Actually, drugs, but small amounts of drugs. Ketamine and mushrooms in therapeutic doses, coupled with small changes to your habits to make yourself feel a little better or a little more productive, every day. And letting yourself off the hook when you can’t make that happen. Also, this seems to have gotten somewhat lost in the internet age, but confiding in people in person. All these things won’t change your life—I mean, they could, but often they won’t. But they can help you get back on the path to fixing yourself.
It’s not about conservative hands or foreign hands. It’s about wealthy hands. They don’t want to shoot their wealth in the foot by pissing off powerful people who could turn around and hurt their money. Burn their fucking money and distribute their goods and meat among the people to barter with in a new society built from the ashes of their goddamn empire.
I mean, fuck the profitability. What about its massive toll on our already crumbling climate? What about its hallucinations that were told by the massively powerful companies (currently, anyway) to just not worry about? What about the promise of it “revolutionizing” industries (corporate speak for fucking workers in new and exciting ways), what about the paradigm solidifying nature of this tech that they keep lying to us about being a democratizing super tool?
Everything about this shit is trouble because of the world it was built into. This type of tech (even though most of its capabilities and uses are lies) in the hands of the people it’s in will only serve the rich and gobble up resources when we need to be scaling back our consumption. Instead, that endless investment is fueling our climate collapse.
Fuck this LLM bullshit. It’s not for us. It will only hurt us in this timeline.
Great Mapquest story: my two friends and I were driving from Gainesville Fl to Tuscaloosa, Al to visit another friend in college. I was in charge of the ‘quest, and we had the directions set on when to light the 6 blunts we rolled for the drive (aligned with the longest periods without having to turn, 70+ miles on the highway, etc).
Well, I missed the 0.2mi immediate exit before the 125mi straightaway and lit that next blunt. Long story short, we went like a hundred miles in the wrong direction because I told him we were good for a couple of hours.
lol kinda off topic but holy shit they could not have more pointedly made an unflattering comparison in those side by side photos if they tried the rest of their lives. Hilarious.
Or the next one