> looking for a new capacitor
> ask the mouser website if their caps are SMD or wet
> it doesn't understand
> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is SMD and what is wet
> it laughs and says "it's a good capacitor sir"
> buy a capacitor
> its wet
it's kinda fucked up that there's no good way to get one (1) of a passive electronic component anymore. like I can't show up to my local electronics store and get one 150uF cap, which is what I need, instead I need to get it from a website which will dispatch a delivery to me for one (1) capacitor which is incredibly wasteful
the cool thing about capitalism, the thing that absolutely rocks, is that there isn't a single place in the entire country, if not the world, where it's possible to warehouse things that someone might need, but not very often
i used to work at a place that did literally this. we were the only store where you could buy An Capacitor. most of our customers did not do that, they were there for replacement AC adapters and panel switches that had broken and other very normal, reactive-type needs, but half our store was components and the people who benefited from them were incredibly grateful
in order to stay open we had to make over a thousand dollars a day in sales, and that was for a tiny shop in the ass end of a suburb of a nothing town.
it is not possible to own a little building that sits closed until someone needs something. it simply costs too fucking much, unless you're located in a place that makes it not worth the trip (what's the difference between UPS driving 40 miles to deliver a single capacitor versus doing it yourself?)
landlords would rather have worthless, decrepit buildings sit empty for ten years than let someone use them for only what they actually need instead of inventing a "business." every function of every structure in the entire world has to be "make profit" and i want everyone who likes this shot.
i want everyone who likes this shot. the people who think this is good, that having to make everything a business is somehow an incentive or whatever the fuck. i want them all fucking dead, immediately, no ceremony, just shot into space and forgotten forever. an error in the human condition.
i have less beef with people who can't see a way around it in the reasonably foreseeable future. i get it, shit sucks, the world sucks, reality sucks, but liking it is stockholm syndrome at best and "buddying up to gul dukat to get favors" at worst, and mostly it's the latter. if you think profit is necessary i pity you just as much as the rest of us, but if you think it's great i hope you die slowly and in great pain. john s. hall take em out
i feel like this is really the distinction that we don't spend enough time making, you know? do I get excited when my adsense revenue on youtube goes up? absolutely, because this is the shithole reality I live in. but i don't think it's good that adsense exists. i don't even want youtube to exist. i wish i could post my videos on a forum and just delete them when i realize i made an error and replace them with something more accurate. but because of the way society forces us to allocate our time only to things that meet our Productivity and Convenience and Return On Investment quotas, i'm forced to play this fucking game if i want anyone to appreciate what I do, and i detest every second of it.
every artist is happy when more people see their work, when they become a bigger name, more recognizable, perhaps even overshadowing other peers. but are they proud of it? are they thrilled that they're playing the game? most of the time, i'd say no. i don't think many of the artists i know are like "fuck yeah! yeah, i got the larger market share! i stepped on someone else's throat! i'm winning and they're losing!" who the fuck is like that? what normal person doesn't wish that their peers could have exactly the same slice of the pie as they get, no matter how big that is?
yet there are people who are like this. there are people who think it's really rad and awesome that they can Partner with Progressive Auto Insurance on youtube, and that this is an innovative and exciting opportunity. that's cop shit, that's turncoat shit. selling out is when you don't just like the payoff, but that you sold out. it's when you're happy that this is all a fucking game because you're "winning" it, and it's those people who make life hell.
I'm not convinced that we can have communism within my lifetime, maybe not ever, I don't know. we might be condemned as a species to forcing each other to prove our worth with every breath, but we absolutely do not need to love it, to enjoy spending our lives snarling and snapping at each others throats as we fight over scraps.
