To be fair, that is exactly what I do some days after work because this shit is needlessly exhausting. I think I need like a year of sickly Victorian style bedrest because I have been so burned out for so long that I don't really have much of a sense of self at this point.
You know, the fucked up thing about it all is I was always told that the kind of delayed gratification that came from major accomplishments like a college degree, a steady career, a comfortable savings account, would all outweigh the fleeting pleasure of parties and stupid little trinkets and other such fun. I wish I had taken so much more time for myself because I burned out so hard achieving some of these things and failing to achieve others that I struggle deeply to imagine a future with me in it.
I hope whatever youth is left in the world spends their time having fun. I hope their lives are worth living now, and that mine will be someday too.
I'd like to point out that "do what you can" doesn't even necessarily mean trying to prevent or impede climate change directly. It can also mean building community and providing comfort and protection from the worst effects of climate change to the people you care about.
I mean, the major issue there is "toilet equipped with an automatic cleaning and recovery module." That is gonna be a huge expenditure for even one toilet in-home, and you're not always at home when nature calls.
I think it'd be more feasible for the health tracking device to embed itself in your stomach or intestines somewhere so that it just doesn't pass through, notwithstanding all the sanitation issues that arise from trying to implant something internally where all your food/waste passes through.
I'm 32 years old and at about a 5 on the Norwood scale and I started taking minoxidil and finasteride, and reaching out to Planned Parenthood to talk about getting on E, all because I saw pictures of people who were older and balder than me when they started transitioning and they're beautiful.
Like, okay - I don't think anyone's saying returning the cart to the corral automatically makes you a good person, it's just a green flag, right? Are you willing to do something that has no reward for compliance and no punishment for abandonment, simply because it's the thing you're expected to do in order to keep a system functioning?
If someone doesn't return the cart regularly, it seems more likely that they're inconsiderate. If they do, it seems more likely that they're decent. But it's one thing out of many that just happens to be publicly visible, so it becomes sort of a benchmark.
Slightly better than usual, work is going well since the merger, they're about to take some duties off my plate since I'm taking on more in other areas. Notwithstanding that the next four plus years are going to be fraught with political turmoil, I'm cautiously optimistic about my personal life.
"Creating and Bringing value" = Maximizing our ability to squeeze productivity from the chattel without them knowing how badly we're fucking them over.
I mean, I do want cheaper GenAI in the sense that I want people to see that it's dollar store crap that's not worth the electricity to run the servers to make it and give it up like they did the fucking Juicero and every other smart appliance a couple years ago. God forbid I hold my breath and people wise up and understand that these people are all grifters looking to tape a horn to a horse and sell their "unicorn" to FAANG or whatever the equivalent is these days, I can't be assed to rewrite the new poob acronym.
I mean pay is also important, but assuming a comfortable paycheck, the time off to use it is more important than dying the richest man in the graveyard.
I think the prevailing idea at the time was that you would become more conservative as you accumulated wealth and property, and while I can't confirm or deny that I would be more conservative if I were as wealthy as my parents were when they were my age, I can attest that the accumulation of wealth and property on which this notion is predicated has not happened for myself and my peers.
Is it any wonder, when told that we will own nothing and be happy by people who have never worked a day in their lives, that we want to burn it all down and piss on the ashes of those who oppress us?
You say that like it's a bad thing. We have more in common with the average Chinese citizen than we do with our government, our wealthy and our celebrities.
God yeah caving is such a bad idea unless it's already confirmed safe to be in. In addition to the well-publicized risk of getting stuck in a pocket with the blood pooling to your head, you've got collapses and cave-ins, wild animals, noxious gasses, lack of air circulation, there are so many reasons not to go into a cave you don't already know is safe.
To be honest, I'm surprised they still did after 2016.