Thank goodness. I took care of a guy who went through half of a half gallon a day of R&R. It was a nightmare dealing with a severe alcoholic.

What a strange hypothetical, but I will take it

A heroin user with a consistent supply can live to old age.

A meth user that eats three meals a day and still sleeps can live to old age

A person who drinks alcohol their whole life to the point of intoxication like hards drugs will most certainly die of cirrhoses of the liver before old age.

Fair enough. I get that you like your life and that it feels like it is hopelessly intertwined with capitalism. It is a modern day conundrum as I type on a device that a company that openly violates human rights made.

I can be both truthful and hopeful despite the enormity of the situation because that is just who I am. I personally will help everyone below me step up and I want everyone above me to take a step down. A little bit idealistic, I know.

I would not liken the Iroquois Confederacy to nomadic ancestral living.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee

Imagine a system that has dramatically destroyed our environment while creating enormous wealth gaps and waste. Where some people live with dirt floors and some people have multimillion dollar yachts. Is this the system you are somewhat enamored with.

Did you know close to a billion people have died from pollution in the last fifty years? Would you say all these dead people share your sentiment.

Capilitism is not currency and commerce as those exist without capitalism. I don’t think you can attribute anything you have said to the system of capitalism. Capilitism instead exploits these things for the minority. Imagine an Internet walled off by corporations, trains shut down because of the automobile lobby, electricity used up by data centers, etc.

The capitalists have definitely been designing the systems to their advantage. I think you are entirely correct about late stage capitalism. It is inefficient at distributing money and is leading to some enormous costs that would realistically take hundreds of trillions of dollars to remedy. The entire Earth is the equivalent of a Superfund sight with every single human being on earth poisoned by forever chemicals and plastics.

It is just the alcohol telling you heart to chill, no biggie.

Alcohol causes more death and destruction than hard drugs.

FTFY

Native Americans lived in greater numbers for many thousands of years without developing capitalism. I think this speaks more to your worldview than reality.

Wealthy people most certainly sat down and designed the systems that allow capitalism to exist. It was not a unconscious effort. Did some things just fall into place? Perhaps but the hyper capitalism we experience now has a ton of law and policy created to allow it to exist the way it does.

A great example of this is the concept of the corporation. It took hundreds of years of lobbying and legal wrangling to get it to the point where they are now. Not time limited, no financial responsibility for shareholders or executives, does not have to be for the public good, personhood, etc.

They are so lazy they want an LLM to tell them what is hot and the only way they can do it is by massive spying. The surveillance state brought to us by fucking advertising of all things. So bizarre.

In case anyone didn’t know the answer is business as in business has the government by the balls.

Most adults are big children.

FTFY

I know let’s break up data centers into millions of small satellites that are designed to degrade and lose orbit in 5 years.

How to make something that is ridiculously expensive way more expensive. Is this propaganda for private space corporations!?

2028!? I think they still need a room temperature superconductor first.

I hate when people post pictures of their kids now. It is so cringe knowing that AI is capturing their faces and building profiles on them.

I realized this back during COVID. I had always known FB and their parent Meta were shit companies, but they were pushing engagement algorithms that lead to death threats because I would say innocuous things like stay safe and use a mask if you need to.

After my third interaction with someone in my past who had been radicalized by their garbage propaganda I said enough was enough and deleted my account.

My family still uses it and I still warn them not to, but I will never use their service for anything personal again.

Up until recently I think I would have considered it. Reading court transcripts and seeing Gabe and his underlings lie through their teeth has changed my tune. I want nothing more to do with this monopoly corporation artificially keeping PC games priced high. Fuck Steam.

Try this:

Wake up in the morning

Drink a big glass of water

Wait 1-10 minutes

Poop

Lol I don’t even use it for heat or cooling. 10 people live here and it is a big house with 5 bdrm and 3 bath. We live on an island and have to pay diesel surcharge to maintain a diesel power station in case the hydro power fails. We also have a water pump which probably adds to it.

My heating fuel has been as high as $700 in one month in winter. A friend pays over a thousand because their house is not insulated properly.

That is why it is scary when they talk about rates going up. I am already making hard decisions about what to eat. There isn’t wiggle room for continuous rate increases. We will obviously find a way, but it sucks for sure.

They are saying our utilities are projected to go up 40% in the next five years. My electric bill is already getting close to $400. I am wondering how I am going to pay when it is close to $600 as money is already tight.