Well…yes and no. I agree with the overall message you’re trying to convay, but will come back on the small details.

The rich feel that they should be entitled to the best healthcare, education, housing, ect. And I think they do. However I also think that’s true of the poor as well.

Not only should we all be deserving of the best life, we should also be increasing what that that means. Improving what the best is, and yhen THAT then becomes what we all get.

If a rich person gets cancer, or breaks their leg, or whatever. I feel like saying they DON’T deserve the best health care is obscene. Not because they’re rich, but because they’re human.

Same with education.

Housing it’s a bit more broad strokes, as “best” in this catagory is a little less defined. There’s a youtube video by ryan george where he looks at rich people houses, and mocks some of the homes features. Some of these houses have things for the sole purpose of wasting money. Like a 19 foot golden statue of a man throwing balls in the air, with a matching water fountain, so the water being sprayed up looks like it’s part of the force he’s throwing the balls.

That’s just money spent for the sake of spending money.

I forget who it was, but there was some movie star in the 90s. Maybe Jim Carry, but maybe someone else.

In any event, when they asked how he was able to get his star power noticed, and achieve the things he had in movies, he replied “I was stupid, I made mistakes, and I failed. Repeatedly failed. Everybody in this business has some stupid commercial, or failed play that they look back on relieved that those days are behind them. But the thing is, when your family is rich, and can support you failing, you aren’t afraid of failing. You learn from your failures. Your failures get you noticed, and that’s when you get oppertunities you haven’t earned. Just by being in the business, and having a safety net without fear of failing. There may be 1000 more people more talented than I am, but I’m MUCH dumber, and also not afraid to take the leap. Because if I fall short, it’s ok. I still live in a mansion, and have no way to actually be affected by my failures.”

I’m paraphrasing, but that’s essentially what was said. I remember being 11, and thinking “Wait, he’s saying that the only reason he’s sucsessful is because he was born into a situation where even if he fails, it’s not going to affect him? But that means those other actors who are more talented won’t even be seen, and we’re being deprived of better performances. Simply because if they fail, they’re homeless. So it’s smarter for them to take a factory job and be stable, than make a high risk gamble and likely be homeless.”

I can’t say for sure that’s the day I became cynical, but it’s definately a motivating factor. Essentially being taught from an early age “There’s in groups who can’t fail, and out groups who the system is stacked against. Fall into the wrong group just by being born, and you’re going to have a hard life, and that’s by design.”

You’re measuring Bluesky with a different measuring stick than they are.

You’re measuring it with the “This is decentralized, and therefore not connected to corporate interests, and never can be” stick.

These journalists WORK FOR the corporate interests you left twitter (or maybe never had an account) over. They are measuring the stick by “These current users are just MAGA users in a cult”.

As long as Bluesky doesn’t start shifting right wing MAGA, it IS different for their purposes. It’s just their purposes are not YOUR purposes, and therefore they can still say that it’s different, and not have that be a lie. Doesn’t mean it’ll satisfy you any.

I’d love if they made this a tv show, and shot it with “Kramer” still being a character. However, Micheal Richards is not part of the show.

They get a voice actor who can do a voice impression of Kramer, but there’s no actual human body. The 3 actors interact with air.

They rig the door to open as if he were opening it, and they all act like he’s there.

They could even do a scene where Kramer explains his physical absence.

K: “Oh, Jerry, it’s the newest thing! Yeah it’s called AI. You just replace your whole existence with an artifical intelligence! Isn’t that wild???”

J: “Yeah, for you that would be an upgrade having any intelligence at all!”

E: “Kramer, I don’t think that’s what AI is. I don’t know WHAT this is, but it’s not AI.”

G: “Yeah. Where’s your body?”

K: “Oh, I’m out there, baby!”

J: “You certainly are out there, that’s for sure!”

K: “Jerry, you gotta get in on this! It’s the wave of the future! I’m telling ya! By 2032 nobody is going to have a physical body!”

J: “Remember when you said I should invest in Enron?”

K: “Hey, that wasn’t my fault. They were making CRAZY money!”

J: “Yeah, it WAS crazy! Crazy illegal! And remember when you said Vine was the next big thing?”

