Just like the fast food thing, TikTok is literally addictive. It’s the new breed of addictive tech. It’s the fentanyl of tech.

In the same way that sugar/candy is physically addictive, fast food has been proven to have the same physiological effects. It’s literally an addiction.

Wait what’s kawaii? Besides, like, the place

Buy em a drink, make polite chit chat

And if you enjoyed this, check out my fav LC song Thinking (live sesh)

The post body said their eyes were closed when they found them, and they were slimy. So probably got abandoned by the mother because it was a blind runt?

Jesus Christ that’s such a crazy waste of water

Sounds like a skill issue

I mean, them apologizing doesn’t mean shit. What came out of the protests was the massive, nation-wide changes we saw immediately afterward. The chode who killed him being arrested and sentenced, the cutback in budgets, the actual policy changes that started to come down like unarmed mental health emergency squads. A lot of that shit disappeared not long afterward, but that just goes to show we need the sustained pressure on serious issues like this.

Them painting streets and changing street names and giving empty speeches about past murders and crimes is nothing but a way to attempt to pacify the masses. Action is what counts.

I was going to say, maybe it’s the power of hindsight, but they both look like asshole shits and Mussolini looks like he is growing up with some serious emotional issues, maybe some hatred for women after his mother dressed him like that.

So we must buy his because he’s the lesser of two evils! That will fix the lemonade industry

But the problem is that this is the exact problem that led to the fascist taking office. The most historically unpopular president plagued by every possible crime and scandal, and the democrats run a Republican. That is why they keep losing. They keep people even remotely left of Republican, like Bernie and AOC, at arms length (at best) from the party, while propping up Joe Biden and Nancy pelosi (almost literally). And then they keep saying “this is the most progressive ticket in history!”

They’re selling out any possible goodwill hey had. Which was very little, if any. And then they turn around and point the finger at us. All while capitalizing on the fascists taking office and capitulating to their agenda, while the talking heads go on to and say “the problem is the party got ‘too woke’ and forgot about the everyday Americans!”

They have clearly failed at this since running a fake progressive in Obama, who also proved everything by running a legitimately progressive campaign in 08 and won by historic numbers. I’m not going to say it was the money behind the party that made them stop even pretending they give a shit…but it was (most likely). They are not a legitimate opposition party. And when the choices are between one of two, well that’s a massive fucking problem. And they’re not addressing it.

So, yes. There is a fascist in office. But if this foundational problem doesn’t get solved and the dems keep moving right (while the OW concept of “right” has shifted so far away from center), then the fascists will continue to radicalize, pulling the entire Democratic Party rightward with it.

That is a problem that needs to get solved before we can get a fascist out of power. Unless we’re talking…like, gonzo style.

If this is the way your cat is about food, it’s not that they need to change to lose weight. You need to change the food they’re eating. Cats are a little unique in that they don’t stop eating when they get full, like we do. They stop eating when their nutritional needs are met. Dry food for cats is like fast food for us. It’s not what they should be eating. They should be eating a high protein, low carb diet. Kibble is pretty much the worst vessel for that nutritional balance.

Raw is best. Primal makes good stuff. Small batch, vital essentials. Stella and chewy’s is still better than dry, but they do use vitamin packs to round out the diet instead of whole food sources. There are a lot of cooked whole food diets now, which is still better than kibble. Canned is in the same category.

My cat eats raw and has her whole life, basically. She sleeps later than I do, eats her meals as she pleases after the bowl is out, throughout the day. She doesn’t bug me about food. She gets excited when the food and treats are opened, but she never seems to be dying for food like so many cats do.

Feed your cats well! You start to notice how fluffy and shiny their coats get, how much happier and healthier they seem. Even if you can’t go full whole food, do as much as possible! Kibble should be pretty much as discouraged as a food that can keep them alive should be. They need moisture from their food and they need primarily meat. They’re obligate carnivores!

WHERE IS THE RED LIGHT FROM

Hm. I guess we just see things differently. I’m not subscribing to any idea simply because it falls under any particular label. I think a local system relying on artisans and local foods and the basic needs of those within the community coming first would be amazing. I don’t yearn for industrialized labor. Would a worker-owned system be better than what we have right now? Of course. But I think massive globalization, industrialization, and homogenization has been mostly a net negative, especially for the environment. You and I mostly agree. But if we’re talking utopia, or aspirational system, then smaller scale and localized would be best. I see seizing the means of production as a bandaid on a gaping wound. It helps, but it’s a first step because we need to start somewhere.

Well…yeah. Mass production was a bad turn for the worker. That kinda proves my point. It led to consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of the barons.

And why is saying a technology is a net negative “primitivist?” Haven’t multiple technologies exploited everyone more while operating as spying and brainwash machines? At some point the more advanced technological advancements became more advanced tools of oppression.

Going back to “dumb” technologies and slower communication should very well be a goal for a more truly advanced society. Technology hasn’t set us free, in fact it’s almost exclusively been a tool of the bourgeoisie to further exploit everyone else. To demand more of our time, to steal more of our attention. I agree with pretty much all of what you said. But with just a different inflection in the point.

I mean, why does it have to be one thing we are trying to not support? People in leftist spaces are trying to root out AI because of its myriad global problems and the way that the industry is akin to a new type of destructive bomb in the class war. Consolidating more wealth and power into the hands of the same technocrat few, poisoning the earth, destroying the livelihood of artists (and entire companies and divisions of workers across multiple industries because bosses are seeing dollar signs), stealing from the many and giving to the few in terms of creativity, it’s set to benefit the VCs…what is there to like about it?

You’re seeing a lot of talk about it because so many people thoughtlessly bought in when the more moral action would be to abstain from using it and insist on spaces that don’t welcome it. It’s not really that we are shifting energy away from more important things. It’s just that people will always say “hey, can we not use this here?” And you’re acting like we’re letting starving orphans starve so we can fight AI.

This is such a basic ass answer, but my recommendation would be to unplug, go outside, and read philosophy. Read Camus, read Sartre. Read existentialists in general. They talk about these things and come to interesting conclusions. Life is absurd. And it’s even more absurd than it’s ever been. The answer to that absurdity lies in your own personal meaning. Because life goes on whether you languish in it or attempt to find beauty in the monotony.

Another basic ass answer: It’s capitalism. Capitalism stole the meaning from your life to create profit for shareholders. It took the meaning from your life by telling you what job you have determines what you are. How long were we conditioned to attach our value as people to “what we want to be when we grow up.” Life feels meaningless because that deep conditioning is completely at odds with how we actually feel as people.

Another way you can start finding meaning is to find meaning in fighting against that. Find a job that you can ignore so you can live your life when you’re not working. Especially in the US we live to work. That creates this dissonance inside you because that’s fucking absurd. But it’s the kind of absurdity that should breed anger and resentment at the system, and those feelings should get translated into righteous action against these systems of exploitation and control. Find joy and immediacy in sabotaging ads conditioned to make us feel inferior. In doing anything that gives the finger to these twisted injustices.

There are a lot of ways to buck this feeling of joyless monotony. And the best way is to try to create something better, for yourself and for others. We are pushed to waste our “free” time consuming and producing. We are pushed to turn our hobbies and creativity into a “hustle.” Start revolting against these ideas in your everyday life and I think you will start to find a lot more meaning and joy. It’s scary, but a placid safety will while away your life and leave you feeling empty. Dangerous freedom will make you finally feel alive.

The joke is that this massive beautiful tree was cut down no matter how long it’s lived or how many things it survived, only to be felled by these jokers. And they’re oblivious to the irony of pointing out it’s survival after just killing it

Does Alice have thumbs