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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Sorry to be pedantic but strictly speaking “shareholder profit” isn’t the issue with capitalism because that would include worker-owned cooperatives which are not causing the same problems.

    The issue is the legal obligation of a private or public company to make an increase in returns for shareholders year on year.

    This is why decisions like downgrading quality, design by committee to appeal to focus groups, everything becoming a subscription service, and firing staff to reduce wage overheads in the last financial quarter exist.

    Because it’s easier for the company directors / C-level executives to make these decisions which make line go up, rather than try to justify to shareholders why a steady or small dip in returns is necessary for longer term investment and growth.

    This is compounded by the shortsightedness of companies only planning quarter to quarter then governments + central banks basing all economic decisions on GDP figures.

    Because the easiest thing to make national line go up is to give tax cuts to the owning elites for them to shuffle even more money around in the stock and commodity markets, they buy up all the assets of the working class, the middle class, and the governments selling them off.

    But funnily enough, centralising all the apparent wealth in the hands of a few silver-spooned arseholes is not a basis for a functioning society.


  • The screen reads “Bluetooth Init…” which is short for “Bluetooth Initialising” i.e. starting up, turning on, setting up.

    “Innit” is a common UK slang term usually associated with chav/roadmen which means “isn’t it”. This is used at the end of a sentence or as an affirmation.

    Example A

    Brit 1: Lovely weather today, innit?

    Brit 2: Yeah mate!

    Example B

    Brit 1: Lovely weather today.

    Brit 2: Innit tho. (Meaning: “Yes, it is.”)


  • Do I believe in ghosts in the literal sense of an actual spirit hanging around in the physical world haunting places and people? No.

    Do I think it’s fascinating to see how the idea of “ghosts” are used in a cultural sense usually representing an individual or group’s desires, thoughts, feelings, etc. after they’ve passed on and usually storytelling around respecting their wishes or finishing what they started so they can finally be “at peace”? Yes.

    I also find it fascinating in a tragic way how people who’ve gone through extreme grief and loss can cling to the idea of ghosts, particularly of loved ones. Perhaps the pyschie doesn’t want to let go of that person so much that it can manifest as audio-visual hallucinations that feel incredibly real to the individual.

    After all, we all perceive the world through our brain: it is the filter for everything.

    I’ve experienced some strange stuff personally, but I don’t think I’ve seen an actual ghost. I remember having a dream about a close relative the night they died suddenly and we all found out in the morning. But that could be my memory post-rationalising something.

    I’ve seen a milk bottle fly out from the back of the fridge but I swear I remember that the fridge wasn’t rocking unstably and that the milk was definitely at the back of the fridge. But I could have seen incorrectly because who pays attention to the precise location of a milk bottle when opening the fridge.

    And I’ve encountered machines that appeared to be haunted. An ex-gf’s iPod classic she kept because it is a time capsule of her music would randomly turn itself on, play 10 seconds of a random song, then turn itself off again.

    I can feel how a ghost story would fit all of these and feel like it would make emotional sense to me. Like there’s some deep part of our evolutionary psychology that supports feeling this way. Why?

    Now in that sense I believe people genuinely experienced “ghosts” that aren’t actually there but are a part of their perceived reality and I find that fascinating.






  • No, they have shown you to the entrance way marked gonewildaudio.

    It is now your choice.

    Do you take a deep breath as you delve into romantic and erotic depths you could never have imagined before as expertly written, recorded, and mastered audio dances upon your ears and deftly paints a beautiful scene in your minds eye?

    Or do you remain strong, stoic, and resist the alluring audio being sung from the salacious sirens of the subreddit?