AGGGHH. I feel like Mugatu taking crazy pills over here. $120 million in start up funding and a New York Times profile for a company that's literally just a regular private car / limo service. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/business/alto-uber-drivers-alternative.html
"Disrupting" the ride sharing industry by having a staff of drivers that drive people places for a fee. It's totally a tech company too, right??? 
Capitalism is so egregiously stupid.
to be fair, I'm not sure that differs THAT much from extremist movements in other religions. evangelical Christianity probably does have less pretense to it, in terms of like not even having dietary restrictions or anything. but extremists of all faiths use religion as an excuse to do what they want.
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Watching morning news while I'm out running an errand. They're hyping up a planned Biden campaign visit to the UAW picket line so hard. zomg, so heckin porgressive!
Ugh. I'm also exhausted from arguing with my family yesterday about Biden and the 3rd consecutive "most important election of our lifetime". I was told "the internet is telling people your vote does matter and it's a big disinformation scheme." I was asked how voting for Biden will fix things. I was told "it doesn't matter. what choice to we have? if Trump wins, we'll never have another election again!"
btw, these people aren't random. they're political elites. and they still believe that. so then like... wtf are you doing about it. they're also part of the political machine, and don't believe there is a political machine that decides candidates, etc. which is fascinating. some amount of political machination in this country is malicious. but I think a large amount, more on the dem side but on both sides, is people collectively acting in a way that produces outcomes beyond what they expect. sort of cascading chains of systems, where the people pulling strings legitimately don't even think they are pulling strings.
automated customer service systems send me into a frothing rage. especially when they send you in loops and keep you from talking to a real person (or remove that option altogether), whilst gaslighting you the entire time.
remember when the US let over 2 million people die from covid because the only thing they did in the face of a pandemic was lower interest rates? I'm so ready to talk domestic issues, haha.
Just discovered the song I'd Love To Change The World by Ten Years After and it's kind of a banger, but it also unfortunately features the worst lyric I've ever heard immediately before the best lyric? 
"Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me, where is sanity?
Tax the rich, feed the poor
'Til there are no rich no more"
What a bizarre twist.
Yeah. And if I were his attorney, that would probably be a huge part of my suit. like, make them prove that they would have automatically caught and refunded his bet if he had lost.
Thoughts on the use of geographic domains for vanity purposes? I know that's come up recently as a topic of concern (including with lemmy, specifically), and personally, it seems like it's both extremely widespread and also maybe shouldn't have become super widespread given the actual implications.
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time is a flat circle. we're doomed to have observant people point obviously and painfully ironic flaws in society, as society just sort of carries on anyway, repeating past stupidities and adding new ones.