WhiningCoil
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WhiningCoil
11mo ago
The only future I see any longer is 1984. We may shift to a multipolar world, but every pole will utilize the same, no exaggeration, Orwellian systems of social control. Extreme control of information. Elections that are more or less completely rigged. If not the actual vote, then having the intelligence community shaping the information environment to such a degree that nobody of a previous era would have ever considered it a fair election. The shift to a defacto one party state, where participation with the infrastructure of civilization is dependent on being a party member in good standing. It may not look exactly like China's social credit score, but it won't be far off, and will be identical in intent.
Weird Malthusian degrowth policies will rule the day. Every year our quality of life will be worse than the last for some nebulous greater good. Despite this, I see no end to the forever wars either. Forever wars pair too well with degrowth anyways.
Governments will cull their electorate more openly, encouraging suicide and sterilization as "ethical" choices to meet degrowth goals. This messaging will begin as early as Kindergarten.
People who advocate for actual human flourishing will be considered terrorist.
And I'm just gonna stop there because I'm already depressing myself too much to go on. Should probably go touch grass or something...
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
This narrative sounds appealing and then I look at someone like Ron DeSantis going on about woke, and Biden who is too feeble to do much. I think too many people are forming their opinions based on fiction, like TV or history. Real-life leaders, especially in modern America, are way more impotent, ineffective, and unenthusiastic than their fictional depictions.
Those aren't our real leaders. Our real leaders are the spooks in the intelligence community who essentially took a mulligan on an election, and prevented the lawfully elected president from exercising his constitutional authority for 4 years.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
I wonder about Disney. I have no idea how many people are like me, but all they've done is motivate me to stop watching TV and movies, period. They've motivated me to not let my kid watch TV, period. If they own all the media, I stop consuming all the media.
Instead I've been woodworking. My wife has been gardening. My daughter has been getting super creative with art supplies, crafts, playing pretend and running around outside. We're probably all better off with less consoomer media, regardless of the fact that Disney has been pushing an odious agenda. If anything I should thank Disney for becoming so awful it finally got me to touch grass more.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Because companies that get to the size of Coca-Cola are very risk averse.
I mean, I hear what you are saying. But that makes it all the more bizarre when they run advertising that tells me I'm a piece of shit, this message brought to you by Coca-Cola (or Gillette, or Miller Lite, or Bud Lite, or Disney, etc). I don't see risk averse behavior there.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Coca Cola's advertising isn't to get you to recognize Coca Cola, it's to specifically make you want Coca Cola at that specific moment. That's why they invest so heavily in billboard ads, most of their advertising is designed to make you think 'hey, I'm thirsty, I'll go get a Coke right now' (or at least the next time you pass a store).
Is it? Everybody I know who drinks soda is a habitual soda drinker. The same way I start my morning with coffee, they slam a Coke. We'd go out for lunch from the office, and they'd order a Coke. If the person said they only had Pepsi, they'd sigh and begrudgingly have a Pepsi instead.
I mean I guess you have to hook them into that habit at some point. But I've never known anyone in my entire life who sporadically consumed Coke when an advertisement finally got to them. In much the same way as I've never seen a smoker who needed an ad to compel them to smoke.
The moms who buy Coke for their kids know it's bad for them. They don't buy it because of the ads. They buy it because their shitty kids can't act right unless they get what they want, and what they want is a Coke.
This actually makes me wonder, how much of Coke's ad budget is directed at children. That would make a ton of sense.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
I thought it was the toxic masulinity ad?
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
"Companies are run primarily for the benefit of people who run companies."
And their failsons and faildaughters who need some sort of sinecure to show for their expensive miseducation.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
I mean, on the one hand you're quibbling over the different between the product being terrible, or being terrible and offensive.
On the other hand, we're all being gaslit about the product being terrible or offensive, and everyone who doesn't like the product is accused of being all the "-ists". They keep trying to guilt us into continuing to consoom.
