I got rid of Amazon a long while ago. There’s a small pamphlet out there “Against Amazon: Six Reasons Why,” or something like that. Yet I see Amazon trucks everywhere, and Amazon Mega Warehouses on the sides of Highways. And Bezos owns CIA Mighty Wurlitzer Washington Post.
The Dunning Kruger effect in action. Retail customers are their own worst enemies and empower Amazon to destroy retail competition and take over, in the long term, as the dominant player, thereby taking greater and greater control of retail pricing and margins.
"As U2 said at the peak of their everything, "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG". Show me a person who wants to admit they haven't got a fucking clue.
"La la la la la la - click like - click like - click like - buy from amazon - what happened to C&A - buy from amazon - click like - pump my thoughts into FaceSpam - why is Meta building a virutal prison with everything I like in it - click like - post my kids arses on the internet - where's my kid gone - click like - click like - click like.
"Bezos: "I just want to thank every Amazon employee and customer. YOU ALL PAID FOR THIS!".
99%: "I paid for what?".
Bezos: "My joy rides to space on a big phallus!".
99%: "Who's the guy speaking, in the cowboy hat? This is boring. I need to buy all the Christmas presents, lucky I got Prime.".
"Inflation forces people into the arms of big business, who force down margins in their supply chain, making their own margin bigger (giving them pricing power over their smaller competition) while rigging the overall perception of market price, which is going up on average anyway as a baked in function and goal of our monetary system that the 99% don't understand. This is totally counterintuitive to the benefit of the 99%. They are willingly destroying competition in all consumer markets through their own short-term selfish buying behaviour, but that isn't in their interests to do that. But no one wants to pay a pound more today for real competitive forces, and they are too myopic to realise that they will be paying £2 to Amazon tomorrow, and God knows what else in a years' time. Amazon just has to look, momentarily, like a better short-term deal relative to the competition at the moment you click “Buy Now”. It’s the same with airline tickets. Meanwhile, the Queen heads off into space for zero productive reason on her free ticket that we all paid for.
"What is Bezos achieving with Blue Origin? Why did William Shatner ride to places humans have already been to, at 90 years old? Amazon looks like it is about retail but it's not. It's about network. The retail network. The web services network. The Amazon total surveillance network. It is now the network on which the US state and others are actually built. It's underneath the government, therefore it is the government and/or it owns government. Government is hostage to Amazon’s (and others’) technology platform(s). Blue Origin, like Space X, is the privatisation of space via wealth transfer from tax payers to those companies. William Shatner's ride is bad theatre to amuse the little people and distract from the idea that not only did the dollars they spend with Amazon fund that ride, but also the taxes they pay do too, despite the fact that none of them will ever get on that ride."
After destroying independent bookstores in Flushing, Forest Hills and Bayside Queens, Barnes and Noble shut down their three stores in these areas. One of my former students and her partners started an independent bookstore in Kew Gardens/Forest Hills. Kew and Willow Books.
Digital content has a lot going for it, until it all stops working or becomes a nightmare to catalgoue and manage at the personal/family level. Then you lose loads of stuff through data failure or platform issues or you just forget what's where. Then, suddenly, that shelf of books and media that you own can't be just disappeared and suspended.
Spotify subscriptions only make sense if you constantly listen to new music. If you don't, paying the price of an album a month to listen to your own back catalogue plus some new music has a price inflection point that comes sooner than you think.
Tucker Carlson, in his Heritage Foundation speech, explicitly said, "buy books". VST agrees. This will come full circle and possession of hard information will, as it always has, remain a mark of the wealth of a person and a reflection of their mind and, to a degree, their soul. The proles will not grasp this and thus remain in place. Ever was it thus.
C.S. Lewis wrote somewhere that one should read ten or twenty old books for every new book. There is a chronological bias for contemporary people. Presentism. The Permanent Present. That is, for those who bother to read.
That article about Tucker Carlson, specifically the graph of whose who of freedom of speech is absolute trash. Fb. Really. Up there as number one. Smh. And to think this platform wasn't riddled with left-wing morons. 🙄🙄🙄
You appear to have totally misunderstood this article.
1. The graph is not a "who's who" of freedom of speech and it is not presented as such, at all. It is a list of the largest social media platforms by user base estimate, from Statista. That was shown to set into context Tucker Carlson's claim that "there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter."
