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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • The more MSM I consume, the more I’m convinced it has little purpose beyond manufacturing consent in the dissemination of corporate propaganda.

    When pharmacy lobbyists claimed hundreds of “small businesses” would become unviable, instead of highlighting the reduction in cost and bureaucracy, or increase in efficiency and quality of care for every Australian who does not own or work in a pharmacy (like 99.999% of the population), the MSM parroted the lobbyists screams of doom and gloom.

    They claim capitalism is about increasing cost efficiency, then do everything in their power to rent seek and price gouge; to create, defend and persist inefficiencies solely for profit. As long neoliberalism/conservatism continues, for-profit lobbying is allowed to exist, robber barrons are allowed to own or operate the media, wealth inequality is not tackled, housing is treated as a for-profit investment vehicle instead of a human right, etc, etc … capitalisms erosion of society and our quality of life will continue.




  • The moral challenge right now is for the right to euthanasia in countries where the rule of law is based on religion, viewing suicide as a sin, and uses the state to enforce that restriction on the entire population (most countries).

    The next moral challenge is defining in what cases it is morally justifiable. If I’m ever diagnosed with Dementia or Alzheimers I want the right to choose a quick and peaceful death at a time of my choosing, but even current euthanasia advocates don’t support those cases, and most laws only allow it when a terminal illness will most likely kill you rapidly (within 1 year) and you still posses full self-awareness. Both of my examples are cases where incapacitation may be years away.

    I expect the rise of fascism to accelerate it’s adoption though, especially when climate change and resource wars pop off, or the addition of automation results in massive unemployment; they’ll promote its usage for criminals, the homeless/poor, disabled, elderly, etc, etc… Calling it Freedom™️ instead of genocide, of-course.






  • Like most companies SpaceX benefitted enormously from NASA / public funding, whose greatest weakness was that it was at the whim of the US political system, which is evidently a complete failure. A multi-decade reusable rocket program was never on the cards with a continuously rotating gaggle of oligarchs changing funding and throwing spanners in projects. SpaceX was able to swoop in and hire all the top talent; thousands of engineers etc that chose the path hoping to join NASA.

    It’s not that it can’t be done in Europe. It’s that America had the talent pool from the space race, plus a vulture capitalist plutocracy that guarantees higher profits and worse worker rights.