A Boring Dystopia

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/24803290

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history, a new report says.

As of late March, at least 232 journalists have been killed in the Gaza genocide, with the vast majority being Palestinians, according to a new paper by the Costs of War project in Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Nearly 380 journalists have been wounded in the violence as of January, per the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

Imagine yourself standing in the midst of a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, where the very fabric of reality seems to have been torn apart. The air is thick with the acrid smell of smoke and ash, and the sky is a deep, foreboding grey.

As you look around, you see a landscape that is both hauntingly beautiful and utterly devastated. The ruins of buildings stretch out as far as the eye can see, their crumbling walls covered in a thick layer of dust and debris. The ground beneath your feet is dry and cracked, and the only sound is the soft, mournful whisper of the wind.

I was watching buffy and the eighth episode of the first season a demon is scanned into the computers. This is a funny time as its when people where online with dialup. All the same it had a quote I feel is apropos to the current period. Truns out that show had a bit of the simpsons precog ability:

Giles: Nonsense! I simply don't adhere to a, a knee-jerk assumption that because something is new, it's better.

Ms. Calendar: This isn't a fad, Rupert! We are creating a new society here.

Giles: A society in which human interaction is all but obsolete? In which people can be completely manipulated by technology, well, well... Thank you, I'll pass.

The children yearn for the fields

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27481481

Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.

so when having professional phone calls at work, its gotten to the point that asking 'how are you?' seems tone deaf. is it just me?