2. By referencing that Facebook is number one on the above list you undermine your own claim that VST presented the table as a "who's who" of freedom of speech platforms.
3. Please feel free to specify why, apart from the presentation of a graph for reasons explicitly stated in the article but clearly missed by you, this article is trash.
4. If you are accusing VST of being left-wing morons, I would request you to lay out, with explicit reference to any of its myriad articles, evidence that backs your assertion, be that the "left-wing" or "moron" part. Regarding "moron", stupidity is something that often needs to be demonstrated, hence the saying, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt" (Abraham Lincoln) where, in the modern age, "speak" can sometimes be synoymous with "post a comment".
Since its launch in Nov 2021, VST has published 210 original articles and pieces of fiction. That collection, which covers some contemporary political events, does not pursue or front a specific political ideology or dominant left/right bias. What it does provide is a rich seam for any critic who has taken the time to read any of it beyond this latest (and one of its shortest) piece(s). Furthermore, VST is one of few outlets that is conducting back tests of its own material and sometimes others' in order to hold itself to account in the face of its readership. Weirdly, time currently bears out VST's output and view of the anticipated future, be that: the nature of UK politics (specifically the identification of Liz Truss' incompetence and prediction of rapid sacking); the corrupt orchestration of Conservative and Labour as false opponents (Starmer being a completely interchangeable Trilateral/globalist shill and Johnson being a sociopathic liar); scrutiny of Ritter and MacGregor as self-appointed military analysts and the wider view of the Ukraine war; the questioning of gender identity agendas and their mirror of totalitarian (left or right) efforts to control society through language and thought; the highlighting of what VST coins "Digital Maoism" which is the adoption of Maoist (hard left) techniques to control society in the same way via less visible means.
The sum total of VST's output doesn't lend itself to being easily pidgeonholed one way or the other. This would be obvious to those who have read much of its back catalogue.
I got rid of Amazon a long while ago. There’s a small pamphlet out there “Against Amazon: Six Reasons Why,” or something like that. Yet I see Amazon trucks everywhere, and Amazon Mega Warehouses on the sides of Highways. And Bezos owns CIA Mighty Wurlitzer Washington Post.
The Dunning Kruger effect in action. Retail customers are their own worst enemies and empower Amazon to destroy retail competition and take over, in the long term, as the dominant player, thereby taking greater and greater control of retail pricing and margins.
People are dumber than they want to admit.
I prefer mom and pop independent stores. They are in the neighborhood and know their customers personally. Thanks.
VST wrote back in Nov 2021:
"As U2 said at the peak of their everything, "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG". Show me a person who wants to admit they haven't got a fucking clue.
"La la la la la la - click like - click like - click like - buy from amazon - what happened to C&A - buy from amazon - click like - pump my thoughts into FaceSpam - why is Meta building a virutal prison with everything I like in it - click like - post my kids arses on the internet - where's my kid gone - click like - click like - click like.
"Bezos: "I just want to thank every Amazon employee and customer. YOU ALL PAID FOR THIS!".
99%: "I paid for what?".
Bezos: "My joy rides to space on a big phallus!".
99%: "Who's the guy speaking, in the cowboy hat? This is boring. I need to buy all the Christmas presents, lucky I got Prime.".
"Inflation forces people into the arms of big business, who force down margins in their supply chain, making their own margin bigger (giving them pricing power over their smaller competition) while rigging the overall perception of market price, which is going up on average anyway as a baked in function and goal of our monetary system that the 99% don't understand. This is totally counterintuitive to the benefit of the 99%. They are willingly destroying competition in all consumer markets through their own short-term selfish buying behaviour, but that isn't in their interests to do that. But no one wants to pay a pound more today for real competitive forces, and they are too myopic to realise that they will be paying £2 to Amazon tomorrow, and God knows what else in a years' time. Amazon just has to look, momentarily, like a better short-term deal relative to the competition at the moment you click “Buy Now”. It’s the same with airline tickets. Meanwhile, the Queen heads off into space for zero productive reason on her free ticket that we all paid for.