I keep imagining it like some terrible MLM pitch, where some awkward, kind of aggressive, and frankly desperate salesman is making his pitch. He puts his foot in his mouth about men, so a few men get up to leave. Maybe he says something bafflingly retarded as a persuasive speech. Like "Women have always been the primary victims of war." As they walk out the door, he starts shouting at them angrily that they are missing the opportunity of a lifetime. They'll be on the wrong side of history! But it's so aggressive the a bunch more men are off put by it and leave too, and maybe a few women. When the last one leaves, he turns to the women, and the men with little enough self respect to stay, and doubles down instead, going "Fucking men, am I right?"
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Problem? I'm thankful every day Endgame gave me a perfect place to get off the consoomer train I'd found myself trapped on since my early 20's when Robert Downy Jr swept us off our feet.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Witness to Jordan Neely chokehold death calls Daniel Penny a 'hero'
Whoops, wrong link, not sure how that happened. Lets try again.
Witness to Jordan Neely chokehold death calls Daniel Penny a 'hero'
"He’s a hero," said the passenger, who has lived in New York City more than 50 years.
The witness, who described herself as a woman of color, said it was wrong for Bragg to charge Penny with second-degree manslaughter.
"I’m sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, ‘I don’t care if I have to kill an F, I will. I’ll go to jail, I’ll take a bullet,’" recalled the woman, who is in her 60s.
"I’m looking at where we are in the tube, in the sardine can, and I’m like, ‘OK, we’re in between stations. There’s nowhere we can go,’" she said. "The people on that train, we were scared. We were scared for our lives."
Penny stepped in when Neely started using the word "kill" and "bullet."
"Why in the world would you take a bullet? Why? You don’t take a bullet because you’ve snatched something from somebody’s hand. You take a bullet for violence," she added.
Freelance journalist Alberto Vazquez began recording the confrontation after Neely was already in a chokehold and offered a second account of the homeless man’s conduct.
"He started screaming in an aggressive manner," Vazquez told the New York Post. "He said he had no food, he had no drink, that he was tired and doesn’t care if he goes to jail. He started screaming all these things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground."
I do wonder if words can do justice with how threatening Neely was being on that train. I'm reminded of the Always Sunny bit about "the implication".
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Yes, it would be best if the person doing the restraining exercise somewhat more caution than choking a guy to death.
Was Neely choked to death? I was watching Tim Pool and he remarked that Neely was alive and unconscious when police arrived. I wonder if that was him talking out of his ass, then I looked it up more. From Time
When officers arrived on the scene, Neely was unconscious. He was transported to the hospital where he later died, according to the New York Police Department.
I looked and I looked and I looked, and I found no account arguing this fact. Penny did not choke Neely to death. Penny choked Neely unconscious, and he then later died.
people thinking that you shouldn't ever get violent with a belligerent vagrant that has not yet initiated any physical force
I mean, if the media keeps framing what happened in a deceitful way, and people never learn how menacing and threatening Neely was, literally threatening and in saying he will kill someone, than yeah sure. But this is an artifact of a lying media for most NPCs who have a received opinion on this topic. I doubt many people's priors are that someone can literally threaten to kill you, give every indication that they intend to kill you, and you must wait to be dead before you are allowed to do anything about it.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
The crackhead may die from a combination of the physical stress and the massive quantity of drugs they've taken.
Well that's just on them and their poor life choices. But even given the rest, what is the better option? What possible better option was there, aside from let Neely act on his threat to kill someone? And if that is the only choice being offered, then yeah, I default to
not caring what happens to belligerent vagrants
So I guess congratulations on boxing me into your false dichotomy.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
This is a terrible take, that wipes away intent, reasonable expectations of the outcome of the altercation, and is just pure dystopian strict liability. It erases all differences between tazing someone, shooting someone, pepper spraying someone, holding someone, or even just yelling at someone with a frail heart. Did you take any sort of action in the direction of someone who died? Not sure the distinction about what you did really matters.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Drugs in the system. Having a weak heart that gives out from the struggle. Either because of a defect, or some sort of systemic damage. Both, as habitual drug abuse often damages the heart.
Reading about the scant number of MMA fatalities actually revealed a lot of those fatalities were people with a undiagnosed heart condition who died in their first or second match.
Also brain bleeds, and organ failure brought on by dehydration.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
I've had a soft spot for Monster Magnet's Powertrip album lately.
