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I honestly didn’t know what they were thinking with that commercial. Why would you proudly advertise that you’ve built a massive surveillance network
Presumably because most end users are in deep with the “if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about” crowd … and besides it can find a lost dog /s.
They brought these sorts of intrusive cameras in the first place so privacy was not top of mind, or even in 2nd or 3rd place.
Yes, people meed to litter constantly to provide jobs for people employed to collect it.
Most emplpyment is provoded by small business, they are not billionaires but their business can be destroyed by them.
Some of what you mentiond is just bread 'n circuses to keep you deliberately distracted from what’s important
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority
and much of the rest is just infantilization
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
Living with purpose and helping others provides meaning.
Be mindful that it’s a tool, use it to benefit youself
I jave been onlone from the dialup and BBS days of the 1980’s when it was the reserve of nerds, it’s accelerated the enshitifcation process in the last 20 years and commercialisation via advertising is why, it’s the only reason Googke, Facebook etal exist
Why would you follow a user ? Isn’t that more Mastodons forte?
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Not workin and not having kids to force them into wage servitude, now into the climate hellhole we’re creating.
Loathe corpratised social media.
$200k and live frugllay, that should also allow you to grow your capital a little each year.
$400k and live frugally is easily doable, in 20 years you shoukd be well ahead a d have had your own time.
Couple caveats, no kids, live in SE Asia minimally explorng the world.
I quit work at 40 and am now 60.
I’m content with my life but can never be happy.
I’m wary if “happy” people, theyre either deliberately ignorant of the world around them, or dont care. In either case, their sociopaths and/or utter cowards and I’d rather not have anything to do with them.
Ignore him and keep doing your thing.
When he says drivers should be thanked you reply “only the decent ones”
“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” Mad World, Tears for Fears.
Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.
Boost and Jerboa (on Amdroid, the latter from F Droid)
Finally, some good news
No, banks are closing braches in Australia all over the plave and moving online and digital. In the nearet big town to me, 2 gas stations have closed but a thrid one was refurbished. Australia is rolling out elecrric cars slowly and they don’t have partisan political support.
Good for Trump for when he shits himself again
Of the four people I know in Australia who travel to the US semi regularly, not one is concerned at all, 3 of the 4 support Trump and the other one thinks it’s overblown media hyperbole. All white folks. These aren’t friends per se but acquaintances.
Regularly as.on at.least.omce every year and occasioanly twice.
Roads