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https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/heres-why-the-world-is-falling-apart

by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
June 23, 2024

Do you ever get the feeling that everything is breaking down all at once?

Forget about starting a family or buying a house. It's becoming harder and harder for young men and women just to put food on the table.

And those lucky ones who defy the odds and manage to start a family sure aren't spending their time at neighbourhood barbecues while the kids play a game of pick-up street hockey. Today, they'd be lucky to pry the kids away from their device long enough for them to notice that there are other kids in their neighbourhood. Not that the parents are any better at living life.

What's everyone doing on those devices? Scrolling through their never-ending social media feeds of doom porn and ragebait, of course! They're busy watching Israel holocaust Palestine and NATO inch closer to nuclear war with Russia and people at home engaging in public freakouts as society disintegrates and the world devolves into madness.

That faith in the ability of hard work and determination to help us all improve the planet and leave a better place for our children? Gone. Replaced by a sinking feeling that the world is heading to hell in a handbasket and that maybe it isn't worth saving anyway.

Yes, from the macrocosm of geopolitical crises and financial trickery to the microcosm of economic disintegration and spiritual malaise, it seems like everything that could go wrong is going wrong. Increasingly, it feels like we're just bystanders watching the messy spectacle play out on our screens, digital drivers rubbernecking at the car crash of chaos unfolding on the information superhighway.
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Anyone have connections in companies that treat their software engineers right that are either remote friendly or have offices in San Diego? Looking for a senior software engineer position.

I got laid off at the start of the year, and even with a CV written by a pro I've gotten a horrible response rate. The only companies I've even gotten so much as a phone screen from are ones where they contacted me first.

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I swear, these people will literally take the most hachi-tier bait and do a response video on it. News flash: nobody ironically believes that white people can't cook. When most people think of a chef, the first thing that comes to mind is an Italian (or maybe French) guy.

I get why they made a response to someone complaining about the British restaurant being too white, but these guys really need to stop with shitty bait comments about White people can't/don't do X.

odysee.com/@redicetv:1/white-g

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Trump didn’t lock up Hillary
Trump didn’t build a wall
Trump didn’t #FireFauci
Trump didn’t Drain the Swamp
etc.

Trump signed executive order equating Anti-Zionism with Anti-Semitism
Trump did destroy the First Amendment
Trump gave Presidential Award to Fauci 12 hours before leaving Office
Trump NEVER pardoned Jan 6th political prisoners
Trump approved Lockdowns (as did Biden & Booby)
Trump is the “Father of the Vaccine” which saved #BigPharma
Trump is the BIGGEST ZionistC**kZucker - as Bibi

What MORON believes anything from this D-List Actor?

Booby and Biden have some tangible medical excuses - neurological issues - one with worms in the brain and one whose brain is mush,

What’s Trump’s?
-Dr.SHIVA
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Does anyone else feel that cult-fanbases are just as bad, if not worse than fanbases for popular franchises? I mean it's nice that there are dedicated fans out there that keep the spirit of obscure and/or forgotten media/franchises alive, but I feel like the whole cult aspect cringe as these fans will even dedicate their entire lives around the franchise, and it prevents any criticism of the respective medium of franchise from happening. You might as well be pissing on bibles.

Case in point: the Mother series. These days, it's acceptable to point out it's flaws because it's now mainstream to the point that I really don't feel like it's a cult classic anymore, but before it was on the Wii U Virtual Console, you could not find anyone criticizing it. Every review had to bring up how "criminally underrated" it was and that "to play Earthbound is to love Earthbound". The only negative reviews I could find were ones made by trolls. I played Earthbound back in 2014, and while I liked the unique setting, I found the game to be clunky with it's limited inventory space, really tough enemies at the beginning, and lack of a dedicated run button. I played a lot of RPG and other games that are much better, but are even more obscure that Earthbound ever was.

It also just makes me cringe that these people will literally devote their lives to their beloved cult-classic. The Starmen.net crew literally built their careers out of their love for Earthbound through Fangamer and while that's good for them, I could never see myself having a single underrated classic change my life that way.

Maybe it's just me who gets uncomfortable around really close knit communities. I don't know. I just want to enjoy what I like, regardless of popularity, and not make it seem like I am now part of some special club for liking it.

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another original sin of mozilla was never including CACert.

letsencrypt was no problem to add because it's 💯 run by spooks.

everyone using LE for SSL and half of the net behind cloudflare. _what could possibly go wrong?_

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Given that DelatChat is basically an over-glorified email client with E2EE, I wonder if it could be an easier to use alternative to PGP/GPG.

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