chauncey [he/him]

The American Prospect has some really good recent articles about this. We’ve entered a new age of personal pricing. Companies have so much data on us that the price that I see when I visit a website is no longer necessarily the price that you see.

https://prospect.org/economy/2024-06-04-one-person-one-price/

My Asus zenbook, purchased in 2015, is still going strong. They’re pretty affordable and at least from my experience have held up well. I’m pretty sure you can run Linux on them too.

Fun fact - this is why Mr. Burns always answers the phone with “ahoy”

Democracy Now is my main source

I also listen to NPR to hear what narratives the state department is pushing

Democracy Now

Myth of Sisyphus helped me through a lotta shit in my early 20’s

Remember what it was like before you were born? It’s like that

Similar theory to that put forth by De Selby

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Selby

Kia and Hyundai skipped installing industry standard immobilizers in order to save money. The cars are incredibly easy to steal. Kia and Hyundai should be held responsible.

Ah yes someone selling a few dollars of milk is definitely the same as a corporation stealing millions. Ah yes. These two are the same.

In my early twenties it was nearly constant. It’s subsided greatly since then. At a certain point I think I just accepted that “there is no meaning, so it’s ok”.

So once you get there, and you start understanding capitalism, then that takes over as the most all consuming topic.