Everything said by CEOs of large corporations is advertising. Public statements, podcast appearances, reports to shareholders, internal decisions, it's all performative. These are marionettes puppeteered by the invisible hand of the market just to sell you shit. Why do we keep giving them platforms?

In 1919 Henry Ford tried to end shareholder dividends to invest in expanding the company and worker paychecks. The Dodge bros were among those shareholders and sued. MI Supreme Court ruled in their favor, establishing Shareholder Primacy in the single most damaging decision a US court has ever made.

I'd really appreciate if Every Single Company would stop changing my settings behind my back No auto play No analytics sharing No cloud storage No silently fucking filtering my friends out of my feeds >:[ No pestering me for money No 3rd party cookies No mailing subscriptions No Fucking Ads EVER

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" -Hanlon's Razor Here's the issue, Hanlon. The two clearly aren't mutually exclusive, and in fact: "Increasingly large groups of increasingly stupid people have an exponentially increasing capacity for malice" -Jay's Law

Jesus fucking Christ, there really is no such things as low beams anymore.

That the magnitude of bigoted, racist, spiteful, vitriolic hate, the unshakable opposition to using the government for public education and social well-being, and the economic rape of 90% of everyone everywhere was explicitly decided by some billionaire pedophiles... has me absolutely livid, BUT --

Probably the dumbest thing youtube has ever decided about me based on a single click is that I'm now a connoisseur of sponsored reviews about this one specific guitar pedal

The worst thing about being an adult is the pervasive attitude that by this point in life, the time for learning is over. You should be using what you've learned to work hard and make money. Knowledge isn't worth seeking unless it directly benefits one's wallet. To that I say Fuck ALL the way off

In D&D, the utility caster often goes underappreciated because they don't cast flashy damage spells, even though well placed battlefield control and buffs/debuffs absolutely can and do prevent character deaths all the time. The same is true of modern building codes and pollution regulations.

1) Being in the US without a visa isn't a felony. It isn't even a misdemeanor. It's a civil offense, settled in civil court. 2) There is only 1 reason to want an entire group of people deported in the first place, and it's the same bigoted prejudice that put the exception in the 13th amendment.

Not even hive insects work as tirelessly as the America's corporate overlords expect us to. You know why? They organized ages ago. Also because greed proves harmful to everyone regardless of how much you hide or ignore it, and colonies that let greedy individuals take advantage of them died out.

These choices will have consequences.

1) Love the people around you 2) If you feel like you can't, then surround yourself with different people 3) Return to step 1

What a horrible day to have a heart

Oh how ego gets in the way of honesty. It takes real humility to be able to say "I don't know", and that's critical to both learning and trust. It's especially hard when it's about something in your field, the thing you're supposed to be good at. Yet, for me, that's the greatest moment in the world.

It's MLK Day, and I think it's awfully strange that we've had 1 president who wasn't already a fully grown adult when bathrooms desegregated, and who formed his identity and views during and after the civil rights movement, and that's the guy the right has frothing tantrum shitfits over to this day.

Of course, it's just the III major dominant 7 chord

*Looks the party warrior up and down* Not my type. Not enough limbs, too much gender.

Thinking about the conservative idea that everybody has full control of their actions. Precipitating ideas include: -Nothing's systemic, everything's personal -My success is my own doing, others' failures are their fault -Don't lie, you meant what you said -Everything is simple, and I understand it

I want to have deep discussions about niche topics with passionate experts who have forgotten more than I have ever known.

It's all intertwined You can't sell cars if people are using bikes & transit Using bikes & transit requires mutual trust Without trust, safety requires control Without trust, compassion wanes, dominance rules Mutual trust requires shared reality, a basis of truth Attacking truth is always profitable

It's been a *very* long time since I've just spent an evening with a guitar in my hands, blasting Green Day and MCR and learning all the rhythm and lead parts. My ears are ringing, my hands are shaking, my fingers feel like they should be bleeding. And I feel good in a way that I haven't in years.

Can we? I like to think we can. I'm optimistic like that. Will we? Well, as Dr. Seuss once said: Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot...

Can't get caught up in the trap of "is" and "are", especially about people. "Those people are all idiots" "Democracy is flawed" "Why isn't it better?" "It just isn't!" "WHY not!? You stupid bastard" Such static oversimplified thinking is a trap that makes us susceptible to all our worst instincts.

