It takes 7 seconds for the terminal to load on my brand new laptop. I’m sure there’s some way to fix it, but that…just enrages me.

And it’s dog shit too.

The US military is not for national defense, it’s a pay pig for a handful of corporations.

When civilians want something, it’s always “those poor corporations!”

At least with the bill focused on military you can put forward the importance of “combat readiness”, “supporting the troops”, “taxpayer dollars”, and other things that politicians often say they care about.

They are examples of complex and difficult tasks that humans are capable of when working together, implying through comparison reordering society is also achievable.

The worst person you know is still just a meatbag, same as anyone else. Jeff Amazon himself has no power but what others, operating within one weird system, grant him.

Problem is we let the pricks run things, or we become the pricks ourselves.

Trick is figuring out how to stop both those things from happening. Must be tricky, given how it keeps happening. But we’re a clever species. We landed on the moon, took pictures of the backside of our star, spilt the atom, etc. We can figure out good economics and governance.

Move fast and break things, but it’s a passenger vehicle on a public road.