Life

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

If we need someone to do a job, that job is a role in the community and deserves not just a salary but cultural respect for the role.

"high" ambition jobs are all jobs that involve domineering and controlling others. "low" ambition jobs are all jobs that involve service to others. Have you noticed? Because I have noticed.

is actually more needed

than controlling them.

What's the point of having a yacht when you already own a house, I asked? It's just another house on water. So I looked up what was so special about this man's yacht. I'm sure he has good reasons to kill people for it.

I didn't quite get why a man would need a cinema on a boat, to be honest. I'd watch the sea or go diving, if I were him. Golfing also seemed an unusual activity to have on a boat. Maybe dolphins were catching the balls for him. And couldn’t he use a public cinema or watch movies at home on the couch or in bed like a rest of us? That was weird.

I took note of the olympic-sized swimming pool he was building, but thought it'd be weird to force athletes to go on a boat to swim in a pool.

Surely the swimming pool wasn't for him. He was 77 years old. What Olympic Game was he going for exactly?

The helipad seemed a bit wasteful as well, a yacht can move to the shore, can't it? Then I read that the city of Napoli, Italy, had refused its port to the yacht because it was too tall. So his solution, apparently, was not to stop his nonsense but to add an helipad.

It reminded me of another beautiful yacht story, the one where Jeff Bezos, the billionaire who owns Amazon, tried to build an even bigger yacht which, in the end, couldn't even leave the port because of a bridge it was too tall to pass.

Bezos suggested dismantling the bridge. As one does. But the stupid peasants disagreed and the bridge remained.

Is it a penis thing? The size obsession? I asked myself as I sipped through my recycled paper straw. Arnault's yacht was already the size of a football field. And it had a big penis shaped thingy at the very top.

So anyway, I looked up how much his lifestyle was costing the world. Was I exaggerating by saying that this guy, and all men like him, were killing people?

I was not, in fact, exaggerating.

Another fun fact reported in an article was that, during one trip on the Mediterranean sea, his yacht’s carbone footprint was the equivalent of 150 years of one french person’s life.

I like those numbers. It really puts things in perspective for peasants like me who think littering is the epitome of evil.

In one little trip, just on the sea bordering his own country, he had more of an impact on the world than a human’s entire life of driving a car, using electricity and water, getting deliveries or wasting food and material, etc.

So, yes, billionaires are killing people.

With that cleared, I went back to my initial interrogation: why live on a yacht when you have a house?

I don't have a house. My dream is to own a little house. I would be set for life if that was to happen.

So I wondered, what's the point of owning multiple villas when you already have one house? Then I asked myself, what's the point of buying several mansions or a ski resort when you're an old man who already have several houses? It's not like you need the room for your kids at that point.

Then I was puzzled: what kind of man buys an island? Sounded familiar, somehow.

That seemed like a lot for one man. And my electric bike would have a hard time competing with that, in this ecological race we seem to find ourselves into.

But I also thought, you know, with that much land I'd make a refuge for animals, a women's shelter, a facility for the disabled or something ecological. He clearly wasn't, so I wasn't sure what he was doing.

Something productive I'm sure.

However, at 77, he clearly wasn't working any longer, so how productive could he be really? He wasn't renting entire planes to go to the office everyday. But the money seemed to be coming in regardless. He was the only man on the top 10 richest men list who was not from the USA.

I thought well, maybe his work is beneficial to the world at least. What's he making? What's his big invention? After all, his business was destroying our national parks and burning animals alive for a reason, right? I was sure his employees were being paid a fortune as well, clearly he could afford it. But what was he selling?

He was selling overpriced clothes, make up, perfumes and watches, apparently. Clearly useful stuff that needed to exist for the world to function.

He'd also bought several news media, an interesting trend among billionaires you'll notice. It doesn't make much money, so I'm sure they do it out of a life long passion for journalism and educating people with facts and valuable informations.

And so, for this useless man selling useless things to buy useless things, money was piling up. And yet, he wanted more, scheming and hiding to pay as little taxes as possible.