It's not high art. Honestly the guy isn't even that good of a singer. But the lyrics are audacious and spacy, and I kind of love it. I also have a special place in my heart for rock acts that might be C-list at best, but perform with all the gusto and swagger of an S-Tier act. Especially when they just keep going decade after decade. Like this one Iced Earth album I used to listen to where they are trying to do some crowd work, and I swear only a single guy is yelling back.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
You know, a part of me wants to go "Turnabout is fair play". Because all this woke capital bullshit has finally made me believe that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You should not give your money to people who hate you.
I always thought those phrases were just Marxist seethe and cope. Now I get it. Because it's palpable how much the present ruling regime in buearocacy and capital management hate me. The answer still isn't communism. The answer is to stop consooming. At least as much as you can. And try to support artisans who genuinely support your values where you can. Or buy used to deprive the company of income. I also feel no moral qualms about piracy of legacy IP when some new conglomerate buys it up and decides to hold it hostage and vandalize it, while beating me over the head with propaganda.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
When I was a kid in the 80's and 90's, and beer brands seemed to be a more core part of the average American Male's identity, my father and our neighbor always got into light hearted spats about how shitty the other's beer choices were. My father always, and I mean always (as in died of a cirrhosed liver), drank Coors Light, and my neighbor drank Bud Light. One day, when I'm like 5 or 6 years old, my dad used me as a prop for a joke on my neighbor. In front of the neighbor, he asks me "Do you know how Bud Light is made?" I say "No" and he follows with, "They feed hops and water to cows, and they bottle up the piss". I honestly thought that was how Bud Light was made with the sincere naivety of a child for at least a year.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
This could all be apocryphal or misunderstood, but I'm under the impression this is all a legacy of prohibition. When brewing was legally permissible again, there was a lot of baggage.
By the time Prohibition was repealed, the breweries that opened went with what they knew would sell in the 1910s: light, bland beers. One man who witnessed a batch of particularly strong beer go unsold at the time said, “It is just too much hop for this generation.” And even if Prohibition was over, the Temperance movement’s efforts to ban alcohol at the state and local levels wasn’t: The beer industry’s reluctance to offend it permeated the pages of trade publications for decades; cowed, the industry continued to promote beer as “a beverage of moderation.”
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
She scans (checks out) a bike one of the kids is sitting on, and tries to take it.
Wait, what? In the video don't we see the nurse sitting on the bike? How the fuck did that happen? This chain of events as given makes no sense with the video of the nurse sitting on the bike.
Unless my eyes were lying to me, I call complete bullshit.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
No, I literally cannot imagine a scenario where a pregnant woman successfully forces a teenaged male off a bike he doesn't want to be removed from, and takes his place. Especially not without everyone falling over in a tangled mess and getting scrapes and cuts all over their hands, elbows and knees. Probably some decent bruising as well. I especially cannot imagine such a thing happening with not just 1 teenage male present, but 5. Its not just a physical impossibility, it boggles the mind the consider the psychology of the person who thinks thats a thing they could pull off.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
A shame they weren't as smart as you to come up with a more plausible story.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
My daughter loves The Blues Brothers. Some of the songs aren't appropriate, but Rubber Biscuit is one of her favorites, along with Soul Man, Messin' With The Kid and Everybody Needs Somebody To Love.
WhiningCoil
11mo ago
Somehow I doubt that, given their story, as they tell it, has some pretty conspicuous and fantastical gaps you're willing to overlook and/or create your own implausible account which is definitely not the story they are telling.
So many kneejerk reactions to this ad.
I mean for starters, they censored all the faces of the pinup girls? Like they are in witness protection or some shit? It puts off strong Orwellian vibes that even as they are attempting to censor the past by buying up as much material as they can and destroying it, they have to censor even their request to further censor too?
And then there is the blatant destruction of history. I get it, it's beer pinup memorabilia. It's not The Iliad or Animal Farm. But it's still a part of culture, and seeing this active campaign to gather and destroy it is still remarkably offputting. It's not a practice I want out there being done in any context, lest it catch on the same way all the other obscene year zero impulses we've seen have caught on.
Edit: Is this even a real thing? It's an unlisted video, only has 2m views, was published March 7th, so before Bud's fiasco. Everything about this feels so artificial now that I look closer.
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