i assumed there was some kind of story here - it being a parable - but its kinda more like a koan.

Lil B in quotes like he’s a massively obscure figure from the past. The years really don’t stop coming.

you want some amazeballs with that awesomesauce? #winning

we understand the value of resources now, just in your example the availability and the macro-economics of what a resource is changes.

Crude oil existed for millions of years, but wasn’t a resource until it could be refined. Salt used to be a premium resource, and now is considered a basic one.

So you mean “will gradually readjust to the new value of new reources”

Also, we don’t have “total control” over anything now. Crimes go unreported, unprosecuted, unsolved, rebellion and revolution happens across the globe, protests happen, democracy happens.

You can also choose to start an autonomous community if you want right now - just that most people actually want sewers and toilets and hygiene and warm water and transport and food variety. But if you don’t- you can just go live in the forest.

Then you pivot to saying “I’m being sarcastic - it wouldn’t be a utopia because we wouldn’t have AI”

AI is just matrix math on byte encoding. Just like life was pretty good in 1985 before the internet was popularized and marketed, this one tech product does not drastically affect society.

I would also contend that society isn’t drastically different post-internet. It’s the media of the message that changed, but human communication and structure is still roughly similar to most post-WW2 standards.

a quick Google returns some projects listed but I didn’t dig in

Klingon

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-47540621

Good. Stay lonely with the gang of dudes you have to pay to hang around you and whose only job is to keep people away from you.

I just went to see a movie with a big group of friends and now getting a burger, before tonight I work on a creative project with some other friends who all really respect and appreciate each other’s talents.

Something this fascist freak will never have.

You have a mental health issue that no one on here can solve.

I say this because I spent years in the same place, on the edge of ending my own life. I had a pact with myself that I wouldn’t let myself live another 10 years. That was 12 years ago.

You are depressed. But you can make progress. All of the things that everyone says are the ways out of depression do work - they just don’t work overnight, and they don’t all work all the time - sometimes it’s medication, sometimes it’s quitting booze, sometimes it’s sleeping 8 hours. Sometimes it’s none for a little while and things are bad. It’s a process. But eventually you make progress.

Wishing the best for you.

in civilized, developed countries, it doesn’t cost a kings ransom to receive necessary medical care.

rain barrels are illegal where I live 😒

what a cunt.

it’s obvious he doesn’t even understand what a refugee is

and then goes on to say “why would you add people to your country that don’t speak the language” in English and not the native tongue of the tribe that the land was stolen from

and what the fuck did he think happened to Poles who moved to the US 100 years ago? They weren’t even considered “white.”

"Energy constantly flows through the crystal. You're not fighting with a simple blade as much as you are directing a current of power." ―Sabine Wren and Kanan Jarrus on the Darksaber, Rebels: s3e15 Trials of the Dark Saber

I’m sure there are other references, too, but for it to be a power current it needs to flow to and from a terminus. See also the Tagge Protoblade in which the energy circles around a metal core (internally referred to as the corn dog lightsaber) instead of being a sword

another note on the light Saber blade: it’s actually a long spinning loop like a narrow ‘0’ or the eye of a needle, which is why it doesn’t disconnect

I have bad news for you about how much nature cares about being smart or a good parent

well of course not, they all have sports cars etc etc

Studies suggest this is an extreme minority, and stories like yours - while yours might be true (and be fair to me here, we’re just two usernames, we don’t know each other’s motives and biases), it’s often used to push reasons to defund homeless shelters and criminalize being poor.

Even if you have seen a homeless person (or imposter) do something wrong, it might be worth considering that being homeless is very difficult and often caused by pre-existing medical conditions or institutionalized discrimination.

I wanted a cat when I was 5. My parents got me a fish instead. So, in my innocence, I named the fish “Pussy”

cops need to be able to shoot people, and CEOs need to lay off huge swaths of people to improve quarterly profits.

quarter millennium