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Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

if y o u e v e r r e a ll y n e e d

Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”

vertical_horizon_everything_you_want.mp3

track id???

Lmao, I remember trying to do that dance and skinning my foot on a jagged floorboard

My friends’ parents were mad but in retrospect, sorta on them for having that janky floor

What if the malady is mere pain and inadequate well-being perception?

Covering edge cases in leetcode be like

Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices

Oh is that why the first android phone was so good? I had a developer edition of that and it slapped. Keyboard was amazing

This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out

Disengaged.

Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs

To be fair this does hit them first as they age

But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this

Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag

Different threat models. There’s the threat of being punished or fired by workplace surveillance;

Separately, there’s also the threat of some unknown third-party snooping on your data for whatever other reason (identify fraud, etc).

The post discusses the first and I’d argue that’s more compelling for most people, but the second is also valid.

Up next: companies continue 5-day workweeks anyway, because they’re not even rational in their mandates. (See also: forced RTO).

I’ve heard of a black person being turned away at a bar by bouncers in Austria (which has similar culture to Bavaria), which is anecdotal. Also anecdotally, when I was there myself in the less-urban parts of Bavaria, I didn’t see any non-white people.

It didn’t remind me much of rural USA or what you described it as (my recollection of that is a bit fainter and more dated than urban USA).

Edit: the person told me the bouncer said “we don’t serve your kind here.”

Excellent instance name

Yeah but shipping finna be 3-5 business months

There was the incident of Target or some store realizing someone was pregnant before they did themselves, which seems relevant here.