80f in New Jersey right now. The northeast.

Supposed to be 85f tomorrow.

Straight to Leavenworth.

What is with people and self-snitching? Do they need attention that much?

I thought that the solution there has always been to bury it in desert bunkers for 10,000 years.

If we’re still around by the time that becomes too cumbersome we are hopefully space-faring and then yeeting it into Jupiter becomes an option.

You can get surprisingly far by making people laugh.

Get on the grindset, steal consumer electronics and catalytic converters from your own family.

I feel like there’s a followup with that fucking dragon as the giant hologram, and I’m trying not to imagine it.

Mmm fecal microparticles

It’s some Star model pistol, looks like a 1911 but not quite, and in 9mm.

A cheap springer airsoft pistol works pretty good in my experience

I’ve thought about this a lot. I think its more the sheer oversaturation of “culture” than it is a true lack of imagination. People alive today consume exponentially greater amounts of “culture” (for the broadest term possible) than anyone ever before, and it’s not even close.

When tech enables you to experience a movie or a video game or a performer 30 years after the death of everyone involved, in essentially the same fidelity as the day it debuted, “old culture” has a much harder time making way for “new culture.” If Star Wars exists, why care about Rebel Moon or whatever that movie was called?

I think the public consciousness can only maintain cognizance and interest in so much, but at the same time creatives are constantly adding to the Culture Pile. But the more tech enables us to hold on to our past, it becomes more and more difficult to move on, and the majority of new stuff goes unwanted and unappreciated. And so the mass market dives into keeping the old alive with reboots, remakes, remasters, and now AI recreations, because that’s what people respond to.

Even back then, once the public support died down a bit they just had the NYPD bulldoze the whole thing. Since then the police have only gotten more brazenly violent against protests that are not in the establishment’s interests.

Shit will get “wild” when instead of picket signs and bullhorns, people start bringing rifles and pipe bombs. Otherwise the outcome of any meaningful protest will be the same no matter how many people show up: an unforgiving police crackdown.

AI’s most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.

Last I knew they called the Russia-Ukraine war the “NATO War in Ukraine” and claimed Russia killed over 10,000 “NATO mercenaries” mostly from Germany.

My take is that it’s a joke of “what anarchists think they do” as the top comic vs “what anarchists actually do” as the dilapidated trap house.

I’m not an anarchist but something tells me that going to Lemmy to shit on anarchists wouldn’t be well-received.

Then it becomes an issue of intent, and how someone looking into you might interpret your intent. You might end up legally in the right but still end up harassed, jailed, and/or put on trial with all the costs that entails in the meantime.

If you’re underwater financially or you’re clearing out an estate sale, its a legal avenue, but I wouldn’t make a habit of selling self-made guns.

Nobody today is selling a 9 year old car for $900 or the inflation equivalent unless it was turned into a cube at the scrap yard.

Cars are on average more expensive today, new or used. Gas is more expensive, and it’s likely more expensive to insure a young driver, which has always been expensive.

If they choose “don’t drive” over “pour much of what little money I have into propping up a falling apart beater,” that’s still a choice. Why rag on them for it?

What’s scary is that we have grown ass people who believe in the power of invoking the names of evil demons and devils, and that these people vote and make other important decisions based on those beliefs.