Because it’s not currently profitable in most cases. Capitalism ensures that the merit of an idea comes secondary to it’s profitability. We don’t get the best things, we get the profitable things.

My mom makes a chain of safety pins (about 8-10 long) and attaches it to her clothes. Then you grab the chain and touch things with it (or it touches things as it dangles) to discharge w/o pain or hurting others. I tried it, seemed to work.

IMHO the most important thing is to have a moral foundation so you understand yourself why you believe racism/bigotry to be a bad thing.

It’s hard to say one is being good when intentionally and needlessly harming another right? And racism and bigotry intentionally and needlessly harms those being discriminated against.

So you get to decide if you want to be a decent person or one of the ugly hateful people. And of course whichever one decides, they will reap the consequences, whether that’s a bunch of cool friends or something else.

My recommendation to you, start viewing your coworkers as the ugly people they are and make it clear you don’t hang around low-lifes without directly stating anything in reference to them.

oversized emotional support vehicles

perfect

I’ve now concluded I’m a virtual Boltzmann Brain, thx.

Why you gotta do me like that on a Monday Morning!? Here we go…

Ya, I’m scared of suffocation.

Ah right, there’s a theory, like “Last Thursdayism” or something.

I’m barrelsexual so I’m with you!

you just went into Slavery-as-a-Service instead of a proper ownership model.

Fuck, you’re spot on.

Depends whether we choose solarpunk or dystopia.

It’s weird! It’s something so fundamental yet if you weren’t experiencing it yourself you’d have no idea it’s even a thing. There’s zero evidence for it outside of the mind itself.

Just a random thought, this reminds me of light. Kinda weird to think about but light is invisible unless it goes directly into your eyes.

Also as Sam Harris says it’s the only thing in the entire universe that cannot be an illusion. Even if everything else is fake and the entire universe is just a hallucination/simulation the fact that it feels like something to be in that simulation is still true.

Very very strange.

This and time too. You ask the oracle about consciousness, I’ll ask about time lol.

“I think therefore I am” … does that also mean “I thought therefore I was”? or something like that?

I like this perspective, I think I will adopt it.

A slightly related thought. I personally find experience/perspective/consciousness itself to be of utmost absurdity. I don’t find indefinite consciousness via some method I don’t understand to be any more absurd.

It’s the experience of death. Life is going on, time is passing, but your consciousness is not part of it.

I don’t know where you are from, but I do not feel like I live in a exploitative and fucked up system. Northern Europe for reference.

Good for you, IMHO you’re some combination of lucky and ignorant of the plight of others or the damage your system has done to others not quite as lucky.

Sorry I didn’t mean to imply I thought our (USA) capitalist system wasn’t authoritarian/totalitarian.

While we’re on the topic, I hope AOC gets those '73 Chile coup documents declassified.

Agree

Have you ever heard of anarchism? i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism

The past does not contain all future possibilities.

We as a specias are too damn greedy and self obsessed to ever make it work, IMHO

I get where you’re coming from, I just think that it’s not true, that people seem that way because we live under a fundamentally exploitative system and people are acting rational-ish in a fucked up system.

Why would you assume a totalitarian regime is the only alternative to capitalism?

I’d say it means goodish