Not even so much that, I just think at a certain critical mass the law of averages kicks in and you just kind of get… the status quo. Like, a good share of people are decent, another good share are so-so, another good share are kind of nasty. So, put all that together and you get something that looks a lot like humanity in general: always just slightly disappointing.

It’s rare to find a community that doesn’t corrupt the original itent it was built around. Look at organized religion. Doesn’t speak well to humanity in general I’m afraid.

Effective at making the higher-ups even more money maybe. What a pyramid scheme.

I vaguely remember that they were being held captive and the devices would punish them for misbehaving. Like, some guy lived with a bunch of female robot slaves or something and the episode ended with him having to live with a robot version of his deceased henpecking wife? Shit I don’t know, it’s been like 30 years since I watched the original series…

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What that is?

Yes?

Meaning, awareness of it should unite people.

Ah, classism, the one thing that should truly unite Americans.

I dunno, this seems good for Putin to me. But I’m not an expert in geopolitics and war…

So find someone who looks like they want to eat me?

I can touch type at about 70 wpm. Why? Typing practice looks remarkably productive to anyone who doesn’t know what I’m actually doing. I also find doing math puzzles helpful. Making little calculations and drawing diagrams looks super impressive to clueless managers. Of course, such strategies depend on apathetic managers.

Success is mainly about sucking up to the right people. No matter how good you are at your job, you have to know how to play work politics. Most bosses don’t know how to evaluate actual ability, and they’re much less objective than they think. Usually they favor more likeable employees over capable ones if forced to choose. Human life is a popularity contest, always has been, always will be. That’s the side effect of being a highly social species…

That’s some tasty retro-nerdiness.

Nah, give me all them SuperbOwls.

Save taxpayers money, not the super rich. The system is working as intended for the parasites at the top.

Republicans increasingly rely on the most extreme voting base for energy. It works mostly because we only have two viable parties and even the less extreme Republicans think the extreme right is the lesser of two evils. How many Republicans do you suppose will wring their hands in 2024 but vote for MAGA candidates and Trump anyway? Almost all, even if they say otherwise. We know preference falsification is a thing now. People will just lie if they’re too embarrassed to admit what they’re doing.

This is like poetry. Also, are you frickin spying on me?

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagazine%2Farchive%2F2022%2F01%2Fchildren-sex-trafficking-conspiracy-epidemic%2F620845%2F

It’s a manufactured moral panic that is going to get people hurt.

Noooooooooooooo…