apparently Patchwerks, Seattle's synthesizer store, is running a Gofundme because they're struggling to stay open. i realize there are greater priorities in the world, but also it fucking sucks that the only stores that can exist, anywhere, are chain sludge that only stocks shit you can find on amazon.
patchwerks is a service for the middle to upper classes whose function is primarily to sell fantastically expensive luxury toys to programmers. they are not an important pillar of the local community. but they are a physical place you can go into for free and touch tools for creativity, tools that otherwise exist as nothing more than an ADD TO CART button on a website, beneath a string of profanity like "€600." it's wild that we even have a place like this; i doubt there are more than five similar places in this whole fucking country, serving it's more than three hundred million residents.
they probably won't be able to recover a quarter million dollars on a gofundme, and probably we should take care of the people who are losing their houses first. but i would also be happy to not see yet another building here go vacant and sit empty for the remainder of my time here, solely because in our nightmare shitworld the ghouls who own everything would prefer every single building sit fucking vacant for literal decades rather than allow anything interesting to ever fucking exist outside of a jpeg on a webpage that you can turn into a real thing only if your credit score is high enough