"What is Bezos achieving with Blue Origin? Why did William Shatner ride to places humans have already been to, at 90 years old? Amazon looks like it is about retail but it's not. It's about network. The retail network. The web services network. The Amazon total surveillance network. It is now the network on which the US state and others are actually built. It's underneath the government, therefore it is the government and/or it owns government. Government is hostage to Amazon’s (and others’) technology platform(s). Blue Origin, like Space X, is the privatisation of space via wealth transfer from tax payers to those companies. William Shatner's ride is bad theatre to amuse the little people and distract from the idea that not only did the dollars they spend with Amazon fund that ride, but also the taxes they pay do too, despite the fact that none of them will ever get on that ride."
https://veryslowthinking.substack.com/p/home-alone-malone
After destroying independent bookstores in Flushing, Forest Hills and Bayside Queens, Barnes and Noble shut down their three stores in these areas. One of my former students and her partners started an independent bookstore in Kew Gardens/Forest Hills. Kew and Willow Books.
It's a funny cycle and loop.
Digital content has a lot going for it, until it all stops working or becomes a nightmare to catalgoue and manage at the personal/family level. Then you lose loads of stuff through data failure or platform issues or you just forget what's where. Then, suddenly, that shelf of books and media that you own can't be just disappeared and suspended.
Spotify subscriptions only make sense if you constantly listen to new music. If you don't, paying the price of an album a month to listen to your own back catalogue plus some new music has a price inflection point that comes sooner than you think.
Tucker Carlson, in his Heritage Foundation speech, explicitly said, "buy books". VST agrees. This will come full circle and possession of hard information will, as it always has, remain a mark of the wealth of a person and a reflection of their mind and, to a degree, their soul. The proles will not grasp this and thus remain in place. Ever was it thus.
C.S. Lewis wrote somewhere that one should read ten or twenty old books for every new book. There is a chronological bias for contemporary people. Presentism. The Permanent Present. That is, for those who bother to read.
That article about Tucker Carlson, specifically the graph of whose who of freedom of speech is absolute trash. Fb. Really. Up there as number one. Smh. And to think this platform wasn't riddled with left-wing morons. 🙄🙄🙄
You appear to have totally misunderstood this article.
1. The graph is not a "who's who" of freedom of speech and it is not presented as such, at all. It is a list of the largest social media platforms by user base estimate, from Statista. That was shown to set into context Tucker Carlson's claim that "there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter."
2. By referencing that Facebook is number one on the above list you undermine your own claim that VST presented the table as a "who's who" of freedom of speech platforms.
3. Please feel free to specify why, apart from the presentation of a graph for reasons explicitly stated in the article but clearly missed by you, this article is trash.
4. If you are accusing VST of being left-wing morons, I would request you to lay out, with explicit reference to any of its myriad articles, evidence that backs your assertion, be that the "left-wing" or "moron" part. Regarding "moron", stupidity is something that often needs to be demonstrated, hence the saying, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt" (Abraham Lincoln) where, in the modern age, "speak" can sometimes be synoymous with "post a comment".
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moron
Since its launch in Nov 2021, VST has published 210 original articles and pieces of fiction. That collection, which covers some contemporary political events, does not pursue or front a specific political ideology or dominant left/right bias. What it does provide is a rich seam for any critic who has taken the time to read any of it beyond this latest (and one of its shortest) piece(s). Furthermore, VST is one of few outlets that is conducting back tests of its own material and sometimes others' in order to hold itself to account in the face of its readership. Weirdly, time currently bears out VST's output and view of the anticipated future, be that: the nature of UK politics (specifically the identification of Liz Truss' incompetence and prediction of rapid sacking); the corrupt orchestration of Conservative and Labour as false opponents (Starmer being a completely interchangeable Trilateral/globalist shill and Johnson being a sociopathic liar); scrutiny of Ritter and MacGregor as self-appointed military analysts and the wider view of the Ukraine war; the questioning of gender identity agendas and their mirror of totalitarian (left or right) efforts to control society through language and thought; the highlighting of what VST coins "Digital Maoism" which is the adoption of Maoist (hard left) techniques to control society in the same way via less visible means.
The sum total of VST's output doesn't lend itself to being easily pidgeonholed one way or the other. This would be obvious to those who have read much of its back catalogue.
EXCITING-FREE SPEACH IS THE ONLY THING THAT TRUELY ROCKS THE WORLD.