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Economic Growth

“There’s room for economic growth”. I read this often.

There’s no room. We maxed out in so many ways, I don’t understand how folks don’t see the writing on the wall. A few examples:

Batteries

We’re using a 40 year old technology, invented by a man who’s so into battery tech and willing to find the successor to Lithium-ion, that he’s 100 years old, out of retirement, and still working on it. Still ain’t found shit! Innovation on batteries has halted for decades, we only have made improvements like them charging faster. It’s simply the limits of physics; we have combined every metal, tried every tuning, there’s a HUGE demand for better batteries and we still don’t have them. That’s a sign that we maxed out (and that’s fine; our battery-powered devices last for long enough in 90% of cases).

Digital storage

1TB on a SSD is under $100. One Terabyte is a huge amount of data. As the internet tells me, that’s 341 million 3-minute songs. Absurd. No one will need more than a few TB to store their entire life. Writers can write 8 hours a day for 80 years and that’s probably the equivalent of like, 500MB. One 1998 CD-ROM. That’s a sign that we maxed out.

Real life storage

People’s garages! They’re filled with unused stuff. Everyone. That means people buy shit they don’t need, all the time. How do you want to keep it this way? We cannot. It’s pure waste. We maxed out.

Convenience

How do you want to have more convenience than talking to a box and get delivered whatever? Or tap a screen to say “confirm” and boom, you have what you want? We created USB-C because USB-A is “so” annoying with its habit of making you try TWO ways of inserting a cable my goodness, can you even deal with this pressure? We maxed out. Our designed-to-move bodies don’t do shit.

Isolation

We can’t be more isolated than walking in public, eyes on phones at all times, in-ear buds with noise-cancelling tech, and act as if that’s going to help a society that has a lot of trouble to stay together now, can we? We maxed out here as well.

Stress

I don’t think we can go much further than having 3-4 jobs, notifications of doom on our devices 24/7, and the very real possibility to get killed by the very people supposed to protect us. I don’t think we can.

Etc.

And so yeah, that means the current capitalist economy (buying stuff and getting salaries) can’t sustain us/grow anymore. Which is fine. Which is why we need UBI. It’s not even a political thing, it simply makes sense. We literally print money for Ukraine and businesses? Just do that for people to heal at home. Vote this shit in, y’all.

We need to foster a better environment, period.

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Dead posts everywhere

We are King’s Tumblr. Get off social media. It has the lifespan of a fly.

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Tumblr Matt

Matt went ham about sexual content online.

Credit card companies are anti-porn.

Yes, because men buy porn and then dispute buying porn and credit cards have to work and lose money because of that. I don’t know anyone who ever bought any sexual content online, but I guess there are enough of those people for credit card companies to attempt to blame them (because on the other side, they’re happy for those sales when those go through, right?).

App stores, particularly Apple’s, are anti-porn. […] Apple has its own rules for what’s allowed in their App Store, and the interpretation of those rules can vary depending on who is reviewing your app on any given day. […] Aside: Why do Twitter and Reddit get away with tons of super hardcore content? Ask Apple, because I don’t know.

You should stop using App stores, completely. They’re worst than a dictator’s wet dream.

Today 40% of our signups and 85% of our page views come from people on mobile apps, not on the web.

You should stop using your phone, as much as possible. Any images or videos are better on a bigger screen and if that fosters a world where there’s no company dictating your life, then please go on and jump on a laptop.

Your accountability is that you need to be pro-active on this.

If Tumblr goes back to 85% of page views from the web, they can tell Apple “I don’t need your neurotic ass anymore” and HEHE their way out of this nightmare. You can’t lobby trillion-dollar companies, but the web is here. It is here.

Just like sex and having fun.

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X-treme Kindness

At a friend’s place a few years ago.

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French drugs

In 2007, living in France, I had a conversation with my parents about cannabis. I told them that it was crucial to legalize it and to move forward this goal, because underground economies were betting bigger and bigger and that at some point, this would yield massive violence.

Marseille 2022. 24 dead this year, 30 last year. I hear about torture, amputation and funny stuff like that.

All French people under 50 are accountable here. Y’all really did nothing. Great.

How come Germany, a not so cool country and culture, is thinking very seriously about legalizing but France has completely failed to move a millimeter toward the same goal, I don’t know.

I have ideas though.

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Iran

Thankful to have a few Iran-born women friends in my life. Rock solid, very generous people.

Reading about “morality police” makes me feel so angry at men. One of those very rare occasion where I’d like to be Superman, fly real quick over there, announce that “all men imposing shit on women are going to get their ass beat so hard, they’ll only have the ability to sit down and be quiet afterwards, for eternity”, and then thoroughly proceed through the ass whooping, smiling.

40 years of this shit. Leave women alone, what’s so hard about that goddamn.

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Them prices

 

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Back to 8

This wasn’t easy but finally, hardware acceleration for my laptop on Windows 8.

One machine left to downgrade.

Why would I go through pain to use Windows 8 in 2022? Well this year I’ve been using most desktop OSes pretty deeply and it turns out, I’m completely over updating constantly and losing my settings left and right, as if MY computer wasn’t mine at all. That, and bad performance showing up for no other reason but updates. Totally over and sick of this. Peace of mind is important.

8’s great as hell. There’s none snappier. I’ll install stand alone stuff, a bunch of great games that run perfectly fine on that hardware like Noita, Monkey Island or CS:GO, and run this laptop until it dies dies.

See y’all in 2032, easy.

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Car Madness

So, this happened again.

Mmmh

This is was my neighbor’s car. Perfectly parked. Absolutely ruined. I saw her before seeing her car, and she was fine, about to walking her dog.

How did she park, get out of the car and DOESN’T HAVE NO NECK BRACES OR SOMETHING (note for the smart asses: her boyfriend looked fine too and has his own car anyway). Not a cast on her left leg or a bruise on her face. Nothing, except that her car 100% looks like she should not be walking her dog the next morning.

How do you even start the car/drive with six airbags out. I need Ja Rule.

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GTA 6

Internet search is so great, a few days after the leak and I cannot watch any footage of GTA 6 because y’all have gamed SEO so much, it’s impossible to find the right videos. It’s “Everything You Need to Know about GTA 6” by a bozo who’s going to stream GTA 5 shit with his face on the side, times a hundred. Sad.

It’s not that big of deal. It’s GTA. It’s a pleasant sandbox game. It hasn’t changed in twenty years and simultaneously improved a lot. Game design 101!