Codename: Jackass

One more thing I'd like to add to my earlier point about technological advancement leaving us in the dust. The point of automation fundamentally changing our society is getting a lot more attention. We still don't know what the effects will be. I don't think it will be some utopia where everyone can do what they want. There will be a lot of unskilled workers who won't be able to find work and won't have the money or tools to get an education to do something that can't be automated. What are those people going to do? Universal basic income is a novel idea, but how many people will actually be willing to have money taken out of their paycheck to support people who can't find work, or, in some cases, won't find work? I envision a scenario twenty or thirty years down the road where masses of unemployable people are dying on the streets, or rioting for their old jobs back. The likes of which we haven't seen since the Great Depression. But all for the rich to get richer. Fuck the poor, they can sort it out on their own!

There's something very freeing and powerful about being able to command your vehicle to take you wherever you want. Actually controlling it, steering it, hitting the gas and feeling the acceleration, the feedback that you personally created. I think there will always be "manually driven vehicles", for lack of a better phrase. But for the common person, they will become outmoded and impossible to use at some point in time.

The Summer of George >>>> The Year of JeNewBee

OOH I KNOW YOU'RE NOT REPLYING TO ME BUT I HAVE TO GIVE MY TWO CENTS Great technology that can and probably will be misused at some point. Proprietary vehicles that can literally drive themselves to the shop without your approval for routine maintenance and automatically charge to your credit or debit account. Likely will be exploited at some point by hackers for any number or crimes, from simple theft to murder or assassination. Corporations and governments can track your every move made in that car (not that they can't do it already with your smartphone but it's another mode of surveillance). But that's the tradeoff for safer roads and more efficient travel.

HEAD OF A TRICK IN A BUCKET BODY OF A TRICK IN A BAG AND THROWN IN THE FIRE LIKE FUCK IT GOTTA BURN IT BEFORE IT GOES BAD ONE TOO MANY TIMES BEEN DISGUSTED BY THE STENCH OF ROT IS SUCH A DRAG, YAH! GET BROKE BY THE STREETS LIKE BLOODSTAINED GLASS, YAH! CHOKE ON THESE NUTS TILL THE VERY LAST, YAH!

RISE AND SHINE THE MOON IS BIG AND BRIGHT

I have a feeling that whatever happens will serve to only divide the rich and the poor even more than they already are. Better computers, more advanced transport, technological implants and augmentations that will only be available to those who can afford it. It won't be for mass production, it will be to create an upper and lower class of human. Or that's how I see it. Or, in another scenario that becomes increasingly likely, we destroy ourselves with some newfound technology that we find a way to weaponize, or that gets out of control too fast. That is if we don't all die from the atom bomb. I don't know. Maybe one day it'll all be good and happy but I don't see that in my lifetime. I don't mean to sound like a philistine or anti-technology, I think a lot of the things we have today are great. The fact that we can even communicate with each other right now from the comfort of our own homes from miles away is incredible. But I fear the acceleration of technological advancement will lay us to waste.

Why Squirrely?

Mostly pessimistic. In the hands of corporations whose goal is profit above all and governments that believe everyone is deserving of scrutiny, it will become a tool of control and surveillance. Humanity's better nature will not win out.

HAIL TO THE KEEPER OF THE COLD PRAISE THE ONE WHO HOLDS THE CUBES! I LIVE FOR YOU, BIG CHILL.

No Squirrely!

I'm gonna throw your curtains open and turn you out of your mattress.

My credit score is 685 and rising and I've never used a credit card.

Vomitorium is the large corridor through which people enter or exit a space, such as a coliseum. Look it up.

It's not a holiday if the banks don't close.

Omae wa mou shindeiru

I myself use Startpage, which is essentially the same as DDG. I read some stuff about the developers at DDG that gave me a sour feeling but now I can't recall what they were and I'm too entrenched in habit to change now.

I don't think I've ever used quotes or plus/minus in a search and have it give me any meaningful change to the results.

"You'll get what we think is best for you, and you'll like it that way." -Google, 2018

didja get some of that ol' heartburn from the salty oily seed combo? they sittin' a lil' heavy on the tum?

What optimism existed has been strangled To the very last breath Shuddering on strangers' floors at 5 AM

Current mood

yeah that's the good stuff

tfw you're chowing down on some nice food with ground beef in it and you bite down on a bone fragment