One of the pillars of the capitalism these fucks claim to love so much is that if you can’t exist on a fair playing field against competitors you don’t get the right to keep existing.

People, generally speaking, have an absolutely infuriating tendency to adapt to good things. They eventually look for more. The best way to prevent this, from an employer’s perspective, is to break their spirit. Learned helplessness is one of the only ways to permanently keep a free person in a bad situation.

The problem is the workplaces don’t want that. if you’re happier and have more energy, it also makes you more uppity and harder to control. You might even find options for other work!

If it means keeping you tired and broken, that’s worth the cost of a little productivity.

The ACTUAL site is xviiihamster.com

They should be a little bit discerning about what they paywall. It won’t kill them make public interest stories of serious value free as a public service.

Thank you.

“Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there’s a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they’ve been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-”

“Paywall it.”

“On it, boss.”

Data hoard enough shit to get you through however many decades you have left and get off grid.

That’s literally the only solution that’s going to be left.

Who is that???

“It’s so fast… If I just concentrate on what the boss taught me about CQC… Counterbalance the knife… Quick slash… Retract…”

More like “the building is on fire but I’m worried about tripping over the loose carpet on the second floor landing.” Yes, it WOULD be a serious problem to worry about if everything else was fine. Right now, it is not the thing that’s most likely to kill you.

I’m very specifically not getting into this argument. Everything you just said is completely right.

All I’m saying is this particular argument about taste and flavors is the worst possible one to make because it’s demonstrably illogical.

Regardless of your take on the ethics of meat, this argument is nonsensical from either side.

Mixtures of things have different effects than their component parts.

It’s like saying if the hot chocolate just tastes like the cocoa powder, why don’t I just eat the cocoa powder?

Because the texture and nature of the water give it a property too.

One thing I’ll add is that no matter where you move, snooty people with their noses in the air will look down on the idea of the expat community from your country of origin, and while you should ABSOLUTELY not make them your main social connection or use them as a crutch to replace immersing yourself in your new country, there is a reason these communities form - they provide social support and connection while you slowly build up an entire new identity and social community.

It’s less like a U and more like a wave whose amplitude gets less and less every time until you stabilize in your new country (the peaks and valleys get smaller and smaller). It does also repeat if you go back to your home country (reverse culture shock), but the frequency is less and the total stabilization time is lower because for the most part, your brain is relearning cultural cues the connections already exist for, with an allowance for cultural drift depending on how long you’ve been away.

Let’s say the AI doomers are right.

This is still like, 7th or 8th in line of “currently dangerous existential threats to human civilization.”

There is ZERO sense in feeling threatened by autonomous rogue killbots when we’re going to have unaccountable, non-rogue ones supplementing the unaccountable, sentient HUMAN killbots we already have in just a few years, and even if THOSE don’t get you, the 50 degree temperatures will, since you can’t run your AC because the AI data centers have made your electric bill $500, and you can’t go to the pool because the clouds of ash from the uncontrolled wildfires have made the air unbreathable.

I mean, they suck for everyone - don’t get me wrong.

But being able to see them as an ego boost, or having the frustration be that you get low quality matches, as opposed to the punishing experience of “80% of the matches you get at all are catfishing bots” is very different.

It’s fascinating how different women’s experiences with these stupid things are than men’s…

I mean, at least you’re safe.

Your mind clone, however…

Apple is one of the shit pioneers, blazing a trail in new and unexplored avenues of shit, giving a horrific prophecy of the shit every other company will standardize in the following years.

It’s like getting an announcement of a new pandemic every year.

By the time we’re at that level, we can just stop pretending money is real.

It certainly won’t mean anything to an actual AI.