Oh man you know who would be having such a time with The Discourse if he were alive today? Baudrillard

Ramsey says before I go to war with the data centers we need to get a verandah he can pine from and read my letters from the front

Extra depressed this time of year by default because it's when my dad died but also everything is bad and my dog died two months ago so it is really just not a good time

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UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. https://buff.ly/3ZPLOPu

The thing you have to understand about the original Gilded Age is that "gilded" does not mean "golden." It means covering something cheap with a thin layer of gold, to make the cheap thing look more valuable.

That is why they called it the Gilded Age: it was a cheap simulation of a golden age. A shiny veneer of prosperity, but scratch the glimmering surface and all you'd find underneath is base metal.

In other words, enshittification is nothing new. It's just how plutocracy works -- looting the fundamentals of the economy to gild the lives of a few.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age#The_name_and_the_era

You ever find yourself hoping you have cancer and then not going to the doctor so that if you do have cancer it'll be too late by the time you get it checked out

Feeling pretty demoralized and alienated and not sure why I should keep doing stuff! It's not great

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Was sent a picture of a Tesla with a US Army sticker and a vanity plate that reads "YAS CEO" and look maybe Skynet was right about humanity

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