Bad News: The World Is Going to End

Good News: You’re not going to be around long enough to see it.

That’s okay because I’m being told they’re all going to get replaced with AI agents anyway.

Nonsense. You’ll be less active when you have less free time and an increasing number of socio-economic obligations.

You’ll still be pissed, but you’ll be less loud about it, which is all I - your emotionally sensitive Corporate Overlord - care about.

I believe you should be grateful instead these exists

Omg, it’s That One Guy! Can’t believe I found one in the wilds of Lemmy.

We did have something resembling competition, maybe a decade or so ago, with the emergence of Venmo and Cashapp and Zelle - basically just digital front-ends for e-checks between bank accounts. They all hit major stumbling blocks, in no small part thanks to how Visa/AMEX/MC conspired to freeze them out.

Capitalism abhors competition.

they may have to take them by gov regulation

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This article is just a recap of one Congressman’s life. It has virtually nothing to do with the headline.

“Great, let me transfer you to another department”

You just go down another rung in the service loop and have to climb back up again.

This is the most effective way to cancel a service and one of the primary reasons I keep carrying a credit card

Because we stopped doing shit like this

Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.

Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials

This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.

But I’m not seeing any evidence to suggest we “stopped” doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we’ve got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.

Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.

These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.

Wait for the world to get overrun by furries, but it’s just middle age bald dudes suddenly having shoulder length hair, six pack abs, and a deep sense of regret about how comfortable it is to carry around a two foot long penis.

Just over half us aren’t that stupid

How many people voted for Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo? How many Americans supported Israel for decades? How many believed the Clintons about “Superpredators”. How many bought into the notion that Medicare for All is economy-destroying, but Iraq/Afghanistan was a fight for freedom?

How many people still think The Russians and The Chinese are secretly behind every American candidate they don’t like?

The Russians did it

You should start a podcast

the Odyssey and the Iliad were assembled from a bunch of older stories

Very possible

and that a couple of those journeys went across the Atlantic

Total bullshit

It’s been in there for 6000 years. If it was wrong, someone would have corrected it by now

Everyone talks about the fake landing but nobody ever talks about the fake sequel they released four months later

There’s a certain irony in using Patrick Stewart / Jean Luc Picard for this meme, given that both the man and the character love their jobs