For those of us born before YouTube, we can just leave it.

For those born in the last couple decades, legacy tv and movies are difficult to watch and are only consumed occasionally. It will never, ever occur to YouTube’s primary audience to stop watching.

“Futurism” hits like a religious word now that you need a blind faith that’s contrary to logic to believe there’s a future for us at all.

We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.

At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species’ DNA.

They’re the same people who go “I’m fine with the raising prices. It’s a valuable service to me and I make lots of money, so I’m fine with bending over for their shareholders.”

It’s capitalism signaling for people with more money than values and ABSOLUTELY no sense of pattern recognition or consequences.

They’ll get offered ad revenue sharing and it’ll be too good to pass up.

They certainly have no ideological problem with following suit.

Disco Elysium (2019)

Same goes for mice.

Let’s jump RIGHT back into another corporate owned social media site that will sell everyone’s data, enshittify, go public, and then squeeze everyone to death.

Apparently we’re incapable of learning this lesson.

This is your reminder that in the 90s Homer Simpson and Al Bundy were considered absolute bottom of the barrel losers, and they both had stable jobs, owned their own homes, multiple cars, and raised multiple children on a single income.

Don’t worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it’ll stop getting worse and everything will be great.

Six.

Look, the individual - one, single, unshielded human mind - constantly bombarded with the cumulative brainwashing tools built of hundreds of years of psychological research, ads and manipulative propaganda being ceaselessly fed to them by organizations with bottomless wallets, and perverse lifestyle incentives driven by law, monopolistic market manipulation, and tax codes, is obviously completely to blame for every decision they make and should bear the full brunt of all responsibility.

/s

Waterworld is good.

No, no… Of course not. Not like that.

You gotta boil it first. Until the glue gets soft.

incoherent grumbling

Yeah. That’s quite possibly the highest production values I’ve seen on a crime since the 3D Chrono Trigger remake trailer.

Shadow drop it on an anonymous upload site and then vanish.

Don’t worry… The “alternative facts” are completely free because they’re funded by think tanks and billionaires. And there’re no negative consequences whatsoever.