Anti-car people who don’t advocate for things like mass transit are my least favorite people, mostly because they’re all gentrifying yuppies who can afford to live close enough to their fake email jobs to bike/walk without having to rub elbows with us scary poors and ethnics.

Imo, late-2000s YouTube was organic compared to what it’s become.

That 99.9% of the time social media “virality” is just admin from YouTube and TikTok manually choosing which of their favorite influencers are forced upon users. I’m not even talking execs here, just low-ranking code monkeys and paper pushers on a power trip.

That most Meta workers abuse their power and read users’ DMs. Pretty sure this has been confirmed, though not by Zuck and the gang—just random ex-employees. I knew a guy who worked for Facebook who my gut-instinct says was cyber-stalking me. He let a piece of really personal info about me slip during a convo. It wasn’t a dark secret, just something that I’d barely told anyone. I assumed that maybe my friend had told him, but she said she’d hardly spoken to him.

“Descent of Sexual Slavery Finds Out That She Is In Fact Descended from Sexual Slavery”

Check-mate, commies 😎

4chan type people too. They abuse the word so much that it doesn’t even make sense. They’ll call anything they hate the n-word. It’s so weird. Their hatred of Black peoples is so all-encompassing that it’s a language.

I remember seeing a poster of Maxfield Parish’s Daybreak, looking the painting up online and feeling super depressed when I read that no one can ever see the original in person because some anonymous asshole bought it for over $25 million dollars. The worst part is that for all we know, the buyer could’ve decided to set it on fire and feed the ashes to pigeons. It’s their property. Rich people can seriously just take important artifacts with barely any oversight. They collect the weirdest shit, too: the personal letters of celebrities, Gutenberg bibles, stolen Egyptian art. It’s literally just hoarding but expensive.

The glee is the most disturbing part. People on Reddit were legit cumming their pants when they found out about the Black kids jumping that White kid in Vegas. Yeah, I touch grass. I work with everyday people face to face and can feel the vibe shifts irl when enough losers get hopped up off the latest race thing.

I feel ambivalent about her content. Some of her vids are original and insightful, others not so much. She’s a unique voice—I’ll give her that. She was adopted by really racist White South Africans and has admitted to having severe identity issues because of them and her Black bio-mom.

Maybe the US will negotiate a peace treaty giving Russia the land it wants.

Kinda doubt it. The US military can afford to fund pointless money-sucks for decades. Unless its focus shifts to China in the near future, I don’t see why they’d let up in the Ukraine.

Can’t wait to have my water usage severely rationed while pistachio companies continue to gobble up a disproportionate amount of the water supply.

Good read, I don’t know why people are being so defensive about it. I agree with what the author says about the polarization of 9/11 reactions online. People pretend to be either nihilists or nationalists, which feels redundant to an extent because both sides cynically exploit other people’s trauma for the sake of establishing their highly performative political personas. There’s no room for mourning in our culture. Genuineness is seen as disingenuous. You’re either make memes that joke about 9/11 jumpers or ones demanding that the middle east be nuked.

Smh, can’t believe nobody’s posted Legos 911 yet. This website’s full of children.

because it shouldn’t be traumatizing for most people besides the handful who had family or friends that died and it’s hilarious that so many other people with 0 relationship to the people who died were/are traumatized by it.

“Um ackshuuually, it’s bad to care about people you don’t have a personal, one-on-one relationship with.” Jesus, what a take.

Neocons 100% reduced 9/11 into a goofy good-versus-evil narrative to justify indefinite bloodshed, but I wouldn’t go as far as to demonize people solely for empathizing with the victims. There’s nothing jingoistic about feeling horror witnessing everyday people tumble to their deaths on live television.

as has been pointed out elsewhere, no one talks about where they were when Timothy McVeigh and the CIA blew up that building in OKC, and from someone who remembers both I can tell you I’m far more leery about the context behind that one

The OKC bombing was HUGE news when it happened. 168 dying in a major American city was a big deal back then because there wasn’t a mass shooting happening every other day. However, 9/11 was the largest attack on US soil, almost 3,000. It overshadowed OKC and now its status as an unspeakable tragedy has begun to wane too—such is the life of an American tragedy.

Covid was a patriotism-killer. Not really that surprising. Can’t just normalize a deadly widespread pandemic and then seriously expect your citizens to mourn something that happened over twenty years ago.

I feel bad for the workers tho. Really hope they’re able to ban together to get provisions because the rich people defo aren’t sharing shit.

Never realized how affected I was by my environment until I got to live in Peru for a bit. Being in a walkable town was 100% a better antidepressant than my actual antidepressants.

B U T A T W H A T C O S T ?

Except they already do that now. Companies have abused the legal system to go after negative Yelp and Glassdoor reviews.

Pretty soon it’ll be illegal to sue corporations. I give it five years, maybe less given how reactionary the Supreme Court is.