im not gonna lie, i would endure the issues that come with being monolingual (unless you wanna include rusty German and a proficiency with classical hebrew and koine greek lol) to go somewhere that accepts queer/trans people enough i can eke out a respectable living. I just want a job that pays the bills and a decent roof over my head. i am skilled with languages, so i can learn what I need to. I love learning about and immersing in cultures that aren’t my own - if i could leave tomorrow, I would.

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damn colombia is based???

im honestly even skeptical the AI bubble popping will make AI go away. I think we’re more likely to see a 2000s situation where the bottom falls out, the actually dominant companies remain, and we find ourselves dealing with the one or two companies appointed to carry it forward. Consolidation, not outright destruction.

which depresses the unholy fuck out of me

the way power and capital are all in on it conceptually - it just does too many things that serve them - they want the skilled labor elimination, they want the information control, they want the thing to mature enough to be an entertainment replacement.

i frankly half expect, a decade from now, seeing AI companies buying out entertainment companies and industries and just shuttering them so that people have to use their product. e.x.: buying up instrument creators so you have to either be wealthy or capitulate and use a LLM to do that labor for you.

the future is bleak, and the way they want that technology to develop, and the sheer amount of money and “were forcing this down your throats” that’s happening in several places and in several sectors of the economy - i absolutely despise i have to talk to an AI chatbot to apply to certain jobs now, but that’s psychologically conditioning the workforce to accept and use it at the point of a gun, and it’ll work over time if it is allowed to continue.

I am pretty sure tech is about to devour itself entirely, leaving everything even more consolidated and what’s left even more entrenched in our lives, with more power to influence and demand presence in the zeitgeist, no matter what the average person wants.

Like, yall, we need to be thinking really hard about what that technology is intended to do and the logical consequences of it persisting. Do not sit and hope the old normal will return. Historically this has never fucking happened. The .com crash did not kill the internet, it just heralded the end of it as a frontier.

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I keep coming to the edge of regret but tbh nah, that day is one of the few moments this year i have any pride about what ive done. If this is the cost of standing with a good cause FINE

But i really need some relief

Thank you. I already really dont consume sugar, but if I can find a way to source those supplements i will get them. Appreciate the advice

trans women in the future-ssr should be a caste of state funded priestesses that make sure the science of dialectical materialism is steadily refined and managed for the good of all

They are all so beholden to money, and this is what the money wants. they may well understand history, but everyone actually deciding what to do is holding, because they think they can weather it - and the deal politicians actually take is to be the face of policy and discourse, but there’s no substance here. It’s a paycheck and a cushy life… to be another showman, more or less.

it’s really shocking how much entertainment is the face of everything. People are convinced the government is real the same way they used to believe in santa claus, and the people behind all of this probably really do think they can ride it out. they’re generations deep on holding power so they may be right.

one can only hope the ground shifts out from under them like it usually does cyclically.

people have to believe they can and should or need to divest themselves from what is and that they’re empowered to build what can be and it takes a certain critical mass of desperation/alienation and at least a bit of awareness of where the problems one faces truly comes from.

things must get worse still, but we’re reaching a point where possibilities start emerging that felt impossible before.

as governing bodies retract and certain services disappear for example, people can start building power by stepping into the void to help people make ends meet with food, necessities, transit, work. The kinds of vacuums being created can create real bases of power and potential.

one also just has to keep in mind that… you know… they’re watching and probably won’t fail to react to any such collective labors

one of the best games ever made

they’re from here, scientific materialism has fundamental limits that cannot readily describe all phenomena, and i bet they look like little grey assholes.

i buddy up with evil out of like, what, spite? nah, there are other roads but maybe this satan guy has some good points that could win in the marketplace of ideas…

i would need to know what Satan himself is about tbqh but i wouldn’t rule this out either.

There’s a masculine emotional undercurrent to the godfather that i could relate to when i was a teenager in puberty but as a trans woman just feels alien and clownish to me

like the truth of that movie is somewhere in the unresolved male ego and the compensation thereof and i can’t vibe on it anymore.

it’s not for lack of trying, but the far right doesn’t deal with wreckers and state interference to the same degree the left does.

the left is also less willing to abuse human psychology to get people under the banner.

we can be like them, but we have to start getting left wing sympathetic people on board with things that traditionally the left finds abhorrent in this country.

A lot of little and big rubicons to cross culturally before we can have organizing like that.

specifically about the use of force and discipline around organizing. people need to accept enough hierarchy to be able to take orders, to be willing to do what it takes to keep your movement and your comrades safe.

acceptance that we’ve been at war for decades now, but haven’t been acting like it. It’s time to treat this like war and i think a lot of leftists are still not there in the USA w/r/t accepting that.

bump amber whataboutism idk if these even work

Do you think so? I think what we are internally isn’t fully dependent on memory and reference, there is some element of us that just is, for at least as long as we’re alive. Behind your eyes and resting within your interior is a spark of something that has existed continuously since you were born, that little “I” of awareness may never change.

It’s always you imo. You can go through mk ultra style brainwashing, lose your sense of identity, find yourself under a new name and with new interests, but between who you were and who you are, are enough commonalities that I would dispute the notion we’re just electrical signals in wet gooey meat endlessly referencing the past to navigate the present and anticipate the future - but that’s me.

i think these questions are really uninteresting if you’re gonna insist on being purely rational materialist about it, but i think it gets more interesting when you’re willing to play with what reality might be a little more. There are religious motifs that repeat in many cultures about the eternal reocurrence. This idea that earth is made and destroyed in countless infinite, repeating cycles.

What if you and I have been going at this for a while?

But if you want the answers science can give right now, probably not

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