Thanks! I use qobuz and have since the ai drone weaponry investing thing. There’s so many other things too. I miss those neat info graphics with bad guys / alternatives for everything.

I really want to replace youtube next or at least figure out a fluid way to stream without adds. My grandson uses it and without it to calm him, here and there he can get a bit destructive / distressed.

There was someone who was sharing alternative options for the usual, does anyone know where they went, or which sub they post to? I was too unfamiliar with Lemmy to make note of it. I wish you could follow people.

This is a really good question. With everything that’s currently going on, it can be easy to get stuck in fight or flight and be stuck in a doom loop that this is all there is, and ever will be. But that’s not how it goes. Already worldwide people are rejecting AI, and it’s crashing to the ground. Also worldwide, Right wing politicians are predominantly being voted down into obscurity. People are hacking hardware they own but have been locked out of, to allow free use. This is a created space away from the corporate ownership that plugs us in for battery powered add revenue. We are quietly saying, what do we want, and how can we build it ourselves. I feel like green spaces are going to make a comeback, places to go that don’t require spending money, places to gather together and exercise, to spite the predatory gym industry or just enjoy nature. Sharing resources in spite of the finite resources being treated as infinite by corporations, builds spaces to gather and trade. An absolute rejection and demystifying of “needing the new fangled thing”, creates workshops for how to build with what you have. And sharing skills. What about bringing back computer rooms to gather together and game or learn. Whatever we imagine we can build, and if all other avenues have been eradicated, we will just build these. Just to shove it back in their faces.

Probably also they’ve had to speed run emotional maturity for survival sake.

I get you, but we all want to do something we just don’t know what to do, or where to expend our efforts.

The evil overlords have collusion, they’re backed by think tanks and hundreds of years of planning. It’s not that easy to take down. There’s no step outside your door, kinda action to do, what do we do? If we knew which actions to take, we would all do them with great gusto.

The action you’re waiting to see is when all other semblance of life are taken away from us and we have nothing to lose, and our lives are being taken or taken over by the evil overlords directly, then you’ll see mostly people in fight or flight. And when you’re in fight or flight your thinking systems are shut off, so it might look impressive, but it won’t have forethought.

Instead of lamenting bitterly why aren’t people doing anything, or throwing pesimism at no current actions, What we should be doing is planning their take down. Which pegs and cogs in the machine do we aim for. Which groups do we support, who is planning action that we support, gather and ask, non rhetorically, what can we do and troubleshoot what we can do, both big and small. How can we gather numbers.

If you’re sad you think we will act too late, start a movement now. Join something and encourage others to, as well. Use your emotions and funnel them into action.

What is it we should be doing, and let’s start doing it.

Yeah the article says both, too.

It’s like that part in the game where gotta line up the next moving block to jump too, so you don’t go down with the block.

Or even make the people who borrowed the money actually pay it back, or go bankrupt, like we would have to, billionaires be like, too broke, can’t pay, meh, excuse me while I holiday on my fourth favourite yacht at my own private island.

Are you vibe guessing an environmental study, are you for real? Dude.

Something (app whatever) that divines the “evil” in all the things I need to buy, for me, without me having to do research on who has sold out, who is supporting killing babies, who is killing the rainforests, who is using child slave labour to extract their products etc etc. It’s fucking exhausting and monotonous, you can’t just check once, you gotta click refresh every bloody day. It’s doing my head in. I just want to buy stuff that I can eat etc, that isn’t tainted in others blood. Fuck this timeline, I can’t wait till it corrects itself, shit gunna be glorious. I’ll be there with some ethically sourced popcorn and a Molotov.

They will try and pass the fallout onto the people, similarly to how they did in 2008, with the mortgages being used to hedge their stock market bets (bad ones at that) after regulations were removed to safeguard that from happening and people lost their homes, the banks got bailed out. The people responsible got no punishment. They do this same shit all the time. They shoot too high hoping it’ll catch on, and if it doesn’t they don’t pay the price. This time, we need to stand with whomever wears the cost and make sure the richest are the ones who pay. The ones responsible for this. They all go under, or we take them down.

Eta, this article is bullshit tho

Literally everyone is susceptible to propaganda. Mostly all the old philosophers agree on one thing, you should be able to put down, entirely, everything you believe, so as to test you haven’t fallen for propaganda. Even those dudes fell for propaganda and realised they needed to continually self check.