Betwixed and between
Religion is still a thing, what you’re describing is nature based religions.
Perhaps in a few decades those currently deluded will be seen by mental heath specialists rather than their “minister”. I mean Tucker said he was attacked by demons :)
Don’t be a cunt.
Works IRL as well
To answer your question… Do you close the door when you take a shit ?
What makes a “good life” for you?
Helping other people. Anything else is just self indulgent (not saying that makes you bad, we all do that, albeit shitty people to a greater degree then others) Took me until i was about 45 to realise this, am now 60.
Onlyfans, crypto shilling, bad YT content eg just listen to music and “react” or open boxes and be surprised
Don’t be a cunt!
Why is that crazy?
What about working in a soul destroying job fi 50 years, isn’t that “crazy”?
Mama we’re all crazy now!
The jobs thing i don’t understand, its the distribution of productivity gains that’s the issue, why we keep voting for the same politicians ensuring it goes to the wealthy is the real mystery.
Adulation of for profit big tech assholes is near ubitious.
Press x for doubt
Roads
Elect her as Governor I say.
I honestly didn’t know what they were thinking with that commercial. Why would you proudly advertise that you’ve built a massive surveillance network
Presumably because most end users are in deep with the “if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about” crowd … and besides it can find a lost dog /s.
They brought these sorts of intrusive cameras in the first place so privacy was not top of mind, or even in 2nd or 3rd place.
Yes, people meed to litter constantly to provide jobs for people employed to collect it.
Most emplpyment is provoded by small business, they are not billionaires but their business can be destroyed by them.
Some of what you mentiond is just bread 'n circuses to keep you deliberately distracted from what’s important
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority
and much of the rest is just infantilization
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
Living with purpose and helping others provides meaning.
Be mindful that it’s a tool, use it to benefit youself
I jave been onlone from the dialup and BBS days of the 1980’s when it was the reserve of nerds, it’s accelerated the enshitifcation process in the last 20 years and commercialisation via advertising is why, it’s the only reason Googke, Facebook etal exist
Why would you follow a user ? Isn’t that more Mastodons forte?
I think it has to do with a recent decision by OO to default save all files in MS format vs an open format ? I saw some post about it on Mastodon. I use LO