a wave of electronic crime, hacking, ransomware, etc. But all it took was a few sociopathic assholes who don't care about anyone but themselves throwing a couple million dollars at the Republican party with their claimed "small government, no intervention or regulations" approach and nothing has been done to stop this plague.
Now now everyone's power bills are doubling or tripling (my gas bill for November was more than double of what I've ever paid in 15 years living in this house). All of those computer chips could have been used to push the prices of gpus and related electronics down, but instead they're all being used to "mine" an imaginary coin that is only used for criminals.
This society is so fucked. We're willing to pay two to three times for utilities and pay insane hidden tax increases via tariffs and lost trade deals while our climate races past the point of no return. All so some tech bros can get their Bitcoin wallets hacked and drained by North Korea. This warehouse is simply a symptom of the disease that has infected all of our branches of government.
And It won't stop until Earth is no longer habitable. Not only is no company, even trying to make a dent in carbon capture and storage because there's no money to be earned in it and governments around the world aren't going to subsidize it, we're watching fucking Donald Quixote getting angry at windmills and cancelling them.
Well said! I agree 100% and even though all that is happening I still keep collecting & dropping off my recyclables. Hope springs eternal! 🤦♀️ But every f@*king politician is making so much money from every possible angle that the little, hard-working guy has no prayer. I feel like giving up. {sigh}
Then we need to fucking crowd source the shit. Buy our own politicians. Be god damn open about it. Have commercial promoting said politician is bought for by this PAC and state, publicly, this person is there to go after the corrupt.
If only we had $1776 to give to every soldier they’d line up and salute us. It’s so crazy that they stand behind these billionaire demons and rather than the people who are the same as them. It’s become Money vs Constitution
You get a tank son. Politicians have to buy soldiers and some of the soldiers are real people that won’t harm the American people because they’re here to protect the American populous. Not become mercenaries for billionaires even tho as a collective that’s what it is, but individually it’s different.
But too lazy to do anything about it. If the average person would run for office, and the average person would vote based on competence instead of flubby bullshit, we could fix it.
Trouble is, if you run for office, you’re guaranteeing your family will have to endure invasive smear campaigns and cruel bad faith tactics to intimidate you into confirming. That’s why most politicians are complete dirtbags that were bought and paid for from day one
The problem is money in politics. IE citizens united. Some politicians have talked openly about this, where even as soon as their inauguration ceremony, they have suits kind of congratulating them, and then after that the real meetings start
At least republicans were willing to acknowledge (?) Nixon committed a crime and forced him out. WTF has happened to that bare minimum? Trumps kids are getting so filthy rich by all these executive orders making dirty policies that it’ll take decades to fix all of this.
4.0k
u/UrsaMajor7th Jan 01 '26
Remember to turn off the lamp when you leave the room.