they cope by feeding their xenophobia with the deprivation
they survive by affording healthcare, and disenfranchising every culture with nutritionally balanced cuisine from being able to compete over it as a resource
i'm gonna fight 'em off a seven nation army couldn't hold me back i traveled the world and the seven seas everybody's lookin for something https://youtu.be/hmLBSCiEoas#np
My genius plan for the rest of my life is instead of growing attached to ongoing pieces of media and upcoming large projects I just become completely obsessed with MacOS9 abandonware from 1997
@staticsafe uh-oh, you've just given the NYC-adjacent child in my heart a wonderful, awful idea to make a blocklist for things that aren't Real® pizza :P
so if you're wondering about the state of competitive mk11, honeybee, undisputed best mkx dvorah player, blames his terrible performance in mk11 to d'vorah nerfs and allegedly punched sonicfox at summit because of salt, and sonicfox in response has gone on a tear of what i can only describe as 'waifu cuckolding' honeybee by winning a streak of tournaments with dvorah entirely to flex
@QuestForTori i don't know why someone would otherwise spend effort phrasing "i, for one, accept our new omnipresent, omniscient neural-net owning overlords, and you should too, or else you'll be unfashionable" in quasi-approachable terms
@QuestForTori i get a feeling that thinkpieces like these are deliberately bought by the folks who would stand to benefit the most from the common person not knowing what a better internet was, or that computers that respected your privacy on the most basic of levels were once the norm.
The point is preserving history so it can inspire new generations. I know a vast amount of my tastes as an artist came from interacting with old media and technology well past their prime. It's baffling I have to say this, but just because something is old, doesn't mean it's bad.