TBF, there was a time when Photoshop was a collegiate course around the world. Now? All but the most niche aspects are automated, and any human user of software offering personal agency in its UX is part of the actual product: mapping humanity’s stats.

Canva has a “style” as much as the Marketing Dept has a soul among them. This is the result of countless hours of testing and refinement: not a masterpiece, but it sells like a MFer. Just wait until “AI” gets a real piece of the action.

As directors, etc., but sure.

Yes, this is known.

Going about it that way is like brute forcing a password. There are myriad other solutions, and necessity is the mother of invention.

“Bread & circuses” is an ancient protocol, and hasn’t been absent from any government policy since the invention of bread, beer, etc. #TheMoreYouKnow

“Momentarily embarrassed millionaires” is the target market, yep.

Warhol, Kaufman, et al’d like a word.

Leave the country while you still can? 🤓🤘🏽

I could not agree more (gotta switch; it’s getting late, heh), and I felt the same about pre-10s Barcelona, but that ship has long since sailed. Still, my travels changed my life in so many ways, and I can’t wait to get back to it! Have fun, fellow human, and here’s hoping for a better, more compassionate world for all of us in this world’s future! 🤗

Thanks for the practice, btw! 🥳🤘🏽

If you find yourself in the Frankfurt area sometime, drop me a line and I’ll be happy to link you up with some really awesome friends of mine out there.

Das ist echt geil! 🤘🏽 Meine Erkundung der EU war spontan und Frankfurt hatte den gunstigen (cheapest?) Flugpreis, aber es war die beste Überraschung, als ich ankam. Was für eine unglaubliche Stadt! Die Leute sind besser! 🤩

Naturlich. Frankfurter Stil, IIRC? Kommen Sie von dort?

(Entschuldigung, mein Kind Heßisch. Ich habe es seit '05 nicht mehr oft benutzt und es ist super kaputt.)

You prep the apples for Heßisch hooch, oder?

YFW they’re spy phones, all the way down.

People tend to be afraid of the unknown — generally agreed to be symptomatic of the awareness of one’s own mortality (some, less consciously than others). And, as the saying goes, “necessity is the mother of invention”. Our prehistoric forebears came up with their own reasons why otherwise inexplicable things happened, and how — the real lucky shamans landed a “when” here and there, no doubt…

But, where that galvanizing (and often innocuous) superstition gained straight up viral status was with the invention of gods. That’s religion. That “inescapable” caste system for your “soul”. Completely fabricated for the sole ^heh purpose of population control in every capacity.

Now, what is your so-called “soul” if not made of your self-worth? Fast forward ~297,400 years to when a system of value placeholders is created (currency), and then a mere 1,300 years more for it to beget commercialism (not evolve; spawn). Then, driven by advertising, materialism, and greed, commerce rapidly gives rise to consumerism, et al. as we live it today.

These two parasitic institutions of our modern age are rooted in the same concepts, the same drive for control.

YouTube is in the system as much as we all are, and just like church: you can choose to be neither prey or product.

You choose.

Zoom out; Youtube is not consumerism, and religion predates currency by a long shot. Fear is its original seed.

All of this, and more, is quite simply defined in easy to follow steps on a site or two.

Are you asking genuinely or just listing off questions? Do you have 30mins to sit down and focus on setting up ALL of the above? Personally, I think you owe it to yourself and your family to at least try. 🖖🏽

Because that’s part of the consumer model. See: religion.

I pay for YouTube premium because I like the idea

Yup. Pretty much. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Yo HO!