A person in the Discord I'm part of works for a small department within the Capitol. They said most of the department heads laughed at the email and likened Elon Musk to an idiot trying to rearrange furniture in the dark.
I don't know what - if anything- comes after. But I do like the Buddhist analogy of death being like a wave falling back into the sea. The wave is gone but the matter and energy that constituted it survives and are eventually repurposed for the formation of another wave. Or a bird, or a tree, or some other part of the natural world.
The DNC is that smug asshole whose entire TED talk is saying "We need to find new solutions" and then patting himself on the back for bodly going where others have already gone.
I went to a lot of noise shows in my twenties. Some of the dudes took themselves way to seriously and played up the "I'm the disturbed artists bitcrushing damaged children's gospel records" image but a lot of them were just nerdy guys who talked Star Wars or programming between their sets. Good times.
Some people use it to maintain contact with long distance friends and family. Especially in scenarios where other methods are prohibited by time zone and expense. It's also been used by whistleblowers to expose government corruption and illegal corporate machinations.
Just because it's primary use case has been altered to favor brainrot and slop doesn't mean it totally lacks value or usability for other uses.
You know you can just educate people, right? lts a lot more constructive than being an arrogant dick who expects everyone to arrive at all scenarios with perfect knowledge.
Mentally perceive sounds as color. I don't get the visual effect as with true synesthesia but more like my mind says "that sound is blue" when I hear it.
Yeah, that was quite inhumane of me. How can I hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from werewolf gangbang authors and used underwear merchants and not despair?
"I'm protesting American oligarchs and the surveillance state by willingly giving my personal data to Chinese oligarchs and the surveillance state. Lol, get rekt. I am very smart."
"The whole world is laughing at us."
No, they're laughing at Trump voters. The rest of us they just feel sorry for.