But At What CostTM ??
Meanwhile in the west… ‘Here’s why that’s a good thing’
Ah yes, what really matters in life: corporate profits
Did you think we existed for anything else?
Besides eating, pooping, and browsing lemmygrad? I guess not
I can understand death pretty fucking fine without dying myself thank you very much
Lol literal ora et labora moment (yeah i know it’s more memento mori, but this was the offset of the traditional shut up and work anyway)
Relevant fable on the concept of accepting mortality, or accepting anything bad as “just how it is”, really.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
A more direct rationale on not simply accepting mortality:
US News: we should “act on our values”
US Citizen: acts on values
US News: No, not like that.
The cost of those rations. Which were free.
Sucks when dates are cropped out of Twitter screenshots.
Edit: The first tweet seems recent enough but wasn’t sure of the second one. Ended up searching for it and it is from May 1, 2022. Here is the full thread: https://nitter.silkky.cloud/i/status/1520564666216468480
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