It’s not

But when you have an anxiety disorder paired with a lifetime of observed terribleness from the world, it can feel like it is.

So you’ll excuse me if I’m holding the celebration in fear of the other shoe that might not even drop.

Dead Charlie Kirk

Bolsonaro off to the slammer

Things have been going pretty well. Can’t wait for it all to go to hell again

“Thingie”

Or in my language – “Negocinho”.

A Negocinho and a Cabo (“a thingie and a cable”) make a phone charger (“carregador de celular”)

I’m going to work

But you can help yourself to my gaming PC.

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Cats will kill and eat anything that doesn’t kill and eat them first. Which is why environmentally conscious cat owners keep them indoors where their damage to other specieses is reduced.

Though some frogs are poisonous and might be bad for them.

Wow, Male AND Female burritos. We are spoiled for choice.

I do

Largely because the CIA still exists and who knows if they won’t miss the good ol operation condor days.

(If you know you know)

Exactly at 0

Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.

But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is “okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south”

Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be “they won’t”. There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.

Because you touch yourself at night

sorry. I had to say that.

This varies from ace to ace. With me?

I am not repulsed but I am violently disinterested

A partner wants to fuck? Sure, I guess? If it makes them happy and I like them. But like. I’ll never go out of my way to try and get sex.

Sex

Turns out I’m asexual.

The spicy part is try being asexual yet HOPELESSLY romantic

But aside from THAT – Brand name clothing.

Most of it doesn’t even look good

There was a time the rich dressed decadently, that was conspicuous consumption, but at least it looked pretty and shiny in pictures. Nowadays rich people be buying clothes that look exactly, completely indistinguishable from the discount shop made-in-china artificial-fabric rags everyone else is wearing, but which have a logo printed on them. And that logo is what makes it expensive.

It’s Avon for Cis Dudes that make fun of Avon ladies

It’s the Lottery for STEM Majors that make fun of grandpas that play the lottery.

I’d say ‘it’s religion for reddit atheists’, but it’s not. AI is religion for reddit atheists. “The rapture AGI is right around the corner and when it comes around God will save the righteous and punish the sinners we will live in post-scarcity utopia. Just please ignore all the priests committing horrid crimes on children actual AI copmanies being owned by technocrats with fascist leanings who seem very horny for the idea of never having to pay a worker again. Until then we just need to pray and proselytize very hard keep investing on DA FUTER”

Sorry, the only illegal shit I do is free illegal shit (piracy)

WELL actually, it’s not illegal here in Brazil. It’s only a crime if you can be proven to be making money off of it. Downloading/copying is free game. :^)

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You’re not wrong

But keeping a government democratic and under check is a lot easier than trying to do the same to a series of corporations with anonymous investors calling the shots. Every corporation is in and of itself a dictatorship, dangerously close to an old noble clan, and we pretend we don’t see it because it’s been hypernormalised.

I’d much rather take my chances with a government, that can in fact respond to the will of the people from time to time, than with a corporation that only ever responds to money with exactly no exceptions ever.

Also because the entire thing is backed financially by energy wasted, crypto has actually been slowing down the adoption of cheaper, safer renewable energy.

People spend x dollars on generating crypto, they expect to sell it for x+profit

Ergo if energy became cheaper, crypto would devalue and we can’t have that.

More like a squat or flophouse for nerds. Daring to exist in the middle of a gentrified area.

Crypto remains a pyramid scheme masquerading as a resistance against tyranny

Ironically you know what ACTUALLY protects from powergrabs by payment processors? A fully centralised, government backed form of digital cash that is fully equivalent to paper money.

Ask a Brazilian about pix. Super low fees (often feeling non existant). And transactions can’t be invalidated on the whims of a corporate board. For something to not be buyable by pix it has to be illegal, thus having to go through every layer of checks and balances a democracy has.

The problem with visa and their ilk is that finance has been privatised. Too much power in the hands of corporations that have deftly dodged regulation that would keep them neutral and honest. Thinking privatising things further and turning everyone into a fully unregulated petty digital landlord is gonna solve anything rather than make it worse is foolhardy.