Remove the choice

THAT is what is going on in the modern world. We are losing our choices. They transplant things in that make it seem as if we have choice, but in reality, no, not so much. IF you want to be diffferent, you are going to pay through the nose and anus for that ‘choice’.

The car thing, yes,,, Thats what got me riled up. Not just the fact that parts are do damnably expensive where they used to be ‘cheap’. Its the modern cars as well. That you MUST have the latest and greatest tools to even COMMUNICATE with the systems in said cars, (and pay a subsciption fee to keep that priviledge. Like the Secure Gateway Feature that totally blocks me out of working on Son of Bossmans Rams.) They remove the choice.

And yes, there is some ‘Oligarchical Prospiracy’ here. That the “Big Three” were at the front of the line with limiting ‘who’ could work on thier stuff,,, The real problem being lack of loyalty there. The customers were loyal, it was the corporations that stabbed the customer in the back. That whole ‘Ford/Chevy’ thing recall. NOW,,,, unless its “OldSkool” iron,,, all of the boys and girls are in the same boat: Can’t work on SHIT,,,,

And its not just in the iron,,,

Look on the shelves at the store: look at the ingredients of the ‘food’ we are allowed to purchase/consume. IT AIN’T FOOD,,,, Its highly processed chemistry with enough additives to make it shelf stable into 2190 and sorta taste like what its labeled as. I was gonna add ‘except for meats’ but even there, with them ‘3D printing’ meat now, unless someone is 100% honest (HA!) you might never know that you bought ‘pseudo-meat’ or “Vat Grown” meat. (and can you tell the difference in taste? I dunno, never had it that I am aware of, BUT, I have bought meat that my kats and dawg WON’T touch,,,)(I trust their noses much better than my taste buds)

Even in the local store,,, They inject water and CO2 for bulk and color; to make the meats look more appealing. Those don’t do a danged thing to the content, except raise the weight (more $) and make them look Fresher than reality. You know you bought an altered meat when you cook it and its 1/3rd the size by the time it hits your plate. A 3/4lb steak that comes to 4oz by the time you go to eat it.

Choices,,,,

Look at the interwebs. The algorithms dictate what you see now. Your choices are “CONSUME”, not shop around. Certainly NOT the interwebs of the early Aughts/late 90’s. When there was REAL competition between web-browsers for your attention.

“Do no Evil”,,,, When I saw that on Giggles title bar,,, I started worrying,,, I haven’t seen it up there in years, but it was there as late as 2008, about the time that Giggles started ‘owning’ the nets.

I’m not in a good state of mind this morning. Not just because of the tribbles in Bloo. Things aren’t feeling to keen to the future, and its not from watching the news cycles. Those are just distraction from the real issues now, aren’t they? Look at whats going on in Silver,,, Gold, not so much,,, the real indicator that things are ’bout to take a turn for worse is in Silver. Petro dollar? Becoming a note in history,,, like so many others before it,,, It’s hitting us in nooks and crannies that we thought were solid, like car parts for ubiquitous power plants (SBC’s SBF’s that were in EVERYTHING back in the day.) Its hitting in the marketplaces where we attempt to feed ourselves (but are offered crap in return for the duhks we ‘earn’ or recieve.) Its hitting us in unbalanced interest rates: 1/3percent on savings, but you pay 30+ on your credcards,,,, ITs hitting us in ever grwoing tax rates, that are everywhere you look: from your income, to what you spend, to what you save, and soon, what you could POTENTIALLY earn,,, At least if certain mental types have their way,,,

How do you navigate a world that is completely hostile to the individual? If you aren’t a tribe member, or have an odd outlook, the world wants to eat you from the inside out, leaving a shell of a hooman. And they train the young to NOT THINK these days,,, so they won’t question any of it. Hell, they did to us, and now look around,,, I’m questioning, but decades too late,,, and I’m not alone.

Shit makes me wanna pack up and go homeless somedays,,,, at least then, the struggle would be immediate and in my face, not hiding behind some advert with smiling eyes and luciferian grins.

More lates,,,, gotta deal with Docs and Da.