I don’t have an alternative. If i die I will stop existing. And despite all the pain I’m living through it’s all caused by the desire to live.

It’s sometimes superficially tempting but dying would not solve any of my problems. You can’t solve wrong choices in life by stopping to exist. It’s just logically contradictory.

Wow you’re lucky. I’ve always wanted a job like that.

And for a while I had something similar but unfortunately rotten. We had a ping pong table, afterwork parties, no overtime, lunch, even a swimming pool. And we could use all of it.

However we were seriously underpaid, I got an 80% raise just by saying hello in another company. No remote work without any reason at all (most of my team was in other countries). And awful decision making by upper management.

Made me cynical if something like it is even possible. Glad to hear it is.

CBD does … something. It makes me sleepy. So at least for some people it can serve as a sleep aid.

Not to me though I just tried it out of curiosity, I have no desire to be even more sleepy

How many times does the same mistake have to repeat? Communists didn’t invent revolutions you know. Peasant rebellions were a thing in medieval Europe, and many different kinds of uprisings were tried during the centuries. And there’s the same pattern repeating again and again - it either fails in bloodshed, or succeeds only for the winners to establish a new tyrannical system.

The only exception was started by rich landowners because they didn’t want to pay taxes to the king. (American)

Note that I’m talking about violent revolutions - there were quite a few examples of non-violent or semi-violent revolts/uprisings that didn’t end up catastrophically. India, South Africa, Portugal, post-communist Eastern Europe come to mind.

Revolutionaries thinking that only if they terrorize enough people a new better society will magically come into existence.

And of course they will be the new ruling class, never on the receiving end of the terror.

There should be another half with Hamas doing the same to a slightly different subset of the West. Both have tuned their propaganda to 110%, Hamas is even slightly more successful.

The only solution is a 0 state solution.

Not wanting to learn or not wanting to drive?

Knowing how to drive is a useful skill that can come in handy (vacations, emergency) even if you don’t do it regularly.

Refusing to drive daily - absolutely, for political, social and economic end ecological reasons. Everyone living in range of an acceptable public transport should refuse to drive. And those who are not should not stop pressuring and voting local politicians to implement one. It’s 2024, there’s no reason to depend on cars for everyday transportation.

Oh I feel this so much. There’s a range of jobs and environments where I do really really well. But the way most organizations are structured I can never find a place where my strengths are desirable in the long term.
And selling myself is not one of my strengths.

How many times does it need to be repeated
correlation ≠ causation

I just love that “x walks into a bar” is such a universal joke format. Even if we don’t know why it was funny.

A very human-centric perspective.
There’s the option that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, etc, but humans are completely irrelevant to his plan.

Unsurprisingly no human religion advocates for this perspective.

Bought - it’s been 15 years at least.
Got one for free and used it actively - last month. Tourist organizations in many cities still give away simple paper maps of city center with major sights (and some advertising).

There’s only so much content you can milk out of a single franchise. After a while it becomes tired and repetitive, or strays in bad direction. Very few franchises continue for so long for a reason.

Unless Ubisoft is trying to create Coronation Street equivalent of video games.

Stormtrooper misses wildly, the bolt bounces on a reflective surface and then hits a rope holding a piano suspended above the redshirt.

Not narcissistic

I mean it’s hard to be more narcissistic than this

Time to sell Nvidia stock. Congrats to Huang for pulling it off. Get out when you’re on top.

You can do it!
Embrace your inner potato. Feel the potato flow through you. You are one with the potato.

And each hand is another head with 8 more Nick headed hands.
Fractal Nicolascagepus

I have to agree. There are proportionally fewer representations of healthy “straight” relationships. Basically identifying as straight restricts you to a narrow spectrum of toxic or abusive relationships.

Most people who actually like eachother don’t put much emphasis on identifying as straight. They just like the person they are with.

I propose a new category: non-straight hetero. You are attracted to the opposite sex, but not in a straight way.

If you write apps integrating with MS Teams you still sometimes get exceptions mentioning Skype. I’m pretty sure they reused a decent part of the code