IninewCrow

Major corporations and global companies no longer really care about nation states or nationalities any more. All they care about is making money and they don’t follow any ethics when it comes to that.

If you push them in one way or another … they just shift responsibility, change a name, change a direction, change a shell company and move stuff around, tell everyone they’ve changed and continue with business as usual in whatever way they please.

They can circumvent any national law for and from one country to another … they can do one thing in one country that can’t be done in another and vice versa and if they get stuck, they just call up international law litigate and get business done anyway.

It’s getting to the point where nations no longer matter much any more … it’s the corporations that have all the power and control.

or even when I do find a good tutorial with relevant content that I want to listen to … I’ll zoom right through it scrolling through to only the parts I want to listen to and then listen to it at 2x speed … I don’t have time to listen to your personal stories of what this problem means to you … I’m only here to try to solve a problem your solution can fix in 30 seconds

Reposting is like Einstein’s ideas and perspectives of time … it’s all relative.

When you see a meme for the first time, it’s not a repost, it’s something entirely new to you … but to someone who saw the content a long time ago, they may have seen it a hundred times.

As soon as you see it, others will come after you to see it for the first time … to them it is new … to you, you just saw it a second time, a third time, a hundred times, it is now a repost

Just like time in the universe … time moves at a certain rate here but between you and me, we both see it at slightly very tiny differences we would never notice … but jump to a different planet, nearer or further from a star, a neutron star or a black hole and time is a completely different thing for everyone

Reposting is the internet equivalent of relativity

What? … what’s that? … wait … let me buy the ‘listening app’ for $3.99 monthly subscription first … oh yeah, now I hear you … yeah, feels shitty being a product … oh wait … now I have to buy the $5.99 one time payment app ‘thoughts and feelings’ … there, now I feel I can feel it … yeah … feels shitty

Didn’t the world fight a world war to stop this kind of government from taking full control over a people?

I had to do a double take a few times on my news feed as weird things like wild fires and air plane crashes were being reported in Ontario … California!

And if you had also ordered the ‘X-Ray Glasses’ … you’d be able to lie in bed at night and see right through your roof to keep on eye out for any falling meteorites

Yeah … I keep imagining this one for all of humanity.

One moment, we’re having our usual run of the mill day, everything is either going good or going bad, we’re all worried about the economy, billionaires flying around in their private jets, some poor kid is stealing oranges from the market, you’re scrolling through some social media feed … then BAMMMM!

Either one of two things happen to you.

You either get terribly unwell and die immediately or things fall apart around you, hurricane winds, things going crazy and then you die soon after.

Or

You’re online and the internet goes screwy … things aren’t working right, then in an hour, most of the internet is gone. You turn on cable tv but most of the channels are now gone. You see one or two emergency channels and they’re all talking about some ‘event’ that happened somewhere far away. Then most tv everywhere goes down too. There are rumours everywhere of Russians have launched nuclear weapons, world war three has started, aliens have landed, Jesus has come back, Armageddon has started … and then hurricane force winds start blowing everywhere … things are just tossed around and you either die in the mix or you are one of the lucky ones who happen to be underground … you won’t last a few days and then you die soon after anyway.

Random Gamma Ray Burst has directly hit the planet earth … it irradiates half the planet where it hit head on, vapourizing the atmosphere and causing violent weather changes and the radiation either immediately killing or slowly sickening every living thing until it all dies including all animals, most fish near the surface, plants and humans … the other half of the planet didn’t get hit by the radiation but now survives just a little longer as half the planet tries to equalize with the other destroyed half.

It’s theorized that this is one of the probable causes of several unexplained extinction events in earth’s geologic history. And if it ever happened now, we’d have no warning … and even if we did … we wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

This is exactly how I think humanity will play out the climate crisis … ‘let’s maintain the economy and wealth of a handful of people, let the majority die, let the population go down and everything will eventually equalize and normalize after millions die off’

So, if you aren’t wealthy now … you’ll be dead soon

Also … the most valuable content I find or want online for my own uses is all text based … reading blogs, forums, news sites, articles, creative writing, wikipedia

I really don’t care about design or flashy lights and pictures … I just want to read the news

I often just toggle the read only view as soon as I find something I want to read and seldom care about what a site looks like … on the other side of that … if the site is so messed up or controlling that it refuses reader view … I skip it and move on

Does this mean that in ten years we’re going to have a pandemic again?

What is going on here? … is this a time warp? … is this a new thing? … is this an old thing? … is this a thing? … did I just find a time machine?

and I’ll be the first one to say it because either people don’t want to talk about it or they just don’t think about it

SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … SUPPORT YOUR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

It doesn’t matter who you are on … lemmy, kbin, mastodon or anyone else … find your instance owner and see if they are looking for donations or subscriptions and sign up for them

Sure the only way we can protect this new system is by keeping it federated, open and decentralized … but it all only works if small groups of people pay for the basic hardware services and rental services and any other services out there to keep it all running … yes the costs are minimal for small instances but those costs only add up as their instance becomes more popular.

Supporting your instance means it will stay protected … if you burn out your instance owners or they run into financial trouble … then your instance will start more risks including being shut down or sold to someone else

And it doesn’t take much to support these guys … if we all just gave a dollar a month, it would be more than enough to support them.

One important key lesson that everyone misses is funding … we have to normalize paying a bit of money through donations or subscriptions to those people that maintain instances and those people who maintain, update and build the software … if we all just keep tell ourselves that we all just keep our heads down, lock the door and don’t bother to pay anyone to keep the door locked … the same problems of the past will always emerge … Owners, developers, programmers, instance maintainers just running out of money and enthusiasm because they have the shoulder the financial costs while everyone ignores them and takes everything for granted.

If we all just keep expecting volunteers to keep everything running for us for free … eventually we will run out of willing volunteers as the community grows and the costs add up over time as instances grow more popular

SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … whatever platform it is and whatever amount of money you can give … even if it means we just give a dollar a day, across hundreds or thousands of user, it will protect your instance owner, and ensure that the people running your instance never run into a situation where they have to decide on either ending their work … or selling everything they have to make a bit of money back.