runaway infinite consumption at all costs … aka … cancer

I’m taking a bit of time out for myself for the next little while … I’ve had some family loss that was very close to me and I’m taking time doing other things at the moment … it’s not anything or anyone that happened here on Lemmy or Piefed (they’re all great communities) … my life has just made a drastic change right now and I need to take care of myself for a while … I’ll be back later on but for the time being, I won’t be around much if at all.

I still love this space and everyone in it … I just need to take some time for myself right now.

During the worst of the fighting in WWII, allied ships when they could still took the time to pick up and rescue enemy sailors in the water.

So I guess, unless you are able to give a Nazi war salute to the German Fuhrer, you might have a chance of being rescued.

Xmas version 2025.12.25 just got released … next incremental release is 2026.01.25, which will work its way up during the year to the final annual version of 2026.12.25

Generally the fediverse on lemmy, piefed and mastodon for me … lots more out there and it’s fun to explore new branches and directions of the fediverse and the communities of people they attract.

It’s daunting, challenging, confusing and complex … but that’s the beauty of it … it feels like wandering around and exploring the early social media internet from the early 2000s and this strange feeling that its going to become a whole lot more as time goes on.

Trading in existing items is not exactly capitalism … that’s just plain old bartering.

Capitalism, especially the modern form, is when you use your existing or inherited wealth to buy or develop companies who generate wealth from the work of other people to create brand new products or services. It’s exploitative because capitalists take the hard work of many people who create brand new products and then claim full or majority ownership over those products without having done anything except claim ownership.

What you are doing is taking old discarded things that either have no more value or lesser value and taking your own effort and time to recreate value and barter it to someone else. The only person you’ve exploited in the transaction is yourself … but you reap all the benefit. And no one can go back and say that the product that you just traded is stolen profit from the previous owner … the previous owner had thrown it away and didn’t value it any more or even considered it trash to be thrown away.

Flipping isn’t capitalism … it’s just good economic sense for the individual.

Unless you turn it all into a multimillion dollar business with employees, real estate and a corporation … it isn’t capitalism.

Buy stuff on ebay and start trading to bigger and better things. If you work at it hard enough, you’ll end up with trading items worth thousands without having spent more than $75.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/steven-ortiz-porsche-trade-craigslist,news-7544.html

FRAH-GEE-LEH! … must be Italian!

Unless they can pull out their gun and shoot at something or someone … or tackle someone … they aren’t very good at doing anything else.

Why must you increase the suffering in this world.

There are still plenty of websites and even news websites that either avoid this or break reader mode to prevent people from using it.

If all you want is to read 5000 words of something you were looking for … just display those 5000 words and nothing else.

We don’t need graphics, pictures, images, blocking, ads, pop-ups, videos or any other suggestions … just give us the content, it’s all we want sometimes.

And one side is being flooded with water … and the other side is on fire.

The fact that you were able to participate and still work within HOA regulations is an accomplishment onto itself.

… also the price of things.

Corporations especially grocers just got a big chance to raise prices … even if the tariffs go away, none of them will bring the prices down again. They’ll just pocket the difference and let everyone pay the new high prices which will stay in place.

Of all the people in the world that need or should have it mandatory to have round the clock public surveillance … it should be our political leaders

They claim to be working for the people … yet the people never really know what the fuck these leaders are doing

This is just another daily reminder of this quote …

“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”

I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed … Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.

In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet … every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need … there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.

The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.

Guy in the bathroom stall: … I use Mac!

Guys and gals pissing in the hallway, lobby, parking lot, bushes, behind the building and inside the office: … we use windows 11!

If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger

I’m having a hard time deciding if this is the original folk mix … or the upbeat calypso version