Tag: LazyRevolution

Disposable everything, right?

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“If there was a problem, yo, I’ll solve it”
-Vanilla Ice

 

Good article right here

They don’t make them like they used to…

Technically, you ain’t wrong neither.

It’s true, they don’t make things like they used to, and there’s a reason for it too.

It’s technically our fault.

We became children of instant gratification and combined with our lack of “free” time, we allowed the corporations to dictate the terms of engagement.

They don’t have to make anything with quality anymore. We pre-buy games and sign away the rights to the stuff we buy through “agreements”.

What foking incentive are we giving companies to put out a good product when we are literally trampling over the corpses of human beings to upgrade a TV on black Friday?

It is not going to fill in that existential void, Karen.

Imagine what is doing to us at a psychological level? Is there a chance that maybe that disposable culture has bled into our social behaviors and that’s why relationships and connections have also become easier to throw away than to maintain and repair?

I’m just saying.

What can be done?

Embrace what we have always been. Hackers.

Seriously, it isn’t all about code either. Taking stuff apart and tinkering with it so it does something else or works to our liking is fundamental to being alive. Am I over reaching if I say hacking is the result of consciousness adapting to the environment faster than the cadavatar it is trapped in? It’s like, “Hey man, I’ve mastered the use of this meat-bot, now I will begin to dominate my surroundings”… We see an ape creating tools in their environment and we call it a sign of intelligence, but then judge a person for trying to do the same in theirs?

Double foking standard.

#HackNotCrime

I should be able to fix the stuff I own. It’s mine, and I should have all the rights to it.

Why the hell should I be charged for an owners manual? I’m already the foking owner.

Let tinkerers tinker. If the Wright brothers had stuck to bicycles we wouldn’t have Space X right now. Let the environment heal by not creating more waste. Let jobs develop in a fixing economy that can help us save desperately needed resources.

All that by supporting local #RightToRepair groups and letting your state reps know about it. Yes, that’s right, as you sit in the toilet reading this, you can click the links provided and help the cause for #RightToRepair. In the comfort of your throne, you are saving farmers in rural areas from corporations like John Deere that have exclusive rights to repair their equipment and charge as they see fit.

It is that easy.

#LazyRevolution

 

 

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 7

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Thank you…

“A rebellion is built on hope”

I’m glad I got to participate in this phenomenon.

As of this moment. Without taking any risk, I still hold BB and AMC. This is a gamble. If they go bullish, I’ll try and profit.

I however, also hold 1.32666 shares of GME I managed to snag on Stash. I wanted to buy just the one, and got lucky over the weekend during a dip so I took that extra .32666 as funky synchronicity.

I’m going to get a paper copy of that and frame it. I will hold that little bastard until death. Come and take it from my cold dead diamond hands. If I happen to find someone foolish enough to want to have a child with me, I will pass it on with the condition that it can’t ever be sold. A sort of Non Fungible Token to remember what happened here. What you absolute monsters built and deployed and achieved.

Apes together, strong.

Below, a little homage I threw together, inspired by what you beautiful bastards catalized here.

You proved that when given the time (thanks Covid-19?) and a neutral channel of communication (thanks #NetNeutrality), humanity works to improve themselves and the environment around them. The amount of stories of people using their gains to help others is so emotionally uplifting and needed at a time like this.

That scares the shit out of the status quo.

You showed the world that a revolution where not a single gun has to be handled is again possible. A revolution where the masses educate themselves and work together to disrupt the system using its very rules. A revolution where democracy is weaponized to expose weaknesses and abuse in the systems that are currently in place. A revolution where I guarantee not too many of you where worried about the race or religion of fellow apes because it doesn’t matter when you realize what the real enemy is.

Not your neighbor, but the normalization and adoration of greed.

It’s an interesting feeling when you realize how much wealth there is to redistribute if the playing field is even.

All credit to Brian Kesinger and r/walstreetbets for corresponding art. Sorry about hacking it together, enjoy.

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 6

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You didn’t see this coming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtcBobBB1b4

The real winner, no matter what happens, will be the meme economy.

Which is further evidence of the power of creativity to disseminate information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaJkJwZI9U

And that humor exists so that we can better deal with the harshness of reality.

