Asynchronous baybeeee.

…but yes. every day this month.

I bet you could make it with some creamy peanut butter and grape jelly

I wish they would have had more articulate people in that group. Tim Pool’s arguments in general fall apart under logic. The civil war stance especially.

Everyone was so caught up in pointing out the authoritarian stuff going on under trump that none of them actually addressed his claim. He’s going to go back to his platform to keep doing the same thing he’s always done, but they gave him sound bites to feed his base.

Any civil war requires resources and logistics on two sides that can equally appose each other. I would have liked to see someone push back on how that happens in an authoritarian surveillance state. I’d even grant him ‘unrest,’ but civil wars are is pretty much impossible. It’s just a matter of logistics. No group can realistically organize to military readiness to challenge current regime. They’re purging the military, setting up a surveillance state, and have been recruiting by way of ICE at least. This says nothing of the military hardware and training that is held at the federal level.

I get it, he would have just cut in and used half truths but it’s hard to bullshit the obvious. Unless you’re screaming.

I couldn’t watch this all the way through. Maybe it’s a moderate thing that they couldn’t be more articulate. or maybe the 20 were just awful picks for this.

He’s married with a child.

That specific talking point is because he’s one of those obfuscated friends of nazis.

I wasn’t a fan myself. I resented the hell out of him for entering the race in 2020 and outing Bernie. I don’t like to talk about it much because it makes me seem like a Bernie bro but as far as I’m concerned the democratic establishment did everything they could to keep a socialist out of the whitehouse. The entire primary was political theater to dilute the socialist agenda and Biden only entered the race when it was clear that, even with his base split between him and warren, nothing was going to stop Sanders.

BUT, as someone who spent time in the trade unions I swallowed my pride and voted for Biden. I didn’t expect much, but I did expect a damn democrat to do what they always say they would do and support the union block.

2020 was the moment. It was the last time I actually thought we could turn things around. Ever since that primary I’ve just been waiting for us to go the way of the USSR.

When Biden sided with the railroads I lost the last shred of hope I had for the party.

I suppose at 8 years old the difference between the two was lost. I just enjoyed getting to listen to Rob Zombie without my mom knowing.

It looks like you have dungeon at home going by your surroundings. but hey, just because someone has a nice half-pipe at home doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy the skate park on special occasions.

Enjoy!

Kid, I’m old enough to have played Playstation games in my walkman for the music.

two older ones I always go back to are The Protomen and Gunship.

and if you like the story telling in a Protomen album and you like The Magnus Archives podcast, you may also find some joy in The Mechanisms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmcM_aEMTY but that’s the biggest stretch because it’s less music and more audio storytelling weirdness.

is different, but maybe it will hit for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soy4jGPHr3g&list=RDSoy4jGPHr3g&start_radio=1

though, if you like the instrumentals in what you posted you might like Fake Type. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs_AuDacuWw

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https://open.spotify.com/album/0nw2WMM6g8LsE0LzbXN03L This album gets close but I lean more for swing.

My experience has generally been that any song recommendations by the algorithm are completely wrong. Even when I build the playlist with a certain vibe and then request suggestions from the algorithm, it will go into left field and pick the most awful choices to fill out the list.

You would think that, with all this data they are keen to collect, they would have some level of understanding of vibes. Not direct understanding, obviously, but I would have thought them capable of cross-referencing various listening profiles to suggest better music.

It’s legit one of the things I could see AI actually being good at and used ethically for. I guess the fact that it’s not used for better taste profiling is a small mercy, considering the technology would be used for more nefarious stuff elsewhere if it was any good.

A prime example: the song “The Hoodin’ of Miss Fannie Deberry” by Kenny Rogers is decidedly different from the rest of his catalog. No matter how hard I try to get Spotify to find songs with similar vibes, I can’t escape Kenny Rogers and general country tunes. It’s maddening.

Any given song radio will trap you in a decade of music/genre, and pay no attention to the vibe of a song.

