I’m sure it’s a repost, but i always love to see it lol

Indeed, some people

You were sold a bill of goods owl!

Wow!!!

While we’re at it don’t get me started on people who have these giant bookshelves, practically floor to ceiling, then when you go to visit it’s all the woke books, subverting fiction motifs, and really dense theory that shows they really take kindness and truth seeking seriously - it’s like, I get it you’re smarter and more empathetic than me. But it’s not like you have to throw it in my face. I can see their big beautiful bookshelf from the sidewalk for fuck’s sake.

(Goes back to struggling through “Bifo”)

Not a fan fat shaming that gets bundled in with that but basically. It’s the vice of greed, plain and simple.

Like imagine rolling up to a potluck and just buying the table, leaving naught but a bag of chips for the rest of the party. Even if you can afford it, it’s still a crime against your fellows.

I don’t think I’ll even ever leave my continent at this point, but I do have a driveway…

True, but if left unchecked, capitalists seeking shorter-term (extractive) profits will outcompete and bury their more far-sighted counterparts. That is unless there is an incentive structure exterior to purely commercial interests.

Not saying you weren’t considering this caveat, but more for completeness.

It’s enough to make you want to go into the recycling tanks.

Gross

Here’s a little sample https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/99258/why-do-corporate-mergers-require-the-approval-of-foreign-governments

Right?? The time stretching ahead of you like a vast unexplored country…

Yeah like it’s only a problem when I’m expected to cover the duties of the two friends who got laid off, on top of my own job description.

I wouldn’t need drugs to “lock in” if I wasn’t continually being squeezed for more more more focus more productivity more time more fucking unwavering attention.

It’s not normal! It’s this stupid grind culture that makes me disabled. When the workload is evenly shared I don’t need drugs.

There was a very limited glimmer of that at a couple points in its history. I mean it’s not alone in the world there, but clearly it’s something all peoples yearn for.

My standard response is I would like to know more

Same.

I was like oh it makes sense that there would be different types of protein. Here I go into the comments to increase the fidelity of my mental model! rofl guess not

Yeah one of the Moody blues someone posted with the girls playing jump rope made it click

EDIT oops I meant “comic.” I got distracted by the Moody Blues playing on the radio.

Same thing with open concept offices. To extraverts it feels more productive and collaborative, but it’s actually the oppo to anyone engaged in any kind of focus work.

That’s great. It’s like you were temporarily a worker’s co-op.

I remember my company at the time also admitted that COVID was threatening the bottom line and many in the all hands and public chats suggested just what your company did.

Instead we got multiple rounds of gutting layoffs mid-pandemic, a mass exodus of core talent, and the founders selling out to some B tier silicon valley fucks who fly in every now and then to complain about morale.

I only had a 360 back in the day, and I feel like I got in and out at the absolute peak. So many great couch coop with roommates memories.