Prehensile_cloaca

Social media is the front of the house.

What destroyed the internet are the cabal of Corporations monetizing every interaction and directing flows from the back of the house.

Unfettered Capitalism killed the internet experience.

Ban social media and advertising/marketing. Smart phones are just a small computer.

Capulets and Montagues, but like, way dumber.

Everything old is new again

Yet for some reason Tasha Yar wants to bang it.

And Dr.Crusher wants to bang Yar’s ghost.

Boomers absolutely voted for the current reality. They also made sure to pull up every ladder they used to gain advantages.

enter Janeway holding a knife, stage right

Cue the airlines come with hand-wringing to beg the Feds for more bailouts because “nobody is flying anymore.”

Parasitical business practices should lead to market exit.

Archimedes over here with his bigass lever

“But how will we keep our enormous administrative overhead to ourselves?”

It’s not like they showed up in his bathtub

As suspected, society falling apart really boils down to a bunch of shit heels with poor reading comprehension.

Exactly. Tariffs are a “pass through cost.”

So, yeah, most people know exactly how they work.

“Far out, man”

After

“Hey, didn’t you want this water?”

Oh, right…yeah, water.

“Well of course they’re going to do whatever we want in the forest. Because of the implication.” -Dennis “centaur” Reynolds

Get a projector. Cheaper, bigger display area, less obtrusive.

“Gay radio waves!”

Picard, after hours: Replicator, 3 doobies. Kush. Tapered. And some matches.

Worth is largely contextual no? eg, if you’re offering it to a drowning man, that jar is worth less than nothing.

But hopefully that jar had good parents that built up its esteem, so that in any context it has the greatest gift of all: self-worth.