+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
observation about myself and some philosophical rambling
pre-covid-drama i'd usually - within some boundaries of course - trust what scientists claim, even if it is the popular idea. i'd never have doubted something like climate change.
post-covid-drama i tend to assume that everything remotely mainstream very likely is a cult or a psyop and not science, only thinly veiled as it.
look at the replication crisis we have. except for _very_ pure disciplines where you can break things down to pure logic or math it's very likely all bullshit by now.
or at least the _solutions_ presented from so many disciplines seem to be about the same bullshit. it's all about the same few prescribed ideas to "save the climate" or something something "diversity" whatever that term still means.
usually selling now stuff or building some new things. while imho the utmost importance wrt the climate should be making sure there are as diverse ecosystems as possible because those are much more robust when handling environmental changes - especially the slow gradual change climate change supposedly is. i'm not even sure the scientists really are thinking this way, or just writing these things as it is _expected_ from them out of fear being cancelled.
alas, the solutions pushed make sure that we kill off even more nature to fix the climate, just one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_Berlin-Brandenburg#Site_concerns
i feel like dr gonzo in circus circus: this place is getting to me. i think i'm getting the fear.
@McMongoose
i don't even read local papers anymore, it's 90% big news agency stuff, 9% feelgood stories, 1% actually important stuff. the agency stuff is the worst of course, with the lowest information density.
old stuff was as fake as objectivity is a meme. that's the magic of hunter thompson: put everything though the gonzo meatgrinder and you actually have something informative. it's like those carricature drawings which enlarge features into the grotesque but being the best portraits sometimes. the man put his degenerate behavior into doing something good.
i wish i knew more people in RL thinking like this. most of my old friends certainly don't. it's almost a wonder they didn't say things to me like @istvan wrote.
@Zerglingman guess my own brain? ;)
@Zerglingman and being shunned by society for two years of course ✨
Literally.
When you start a physical location business, you know the first couple years you work for the landlord. You make no money for yourself. You cannot make yourself an employee because you cannot pay yourself.
What happens when locked down?
You still pay landlord every month: no relief. But you cannot earn money to pay the landlord. You cannot get the money from unemployment because you never paid yourself. You cannot get the PPP loan because you have no employees. The grants only go to established businesses who will use it to remodel rather than survive.
Many small business are bootstrapped by owners foregoing a salary for 2-5 years. These people were trapped with no money for food while low-income workers were paid more than before to stay home and not work.
One of the stories no one talked about.
This is how to radicalize.
Yeah... Many of us were hit hard, and I also get pissed off when we now hear "Oh, we didn't know.", "Look over there! Ukraine! No time to dwell in the past" and (the worst) "Yeah, Vaccines didn't really work either."
Not good people. Just good pretenders.
@istvan @Zerglingman
sorry to hear about how these people treated your family!
are things ok with your business now?
really, anyone who has the opinion any of these things which have happened were even remotely right is either completely brainwashed or evil.
nobody cares about that i have little children in my family now who probably have to deal with _really_ traumatic experiences because they were forbidden to see their mother for a week.
i literally was told that i have to be "grateful" that the medical-industrial complex did the basic work it is supposed to and for which we have to pay several hundred euros each month.
i also was told that everyone did act in good faith because the situation was new. which is 
bullshit if you are two years into a "pandemic". it's just good old plain evil. gotta sell the vax!
The amount of odd jobs I took on to find ways to pay the landlord and stop the inventory from being seized by court did a number on my health. It also destroyed our remaining savings.
But at least we are still here and still able to work for the people who need us. That’s already a blessing.
I try to think of it as three lost years, and if we keep working another three we may be where we should be today.
@Deplorable_Degenerate @Zerglingman certainly! at least i now know who to trust.
observation about myself and some philosophical rambling
Die Leute glauben aber auch jeden Scheiss//sind unfähig mitzudenken:
lol lmao even, not anymore
But what I worry about is them trying reverse psychology once more people distrust than trust them. Saying to do something when they want the opposite.
You're not alone Boni, there's an American meme that basically says "gay until proven fake" which basically means everything is false or misrepresented.
And that's how I feel everything honestly and I'm not just talking about international nonsense, but the day to day "news" in my city. I am certain it's all outright fake or so misleading that it mighy as well be fake. If I take that into consideration then, how fake is everything abroad, in the places where I can't personally verify things?
Take it a step further, if everything NOW is fake, then what about old news? Were they also fake?
I'm not too bothered by this though, mainly because I know I'm not alone with this sentiment
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