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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Great post! Not the best title, but very informative and very important. I knew this was coming and this is why we need to work on planning for the future:

What have I overlooked?

The STABs (shills, trolls, and bots) are not winning yet - but they will. Unless we organize our resistances adequately in a timely manner. The powers that be will never stop and they have UNLIMITED FUNDING as they literally and virtually print money.

On May 1st I got a bunch of sites (more on this soon). Yesterday I bought bunch of groceries. Now I'm fucked for this month. I wanted to get a used circular saw and/or a used air conditioner and/or a new hard drive as I need all desperately. Being so profoundly limited I'm faced with, again, seriously rethinking my strategy for my life and path forward.

[–]Node[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Not the best title,

It was an impulse post after seeing that elsewhere. I agree that they will at some point, as this kind of technology is the inevitable result once you enter the race to advance beyond humanity. At first it will just be the masses controlled and manipulated by AI, but it won't stop until the machines rule our species.

Rethinking your strategy can be a good move. Maybe you'll still come up with your current strategy, or maybe you'll find ways to improve.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Also: /s/Artificial_Intelligen

The fronts to fight on keep narrowing. Eventually the only things to fight for will be to eat, sleep, and breathe - and after one of those is removed...

[–]Node[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yesterday I bought bunch of groceries. Now I'm fucked for this month. I wanted to get a used circular saw and/or a used air conditioner and/or a new hard drive as I need all desperately. Being so profoundly limited I'm faced with, again, seriously rethinking my strategy for my life and path forward.

Interested in any ideas to potentially help mitigate this situation? I've had some high and some low life experiences, and may or may not know of some coping strategies you haven't thought of. It does sound like you're kind of in a rough spot. No guarantees, of course. Maybe I'd come up with nothing. Maybe something you could use.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, I'm always interested in good ideas.

There are people with worse problems than I have - and that may be my future, especially if I can't get out of this rut. But this rut is stable. For now. My first 25 years I was young and in school. After that I was an animator, senior animator, supervisor, and finally director. Then Big Pharma poisoned me for a decade. I've been beyond hell and back - and lost much of my life, yet remain alive, now 50. I've now had a few years where I might have been able to get a shitty job here in Windsor, where my family brought me when down. Windsor is not my kind of town and it took everything I had to escape it before. There is no work much less heart and soul for me in this banal suburban nightmare. I'd rather be downtown in a big city or in the woods. Regardless, here I am, stable, on disability, finally with ambition again, but without means and with a much shorter future. Plus folks don't see potential in a 50 year old "bum", much less one who's a "professional" truth-seeker and skeptic. I never could and I never will never be able to bite my tongue in any work environment, much less any that exploits me even a little. I'm not out to fight or burn bridges, and even try to avoid that, though it happened on occasion. I've never been too timid to quit or be fired. All that has has it's pros and cons on my career and life.

So I've seen the darkest depths of apathy and despair, but I'm back and motivated and ambitious - but extremely limited. I had limits before but there was more elbow room. I was even able to go to Burning Man every year which was not cheap, but I always managed to scrounge up a few thousand to make it happen. These days I can't even scrounge up a few hundred (no one properly values art much less commercial art around here). That's why I need to finish my "Why I'm Quitting SaidIt" series and focus on finishing my epic screenplay that I'll storyboard/illustrate and publish as a new kind of graphic novel. We're setting up a new server for my sites (a new forum, wiki, PeerTube, etc). There I can present my many options and hopefully the SaidIt community can weigh in and help me determine my destiny. All this sounds great - but it's all taking much longer than I'd like, as things usually do. But the worst part of it is that it's all computer stuff. I wanted to regain some balance, grow a garden, build some things around here, and be self-sufficient and autonomous. Maybe even at fucking 50 to try to find a lady again. But the real world around here has problems, including my new landlord and Judas neighbour, not to mention lockdown, shrinkflation, etc. It seems like my only choice is to escape into my computer life - if only just to get some footing and funding to reemerge into real life, which won't be getting any better under Agenda 2030.

I don't feel good about it but I also don't feel guilty about taking government money for the disability that I don't really have anymore. They were the ones who fucked me in the first place. They certainly aren't paying me much to live on, so it's certainly not a scam I'm pulling as the conservative media would have everyone believe - and the left media who want to promote UBI are selling folks a trap. You won't find a single homeless person who planned to be that way when they were young. Same thing with UBI / disability.

[–]Node[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Sorry for such a delayed reply. I've been commenting like this since 2005 when I chose reddit out of three contenders for my 'main internet site'. Was reddit, stumbleupon, and one I don't remember. But the commenting environment seems to be crashing, and my patience is growing thin. Saidit itself appears to be going down too, with people simply withdrawing from the censorship and erratic behaviors by the admins.

With the government now planning to fund communist witch hunts for internet wrong thinkers - who they refer to as domestic terrorists - this may be the moment to to stop offering them data they could characterize as incriminating. But that's more secondary to the sites themselves becoming untenable, which is leading me to some days not go on the internet at all. And it feels nice to be completely out of the loop on some of this bullshit.

I wanted to regain some balance, grow a garden, build some things around here, and be self-sufficient and autonomous. Maybe even at fucking 50 to try to find a lady again.

Sounds worthwhile. The balance especially. Doesn't mean you have to go out and associate with maskers and vaxxers, but just keep a toe or two in the waters of real life. And btw, 50 is pretty young. At least you'll know anyone interested isn't after your money, and your organs are probably too old to be worth much on the medical black market! See, there are positives in any situation! But seriously, the gardening and balance should remain a part of your life.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Don't sweat it. I'm also terrible with correspondences. I have 724 messages from 2.5 years that I mean to get to, and about as many emails that I never check.

Larry is taking so long with whatever it is he's doing with my server and I got tired of waiting for my MediaWiki that I started this the other day: /s/Cassy/wiki/index and drafted this: /s/Cassy/wiki/progresslog_2021-05-11 which he nor the others haven't gotten back to me about. I wanted to check with them first for stuff I may have missed and I didn't want to take the liberty of overstepping my bounds by speaking for them. I'm starting to feel like herding cats is not the best way to do things, but if we want Full Spectrum Decentralization (another term I came up with recently that I have yet to fully explain and share) the it means we must try to include and accommodate everyone, but not in a commie way.

I'm almost of the mind that I need to just barge ahead and let the other guys just speak up if/when they don't agree.

Saidit itself appears to be going down too, with people simply withdrawing from the censorship and erratic behaviors by the admins.

Sad but true. Tom has disappeared too.

With the government now planning to fund communist witch hunts for internet wrong thinkers - who they refer to as domestic terrorists - this may be the moment to to stop offering them data they could characterize as incriminating.

Fuck that. They'll do it regardless - and dig up your past or find any excuse to sentence you. Don't stop because they sure aren't going to. Go out fighting on your feet, not simpering on your knees.

And btw, 50 is pretty young. At least you'll know anyone interested isn't after your money, and your organs are probably too old to be worth much on the medical black market!

LOL truth!

The older ladies aren't as interested in rebellious guys with nothing to lose who take risks, which is fine by me as I'm not into the older ladies.