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Adverts and adware as we see them now would have been considered 'spyware' 15/20 years ago. It's worth re-watching the IT Crowd scenes where someone's got ads all over their computer and they don't see the problem with it but it's obvious to the protagonists / viewer it's malware. And then through that lens have a look at a normal person's computer or smartphone in 2020. It's very disturbing

Additionally it's another feedback loop: Wealth makes people physically attractive. Posture, retinol creams, tailored clothes, and a good hair cut can do a lot to transform someone's life.

I've been using this the last while and it's shocking. Can't help but think a lot of the trackers would have been considered spyware 15 years or so ago.

Here in the UK we had supervisor/management positions trying it on for 0 hour contracts and minimum wage for months, although they seem to have gotten the message now they're having to literally shut their doors because they can't get staff. Worst one I saw was night manager of a massive central hotel for minimum wage. I wonder if it's that people have wisened up to the "take on extra responsibilities for no pay because it will look good on your CV" bullshit.

Bearing in mind it's only really the last generation or so in the UK who have gotten used to not expecting things like double pay for a night shift, workers expecting to be paid about £10p/h for a bar shift finishing at 4am still isn't a bad deal at all

A really interesting article but in this instance I'm not convinced it's the app that's the problem. Dehumanisation has been around forever and fluctuates depending on wider societal factors.

Are you able to expand this a bit? It is difficult to follow the logic

I mean yeah but the point is to not get infected in the first place right?

I definitely wouldn't consider myself a power user but I'm noping out once the Windows 10 machine I'm on reaches the end of it's life

Debenhams near me had their staff on min wage 0 hour contracts, which on top of being morally dubious meant they weren't able to afford to buy anything from Debenhams and clearly no one had invested in their training so they didn't know or care about anything on sale there. It was pretty indistinguishable from Primark apart from the general style of clothes (not quality), and that was before Primark opened what looks suspiciously like a department store in Birmingham

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Worrying, nonetheless I am suspicious of why this message is being pushed again just as subreddits have banded together to speak out against anti-vax propaganda.

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you only have to prove ownership not purchase for insurance

Sometimes you get a weak moment that you didn't plan for. I think a lot of us are/will be experiencing this sort of thing post-pandemic; you quit x y or z in lockdown environment but can you keep it up once life gets more chaotic again?

To use a very clunky metaphor I suppose it's like the difference between gun crime and knife crime.

Yeah it's like, social media has you thinking there are literally only two or three overarching positions you can hold but in real life things are more nuanced. I know a lot of EU immigrants and anti-fascists who voted for Brexit, racists who voted remain, sex workers who are against the current de-stigmitization of sex work, trade/student union types who are toxic in the workplace, trans people who don't like jk rowling but idenitfy with her because they have also been alienated from the online trans community, effective activists who will refuse to use their social media platform to share activist messages, former kids of the care system who as adults are very wary of people who say they want to adopt or foster, and so on. Social media has everyone thinking x therefore y (and therefore z) when it just is not the case. I can tell when someone is Very Online because they assume I hold a series of political positions based on very surface level observations about me, or vice versa, they assume because I hold a political position on something, I don't know about or haven't experienced something else (even though they also haven't)

well it looks like the perp's accademic area was criminology so maybe we could ask him

It's like, managers don't realise a sizable amount of us are just looking for the least shit working conditions. They do the simple sums of how much they'll immediately save by essentially asset stripping the office and not the more complicated calculation of what's lost long term when people leave because of the stressful working conditions

What is it about non-prestigious rural colleges? They all have this attitude problem. My first read of your comment I thought you were talking about the one I live near but I'm not that naive

I'm not but almost did for a while. It wasn't that the return was the issue, more like a catalyst - I prefer office working (my commute is a 5 - 15 minute walk) but one of my work colleagues is an absolute predator and a few are vocal anti-vax. It's difficult to deal with face to face. We were always flexi/remote work if we wanted but the anti-vax lot have been campaigning against that too. The underlying cultural issues aren't going to change so I'm going to hold off and quit in 12 months so I can get my personal life together

Yeah I started spending loads of time at home where I have control over my environment and found I didn't have to contantly turn to media for escapism any more. And because I'm not oversaturated with content any more I'm able to rengage with things like fiction books and naff movies that I wouldn't have had the patience for in the sea of outrage I was stuck in before 2020. In turn this has stopped me being burnt out by sheer interaction/pseudointeraction and I'm able to do outdoor activities without my headphones on and risk bumping into people I know who might want a chat.

