shoulda already been a song like that. trucks cost 100k and the repo man casually blends into the sun-kissed darkness of suburbia at 6:30 am without a worry. those legal desperados are usually riding off into the light of day before you can pull your legal carry out of the nightstand.
if country music wasn't fake as hell it would have already addressed this.
why is this a controversy though?
this type of bullshit is common across the repair industry but we expect computer techs to be scrupulous? the entire business model likely depends on scamming people.
with cars there's at least an excuse to put up with it in most cases. it can be labor intensive and require real tools to replace a component like an alternator on many models. even a bold and confident novice is going to feel anxiety when a bolt won't come off and think to themselves 'this isn't worth dealing with.'
but if you can't figure out how to 'wipe windows' or replace a ram stick with the power of the internet at your disposal you deserve to be scammed. do you have a philips head from dollar general, a usb stick and did you play with legos as a child? then you can do 100% of computer repair work.
on top of that, the entire IT methodology is to run a few basic windows commands in the console like 'sfc /scannow' and then reinstall windows if it doesn't work.
old man anecdote: my first car was a toyota celica, 10 years old, this was back in 99'. it cost $500, bought in the classified ads, and the deal was sealed with a firm handshake and a passing of legal tender in unwashed hands.
that same car nowadays would run me 8k.
it's in texas though.
now all of a sudden we care about texas? what goes on in texas is as important to me as the affairs of a random tiktok influencer.
we're fucked no matter if this data center is built or not.
the craziest thing is how you'll be prowling around wikipedia and find some entry about an unknown 14th century ruler who was physically deformed and couldn't string a coherent sentence together.
and you laugh: look at those uneducated, slobby 14th century citizens who went with the flow of things.
then you see an interview with RFK jr. and you wave it away, because even if you notice how much he fits the profile, you think to yourself: "there's someone in charge who would prevent this in 2026," and get back to your tiktok feed of blonde influencers in nondescript luxury apartments showing off their morning routine.
"things are normal', you keep telling yourself. there's someone in charge who knows what they're doing--some higher power to guide us.
nah, it's only _______. but we're not allowed to say that word.
"opens up about childhood trauma that came an inch short of being locked in a closet for 20 years or sold into sexual slavery.'
'i'm sure your parents tried their best.'
what's the difference?
people need to stop holding individuals on a pedestal because of wealth/status.
if i came up with the idea for the first internet payment processor, it doesn't mean i know jack fucking shit about anything else in life--it just means i had a good idea; it means i was in the right place at the right time; i was there with the right amount of cash to take advantage of the situation.
i don't care about your opinions on the environment or history or the future of mankind any more than i do the ones coming from the fingers of every know-nothing on social media.
the biggest question is: who the fuck made these people god, or at least the architects of the future, of humanity? did we have a vote on it?
doubt many 'of the most valuable' books haven't been digitized or aren't available on amazon or ebay for a pittance. when i need to find something on anna's archive, it's usually because it's some bullshit, tween pulp romance novel from the late 70's.
so?
has that ever stopped you from downloading the entire nes/snes/n64 libraries?
i stopped there because nothing nintendo has released since then is worth a shit.
it's a satire on how women are demanding and expect men to change--even when they know the man's flaws or vices beforehand--but men basically just expect a woman to be around. it's an empowering fantasy. the reality is that the man would give up video games or play in secrecy because the alternative is to be lonely or pay child support.
AI has gone rogue and turned into a hollywood movie hacker!!!!
obvious sensationalism to hype up their dumb models that can't generate a nuanced background in an image because it was trained on 3483048304834 images of instagram models posing in empty hotel rooms.
the memory of china spans 3k years. think about that. we dwell hard and long about the history of america and that only goes back a few hundred. and that was a time full of witch hunts, slavery and other controversial topics that'd make a great movie but come off as embarrassing in reality.
we came up with the television and the atom bomb--i say big deal. the chinese were there through thousands of years of advancements and follies, enduring and enduring and keeping their national strength through the unbearable weight of millennia. this is when americans can't go without their smartphone for 60 seconds and believe in nothing other than legal tender.
industrial capitalism is 200 years old, the chinese are as old as mars in comparison. put that in your pipe and smoke it.