Day 6

The line held before the weekend

The hedge fund Melvin Capital has closed their GameStop Position. The losses reported in the billions. Everyone and their grandmother is ananlyzing this thing from every angle. I’m sure you can find better information than anything I can provide here, written by brighter and better minds than mine.

What you probably won’t find out ther is what I’m about to provide you. The link between what is happening at the stock market and Aliens.

Remember a very long time ago in 2019, when Matty Roberts made a meme about storming Area 51. The event went viral and a few days after it had over 4 million people had pledged to “attend”? Fast forward a little and there was two festivals and at least one arrest.

I actually kept that can to commemorate the shenanigans, and also to remind me of what I had just witnessed. What we had all witnessed. 

The speed at which the massess can organize and mobilize thanks to a neutral internet.

I remember seeing early stages of this happening in 4chan. At small scale you had board to board raids. A group would go into another board and fill it with specific topics or images. These things where spontanous, organic. There was no logic, rhyme or reason. Follow that same pattern and you would find, at a larger scale, full on operations. Sometimes pure fokery, like trying to convince the media that celebrity xyz had died. Sometimes it was for the good of humanity, like identifying animal abusers.

Things just happened.

So fast forward to 2019, Rachel NV, hours before the scheduled raid time. There are news crews reporting live, there are competing festivals and the base is on alert. This has become real enough that I had friends in the military call me to ask me not to rush the base. Love you guys for caring. I’m also concerned about how crazy you think I actually am. But I digress, the point is the entire world got a really goood look at what those “raids” online translate to in real life.

Governments and data companies are very well aware of what you can do wiht data to manipulate masses. That’s what they do on a daily basis with all the targeted advertisement they spend billions on. Foking billions.

Then one guy, with one keyboard changed that for the enitre world. 

Because ALIENS.

One of my favorite sayings is “Many a true word is spoken in jest”.

What do you think was the truth spoken to power in the jest of the #StormArea51 event?

Could it be something along the lines of:

“Hey, we are the two younger generations, and we are hyperinformed, hyperconnected and hypernetworked beyond anything you can understand or control. We are starting to notice a lot of stuff is wrong with the systems. This is usual between generations, but thanks to the internet, a technology that you can’t keep up with, we have began to correct those mistakes and you may not like it. This is however, inevitable. As proof, we will show you how your secret base is a joke to us and we have flexed on it with enough speed and numbers that you have flinched. Now we are going to throw a party”

In many ways, was that not the moment in the movie where the nerds expose the bully’s weakness? Doesn’t that lead to the collapse of the bully’s house of cards?

Fast forward to what’s happening right now. Is this not the logical evolution of protesting the system? Drum circles and molotovs be damned when an army of individuals are redistributing wealth from their toilets and sofas in a week. 

This is what happens when we have the ability to communicate and disseminate information, we can move mountains and fight dragons and I hope everyone hears about  what happened here, and before this battle is over, “that even a god-king can bleed.”

 

 

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 5

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Where we go from here is a choice I leave to you.

“I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”

– Neo

 

Day Five.

With noticeable casualties on their side, the Hedge Funders have begun to do anything and everything to stop the hemorraging. Working under all this pressure means mistakes. Mistakes that are immediately seized and turned into optic ammunition. 

 

Can you foking imagine selling your soul for $40? I mean, don’t get me wrong, times are tough, I’ll take the foking credit, just don’t think I’m sacrificing my values because of it. Fok, even lizard person Ted Cruz actually agreed with my homegirl AOC on criticizing the move by Robinhood.

Of course, AOC reminded him he was a seditious piece of crap that got people killed with imflamatory rethoric in a full assed attempted coupe. Ted Cruz has American blood on his hands. But I digress.

In my searches I found this channel being recommended. I wanted to make a note of it here. So far it seems solid.

 

 

 

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 4

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I understand now. Why they scream at the exchanges…

Once you little foks understand the double-spend concept, I’ll tell you about what I did with Bitcoin…

 


Day Four.

I’m in it for the fight.

And they have made it a fight.

Trading apps have began to slow down or outright remove GME trading options. I’m looking your way “Robin Hood“. You can go fok your market manipulating self.

