But isn’t it easier if I just ignore the nuance of economics and just place all the blame for my unhappiness on corporate greed?

I think it’d also be interesting to see the total production cost of each Mario Kart, and a total sales/revenue generated by each game.

Wide implementation of this technique would certainly explain why anxious/nervous people would have fewer friends.

I know people are going to hate me for saying this, but based on your stated priorities recommend getting a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. As much as I love ricing Linux and playing games, I use my MacBook Air for 90% of all my computing and coding. MacOS provides the most polished user experience out of the box (although it’s going down hill with every update they push). And once MacOS hits the enshittification event horizon you can switch to Asahi.

I suggest at least going to an Apple Store and dicking around with a display model to get a feel for the UX.

Oops, already ate it. Sorry, didn’t know it was evidence.

I was in a thread the other week where someone said they hated “religion” but didn’t have a problem with “faith”. I think I’m starting to understand what they meant by that.

When people reduce their faith to religion it loses its power and leads people astray.

Barely passed your English classes as well I assume. /s

I’d say the biggest problem with AI is that it’s being treated as a tool to displace workers, but there is no system in place to make sure that that “value” (I’m not convinced commercial AI has done anything valuable) created by AI is redistributed to the workers that it has displaced.

I feel like I should read at least one book by Kafka. Any recommendations?

Let’s fuckin’ give it the best we got. Deal?

There’s nothing inherently wholesome or obscene about the cycle of death and rebirth. It simply is. 🧘

The fixation on “completing” things isn’t healthy imo. An attitude like that will rob you of the ability to find joy. I have to eat every day, sleep every night, and do laundry on a weekly basis. None of these things will ever be “done” for as long as I’m alive. Being “complete” is being dead.

Now everybody’s down at McDonalds, they’re down with Ronald McDonald, and now they’re hitting the bottle and everybody cool.

You’re correct.

Also, cars became pointless after they removed distributors.

If you trust that students are mature enough to read the Bible then you trust that they’re mature enough to read ANYTHING.

A “good” sense of humor is like a good sense of smell. In the same way a good sense of smell allows you to detect scents that others might not notice, a good sense of humor allows you to detect jokes that will make people laugh.

How do you develop a good sense of humor? Same as how you develop everything else: trial and error, practice, and feedback.

Ah, so that’s what they mean by “the road to hell is paved with good in tensions”

My cat saw me as the one who can open doors to unexplored lands.

Take that back, Chick Tracts are gold.

I believe the average American inmate is more likely to want a Bible than a Quran.