also in the dark. it is genuinely good advice even if they give it abusively to dismiss real issues.

Stop being the victim! (or I will disown you. again.)

also, all the search functions are deliberately broken so they can feed you algo slop instead of letting you find the product you want.

well, a large language model.

it aspires to solipsism, and material reality is the enemy, but also, they do tend to onboard with something at least tangentially related to real grievances like ‘you haven’t kept up with the world and don’t really understand the way a lot of people understand themselves and each other these days’ or ‘there is a plague and that is scary’, it’s just that the next and every subsequent step is something like ‘be one with the plague, become the fear #darkknight#batman’ and/or ‘and your daughter likes kissing other girls because the jewish space laser made her gay, so we must #exterminatethejews’.

fun fact about the ‘jewish’ space laser: the only attempt anyone ever made to build a world dominating (network of) space laser(s) was their guy back in the 80s. i’d bet money some part of the idea was a leftover from werner von braun.

obvious fake though; the toilet isn’t gold plated. he wouldn’t touch it. he’d just shit himself and let someone change it later, rather than touch a non-gold toilet.

it’s slightly curved, because earth is not flat, and is constantly spinning. also there might be weather/air current concerns that would save time/fuel. this is like the first thing you learn drinking on the other side of a bar from someone who has ever interacted with the ‘actually doing things’ side of any aircraft.

plus security concerns. lots of shady crap in california they don’t want just anyone looking at from above.

explain in detail

please do.

no, this is SF to LA. It was the estrogen in the water that turned the flight path gay.

edit: we may also have local aviation laws that prevent straight flight paths. I’m not familiar with california aviation laws.

and in public health, almost the opposite has been proven for like a century+

nobody ever, and that’s the problem. could still be fixed, but an ounce of prevention is worth a megaton of cure.

you could do that on windows. no longer.

linux is fine, just don’t sudo under the influence.

what’s the difference between profit-taking of private companies for government companies, and naked corruption?

that’s not a joke, somebody please explain this to me.

uh huh. I think the value of stuff should go to the people who made it, who can, individually or as (a) group(s) maintain their own fucking tools. or towards a broader project of building a society. I don’t think concentrating wealth or some edgelord bullshit about greed being good are sustainable healthy or sane ways to structure distribution of resources in a society.

because capitalism needs to function like cancer. shit’s built on old imperialist logics, where you must always be claiming more. red queen’s race bullshit. or cancer; pick your metaphor.

it must be profitable because while productivity increases, due to imperial conquest and advancing technology, the profits of the owning classes (remember; this is the literal definition of capitalism-value being produced by owners rather than workers. yes it’s insane, they are insane, this system is insane.) must also increase.

the fact the working class have no more to squeeze from just means we get closer and closer to slaves, which is maybe intentional, maybe just a cool bonus for them.

there’s a cool poem that explains it. check out part 2 https://poets.org/poem/howl-parts-i-ii

tbf those are just as prevalent.

love your username.

but yes, there is no wealth on this magnitude without pillaging the world others have built, tearing out the wiring, and selling it for scrap. they can only destroy. the creative urge is, as they say, also a destructive urge. more true for capitalists than most.

cheaper than nasa could

no. they just got more funding and violated a bunch of environmental rules that NASA had to follow, because funding to efficient government programs is threadbare, and funding to military or subsidies of those deemed the beneficiaries of our society.

nope, never. they might also have some small commercial contracts, but none of it works without government subsidies.

no, and they’re eager to, but I think if they ever tried to not, things would go badly. that’s bad for the market and drives down everyone elses profits. there would be a lot of solidarity against them by the class of people that own the police.