Who would have thought that the big birthday party of the most powerful nation on earth would be reduced to something like this. They threw a good national birthday party back in 1976.
If tech ain't beneficial for all then fuck it. I can do most things with a pencil and cocktail napkin without destroying national ecologies and putting my jackboot on the throat of the forced users.
I like Carney but I was always secretly afraid that, as charismatic as he is, the best he can do is turn the money knobs of old. We need more, dare I say it, socialist policies to protect the land and the people, not to generate capital.
Live locally and try your best to ignore the constant flood of information/disinformation from that internet beast that has put a chokehold on the truth and exists to get hate-clicks for money. I find that helping others gives me a good feeling of belonging to something human and not just be bandied about by "tech bros" and their overlords, who have no values that compare to the rest of society.
Having a quick glance at something that attracts you is normal. Being sneaky about it is where the behaviour needs to be corrected, or, at least questioned. I think you'll be okay in the long run as you seem to posses self-awareness, which a lot of people have not cultivated in themselves. You are different in exactly the same way that everyone else is.
Who would have thought that the big birthday party of the most powerful nation on earth would be reduced to something like this. They threw a good national birthday party back in 1976.