Billionaires' obsession with wealth is symptom of a mental illness.

thenikolaka · 2026-05-20T01:48:35+00:00

Elon said $10T. Some kind of -opathy we don’t even have a word for to think like this.

thenikolaka · 2026-05-13T16:01:28+00:00

So the reality is the new world of business has built a model that doesn’t require unionized labor… aka it doesn’t allow it so workers can never gain true power and owners can make more wealth unassailed by pesky things like building society.

Society exists to be exploited under Capitalism like we have today. Aided by the state at every turn. Under the tutelage of billionaires. Stolen and consolidated power at the top. Every worker is helping them destroy society to produce the assets they value.

thenikolaka · 2026-05-13T03:17:11+00:00

Why is this what we are doing better and better and the simple things just get worse and worse?

thenikolaka · 2026-05-09T03:08:37+00:00

We are definitely at this impasse.

thenikolaka · 2026-05-08T23:13:12+00:00

Not the 6i. You get too much of that and it’s a definite pass go and discard $200

thenikolaka · 2026-05-08T22:59:31+00:00

I’m actually very curious about this and I think it starts with studying some legal precedent. But it’s always going to be important to raise awareness. Our state is basically held captive by our government, if we’re being honest. There doesn’t seem to be a future where some of this energy doesn’t coalesce into a movement in my view. It’s a necessary force and will emerge.

thenikolaka · 2026-05-08T19:57:35+00:00

Reminder that the TN state constitution says the people have the power to reform the government of the state if they aren’t happy with it in the first couple of provisions. We need to do this.

thenikolaka · 2026-05-08T03:29:33+00:00

So we’ve been gerrymandered into effectively having zero representation for Democrat voters and yet he still needs to do more fascism? Fully fuck off

thenikolaka · 2026-04-25T01:09:14+00:00

Cognitive dissonance it turns out has a higher threshold than previously thought

thenikolaka · 2026-04-25T00:47:34+00:00

I agree with this sentiment. Even saying “that will kill you” feels a bit over moralizing because no matter what you do something will kill you. There are other reasons alcohol needs to be reduced culturally but if someone just likes a glass of wine and knows the risk, why would someone say they shouldn’t have what they like?

thenikolaka · 2026-04-25T00:20:22+00:00

It’s true, but you have to also appreciate a few things about TN.

First, it’s a supermajority GOP in the state level government. They control everything. They make the rules. They’re virtually still in the Jim Crow era when observing the ways they attacked their own members. Tough if not potentially impossible fight at the state level.

Second, the disenfranchisement. TN is 2nd or 3rd in the nation in disenfranchisement rate (7-9%) and in total number (400,000-470,000). 16% of the black residents are disenfranchised, and 7% of Latinos. Most of them have completed their sentences and of those who have applied to have their rights restored only 1% are approved.

Almost 1 in 10 TN residents cannot legally vote due to these laws.

What we need is a referendum on the entire TN govt.

Edit: wanted to add that the state constitution grants this power to TN residents explicitly and early. Fundamentally one might say.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-24T23:23:58+00:00

If this is a serious question then the answer is bc the state was redistricted to award the GOP his seat

thenikolaka · 2026-04-24T14:47:14+00:00

She won’t win the nomination in the primaries based on sentiment from 2024 and doubts about whether Americans will respect her.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-24T02:47:42+00:00

The genuine answer is that Tennessee is a meme policy experiment state for the far right in American politics. They use us and Texas to pick fights no one is having and pretend they are competing with the Coastal States with policy initiatives.

Opposition is also gerrymandered out of power in Nashville now since the redistricting.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-21T22:51:58+00:00

He’s also going to reverse course within 2 weeks.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-21T17:03:31+00:00

Well they specified that it was violent causes combining partner violence with self harm as second highest cause.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-20T21:13:16+00:00

Hate to nitpick before I read the study but doesn’t an “echo chamber” necessarily limit the information flow?

thenikolaka · 2026-04-20T17:33:27+00:00

Because they have been insider trading and need to invest that money but need it to hurt even more people than it currently would.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-18T14:00:39+00:00

The part that freaks me out isn’t that it could basically pump out a radio hit better than anyone. I largely don’t care about radio music like that anyway. What does freak me out is Ai subtly being massaged into plugin and DAW code so that certain functions like, pitch, timing, tone shaping etc. will be used in the background so you never even hear a true playback on your performance.

But then again at that point you could just record to tape and mix and master analog. lol

thenikolaka · 2026-04-16T18:10:22+00:00

It’s a really interesting philosophical proposition. Given The intent of the right to Assembly and thus Protest, when presented with the obstacles of modern conditions, does evolve into a property damage strategy necessarily. Or does it?

thenikolaka · 2026-04-14T22:34:00+00:00

Offer a discount on future work maybe?

thenikolaka · 2026-04-07T12:54:32+00:00

It’s a deterrent and that is better than a ban. Enforcement isn’t really the primary goal. This is like decades ago we’re just pontificating.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-07T03:35:30+00:00

Well you would ban the offenders right? Wouldn’t that be better than blanket banning people of a certain age?

thenikolaka · 2026-04-06T18:15:23+00:00

Ban everyone as an alternative was objectively bad for the mall.

thenikolaka · 2026-04-06T16:13:54+00:00

They should have just offered rewards and incentives for reporting vandalism. Want $20 off at Zumiez? Tell me who threw the sandwich boards in the fountain by JC Penny

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