These AI companies are playing a huge game of musical chairs. When the music stops, most of them are going to left standing around with their dicks in their hand and wondering where all the money went. It'd be funny if it didn't also mean the economy crashing for the rest of us.

I cut out almost everything last year. No streaming, I use Tubi for free. Cut Spotify, using Radio Garden to listen to music for free. Deleted my Amazon account, including Kindle Unlimited. I read a lot so that one was harder to ditch, but now use the library for free. Cut out almost all spending except for groceries, but no junk food, alcohol (I miss beer 😞 but $12 for a six-pack is too much) or soda. I miss that stuff but I'm old enough I grew up without online subscriptions and I can live without all that. No unneeded driving, I save my errands up and do them all in one go. It kinda sucks, not going to lie. But I can't afford to live and still let myself get nickle-and-dimed to death.

Decades from now, after their parents pass, kids will be sorting through the parents stuff and find one of these or some other trump crap. They will react the same way my generation did when sorting through our parents stuff and finding nazi shit. "Oh God I hope they weren't really into this shit!" My dad had a medal of some sort with a swastika on it. It was probably something his father collected in the war. It went into the garbage where it belonged. Garbage dumps of the future will be filled with trump shit.

I made a Lemmy account three or so years ago and promptly went back to Reddit and forgot about it. But it's time to leave it behind. It's just going to keep getting worse. I tried the new Digg and didn't like it. So I came back to Lemmy and I'm going to use this for awhile and see how I like it. The only other social media I use is Bluesky so between the two I can stay reasonably informed and horrified over world events. At the very least I won't have to see another r / c o n s e r v a t i v e post ever again.

I've read that we're supposed to get a super El Niño this year. Summer is going to really hot and dry this year. We might see something like the wild fires in Austrailia 2019-2020.