This feels like a Stanley Parable reference but it’s been a while…

Works with mazes and everything else. It’s the “good ol’ rock” of cardinality

Even then, only if the process is fun. Like collecting the thingamajigs (it’s been a while) in Crackdown. I remember just moving around in that game being fun

Wow there are so many factually incorrect statements here, not even counting the implied ones

How do you vote against cyber trucks though

Sure doesn’t.

They look like me after I think I’m going to sneeze but then it doesn’t happen for me

Lentil gang

Are you an anarchist?

Perfect example of what people mean when they talk about liberals versus progressives.

I think it is a net positive like you say, but also some people really think they know better, and also don’t like their impact of politics being reduced to that of their fellows.

Can you imagine what it’s like to actually be able to influence policy workout having to vote, or even to take part in collective action with other people?

It can’t be good for the soul, but it’s got to be habit forming.

As much as I dislike Disney as a company that does sound interesting… really actually brings up so many new possibilities to revisit the classics!

Indeed. But unlike the sea lions and concern trolls at least you don’t have to read 5 paragraphs before figuring out that you should’ve blocked this person before you wasted your 30 seconds.

Sometimes they make it easy on you

I always found it a comforting/uplifting thought. Like it proves humanity has taken some of the good forks in the path and so is capable of doing so now and in the future, too

The parts that are work are the job, but extracting rents for owning something is not work. I realise it’s not a clean break, but the idea is landlords usually get a lot more value than they put in.

Whereas most of us work jobs that take more value from our labour than they’d ever actually pay us for.

Thanks, that actually did give me a much needed boost. I hope you have a great weekend!

Only just finished the first entry, and this is still the case by the end of that book at least. The main character does have a kind of “raw power” that goes beyond what others have innately, which is a bit exceptional-ising.

It’s hard to pin down, but the tone is more community oriented, and less about this one Special.

This is it. The real product is hype, with a tiny tiny little kernel of actual utility, that is puffed up and remixed until the hype dies away, and we have to make do with whatever’s left.*

The hype machine with generative shit went into fuckin overdrive because while yes there is a grift component, natch; unlike with blockchain, nfts, web3, etc, there is an actual visible thing that the technology can do that hasn’t been done before.

People who are used to selling nothing but vapour lost their minds when they saw it, because rightfully so, they realised how much grift they were going to be able to make off of it.

* Usually this involves a bunch of platform engineers et al de-tooling codebases and infrastructure.

What do you mean by this? Do you mean like the people living in the so called Blue Zones?

Eat mostly plants, especially beans. And eat meat rarely, in small portions of 3 to 4 ounces. Blue Zoners eat portions this size just five times a month, on average.

Gosh I wonder where they got the idea to name this phenomenon