Like unless I’m on a fucking gaming computer or browsing a free-Internet site like Lemmy, every fucking website feels like the first time I tried to browse the Internet on my flip phone in sixth grade when it was slower than fucking molasses and everything was broken.
Like no, corpo assholes, you actually don’t need to know where I live so I can browse a local restaurant’s menu. Restaurant’s not even open, so you can’t sell me anything even if I wanted to buy! And you actually don’t need to serve me 69 bajillion gambling advertisements or whatever fucking awful slop their pushing on consumers these days so I can see the grainy picture of a menu that a customer uploaded.
And it’s not like I can even fucking buy a better device anymore because stupid fucking AI vaporware providers are buying up all the fucking computer parts. Like I wanted to upgrade my shit this year but I guess that’s not happening. And all this shit, all this destroying local ecosystems and ruining the power grid and making workers’ rights even more fucking precarious, all that bullshit, so we can… make shitty uninspired slop faster? Generate CSAM at rapid clip? Actively make the internet even more fucking unusable and make it even harder for real users to use small websites?
I just hate what the world, the mainstream internet in particular, has become (not that it was good when I was younger, the Internet always sucked but it wasn’t as efficient at sucking as it is now). I’m not a fucking Luddite but can we please just light these stupid fucking billionaires and their stupid fucking Epstein class government on fire already? 
Yes 😭
I mean I appreciate the gesture and I really wish I could afford to travel, and I’m sure there are parts of the world that are really nice, but I feel like what I’m yelling about applies to everyone since the big tech providers are
-based, and capitalism is global 🙃
Regarding affordability, I’ve been traveling for 15 years and I spend about $650 per month these days traveling full time, including rent, food, travel and entertainment. My budget used to be half that much.
You can speak English, so you can make $1600 to ~$10,000 a month teaching English, then work toward what you want to do with the extra time/money.
Capitalism may be global, but that doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to living in terrible circumstances. Many parts of the world are great, and most are much more comfortable and kind than the US.
I’ve been helping people live abroad for a long time, even a couple lemstituents recently. It’s totally okay if you’d rather not travel, I just like to make it known that the door to the world is wide open and I’m happy to answer questions.