Alligator Auschwitz*

What? You heard a sound? I don’t know anything about that. I’ve just been hanging out here in the blinds relaxing, didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.

I had not seen this before, thank you for sharing

That last part is where we disagree. You are underestimating the wealth extraction that has taken place during the post-WWII boom. I’m not going to argue further because I’m going to bed, but I’ll suffice to agree to disagree.

I feel like your entire post is ignoring the hoarding of wealth at the top while focusing on the financial impacts that would happen to the people at the bottom due to the aforementioned greed at the top. Those people “who have no idea how much their food would cost if they were paying the workers a fair wage” have also never been paid a fair wage.

I think we all want to be paid a fair wage for our labor AND and fair price for food, with reasonable expectations of safety on both sides. 50+ years of wage stagnation and the expectation from major corpos that they can keep extracting more profits are two factors working against us, though. The problem isn’t about what consumers are willing to pay for food.

We, the People, aren’t going to be able to fix this if we don’t start electing leaders that can resist big-dollar donors and lobbyists, because we need regulations around major markets that will be met with insane amounts of resistance by money-backed interest groups. We need labor reforms, we need housing reforms, we need finance sector reforms, and none of those are favorable for a Fortune 500 company’s “Line go up” policy when implemented. But far too much money has flowed out of the hands of the poor and middle class while the ultra-wealthy are buying islands and yachts (and bugout bunkers in case of an uprising or whatever), and fixing that issue in both an acute and a systemic way is necessary and needs to happen before we get better.

It was bound to happen, but I’m still sad it did

Oh dang, I must have missed it. Is there a reader’s digest version I can check out regarding the drama?

Edit: I think I found it - https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Is there a compelling reason one might consider switching away from Organic Maps and move to CoMaps?

Oh I like this one, well done

To Romans, roads were but narrow foot trails.

I’m a descendant of immigrants. And I bet you are, too, fellow American citizen reading this comment. I wonder where they draw the purity line tomorrow?

I still hope for midterm that can steer us away from the cliff. As an American, I need that hope. We are, historically, a hopeful people (albeit one with many atrocities along the way).

An unimaginable amount of damage is being done right now by the current administration. There are people who have died and who will die because of the cuts made in the last 6 months, and the people whose lives have and will be snuffed out early are unrecoverable entirely. Imagine Socrates, DaVinci, Newton, Einstein, Hawkins… not allowed the chance to live and gift all of humanity with their insights. We have no idea what we lost nor what we will lose, and no way of knowing.

The hope I hold onto is that we can stop the bleeding and begin to heal. Midterms are our best opportunity at that before things have a chance to really accelerate into even more fascistic behavior.

MAGA country is going to feel the pain of their tiny penis deal when the rulers pass it, and they are already seeing pain from ICE raids on farms and factories. When the slackjaws catch on to the fact that they’re being fleeced, the charade should end pretty quick and the number of people actively opposing the administration will increase accordingly.

I hope.

And it expires in 2028

Ah ok thank you, I have the paid Proton so I had a feeling there were complications outside that space but wasn’t sure

You guys see the sick new concentration camp they dropped in FL? They’re calling Alligator Auschwitz.

They’re making the kayfabe for the people who live there

I somehow want to both upvote and downvote this comment at the same time. You’re right that it was the candidates’ jobs to earn votes. It was the voters’ jobs to properly assess the real risks and benefits of each of the two candidates that, between them, were guaranteed to take home a win for one and only one of them. (Edit: there was a time for protest/passion votes too, don’t get me wrong, that was the primaries though, not the general)

The candidate failed. The voters failed. But importantly, and I think by design, the collective ability of our youth to be able to critically evaluate their options also failed, which seems indicative that our education system failed to provide the foundational skills required for a functioning democracy. And that last thing, well… that thing has been a key part of conservative politics in the US since before I was born in the Geriatric Millennial Days last century.

Erosion of education has been something I’ve been watching happen my entire life, and I was on the bleeding edge of the WWW. I thought the internet would help make humanity more connected, united, and educated. Somewhere things went off the rails enough that we hit an event horizon moving into something resembling a shitty Continuum reimagining, so my Utopian expectation was clearly misplaced. My disappointment is immeasurable and my sadness comparable.

If you buy your own domain, you can connect it to an account like Proton or Tuta, making your personal email a little more portable. Last I checked, .nl domains were like $6 or $7 per year on Namecheap. And I’m pretty sure you can link both Proton and Tuta to a Thunderbird client if you really want to. You may need a paid account with the email provider if you want to link a custom domain, I can’t recall offhand.

There’s a near-endless supply of great mythology and legend to read and explore from all sorts of cultures dating back as far as the dawn of writing. I’ve had a lot of fun reading and comparing tales from various times and places, taking time to also note where in history the stories were being written down and what else was happening. Strong recommendation for anyone wanting a unique view on the history of societies and the stories they held (or still hold) dear.