FESTIVUS MUBARAK, MOTHERFUCKERS.
It's time once again for the Airing of the Grievances. In the immortal words of Mr. Costanza, "I got a lot of problems with you people, and now you're gonna hear about it."
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in reply to Q. • • •This year tried to kill me. But guess what bitches? I'M STILL ALIVE AND KICKING AND IT'S TIME TO UNLOAD THAT WHICH OPPRESSES MY SPIRIT.
So grab some cocoa or whatever shit you like to drink and buckle up. I'm not even trying to be nice right now.
Ye Which Hath Harshed My Mellow in 2023:
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in reply to Q. • • •1. The balkanization of literally every industry and it's subsequent cognitive load.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...five apps to make online payments, six apps to watch tv, four apps for food delivery, seventeen apps for shopping and eighteen BILLION accounts to have a profile on every fucking website I have to visit...
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in reply to Q. • • •2. People Who Trust Power (and get mad when you don't)
We've been around for several hundred thousand years. Has there EVER been a time when power-holders weren't abusing their power? THERE HAS NOT. It doesn't matter WHO is holding the power, what religion, race, ethnicity or gender they are.
So can we stop defending powerful people, governments and institutions when it comes out they are doing terrible shit?
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in reply to Q. • • •3. The general lack of interest in public transportation
If there's ONE THING that could IMMEDIATELY improve the lives of billions of people AND the condition of our environment it's global investment in public transportation systems. Also - in case you haven't figure it out yet: Traffic is fucking STUPID.
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in reply to Q. • • •4. Gen X Erasure aka "Give a little respect, tooo-ooo-ooooo meeeee"
No but really. Boomers have never really be interested in us, so it's not like we don't have thick skins.
But you claim we're culturally irrelevant, and your definition of relevance is keeping up with Britney as she spirals and sparring with Jordan Peterson stans on Twitter. So. Yeah. You can't be trusted to define anything, culturally.
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in reply to Q. • • •5. AI and Its Deluded Champions (see also: Techno-Optimism)
I'm not a luddite (yet) but I've been around long enough to have seen techno-optimism crash & burn our social, economic and political order more than once. I don't trust any of those DMT-infused Silicon Valley ideologues as far as I can throw them. New technology is great. You know what's NOT great? Adopting new technologies en masse before we've assessed the long-term advantages and risks as a society. We have a fucking track record.
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in reply to Q. • • •6. Creative and Artistic Gatekeeping
Fuck Big Media, Big Publishing, Academia Inc., Hollywood, and any other industry (and their annoyingly self-congratulatory tastemakers) that exist to dictate which narratives are worth listening to. I can make those decisions myself. And so can you.
It's not like there's a guarantee of better quality coming from The Creative Establishment. The criteria that matters to these people is that it makes money and doesn't upset the wrong people (from point #2).
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in reply to Q. • • •If you do this, you should know that you are a bad person and everyone within a twenty foot radius knows it.
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in reply to Q. • • •8. Fast Fashion
Entire industries like this exist because people who are not rich want to feel like they have money and can afford new, trendy things. So we buy shitty replicas of designer clothes that end up at the Goodwill or in a landfill, or worse, "donated."
Fast fashion is notoriously poorly made. It doesn't stand up to more than a couple wears, nor does it fit well - no one actually believes you bought that Shein on Rodeo Drive, I promise.
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in reply to Q. • • •Get these motherfuckin' raisins off this motherfuckin' plane.
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in reply to Q. • • •Why are the worst, creepiest people trying to use the letter "Q"? Look, I get that it sounds cool and mysterious and kind of cosmic. It's my favorite letter, so of course it's rad. But that doesn't mean you can appropriate it for your weird conspiracy cult, or your stupid AI program, or whatever. Leave The Q alone, or I will curse you and you'll have no one but yourself to blame.
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in reply to Q. • • •Have you ever met a person who tells you all about the terrible people that have plagued them their entire lives, and you're like, WOW, you've had it hard. But then after a while you start to realize that maybe this person is just an entitled narcissist who can't cope with reality and/or take personal responsibility, and they need to blame anything and everything but themselves? Yeah. That.
Mark Gardner
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