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Aha yes, in America it's often referred to as "Keeping up with the Joneses"

I'm curious about your phrasing, however. In your view, is a middle class approach to life a life that simply conforms to the predictions of mimetic theory without awareness, or a life informed by its understanding and application?

It is 64 degrees outside and cloudy. The young man energy is raw and overpowering! Air quality 24 with very little wind. Good day for a bike ride or a spell of right inaction.

One of the most interesting things you can ask in a store with high-end clothing is "Which of your items are most likely to last a hundred years?" There's a special joy that arises between you and the shopkeeper as the veil of bullshit disappears and they tell you up front that 95% of the clothes they sell are disposable name-brand garbage made overseas, but THIS item, typically made of denim, or wool, or leather, has been made in the same place in the same way for a century, and they see customers come in wearing their 50-year old article regularly.

Of course it's much easier to buy this year's model of something hyped & shiny without thinking and then post on a site like this to prop up your ego and mislead everybody else. I'd venture to say that if something hasn't been in production for the length of a lifetime, there's no justification in labeling it as "Buy it for life"

Have you encountered mimetic theory? It's worth a read if you haven't yet. To boil it down: we measure ourselves by the people around us, and the more homogenous the peer group, the greater the pressure on each individual. We're all busy copying each other without consciously realizing it, but simultaneously we are mortally afraid of anybody thinking we are copying them. Here's a random overview: https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/

Please don't hate yourself. Do you think the lie-flat seats bring joy? Do you know the plane's destination? In this example, I'd rather be the guy who skipped the airport and went fishing. If anything, you have a head start on understanding this. The others may feel as you do when they're 30, 40, 50 or older, and feel tremendous heartache for wasted time. There is a ceiling everybody reaches in competition, and the billionaires want you to exhaust yourself finding it while working for them. Don't be afraid to question everything. You're young, and your 20s are more or less designed for brain development and tough lessons. But if you use this time to take a step back, your life could become heaven. I'm glad you reached out.

I think by NPC the parent meant a total lack of agency/mobility, perhaps comparable to feudal serfdom. Sure, you have a means of sustaining yourself, but if any job you can take or business you can create all involve a kickback to a monopolistic tech company, then your existence tends to serve their interests more than yours.

And today people cringe if the movie they're streaming isn't in 4k. Times change!

I'll be impressed when people start lining up to burn their passports in protest of war crimes committed by their countries.

But this is free and easy.

That's a good question for pet owners who come on high-handed about animal rights: "So if your pet is a person, why does it need an owner?"

Reminds me of this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI7oX0XxJw

Remember, this footage was created using silent-era film equipment over a hundred years ago. Much of the footage used in the film is borderline unwatchable without the post-processing used: hand-crank cameras meant wildly variable framerate, volatile & unstable early film stock on the frontlines of a war exposed to smoke, dust, heat, cold and gas attacks, over/under-exposed footage caught in the heat of the moment, the list goes on. What I'm saying is, you'd probably complain a lot more if you saw the original footage, or you'd skip most of it as unwatchable in its original form.

Finally, there's an education factor at play. Young people deserve the best possible chance they can get to engage with their history, especially when it offers such a tremendously impactful lesson. And like it or not, I think 90% of people are going to be more engaged, not less, by well-curated, well-produced and respectful recreations of the past. Jackson recorded the SFX using original historical weapons, and colored uniforms using historical examples.

I own an old guitar primer book that includes one of these flexi-discs, with the edges clearly cut with scissors a long time ago. Still haven't tried it yet, but maybe I'll pop it in tonight.

Boss told them to "Make it look like Apple but don't get us sued" and everybody got paid.

Viewing the page on the Lynx browser renders the copy as trippy post-modern newspeak poetry:

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Just when the world needed more solipsism, distraction, anxiety, surveillance, and mindless entertainment...

Thank you. One way I look at it is, imagine working for somebody who pays you in political campaign donations to causes of your choice, then takes the rest of the money you've made for them and doubles that contribution for the other side. It's really a no-win situation for the worker.

Yes, but have fun organizing anything meaningful when executives and large funds own enough shares to overrule any fraction of workers out of hand.

If employees want to influence a company's political stance, then they've already lost, because employees are not shareholders. It's not their call to make.

They would have a leg to stand on if they were part of a worker's cooperative, because then they'd be owners. The juicy job market for tech workers may obscure this fundamental fact, but when the rubber hits the road any overpaid engineer is still considered hired help and forever "below the salt". Until workers build up a co-op sector to compete with private sector companies, they will never have a say, no matter how much they kick and scream.

So either sit your ass down and sell your soul like you already said you would, or get out there and start building. Not just for yourself, but for all of us. Because we will never have true democracy as long as most of the wealth the people generate gets sliced and diced at board meetings without even the veneer of representation.

How does one fund such a terribly designed study in the first place? I too, have got a few bridges to sell...

Garbage in, garbage out. The iron law of nutrition has been conclusively proven to apply to nutritional science itself.

My jaw dropped when I read `ad libitum`. The single biggest impact that restricting the number of meals had for me was to decrease my appetite and increase my resilience to a baseline level of hunger. Telling chronically overweight/obese people to eat as much as they want during this kind of a trial subverts a golden opportunity to accustom the body to actually eating less food.

So is it safe to assume that Apple will book 100% of the first production runs for this new process as well?

Paying the bills by being part of the problem is a personal decision

I'm only just learning Rust so I don't know much about Rust development, but what are the chances that any of the suggestions listed at the end make it into the language?

How about banning advertisements altogether?

This is an awesome site! But the scrollbar behavior is a disaster. There are four scrollbars, and none of them allows me to navigate the main content.

Well, seeing as it was attached to a keychain...

What kind of sunscreen are you using right now, by the way? Sounds like it could potentially be dangerous to go outside.

Standard desk lamps wouldn't work for Boktai, but a UV light always maxed out the meter. Kids are way less likely to have one of those lying around.

I would hesitate before calling these conditions "lifelong maladies present from birth". It's much more accurate to call them predispositions that may or may not manifest. And even so, the degree of manifestation may depend on the degree of trauma, addiction, or other challenges the person happens to face in life. This variation is what makes me doubt any clean division into adaptive/maladaptive cases. Not everyone so predisposed is triggered into these mental reactions through their life experiences, and not everyone who is so diagnosed is a lost cause, and furthermore, those who can manage their conditions may take offence at being called "malfunctioning" when they did in fact "adapt".

A lot of this information is available in the compliant that was filed by the FBI against Sullivan: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7041237/Joseph-Su...

In particular, part of Sullivan's cover-up efforts included passing the breach off as a $100,000 bug (their largest at the time) in the bounty program and trying to sign secret NDAs with the hackers. He also paid them a bitcoin ransom.

> Witnesses reported SULLIVAN was visibly shaken by the events.

It's a good read.