I know I talk a lot about the growing speed of data and how that is affecting society, but I seriously can’t emphasize how quickly this has become the topic of the day.

And that’s just one website.

So we see these financial institutions beginning to take measures to try and not get screwed in the game they made up. If you are running into problems, please be smart and document what happens. The lawsuits have already began.

 

 

Also, helping the cause is the fact we are also seeing some heavy names in investing starting to take a stand. I gotta say, I like what I’m hearing so far.

Even the cryptosphere is paying attention, because in many ways, the explosiveness of the stock forced some hands, and that has begun to really expose market manipulation. Guess how much that does to legitimize crypto currency and decentralization?

 

https://twitter.com/ppdik/status/1354919313442914309

Yeah, that’s right. I found a quote from P. P. Dik because reality is a simulation and it’s starting to run out of rendering power. Rick Sanchez was right, and it is your choice if you want to be Jerry.

Enjoy your human music.

 

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 3

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To the moon…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjhgcAMYU0

It is almost as if raising an entire generation of humanity on stories of rebellion instead of actual freedom  may have backfired on the “powers that be”.

Day three.

I have to participate.

How can I not.

This is fully mainstream now.

When I speak of the emergence of a “System of Truth”, I kind of have a hard time explaining the concept. I’ll keep trying, but for now, I think this gentleman has done a great job of giving us an example of the way it manifests.

Also, he brought up something called “Idea Dinners” and I will definitely be adding that to my “repertoire” 

There’s already a little pushback happening from the financial sector, but the progressives seem to be jumping in to flex their muscle and I’m not mad at that.

So I decided to get in on the action. I have a couple hundred I saved by not buying Jimmy John’s anymore (We had a run, but that business will never get another rupee from me). I did want to get myself a lightsaber replica, but instead, I think I’ll use that money to gamble on this for a bit.

And in many ways, stocks are like gambling. So with that said, I have already pointed out that I am very uneducated when it comes to stonks, I want to make that clear. Consider this the “for the record” disclaimer. I am in no way offering any type of professional insight. What I can do, is provide advice as a friend. NEVER put money into cryptocurrency or stocks that you wouldn’t give away to a stranger in the street. Also if you do decide to throw your money way, just send me the Bitcoin instead…

ps: Florida. I love you, but please get your shit together

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 2

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This is gathering so much attention…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4ix8-0rq4

Leonidas proceeds to throw a purchase order receipt like Gambit and cut King Xerxes right in the foking wallet.

Day of two of the GME shenanigans. This has snowballed into something bigger than all of us.

This is almost like the plot of a movie. It’s the underdog story we all love to hear, except it is literally allowing people to change their lives.

The bubble is going to burst eventually, there’s no doubt about that, but right now, it is a beautiful sight to behold.

In the last 24 hours the subreddit r/wallstreebets has gained a ton of new users. Those new users get excited about the spike and buy the stonk. This causes the stonk to go up, which scares the hedge fund fellers and forces them to seller. This causes the stonk to go up more, which then creates more buzz about the movement, and brings more new users.

That, to me, is the most interesting part. This is happening organically and as I said before, is the only possible resolution to the way the system was built. Wall Street has done everything possible to fix the game legally and it was only a matter of time until someone noticed that one of us may not have a million dollars, but there’s a million of us with a dollar ready to spend on foking back the systems that foked us. 

 

 

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 1

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So the minnows decided to take on the whales…

“Retail investors with the help of technology acting as a union in attacking is a new phenomenon,” 

-Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at the Leuthold Group.

I woke up this morning to an interesting phenomenon.

The subreddit r/wallstreetbets was trending, specifically chat on the GameStop stonks.

The little guys have taken on the big guys and I sincerely feel that this is going to be a historic event. Something economy professors will teach about in the future.