Who are you when there's nothing holding you back? It's a question you'll never get an honest answer to if you actually ask. But people will show you, often when the stakes are high, or there's no one to impress; right when they're focused on something else. And when they show you, believe them.

One day, it will happen Until it does, more and more lives are ended by the fragile egos of soulless ghouls calling themselves men The systems that protect them must be torn down The people that enable them must be deposed They Must ALL Face Justice

One interesting side effect of AI shoving its way into every facet of entertainment is that it has thrown into sharp relief the sheer volume of human made high production soulless slop the industry was already gleefully pushing on us before.

For 2026, I'm just gonna take each day as it comes, and do something worthwhile with it, whether that's working toward big life goals or just making someone smile. 365 to go.

Live with your mistakes. Learn from them. Don't dwell on them. Fear of making mistakes only makes you anxious, and locks you into an emotional spiral.

You are here

It is a natural consequence of running a society as gigantic and interconnected as ours that people outside our closest social circles must be categorized, so that we can learn how to treat others in those categories that we might meet later.

Ser inmigrante, se debe estar orgulloso. Einwanderer zu sein sollte etwas sein, worauf man stolz sein kann. 身为移民应该是一件值得骄傲的事情。 इमिग्रेंट होना गर्व की बात होनी चाहिए। ينبغي أن يكون كونك مهاجراً أمراً يدعو للفخر. Бути іммігрантом має бути чим пишатися. Being an immigrant should be something to be proud of.

We've all been dying since the day we were born. But you only really start feeling it in your mid twenties.

Ever notice how the wealthy & powerful are always the most pathologically vitriolic about their insecurity? The kind of person that boasts with obvious lies, then SWATs anyone who calls them out on it (or calls them weird) Maybe that kind of people shouldn't be in charge of the internet's backbone

Zoning out is the ADHD brain's defense mechanism against boredom. If you don't have anything else to focus on, the only alternative is anxiety.

It's amazing how efficient volcanoes are at converting magma into lava

America wasted a truly monumental amount of brainpower every day keeping cars between lines of paint on the road.

There is a theory about branching time, that the reality you experience is the one in which you exist. Infinite others exist, but aren't yours to know. Well… This is the one where we exist. All of us, here, now, together. Shared with 8 Billion of our closest friends. I think that's pretty neat.

Why do we have a region called the "Eastern Midwest"? The name is a linguistic crime. Phrases dreamed up by the absolutely deranged. Also the U.S. is too damn big.

Just like Grandpa Simpson who used to be "with it", feeling threatened by norms shifting out from under you is a natural response, imagining scenarios that exaggerate that feeling isn't new, & the people weaponizing those scenarios to stoke those feelings at scale are exactly who you think they are.

The American experience of being constantly reminded that it only takes one bad roll of the dice to shatter your dreams, derail your entire life, & throw you into years of debt. And every day we roll the dice by climbing into our cars, permitting concealed guns in public, or walking home in the dark

My bad habit is assuming there are boundaries, usually social, where there are none, and causing myself undue stress over-constraining myself

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to! Blast! Blue Man Group the Colorado Symphony playing Star Wars live with the film George Thorogood Weird Al

Here's hoping tonight's dreams don't fuck me up like last night's...

Caught up on the news today, and am frankly livid over how the govt shutdown ended, but it came with perspective It's never been clearer that the Democratic party is what a multi-party state would call a coalition of too many distinct positions, from real progressive to what conservative used to be

Life is a miracle A freak chance upon 100,000 other freak chances Often squandered by shortsightedness or greed And frighteningly easy to cut short Be kind It costs nothing And means everything

Today I met a man lying in front of a car with a bleeding dent in the back of his skull and a desperate fear of death in his eyes. And we were both powerless to do anything to help. The ambulance arrived within 2 minutes. He was still breathing when it left for the hospital. I hope he makes it.

The reason they want to harvest your data so badly is for targeted ads. Therefore Blocking ads is an act of rebellion that actively hurts the most socially corrosive industry we have. As a nice bonus, it drastically improves your quality of life on the internet, and cuts your data usage in half.

Oh yeah, I'm married now.