It has gotten slightly better recently with making custom playlists for me, but once my hyper-focus changes, I’m sure it will be out of sync with me again. Frontier Psychiatrist Radio slaps, but I’m still trapped in the '90s-'00s.

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I’m blind in both eyes. I can’t even see this comment.

I remember signing up for Reddit in my middle school library, way back when we were all still shitting on digg. It’s wild to have seen it fall so far.

It’s not a blank screen. It’s a canvas. You just don’t know how to paint.

My theory, in general, is based on three facts.

1: Climate change is happening and will be devastating. 2: The people in charge know it is happening but are too invested in the causes to stop it. 3: The people in charge, and those with the economic power to make changes happen, do not believe in the intrinsic value of human life, or at least they believe that some human lives are inherently more valuable than others.

Now, there are other reasons for the things happening now to be happening. There’s at least 50 years of history that shows that the right wing and business interests have been quietly taking over, at least in the US, even before climate change became a major talking point. Those are facts that we can just push into the wave of things happening as causing amplification or resonance, not really the core factor right now.

My core belief is that the tech-bro billionaires and some select think-tanks and investment firms are planning for what we can simply call the apocalypse (as driven by climate change) rather than trying to avoid it.

The push for AI is really a push for the surveillance state and data control. They are redesigning the way the internet, communication, and commerce work. The future of computing, in their minds, is cloud-based, with users only getting access to things via a glorified workstation. Information is controlled and given out by AI that tells you what someone said instead of letting you see it. “There is no war in Ba Sing Se” type stuff.

It’s not about making money right now. Right now is the R&D phase. It’s the market-capture phase. Your average user is a beta tester for the infrastructure that will become the new internet.

If you want a good picture of it, you can watch the new Running Man movie. I think it’s a good encapsulation, but it’s still too kind for how bad things will likely get.

Will there be something like the Holocaust? I can’t say. But I can assume that, given the state of the world we are creeping toward, there will need to be a way to dispose of “excess people,” or at least to control those people and use them until they pass. This can be done by war, prison, death camps, or even just plain negligence. If the surveillance state is so complete that you can’t organize and riots are wiped out without even an evening news report, then they don’t matter much.

I think the US is done. There are plenty of stupid people doing whatever they need to do now just to make money, but behind them, just off-screen, are people that I think are working to pick up the pieces after the fall. I could ramble on about that… and China trying to take over the US’s place in global hegemony, but I think it’s more important to focus on the core issue.

Global catastrophe is coming. I know it is more comfortable to believe that our leaders are just greedy idiots. And yeah, some are. Some are even that special kind of stupid where they’re super high-intelligence but low in practicality and empathy.

But the truth is, that somewhere in most of the major nations, there is a report that shows the coming shitshow, and most of them have either realized that things are going to be unavoidably bad or have outright leaned into it.

Do they still put the latest releases in a .exe file?

cool to know! I think Smart and Final might be a regional thing because I’ve never heard of it. but yeah, one of the draw backs of Aldi is that when they get busy things get messy. In general, I love Aldi. It has it’s issues but overall the shittiness seems muted compared to the other big chain stores. I can at least afford the essentials from there and then, when I get special stuff, buy bulk.

I wish they carried butter beans though.

I’m sorry, but you must be a new Aldi shopper. The quarter thing has been their model for ages. Often, you or someone else will just leave a quarter in their cart when they put it back.

The self-checkout is new, but Aldi is one of those stores that actually does pass the savings on to its customers. It’s always 20–30% cheaper at Aldi than other stores in my area. The exception is big-name brand stuff, but the store brand is definitely cheaper. $4 for a 12-pack of knockoff Coke vs. $13 for the name brand at the other stores? It’s a no-brainer.

Edit: I’m not super current on it, but as I recall, Aldi does actually pay its workers well. It’s one of the places that has a reputation as “the good one.” I’m sure it’s not perfect, since it still operates in the U.S. economy, but Aldi has been up there with Costco for its business practices.