It's made me a lot pickier though, we all talk about the high prices of cinema, but where I live they're not very pleasant environments and why would I expose myself to that any more? I think perhaps because the pace of life has slowed down durring lockdown people's decision making can keep up a bit better and this is reflected in higher standards as we choose what to reengage with

Currently:

1. I can't handle one of my work colleagues who is an awful awful man and instead of powering through it like I used to I've become borderline phobic of going into the office at all ever. Also because everyone else is working from home if I do go in I'm there with him on my own.

2. I can handle my work/home boundaries and when to switch off at the end of the day but other people can't or choose not to and they end up acting inappropriately, for example by messaging me work queries through personal social media at 11pm or using a work query as a trojan horse to start a more casual conversation I otherwise wouldn't have with them. This was always simmering in the background but there is definitely a new layer of entitlement since March 2020.

3. Increase in pressure to do things like work drinks

4. More difficult to get ahold of other people who are also working from home

Previously:

4. I worked from home a few years ago and had issues with people thinking that meant I wasn't working at all and they could schedule things for me or with me, or otherwise easily attention seek. This was a good catalyst for me to spot that these people saboutaged me across all areas of my life and I got rid of them and things are so much more peaceful now. What I am left with now is the people in my life like this that i can't so easily shake - tradesmen for my landlord dicking me about and my alcoholic neighbour.

Hey mate yeah I don't wanna go too specific but in addition to what the other commenter said, caffiene can be a massive problem for people with certain neurology problems. This is because of the sort of things the other commenter was saying but also because it's a stimulant, it messes with a lot of other chemicals in your body, interacts with things like stress and sleep and stuff. Think migraines, seizures, strokes stuff like that. As far as I can tell with things like this (I am not very sure though) it won't 'cause' a problem, but it can trigger an underlying issue.

I was drinking the equivalant of 4 shots of expresso a day on average, would always have a strict cut off of 2pm and then switch to drinking shit loads of tea. I see lots of people who drink an insane amount of coffee and I mean it's not great but for most people not a big existental threat to worry about.

goddam. Out of the multitude of reasons to get off Facebook, the one that actually did it for me was that I couldn't handle the messaging app but there's no way to disable it. No end to work group chats, messages from creepy colleagues and estranged relatives, your mates who basically liveblog into your message inbox every time they've got a drama going on and so on. Took me a long time to spot it but once I did it was like pandoras box had been opened and I couldn't handle it any more

RONALD WEASLEY,

Caffiene. I used to be one of these people whose personalities were all about how much coffee they drank and then suddenly I discovered my life was at risk if I didn't urgently cut it out and bam. That was that. Had success cutting out other habits echoing a lot of the other commenters (eg arguing, overdelivering, accepting advice from people who don't know what they're talking about) and I've cut out other habits/addictions cold turkey eg drugs but the caffiene one was the one that felt the most ruthless

Listen mate. I had a tinder profile for a bit too. I would have looked like one of those well rounded people but my life was a mess. I learnt it was the same for most other people with tinder profiles.

When I finished school aged 16 (UK) there were kids who went and got well paying jobs at the local factories. The rest of us who stayed in education were well jealous of them - they were living life like proper adults with all the freedom and a good lifestyle, while we felt a bit trapped and stuck. As we got older we were scraping by on bar and care jobs to pay for rooms in a shared house to study etc while those kids who left aged 16 were getting a mortgage on a nice house and thinking about getting married and starting a family.

Except years later having pushed myself through education and up the career ladder as much as I could tolerate before taking the decision to plateau in a job for a bit, my lifestyle is a lot better than what I'd been jealous of, but those kids who had those jobs aged 16 are still doing the same job and looking a bit trapped.

This isn't a story about how to live your life or what the best career is. All of the paths me and my schoolmates took were valid. What I am trying to say that progress through life isn't linear, and we all end up going through these cycles of change-stagnation-change-stagnation at different rates to everyone around us.

Such a stupid move even from a pure business point of view. People who can fork out $3k for a treadmill (as well as have the space and time to use it) are people who are in a good position to defend themselves from this sort of bullshit

If I recall correctly it's only the last decade things haven't been fragemented in the way the article describes - ie I remember there being a UK Google seperate from a .com Google. That actually seemed to perform better as a search engine because you still have access to international stuff but optimised for a UK searcher rather than what we have at the moment where it is fragmented down to a billion pieces each optimised for one individual but simultaneously completely missing our context and therefore don't seem to work very well as a search engine

Undervaluing myself and not having my personal life in check. Spent a lot of time juggling what was essentially dead end volunteer work with trying to sort out whatever drama my ex had constructed that week.

Not quite what you're asking, so sorry about that, but it's my answer to the general question