No, it’s Ocho!
The number of people who will get the reference can be counted on one hand, probably.
No, it’s Ocho!
The number of people who will get the reference can be counted on one hand, probably.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face by a gorilla.
♫ It’s true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through
being dealers every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man, it’s hard to hold the hand of anyone
who’s reaching for the sky just to surrender ♪
(originally by Leonard Cohen, of course)
The next iteration of gaslighting is already here: That it’s no big deal anyway since you can just use an ad blocker. Riiight, let’s all just turn our eyes away to make the monster go away. Surely, it’ll get bored and stop listening and recording, and surely, it will not sell its collected data off to banks, insurance providers, the government, law enforcement… right?
Normative nihilism is going to get us all.
Needs more “amazing.” Seriously, screw these corporate ass monkeys.
What in the world is going on with Elsie’s hand in the “second of the five photographs?”
Cobb: “I’ve come back for you… to remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real.”
Can’t escape capitalism.
As the old and venerable neuromonkey once said:
Welp. Just let the nukes fly, then. First it’s “on accident,” and before long you’ve got meth addicted baby prostitute warlords running the local Walmart.
♪ Hinckley couldn’t shoot straight, hit a guy in the forehead ♪ :-(
In the B2B world, there’s no escaping these banners. It’s as if GDPR never happened.
I believe it was Marx who first observed that superfluous jobs, as well as unemployment, are inextricably linked to capitalism.
EDIT: Found a relevant Marx quote in Grundrisse:
Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and source of wealth. Hence it diminishes labour time in the necessary form so as to increase it in the superfluous form; hence posits the superfluous in growing measure as a condition – question of life or death – for the necessary.
See also Marcuse, 1969:
The absorption [i.e. disappearance] of unemployment and the maintenance of an adequate rate of profit would […] require the stimulation of demand on an ever larger scale, thereby stimulating the rat race of the competitive struggle for existence through the multiplication of waste, planned obsolescence, parasitic and stupid jobs and services.
I’m already chafed.
Then again, maybe there’ll be discounts for partial nudity.
Breakup version:
Rachel and I are dating again.
Well, not each other, but still…