Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

A Modest Proposal

It is this: Gather all the tech guys, crypto tycoons and venture capitalists in one spot on a remote deserted luxury island, ply them with liquor and cocaine, and then:



Why?

They want to "gamify" grocery shopping, with "dynamic pricing" that could change in milliseconds and even change depending on the shopper. They'd know who you are and figure that you could pay $40 for a large pack of toilet paper and the person behind you might pay $30.

None of this is good for consumers. It's all about making the population into digital serfs and permitting the corporate overlords to scrape every last sou out of our pockets.

While it may be hard to persuade people to go along with detonating some nukes to take care of these assholes, let's get a law passed that it shall be perfectly legal to sack and burn any store that employs these technologies.

I wrote this over a dozen years ago. I stand behind every word.

5 comments:

Eck! said...

Being of the RUST contingent my attack would be to hack the shit out of any store using it. The more tech they use the more susceptable.

Then again if they are abandoned aka blockaded that works too.

Either way make it so unpopular they become... unpopular.

Eck!


Stewart Dean said...

That boat that went down in Sicily. It was the perfect metaphor for tech: because it was possible it was built with a ridiculously tall (250'!) mast, an Icarus-worthy outrageous height to hull ratio...as if you took a clipper ship's mast and put it on a yacht. Look:
https://www.indy100.com/media-library/footage-captured-the-bayesian-yacht-with-its-75-metre-long-mast-in-the-minutes-before-it-capsized.jpg?id=53498477
The waterspout came along and swatted it. All that money, position and power of its owner didn't mean shit.

Comrade Misfit said...

It was never about design. The mast height was a "I've got the biggest dick" signal.

Stewart Dean said...

Huh. And I thought tornados/waterspouts were only attracted to mobile homes! Who knew they had it in for Wall Street types.....have at it.

Sikhandtake said...

Alternately, search for 'piezoelectric spark generator'. Pretty cheap, and most come with a conveniently long lead attached to the 'zappy' end. LARTs for tech!