2026-03-06 23:44:21
Democrats, the yin to the Republican yang.
People often seem to be under the impression that if we just let the Democrat win, we would all be peachy-keen and the world would be grand. This has not, nor ever has been the case.
I see people simping for Gavin Newsom and I get to thinking "is this really the best we can do? Establishment Democrats who would rather take plays out of the MAGA playbook instead of actually giving the American people what they want?". Newsom seems to think that the reason people are fed up is because of pronouns... not the fact that we can barely afford to fucking feed our kids.
The DNC seems to think that being "not Trump" is a viable campaign. Being not an evil, racist, pedophile is a bar so ass-fuckingly low the goddamn devil himself could trip over it.
Let me make it perfectly clear, the Democratic party HATES you just as much as the Republicans, they'll just add a #blm and a pride flag emoji at the end of the "fuck you".
The DNC is being funded by the same mega corporations that fund the Republican party. Any detraction from that is seen as an enemy.
You want a current example? The DNC backed ANDREW FUCKING CUOMO over Zohran Mamdani. These fuckers would rather back a sex pest like Cuomo before a grass roots populist like Mamdani who actually wants to enact socio-political change. Hell, they even used AI to run smeer campaigns against Mamdani, like the one of him freeing criminals, and Cuomo's big ad was him basically bullying homeless people. These rich fucks don't care about you or me.
People are fucking tired, and I'm tired of the people who thought Kamala Harris was all of a sudden gonna make our lives better. Shit may have not been as bad, at least not for those in the US, I doubt the Palestinians give a shit if the bombs heading their way were funded by a woman president. All a Harris victory would have done is kick the fascist can down the road a little bit, eventually we're gonna run out of road and the can keeps getting bigger.
The DNC isn't going to save us, they are going to keep playing the same Tom and Jerry politics they have for decades.
Do I miss Obama? Yeah, I miss a president who didn't shit himself in the oval office and actually spoke eloquently. But let's not forget this guy was still carpet bombing foreign countries with drone strikes to the point Trump saw it as a fucking high score to beat.
The antidote to fascism is not status-quo centrism and politicians backed by billionaires. It's the people rallying against the machine that has done so much to distract them from the problem with their culture war bullshit.
Wake the fuck up, Samurai.
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2026-03-06 08:56:00
This isn't a fully-formed thought yet, so bear with me. But I think abandoning the Spotify or Apple Music algorithm-curated playlists for background music and going back to full albums might be a good way to combat AI music.
As I listen to algorithm-curated playlists in the background while working or doing chores, I find myself wondering more and more whether any AI music has snuck its way in, and whether I'd be able to pick it out from a sea of random songs. Listening to a large assortment of random songs is similar to eating ground beef sourced from a large assortment of random cows: your chances of getting something nasty like salmonella are higher.
A couple weeks ago, I had the opposite experience: I heard a song I liked from a band I'd never heard of before. I clicked on the song which took me to the album. I listened to the whole album and loved it. So I checked out the band a little more, looking at their discography, looking them up on Wikipedia, going through their band website and looking at their tour dates. I was just curious about this new band I fell in love with, but later I realized that I also inadvertently vetted them as real, human artists. I never would've done that if I had just "liked" that one song. It took me diving into a full album to do that.
I think because after listening to an album, I'm much more invested and curious about an artist. They produced a whole body of work that I enjoyed, so it's worth learning more about them. I like learning about the human behind the art, listening to them do a podcast or watching them on Hot Ones. If I like someone's work, I tend to look them up. But liking someone's work and "liking" someone's work are different things. In other words, intrinsically enjoying someone's work and clicking the "like" button are different things. One is a more engaged connection to the art, whereas the other is a passive action.
So what does this mean for me? I'm not sure yet. For now, Spotify-curated playlists are still a good way of discovering new artists I likely never would've learned about otherwise. But if I'm not in discovery mode, I feel less and less comfortable putting on an algorithm-curated playlist in the background when I'm not paying attention to it because I'm more vulnerable to be duped into listening to AI music, which I wholeheartedly disagree with and do not want to support through streams. So for background music, I want an album from an artist I've vetted, or a playlist that I or someone I know and trust has curated.
I've always loved and supported the album, ever since I was a kid in the cd era. I think of the album as a book and each song as a chapter. I feel WAY more connected to an artist and the journey or story they're taking me on when I listen to an album, in the order the artist intended, in full. It's only been in the age of streaming where I've grown overly-accustomed to fragmented songs via the playlist. But I feel less connected to art and the human behind it when that's all I listen to, and it's easier for AI garbage to sneak it's way in and rack up streams.
Long live the album!
2026-03-06 04:25:00
Click-baitey title. But at this point in the game it feels like a legitimate question. Money is tight, the stock market is down, “leaders” don’t have to play by any rules, the USA doesn’t stand for anything anymore, and gas prices are back on the rise.
Cool. All our hard work, saving, paying into a social security system that absolutely will not pay you back what you deserve, taxes going to anything and everything so long as it doesn’t actually benefit us.
Does anything matter anymore? YES
My wife and children matter. My friends and family matter. Decent people just trying to get by matter. And we should never stop fighting for what matters.
2026-03-06 00:55:00
March 5, 5:55 AM
55 years lived.
Last 5: 5/5
Next 5: excited.
Life summary in 5 words:
Grateful, happy, and still curious.
2026-03-06 00:05:32
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