Decided to upgrade. About six years since my last.
- 5070 ti
- 9800 X3D
- Case: Montech King 95 Pro
- 64gb DDR5 6000 CL30 RAM
- MSI 1440P 360HZ OLED Monitor (main)
- Incott G Hero mouse
- Keychron Q1 Hall Effect keyboard
@Narwitz0747@AppleTV Apple TV is loaded with bangers. Not everything they make is a banger, but they have an extremely high ratio of banger to not banger.
Ever wonder how Big Pharma controls the medical narrative? Look at the Study Reprint loop.
When a drug company gets a positive study published in a prestigious journal like JAMA, they get more than a reference point. The drug companies purcahse millions of dollars worth of official copies (reprints) from the journal to hand out to doctors as marketing material.
This is their most robust form of marketing and a way to ensure they get good press.
Think about the incentive for JAMA: A negative study makes $0. A positive pharma-funded study makes the journal millions in a single week.
Medical journals have effectively become corporate billboards disguised as objective science.
Think about this the next time you hear someone say they believe the science.
@StutteringCraig The Genesis was the first system I purchased with my own money. It was the better system at the time and I will never regret my choice. Nostalgia colored glasses tell me that Genesis games are mostly undervalued and offer a fantastic retro gaming experience.
New Study scapegoats the powerless for the effects of Corporate policies & Oligarchs exploitation of workers.
of course, corporate farms, construction companies, hotels, etc. want cheap immigrant labor that drives down wages, (that’s why Trump isn’t deporting them, but making a show pretending to do mass deportation).
Then they won’t build affordable housing for those same workers so it drives up rents while driving down wages.
This is not the fault of poor, desperate people looking for work, it’s the fault of the policies set by the oligarchy to exploit workers & pit desperate hard-working Americans against even poorer more desperate immigrants who are victims of U.S. foreign policies, wars, & horrible trade agreements like NAFTA .
If you find yourself being angry at someone lower on the economic ladder than you for your problems, there’s a pretty good chance you’re being manipulated by someone higher on the economic ladder than you. Don’t fall for it..
The only thing that scares the oligarchs is if we realize we’re being played for suckers, and we share common interests with our neighbor, and we come together to oppose the evil billionaire class responsible for all this.
When workers are angry at even poorer more desperate workers, the oligarchs win, and we all lose.
The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant profit-generating machine for corporations.
Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.
That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.
It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.
Music is made to be as profitable as possible, which means giving it the broadest possible appeal using formulaic song structure calculated to cause a chemical response in the largest number of human brains.
Movies are designed to draw the largest possible box office revenue at the lowest possible risk to studios and investors, often by just rehashing a movie that’s already proven successful in the past or by slapping together a story about an IP with pre-existing mass appeal.
Food is made to be fast and addictive rather than nourishing.
Healthy human connection has been commodified as social media intertwines with friendships and dating apps insert themselves into the development of romantic relationships.
Human sexuality is being warped and twisted as internet porn normalizes violence and degradation for the maximum number of clicks.
Attention and engagement have been monetized, creating an information ecosystem dominated by conflict and gossip designed to appeal to our baser instincts.
Advertisement is injected into every possible corner of our waking sensory experience, with any available space where the eye might rest or the ear might listen being flooded with psychological manipulation compelling us to consume. They’ll start running commercials in our dreams the instant they have the technology to do so.
You spend eight hours at the office working to generate corporate profits, then you come home and consume products to profit other corporations. You need your beer and snacks to unwind, your streaming services and social media to distract your mind from the stress of it all, your online clothing purchase to try to feel good about yourself, and your prescription drugs to get to sleep at night. People live their entire lives like this.
And that’s those of us who are lucky enough to be living in the global north. In the global south you get wage slavery and exploitation with far more toil, far less relaxation time, and no cheap products made by impoverished workers on other continents with which to comfort yourself.
All of humanity has been roped into this mess. And for what? To make the numbers in some bank accounts increase. To get some green arrows pointing upward on the stock exchange. To enable a few billionaires to buy islands and elections.
All while destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival.
This, we are told, is the best possible system we could possibly be living under.
I personally do not believe this is true. I personally believe we can have better. Those who benefit from this current arrangement are going to assure us it’s impossible and do everything they can to stop us from changing it, but we do have the means to reclaim the wealth, dignity and happiness that they have stolen from us.
They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
Normal person: Genocide is bad.
Israel supporter: Just say you hate Jews.
Normal person: I oppose Zionism.
Israel supporter: Jews. You mean Jews. Say Jews.
Normal person: The Israel lobby is causing problems.
Israel supporter: Jews Jews Jews Jews Jewy Jew Jews.
Normal person: But I don't mean Jews. I'm expressing specific grievances against a specific state, its backers, and the political ideology it is premised upon. I judge people based on their individual actions, not on their religion.
Israel supporter: JEWWWWWWS.
Normal person: You realize you're doing the exact same thing neo-Nazis do, right? You're conflating all Jews with everything bad about Israel and the forces which give rise to its abuses.
Israel supporter: It is antisemitic to conflate all Jews with the actions of Israel.
Normal person: Then why do you keep conflating all Jews with the actions of Israel?
Israel supporter: Because it is antisemitic not to conflate all Jews with the actions of Israel.
A growing cultural phenomenon has normalized the victim mindset, where identifying with one’s limitations garners more attention than celebrating growth or resilience. Over time, this can lead to learned helplessness, a well-documented psychological state in which individuals feel incapable of changing their circumstances—even when change is possible.
This pattern is especially evident in conversations around health. While it’s important to validate the real struggles people face, we must also question:
When did illness become an identity?
When did chronic symptoms become a source of social capital?
Pathologizing the self—especially in a public or performative way—can create psychological reinforcement loops that hinder healing.
Instead, I invite you to reframe your story:
Don’t identify with illness. Identify with healing.
Empowerment is the foundation for sustainable wellness.
Want to watch every single NFL game this upcoming season? It could now cost over $1,000 😳💸
• $82.99/mo — YouTube TV • $378 — NFL Sunday Ticket • $8.99/mo — Prime Video (TNF + Black Friday) • $10.99/mo — Peacock • $11.99/mo — ESPN+ • $7.99/mo — Netflix
And more…
At this point, watching NFL football is basically becoming a monthly luxury car payment 😭😂
Everything happening behind the scenes is happening with the goal of absolute control of everyone.
The push for digital IDs, CBDCs, Smart devices, wearables, Flock cameras, etc is all being done to get everyone and everything on the ledger or central database.
That is why it’s so important for every person to resist the small shifts towards this kind of reality.
Don’t use the REAL ID for air travel and refuse the facial scan at the airport. Remove the wire tappers from your home including all Smart devices, Alexa, etc. Remove as many data points as you can from the central database and live your life in private. Do business in person and get to know your local community so that you have a foundation for the inevitable move to a completely technological society.
Anyone who challenges the narrative is at risk. This includes doctors, scientists, researchers and anyone who questions what we are told about our reality.
The people who research and share findings which contradict the narrative are always at risk. We must continue to support those who are brave enough to defy authority or the manufactured reality that is pushed on us.
As it becomes increasingly harder to keep the lies alive, the risk will get greater because the powers that be are losing their stronghold. They cannot stop us from exposing the truth, it’s just a matter of time before the popular narrative shifts to what is actually happening.
Stay strong.