Meanwhile, our government says they're sending emergency air conditioning units to hospitals as we speak, so they're on top of things, nothing to worry about. Of course, air conditioning is not sustainable, it accelerates global warming and relies on electricity which relies on nuclear plants which rely on cold water and there's no cold water anymore because of global warming so the nuclear plants stop working and so does electricity and therefore no air conditioning.

Oops, they hadn't thought of that. Who could blame them? They only had 20 years to prepare.

Also they think we should work more hours, stop complaining about heat strokes and recycle our garbage or something.

The one thing they’re certain they can't do, however, is tax the rich more. Not because they're friends with them, no, haha. But because if they do, then the rich will leave France (we'll miss them so very much) and invest in other countries. They might even buy islands in the bahamas and store their money offshore. Oh wait.

I was confused by one thing: those billionaires have children. Don't they care about the world they leave for them? And then I thought about that science fiction scenario I made up as a kid. I loved writing stories. Turns out it's a famous trope: the world goes to shit and the rich remain unaffected. They go on a spaceship and leave this burning planet, they hide in futuristic fortresses, they create bubbles of peace and plants (and air conditioning I'm sure), while the rest of us kill each others for water. It's getting more and more believable now.

A local news outlet just published an article: top 10 French cities to move to to survive the next heat waves.

I'm ending this post with a cool picture of somewhere in France where Bernard Arnault certainly doesn't live. Not as cool as owning an entire hotel, I'm sure, but pretty impressive. 200000 of his compatriotes had to be evacuated because he's having a pissing contest on an ugly boat.

for example: i'm bi. when i was dating, i knew many gay and straight people who did not want to date bi people. that boundary is fine and i respect it. it has happened before they told me they don't want to date bisexuals because we're promiscuous and unfaithful. is that gross and offensive? sure. i don't respect that belief one bit. but i respect the boundary and never tried to force anything.

whether a woman aborts a disabled fetus because she personally can't care for a disabled child, or if she disgustingly sees disabled people as inferior, that has no bearing on whether on the morality of the abortion itself.

whether a woman chooses not to date/sleep with people from any marginalized race, belief system, gender, class, physical or mental ability, etc., it can be due to "acceptable" reasons of past experiences or incompatibility, or due to "unacceptable" bigotry (extremely loaded arguments of acceptibility btw), again, it doesn't matter for that choice itself.

From a young age, you are told not to hang out with boys and “they only want one thing” and you hear stories in the news of women being kidnapped, assaulted or murdered by men. Or that if you go out, don’t be surprised if your drink is spiked and to take measures to prevent this etc etc. Fathers especially hate the idea of their daughters being around men because they fear for their safety. There is this general idea that is taught to you as a woman, specifically as a young woman (16-24) that there are men out to get you and you need to be very cautious.

But if you say that you’re scared of men, you are immediately met with statements like “don’t say that” “not every man is bad” “you shouldn’t generalise” “well then how do you expect to find a boyfriend?” “what about your dad or brother?” “that’s a little dramatic, don’t you think?”

When men meme about protecting Latino men, they meme about protecting their buddies, the guys. They meme about them being equal, being human

And I don’t want it to have the weird twists and timeline things of the original show, I just want a regular ass show looking at the very cool concept they created and then quickly threw away for robot wars

I want to see when they go from those very clearly robot versions we see Robert talking with at one point to the later versions they create like Dolores, I want to see what the park was like with the regular robots and then how it changed when the newer models started filtering in and guests suddenly were faced with a completely different experience

I want to see people go from easily shooting the very fake robots to suddenly having to do the same things with ones that seem totally human and how at first it probably put most people off and seemed like a terrible idea they got close to scrapping until the freaks heard about it and suddenly the park was full of people who want to harmlessly live out violent fantasies and how the workers would probably have mixed feelings about the people they’re suddenly attracting

I want to see them taking the new robots out of the park for marketing campaigns and the problems they ran into, I want to see them building all of the other parks and visiting them, I want to see the first hints of problems from the new hosts

As someone who worked at Disney World, I know very well how behind the scenes can be falling apart while guests have no idea, and I want to see that explored in Westworld, I want to see everything the staff has to do to keep the secret of things falling apart from the guests and I want to see how they got to the point of having all of the extreme protocols and precautions they do