NutWrench

There are many creatures in nature that warn others that they are toxic or dangerous by having bright colors, warning sounds or by wearing little red hats.

I didn’t think the MAGAs could find a stupider fashion accessory than those dumb, red hats but somehow, they found a way.

Our government was corrupted the moment the courts accepted the “Corporations are people/ Money is speech” arguments. At that moment, the government stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only represented the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists.

It’s taking a long time to play out but it’s going to end badly.

THIS is what “AI” will really be used for. Making bullshit*t.

The point (which I guess I needed to point out) is that this isn’t a work of fiction, anymore. Government has been granted unprecedented power to conduct surveillance on innocent people with no warrants or accountability. Companies carry out data harvesting and location tracking in nearly every consumer product connected to the Internet. Microsoft has literally incorporated spyware into Windows 11 (CoPilot / Recall). We are living in a real life surveillance state right NOW and our government and corporations are clearly fine with it. And that’s where the “how-to” guide comes into it. That’s the BAD THING. I really didn’t think I needed to spell it out, but damn.

The only rebellion shown in the book is Goldstein’s manifesto and even that turns out to be a lie. The State invented Goldstein’s rebellion to weed out Thought criminals. And Winston fell for it.

1984 doesn’t have a happy ending, unless your idea of a happy ending is a man going insane. Oceania was always a lost cause. The point of warnings is that you’re supposed to avoid the thing they’re warning you against.

More people need to read “1984” and understand that it’s a warning, not a “how-to” guide.

Stupid AI will destroy humanity. But the important thing to remember is that for a brief, shining moment, profit will be made.

Yup. They don’t understand what it is or what it does. All they know is that it makes even dumber venture capitalists open their wallets.

If the point of taking drugs is to “enhance your performance” then Biden took every drug he should NOT have taken before that debate.

Well, what are we supposed to do? Choose a presidential candidate who was born after the Battle of the Bulge?

It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.

Or . . . you load that old save game and think, “oh yeah. NOW I remember why I stopped playing this.”

And you could afford a rack of ribs big enough to tip over your car.

Isn’t it amazing how often the Miracle Whip people end up in the hospital emergency room whenever they have a serious medical problem.

Not being able to breath has a way of reorganizing your beliefs in a big damn hurry.

Someone will find a way to take a looped video of them watching their computer intently and feed it through their webcam. The ad battle will never end.

If “your call is important to them” they would hire enough people to answer the phone.

Yup. What YouTube doesn’t understand is that we’ve got ** other stuff to do.** I’ve got books to read, games to play, music to listen to. None of which requires YouTube.

Being able to touch type an on-screen keyboard with your eyes would be amazing, but we all know the real reason for this invention would be to make sure you’re watching the ads.