> 4g?

I just can't ever remember what's supposed to come after the plus, I thought maybe lmnop, but the l is already taken.

It's not the worst I can imagine, it's just the major societal/financial movements they funded bigly that have traumatized and enthralled hundreds of millions that they cast off like dirty old rags - and we don't even get a chance to discuss it.

Before you nitpick me on particulars, I'm talking about the big, sometimes years-long (like global warming), crises that suddenly cease to be crises.

One week it's no-jab-no-job-get-your-boosters and stay on lockdown, next week: stop talking about it, Putin is invading Ukraine! And two years later, return to office! Right on the quarterly schedule, no less! Poof, existential threat disappears, it's magic.

Today they suddenly need mega power generation so bad, they need their AGI so baaaad! Forget all that other stuff. Green agenda? It never was a threat, move along to the new crisis.

What are people spun up about in my town now? Immigration police. It's not going to work this time, I think. This one is so clumsy and just a repeat of BLM/defund the police. (And what the hell was "thank your first responders" faff about just prior, then?)

All the people will finally see this one is manufactured and fake and ghey. But alas, no. The purple haired moms and their truant little kids and the unicorn costumed antifa and the self-absorbed, boomer hippy grandmas were on the street corner yesterday morning, protesting immigration police and demanding honks. A hundred people, some clearly paid, organized for this! Le sigh.

People never stop getting spun up now. They never ask why all the threats are always positioned as existential now. It's not because "they are", clearly they are not, as past ones have proven not to be. But, they don't have any memory for the latest crazes of even the near past because they are constantly making themselves afraid.

> banking is not regulated

Because the snakes we have have done such a great job, and who did the carving? "Devil you know", is that your point? It's not a great point if you think about it.

I'm not looking forward to working hard scrabbling for food, no. I'd much rather code JavaScript in peace. Yes, I have read history.

I know we _could_ all be fabulously wealthy with today's tech if we didn't have this debt-based, permanent war system to drag along. If your history lessons extend back before the 1900's at all, you'll know maybe there's something to look forward to.