You know I was going to bring it up. This is part of the #DataWars. Using public knowledge and channels of communication made possible by #NetNeutrality, an army of traders managed to create what’s known as a “short squeeze“

I would love to say that I know what I am talking about, but to be honest, I have pretty much Jar Jar Binksed my way through anything that has to do with stonks. I haven’t had any plan or discernible pattern as to what I buy or how long I plan on holding. It has usulally worked out because I don’t take big chances and I only use the money I would have spent on going out to eat that month. That way I reduce the anxiety that comes with trying to understand anything that’s happening…

However, there are others out there that have taken the time to understand and share knowledge online. I think the powers that be will say this was all by design, but I feel this is the only logical organic resolution possible. Either way, we are watching history being made.

I’m going to keep my eye on this for the next couple days. I suggest my friends do too.

r/wallstreetbets

Original forum where the party seems to have started.

r/wallstreetbets2

Second forum started as traffic or censorship took down the original wsb subreddit

Discord

Discord for wsb

#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation

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This is going to be a rough looking one…

I promise I’ll come back and polish this.

I just want to get it out while I have time.

As I type, I have been on hold wiht the IRS for 28:42.

I have pressed more than 40 numbers into the keypad, this not counting the phone number I dialed into.

The song is repetetive and “our representatives are still helping other costumers”.

“Costumers”…

Is that what we are to the IRS? Costumers?

An agent came on the line. He just asked me to identify myself. After I identified myself through the machine. With button presses.

If we don’t trust the foking things, then get rid of them and hire more people like “John” then.

#TheseAreNotNewProblems.

Why am I doing the work of computers?

“John” hears my issue.

I owed money according to my 2019 return. I paid my penalty for lack of insurance and have my statement to confirm. Even on the IRS site it shows my payment was received (there’s no confirmation number because shit design). “John” asks if I can give him the check number I sent in. I tell him I paid over the internet #TheFutureIsNow. He says he is going to check, tells me it should take 5 to 7 minutes and places me on hold. When he comes back he fumbles as through an explanation. There’s no issue and everything is in order, it had something to do with using the direct pay option and the implication here is that I marked the wrong box somewhere so even though the site registered the funds, it didn’t trigger the funds being received so I was flagged for those lovely IRS collection letters. The way he explains it to me makes it sound as if he had just found a physical envelope sitting in a pile of other envelopes. He says it should take another 5 to 6 minutes to transfer things where they need to be and I could disregard the notices. I ask for confirmation number. “John” explains that there’s no way for him to do that, but he can send me a letter saying they where going to  hunt me down. I thank him for his help.

 

[End Scene]

Thoughts?

Civil Service with a smile

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The Last American Oligarch…

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”
― Giuseppe Prezzolini

I watched Joe Biden’s innaguration as the 46th President of the United States. The music played by the Marines was parade music. It was happy music.

It didn’t do a good job distracting from the visible tension at the event and the anxiety in the air.

I went over it again, and as I type, the Biden children and grandchildren are making their way out of the building and being introduced. I saw the Clintons and the Obamas introduced already, but I wanted to point out an interesting comment made by the announcers when the Bushes where announced. He refered to the “Bush Legacy”.

It made me wonder.

Two generations of Bushes, we almost had two Clintons, and I heard from both sides of the political spectrum some wouldn’t be oposed to seeing an Obama or Trump “legacy” continue.

What the fok are we doing America? I thought we where proud to not have a king. Wasn’t that the whole foking point? Why are we ok with this if we are still a democracy, because if we are not, I’m going to have to see the memo.

I don’t think Trump was the first one to attempt an oligarchy in this country. He was simply the most overt and careless about it. That doesn’t change the fact that we have families TRYING to cement political bloodlines into our government.

This has gone too far and it ends now.

And also, can we please stop wasting resources while on a super-spreader for the sake of “tradition”? Maybe I’m noticing these things because they look so foolish and humanly fragile without adoring subjects to back them up.

Watching the Inauguration without the crowd is like watching Friends without the soundtrack.

It isn’t as distracting, and you realize Ross sounds like a psychopath.

So I hope we are all woke to this now. There is no excuses anymore. Anyone remotely close to looking like they are trying to pull this “oligarchy” stunt needs to be voted out, no questions. If you love the family so much, go be with them. We need someone to meet the needs of their country, not their heirs.

#CivilSERVANT with emphasis on the servant.

So get to serving the will of the people.

From someone that has had to provide service with a smile, and got the job done, like it or not.