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You. Tonight.

That same problem still exists even when sorting by upvotes, because the earlier a comment is posted the more people will see and be able to vote on it, pushing it higher.

I don’t understand how streaming became so popular

Have you ever found yourself using someone else’s PC for some reason and they’ve got 20 browser toolbars, 3 anti-viruses and no ad blocker, and they’ve just been using computers that way forever, thinking it’s perfectly normal?

Yea, some people have extremely low standards.

I love a good Hawaiian hotbox!

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Hilariously, that style of game is also more popular than Tetris clones now.

I like how the Game Gear lost hard to the Game Boy, but now their design is the standard for handheld consoles.

Most other people who you interact with aren’t actually seeing you individually. Instead they are confronting images they’ve previously developed regarding one or two characteristics they noticed. Don’t take what they say too personally.

Edit: Be aware that you do the same thing.

Yes I absolutely would download a car

This campaign joins D.A.R.E. as one of the most ironically unsuccessful campaigns of all time.

I’m a pretty odd person.

There has never been a better time for explorers. People lament that there’s nothing ‘undiscovered’ anymore, but after studying STEM and digging into history I’ve learned that the fact we currently have access to everything those early explorers left behind for us gives us an unprecedented window into what our world actually is, and how it actually works, if only you can look at it with an earnest desire to learn.

Mark my words: Those who actually manage to rise above the din will grow to shine more brightly than anyone has for thousands of years. There is incredible opportunity in hope right now.

We’ve been doing opium for thousands of years and still deem it harmful enough to ban. Hell, it’s bad enough that it has actually been used as a weapon in the past to destabilize nations.

It’s absolutely worth an entire lifetime of exploration. But dismissing things you can’t explain away immediately with chemical processes, as some sort of unknowable sorcery, is exactly why I call it reductive. As far as I’m concerned, maintaining a reverence for the fact that you will never be capable of conclusively explaining such things, because there is vastly more detail involved than even a thousand lifetimes could ever uncover, is necessary if you want to actually begin to learn about what’s really happening.

Frankly, this kind of reductive deconstruction of human experience is a huge part of what’s going wrong with society. Music is created by people who dedicate themselves to exploring the world we experience, and discovering nuance which evokes feelings that can not be simply explained, betraying the existence of deeper layers of human experience than anything directly available to cold analysis.

Certainly there are then those who copy the form of works created by such artists, who actually do treat music that way, but the result is like the output of a LLM, and repetition of such a style is like training AI on it’s own data, progressively degrading what was once there.

I mean, before the Internet people spent a hell of a lot more time just hanging around with a small group of friends. You don’t need to buy expensive tools or reach a prospective audience to do anything like that. Boredom motivates people to find ways to entertain themselves, which has unfortunately been one of the largest casualties of online ‘life.’

I’m not attempting to defend the system as they’re trying to build it, but rather to seek understanding of why they take these actions without imagining them as hateful, soulless people.

You could get a hobby. Maybe try to actually make something interesting out of your life instead of just consuming entertainment?

They want people to actually be productive though, not just zombies.

Dude. Most people can’t understand it TOADY.

We’ve noticed.

When companies treat you as a criminal even when you do try to do everything their way, it really becomes hard to care.

The way many companies act, you’d think they believe that you have to be a sucker to buy/use their own products.

Saw a great idea recently:

Write down all your fears for what will happen over the next four years. Then, re-read your list every few months and check off everything which has actually happened.