karashta

The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.

Pause.

I’m not sure most people understand how neoclassical economics is based on “arm chair general” style models largely divorced from reality.

And how horrible an ideology it really is to have had infiltrate every aspect of western life and culture.

The more I look at it, the more I see how a large part of our current societal issues can be laid at the feet of this ideology masked as science.

Alan Moore

Saga of the Swamp Thing and Watchmen are two amazing runs of comics he wrote.

Huge fan of his recent-ish novel, Jerusalem.

I’ve seen this and known the end was coming since I was a teenager 25 years ago.

Who care about consumer spending when I’ve been watching the current biosphere die off for my whole adult life?

I’m supposed to save for a future in a society that’s pretty obviously collapsing as the biosphere deteriorates?

I don’t have zero hope for the future but the idea that this current infinite expansion system can continue is obviously wrong.

Literally boots.

Work boots for my jobs doing physical labor. I would spend around or slightly under $100 every year for a new pair because theater, construction and pest control destroyed a pair a year.

Then I bought Redwings for close to $300. They lasted 3 years before the pandemic and likely would continue to last in those types of career for years to come.

I don’t.

I’ve even read philosophical works that go against what I think and feel and spend the entire time arguing with someone who has probably been dead for hundreds of years.

But I enjoy that from time to time to keep my mind sharp.

No point in reading something that doesn’t grab you and resonate with you. Life is too short to put myself through that.

It’s the same with a lot of us millennial people.

I graduated into a job market still largely crushed by the dotcom bubble bursting, had my entire life and career path destroyed by the GFC, then another destroyed by covid.

Let me just spend a third of my monthly food allowance on food I can make better myself to please the downtown economy god, I guess lmfao.

I’ve only blocked a few communities and my feed is not only negativity.

It can be at times when something big drops in the news, but my feed is still flooded with fun memes and interesting articles.

Sounds like, at least partially, it’s confirmation bias.

Navi from Ocarina of Time.

Literally the Clippy of Zelda.

“Hey! Listen!”

How about shut the fuck up you stupid firefly from hell?

Everyone is just playing a role while at work. Humans are more than their function in a business or society.

If you’re in the US, I’m pretty sure they can’t fire you because of ADHD related causes. They can come up with other reasons, but your neurodivergence is a recognized medical condition.

https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/

Just gonna drop this here to try and spread some knowledge.

River Raid for the Atari 2600

I’m one of those people who has never really stopped having cravings. It only gets bad when I’m really stressed but it is low key there 24/7.

Thankfully, it’s only really a battle when I’m stressed.

There’s been a documented decline of about 70% in animal populations, the amount of weather and climate related destruction has demonstrably increased, there’s traces of plastic and forever chemicals almost literally all over, Australia was on fire for half a year, wildfires are increasing in frequency in the western US, hurricanes are coming with increasing frequency and intensity from the gulf up the Atlantic.

There’s also the fires that tore across Greece, the tornadoes forming in states in the US that have seemingly never had them before, the massive loss of ice from Arctic and Antarctic areas of the world.

This is just a small smattering of the things I remember from recently.

I’m not saying that next year everything is going to immediately collapse. But I can see the stability of the ecosphere dissolving in front of me and there are quite a few nations that seem like they are leaning towards collapse if history is any judge of things.

I feel like too many people take being corrected like this as a sign that I’m trying to be condescending when, to me, it’s a simple courtesy I hope other people extend to me as well when I mess up.

“Karashta, you don’t want kids? You’d make a great dad.”

I’ve been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I’ve seen crumbling around me since my teens.

People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I’d seen and read.

Somehow, “I told you so,” doesn’t, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.

Enshrouded and Old School Runescape

My step uncle is one of the most thoughtful and considerate bosses I have ever experienced. It was just him, myself and his best friend Artur doing construction for years after hurricane Sandy. The pay wasn’t amazing for any of us but it was how he treated us and the other couple people that would rotate in that really stayed with me.

It’s the only place I’ve ever been encouraged to take the breaks needed when doing grueling, back breaking labor in the blistering heat and freezing cold. I was also encouraged and told to take the time actually needed to complete a task as long as it was done correctly. I honestly only saw us mess up a bare handful of times in the five years I worked for him.

He bought us lunch every day. Normally at some cool local joint he knew in the area we were working in. And lunch was almost always closer to two hours than one. We pretty much would finish lunch then have poop time because we were all on the same schedule.

My work day “started” at 8am. But that just was when I got to his house and he’d be there reading the paper eating breakfast. I was offered anything at the table, always given coffee when I asked. About thirty minutes after I showed up, I’d be asked to go grab Artur from his little studio apartment out back.

I wasn’t treated this way because I was family. Anyone that worked with us was treated the same way. Like a human being.

Don’t get me wrong. We absolutely busted our asses and did high quality work. And if we had to pour a foundation or something time sensitive, that shit always got done in the time needed.

This is how bosses are supposed to be. Leading from the front lines. Leading by example.

The Beatles had a huge and demonstrable effect on a large portion of rock n roll music. I’m not their biggest fan in any way, but you can literally see how they helped initiate a huge change in popular music in their era if you look at what came before them and what came after. It’s pretty disingenuous to claim it was mainly only hype.