K: “And it was!..for about 12 seconds.”

J: “How did you even DO this anyway???”

E: “Yeah, I’m confused what’s even happening here. We can’t see you, we can’t smell you, we can hear you somehow, but we can’t touch you.”

K: “Oh you can touch me alright!”

Elaine gives disgusted face

G: “Well hold on, maybe theres some merrit to this. Let me ask you this, Kramer. Could I use this to NOT be at my job, but my bosses think I am?”

J: “Oh, here we go…”

K: “Well I don’t see why not. They can’t see you. You pop your head in at the start of the day, they hear your voice, and pop in at the end of the end of the day, who’s to say what you were doing the rest of the day?”

J: “That’s so stupid!”

G: “No it’s GENIUS!!! I can get 8 different full time jobs, with 8 different pay checks, not do ANY of the work, and do about 30 minutes of effort a day! I’M BACK BABY!!!”

J: “There no way THIS plan could go wrong…”

door opens, nobody enters, Newmans voice

“Hello Jerry!”

J: “Oh, now Newman is doing it too???”

Newman walks in carrying an oversized postal package

N: “Doing what? I just brought this package you ordered. Sign here.”

J: “I thought you were invisable…Hello…Newman.”

N: “I was wondering where that was. Invisable? Why would I be invisable?”

K: “Because why WOULDN’T you want to be invisable???”

Newman screams and falls backwards over the couch

N: “Kramer??? You’re invisable???”

E: “Ugh, don’t ask. It’s a whole thing…”

N: “But how?”

K: “It’s called AI…”

E: “No it’s not…”

K: “Alright smartypants! Why don’t YOU tell us what it is then?”

E: “I don’t know. It all feels like a jump the shark moment, like Pickle Rick.”

J: “Pickle Rick? Oh, you mean that guy who had a deli on 8th street until he went crazy trying to forcefully sell people his own brand of pickles.”

E: “Yeah, that’s Pickle Rick. What else would I call him?”

Damn Buffalo! Why you so scary???

Ok…Pam I understand. If Pam ever said she hunted a man in the forest, killed him, and then ate his raw flesh, I’d believe it. That seems pretty much in character for her.

But Penny??? What secrets could she POSSIBLY have???

And now over to sports…

The Detroit Tigers got killed today in their game against the Cleveland Guardians.

Oh yeah? What happened?

I just told you. The Tigers were killed during the game. Gun violence in Detroit is a serious issue.

But we’re all glad he did.

Ok…so then doesn’t that take ALL power away from every mod?

Let’s say you ban Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.world

But then I could create Lost_My_Mind@Lemm.ee

And you could ban it. And I could create Lost_My_Mind@Shit.just.works (or however it’s formatted).

And then this cat and mouse could happen, all day every day. Just a series of me creating accounts, you blocking them, but it then becoming a full time job making sure I’m currently banned, and me evading the system.

Or am I missing something?

Ok, but answer me this! Without those ads, would you even know that George Washington crossed the delaware with delicious chunky cambells soup!

The fuck??? I like posts all the time, followed 8 people, and have a few posts…I have 3 followers.

Wait…so then what happens if he just jumps off the empire state building top floor with a mirror in his hand?

37 times???

First question - “When was your mother born???”

Me: - “I’m not asking my mom that!!! You think I’m going to ask her when she was born???”

Damn Judi. I mean yes, but I wasn’t expecting THAT face to suggest it…

That’s when they become “stabbing scissors”!

I guess some people on the bus are seasoning their…uhhhh…body, I guess. You can smell them from 20 feet away.

Hey, we heard you can’t afford a house, so we’re charging you fines in the amount of what it would have cost to buy a house…we’re so cool! We solved homelessness! Because now if you want to be homeless, it actually costs more to NOT buy a house. So you may as well just buy a house!

We did it guys! We ended the concept of homelessness! High five!

I wonder if that’s what my parents mean when they say they used to be into couples swapping.

Just a couple of floppies. Swapping around. Swinging those floppies. Just a couple of swingers. Swinging and swapping floppies…

…and then sleeping with each others wives.

That’s not a coincidence.