This isn't the usual Voat content but I still like it.
You make a great point about the consequences of the digital age. The world is constantly changing and we're told it's for the better. But for every action there's a reaction.
All that 0% junk money we had until inflation hit let them destroy industry after industry. Print media, food delivery, taxi cabs. It makes you feel nostalgic, even if like me you're still in your thirties. That's how fast it all changed.
I remember going uptown with my Dad as a kid and he'd always stop at the same news stand off the el and buy a paper. And two packs of Lucky Strikes.
Ironically BigGuyFromQueens one of the things I dislike most about the modern world is faggots on their phone filming shit. Usually the most mundane pointless shit you can imagine. This isn't a direct pop at you fren, you're at least filming with a purpose. 99% of faggots are just brain dead and looking for something for the 'gram.
I watched a doco like three years back with my son. It was on 9/11 and we were trying to spot as much bullshit and disinformation as we could. They showed footage from just before the first tower went down from right out the front of the WTC. There's office workers and firemen and cops and reporters everywhere. The first thing my son noticed was that nobody was pointing their pocket electric jew up to put on TikTok.
There's people on the phone all through the footage, but they're actually talking to people, probably reassuring worried friends and relatives that they got out okay. That was twenty years ago and people have been entirely reconditioned, dumbed down, retrained in that time. It wouldn't happen like that today, it doesn't happen like that today.
The technology rollercoaster we're on moves way too fast for any one of us to quantify, understand, or make sense of it. It moves too quickly to figure out what the rules are and how or where to break them.
Life used to be like a three hour movie. It had its own pace. Now it's three hours of five second media clips. This is deliberate. At my more pessimistic moments, this is where I feel the game beats the players and there is no winning from here.
Thank fuck for Voat, goats, guns and beer. Without that, where would we be?
All that 0% junk money we had until inflation hit let them destroy industry after industry. Print media, food delivery, taxi cabs. It makes you feel nostalgic, even if like me you're still in your thirties. That's how fast it all changed.
Same with social media. Who remembers LiveJournal and tumblr? Wasn't THAT long ago but now there's tiktok and probably other stuff I haven't heard of. Makes you feel like an old fart before your time.
Tbh this is the craziest one. You needed insurance and medallions for decades and decades, and some medallions going for $1m then all the sudden you could go into business for yourself with zero over head and no government on your ass for anything immediately. Why couldn't people just do this the entire time and why was it so openly accepted at every legal level across every country? And why wasn't there any push back at all? Very weird.
I usually follow the old adage of follow the money when I'm trying to find motive.
(((Big tech))) taking a huge cut from an industry. Where they don't provide the equipment, training, insurance, or benefits to the employees.
A (((middle man))) that took an industry others had developed and built over many decades and without any expenditure ruthlessly take thirty percent for themselves.
Print media should have died in the early 2000s. It was (and still is) "your taxes" -> Israel -> "American" jew billionaires "donating / investing" -> failing magazines (any media really) -> More tax money to Israel, a vicious cycle.
[ + ] KDs_Other_Burner
[ - ] KDs_Other_Burner 4 points 2 monthsJan 30, 2024 07:56:06 ago (+4/-0)
You make a great point about the consequences of the digital age. The world is constantly changing and we're told it's for the better. But for every action there's a reaction.
All that 0% junk money we had until inflation hit let them destroy industry after industry. Print media, food delivery, taxi cabs. It makes you feel nostalgic, even if like me you're still in your thirties. That's how fast it all changed.
I remember going uptown with my Dad as a kid and he'd always stop at the same news stand off the el and buy a paper. And two packs of Lucky Strikes.
Ironically BigGuyFromQueens one of the things I dislike most about the modern world is faggots on their phone filming shit. Usually the most mundane pointless shit you can imagine. This isn't a direct pop at you fren, you're at least filming with a purpose. 99% of faggots are just brain dead and looking for something for the 'gram.
I watched a doco like three years back with my son. It was on 9/11 and we were trying to spot as much bullshit and disinformation as we could. They showed footage from just before the first tower went down from right out the front of the WTC. There's office workers and firemen and cops and reporters everywhere. The first thing my son noticed was that nobody was pointing their pocket electric jew up to put on TikTok.
There's people on the phone all through the footage, but they're actually talking to people, probably reassuring worried friends and relatives that they got out okay. That was twenty years ago and people have been entirely reconditioned, dumbed down, retrained in that time. It wouldn't happen like that today, it doesn't happen like that today.
The technology rollercoaster we're on moves way too fast for any one of us to quantify, understand, or make sense of it. It moves too quickly to figure out what the rules are and how or where to break them.
Life used to be like a three hour movie. It had its own pace. Now it's three hours of five second media clips. This is deliberate. At my more pessimistic moments, this is where I feel the game beats the players and there is no winning from here.
Thank fuck for Voat, goats, guns and beer. Without that, where would we be?
[ + ] dulcima
[ - ] dulcima 3 points 2 monthsJan 30, 2024 09:03:08 ago (+3/-0)
Same with social media. Who remembers LiveJournal and tumblr? Wasn't THAT long ago but now there's tiktok and probably other stuff I haven't heard of. Makes you feel like an old fart before your time.
[ + ] NoRefunds
[ - ] NoRefunds 2 points 2 monthsJan 30, 2024 13:10:20 ago (+2/-0)
Tbh this is the craziest one. You needed insurance and medallions for decades and decades, and some medallions going for $1m then all the sudden you could go into business for yourself with zero over head and no government on your ass for anything immediately. Why couldn't people just do this the entire time and why was it so openly accepted at every legal level across every country? And why wasn't there any push back at all? Very weird.
[ + ] KDs_Other_Burner
[ - ] KDs_Other_Burner 0 points 2 monthsJan 30, 2024 13:25:27 ago (+0/-0)
(((Big tech))) taking a huge cut from an industry. Where they don't provide the equipment, training, insurance, or benefits to the employees.
A (((middle man))) that took an industry others had developed and built over many decades and without any expenditure ruthlessly take thirty percent for themselves.
I wonder (((who))) could be responsible?
[ + ] carnold03
[ - ] carnold03 1 point 2 monthsJan 30, 2024 16:50:51 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] GrayDragon
[ - ] GrayDragon 0 points 2 monthsJan 30, 2024 09:09:19 ago (+0/-0)