I feel like it should be tacked on as a bell curve to older generations too lol. My grandmother and my parents are absolutely hopelessly addicted to Facebook reels, scrolling them nonstop throughout the day, just connecting those ads and wild algorithm messaging with those little dopamine hits.
I remember spending hours tinkering with Linux in my bedroom as a kid and being yelled at for being antisocial and not spending enough time off the computer.
How the turns have tabled
Lol either that or “Climate Change Resistant Juniper by Monsanto” becomes a thing and makes its way into crazy expensive gin only the super wealthy can afford and they unironically mix it with ice from melting glaciers
Love that small government energy
What in the name of my dental health
I mean, walking by and seeing
How could you not?
Which one was that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_smartphones
Which carrier?
The freedom of Android means that there are tens of thousands of variations of devices / os versions / carriers all with different states of being close or far to vanilla and being more or less locked down. There’s a reason Graphene only officially supports Pixels.
Palantir has more data on more people in the world likely than any other corporation, and Peter Thiel is trying to wield it to collapse global democracy, so yes
I would say that psychologically it’s the addiction of power. We toe the line where “competition” creates the dopamine release of “being better than others.”
Yet for some that means it’s never enough. Richest person in the world? Need to take over government. Most powerful world leader? Need to assert myself even more.
I think the great filter often boils down to unnecessary competition. In the short term it leads to technological strides, but in the long term it becomes a species self-harm, and perhaps broader. A good theoretical example is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth’s_Past
Every species that exists within that series is so focused on ensuring they have the most power that they will go out of their way to annihilate any other species due to the assumption that’s what all of them will do is seek more power. Ironically considering the scientific and technological capabilities of the involved parties, they may have been able to work together towards a better outcome than “anyone who isn’t me is my enemy” which is basically universal fascism.
lol a non-significant percentage of them probably believe the moon landing was faked as part of lib deep state effort by Hillary Clinton and she was emailing about it
(Yes, I understand the impossibility of this, they do not.)
Yeah and even better that most of them basically ignored him at the end of the parade. None of them want to be a dictator’s servant
Maybe that should be the new wiki image for
Which is part of why he’s butthurt it had eras of military technology instead of the classic dictatorship parade of “we moved all of our functional armor here so the oppressed citizens are more fearful about who is oppressing them”
I would go to the CDC to check but that’s been deleted. We’ve solved it by removing the webpage
https://www.cdc.gov/tick-borne-encephalitis/index.html
I’m kidding, but it certainly seems to be a thing that people should be aware of.
That being said I think the scary thing about Lyme disease is the symptoms aren’t crazy strong at the beginning, and easy to misattribute if you miss the tick. But if you don’t treat it early it can really fuck you up.
I got bit by a tick years ago when I was 16, right above my belt buckle. Had a generalized rash, and my doctor said it was because of an allergic reaction to my belt buckle and prescribed me steroid cream. Basically had to demand a Lyme test just in case and tested positive.
But did you think about the shareholders
Nah, had to go find it
Both what I was thinking of and a commercial I’ve never seen captured that vibe
EDIT
I found the video you’re talking about lol
While that’s definitely the vibe I was thinking of, I’ve never seen it, but seeing 1992 Gary Busey move through the backseat of the car is excellent
I’m referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0OZziLsTSg
The original was posted on YT a long time ago but I can’t find it
I hate youtube shorts so here’s a catbox link:
I remember a video of someone just getting in the car’s backseat, scooting over, and then getting out the other door. If the doors are unlocked I feel like that’s the best option. Really fuck with their sense of personal space considering they think all the space around them is their personal space regardless of the rules.
Pretty sure they were throwing “assassinated” in the headlines very early on there where this is just a “shooting” even though Tim Walz has already declared it a politically motivated assassination.
Tribalism exists in every circle, perhaps moreso in tech circles. Ironically anyone who hates on a distro could just switch, or build their own distro if they were so inclined, but it’s often the hating that people participate more in than using their system. Use what works for you, and if it no longer works for you use something else.
Lol are you telling me that the people that I’ve worked with directly in small 5-10 person discord servers that we set up when I worked with them, are in fact investor imposters, and instead the actual coworkers are secretly using separate slack setups? Or do you just imagine that anecdotally however your coworkers have communicated is how all people communicate without exception?