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Cake day: December 23rd, 2023

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  • This probably has been said but I want to chip in regardless.

    People like this do not usually have a concrete goal, rather they are the ones who are acting in a shitty way just enough so the system rewards it, not enough to punish it. They have a fuzzy compulsion to seek more at any cost, when the current existence becomes slightly mundane they go for the next taboo thrill, the next bribe. They don’t have a stable existence and must consume forever, like a cancer.






  • 2016 was a weird year for me. I had a strong fling that ended abruptly, and I was heartbroken for a while. It was an alright year, I was working in a steady tech job and living in a share house.

    2026 I’m living in my own house with 2 cats, my partner of 7 years just broke it off with me for reasons I had very little control over. I’m utterly heartbroken and going through a similar issues I did back in 2016, though more justified. I might recover soon but it’s been a really bad few years, and I’ve not been able to make much of myself lately.

    Man, I’ve really got to watch out for 2036, it might be a doozy.












  • Absolutely, that’s why we need to prevent things that would enable abuse.

    There’s always going to be people pushing for more power, and we need to be alert because that power will endanger people. We’ve seen that in America, we’ve seen that time and time again throughout history. Unchecked power causes abuse and dead people.

    It’s going to be a balancing act, naturally the role of government will require some level of power over it’s people, but ideally the people also get a say in that.

    The biggest roadblock to our own safety in that regard is complacency. Why else are we being turned into passive consumers? Those with money know it’s easier to manage a docile consumer population than it is to manage something like France. Strong consumer rights, and the general willingness of the population to actually get mad and start wrecking shit have left them in a largely advantageous position.

    So yes, I believe you should push back even on the small abuses of power and privacy, both because it’s important, and because it gets you used to pushing back when actually abuses of power start occurring.