notaphilosopher
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The only way to fix that is a nearly-uncensored#, non-profit& communications and streaming platform that is globally-distributed and doesn't have a SPoF. Trying to get a content creators' union is all-well-and-good, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem of reliance on corporate greed that will never assure access to speech.
# There are only a few topics that shouldn't be enabled like child porn and actually planning mass murder.
& Nonprofit itself while it supports monetization for creators with only minimal fees to cover costs.
Source: I worked at a top 5 US university as an employee, on both the business and academic sides, for 7 years.
Entities with too much consciousness can't handle their own consciousness and either go Warhol, invent the atom bomb, or make a startup selling silicone girlfriends because their bulging brains get in the way of their more fundamental drives.
Mental onany isn't as good as reality.
And place the midichlorian detector on the Qi pad, wouldja?
- health search that excludes sellers, wellness and snake-oil websites
- news search that excludes conspiracy theories, magical thinking, political operatives, and paid bloggers
- image search by similarity, similarity to an uploaded picture/s, words, or description
- media and warez search engine that excludes link-spam and malware sites
- complex queries search because none of them do it well
- anonymity
- shopping search that kicks out disreputable sellers and phony store-fronts
- mapping like OSM but fast, practical with an app, and detail-accessible
- monetize using affiliate links that don't affect ranking
- semi-curated results (domain reputation-ranked voting)
- related pages
- inbound/outbound links search
- archive.org integration &| history page caching
- documented query syntax
- query within results
- quick query history results navigation
- keyword alerts
- keyboard shortcuts that always work
There is no out for me because 99.99999% of Americans are either too comfortable, learned helpless cowards, and/or too ignorant to understand how bad we have it and how much we're being screwed. There will be no rebellion even though a calm but determined march of 5 million people to the seats of power could overwhelm any resistance and remove the corruption. The key problem is endurance by separating church and wealth and mass-media and state for the future. Without fixing corruption driven by the elites above the system, nothing can change.. and not preventing them from stealing power some other way again is only a temporary, pyrrhic victory.
Work stoppages are reactionary temper-tantrums seeking a few more crumbs from the master. Protests, petitions, awareness campaigns are all pointless virtue-signaling onanisms. Why pick rapist 1 or rapist 2.. presently, voting is accenting sheepishly to an inverted totalitarian, pluto-kleptocratic empire, not republican psephocracy. Be like George Carlin and not so.. maybe let's (assuming you're American) dent the universe and fix this bitch.
It's whatever reason you want it to or it simply just is. Pondering on it doesn't help live it well; in fact, usually the opposite.
It's a gift. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. I count innumerable reasons for gratitude even though I:
- can't work (just got SSDI after a 10 year Byzantine odyssey)
- can't have friends
- have no money
- live in a van
- to save bullet-points: also ADHD, mild Asperger's, treatement-resistant depression (tried 14 medications), sleep apnea, insomnia, high blood pressure, tachycardia, undiagnosed connective tissue disorder, stutter, hunch-back, osteoarthritis, overweight/skinny extremities, a torn shoulder, plantar fasciitis, gradual neurological decline (I can't code or focus anymore), and failing vision (ARMD runs in my family).
- And TMJ, vestibular schwannoma, or vascular stenosis because all I can think about is the pain in my ear, neck, throat, and head while the ER CT radiologist said "it's nothing" while my ear rings, feels like a spike is in my head, and I hear my pulse constantly.
^ These aren't complaints, per se, but facts for perspective.
Life is suffering. Make the best of the available opportunities in the now with as much grace as one can muster. Fuck biology and existential uncertainty, and just squeeze the juice of life because it'll all be over in a flash anyhow. Why not have a good time for as long and as often as possible? Fuck it.
I would things, jump in the deep end, get the fuck out of your comfort-zone, and give fewest fucks short of going Jim Morrison. Don't die in retirement in front of a TV or be like a modern human staring at glowing screens waiting by the phone for outrage news or social media approval. Be a source of making or doing something, anything. Be cool with mistakes and imperfections, they give it character. Learn a new skill. Make your bed. Do something.
PS: Stay away from uppers, downers, and booze. Btw, Missing a dose of mirtazapine felt exactly like a hangover, so it seems plausible that depression is only deepened by ab/use of some substances. Instead, Maslow's hierarchy focus: exercise, sleep, diet, light, etc.