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If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit.

For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.

And 199$ is already an insanely good deal for what you get.

AI can’t do that either.

I would only add to this: try it without podcasts and music. Let your mind go somewhere else.

That was forty years ago…

Cue the requisite hacker news hurfing and durfing about how this is actually good due to being introverted.

Oh ok. So one person(maybe) at the Washington Post. I guess you’re technically correct.

You just think you do.

Who says this?

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You’ve got me all wrong- surely you would agree there is a difference between arts and crafts… right?

And yet if you don’t have an audience, what is the point? Even the most outsider artists managed to gather a following some way or the other. It isn’t just happenstance.

You’ve read too much into what I’ve said and taken too much offense. Text is hard so I don’t blame you. “retiring and doing art” is an absurdly simplistic path to point someone towards and it’s not helpful to anyone who wants to actually create anything at all. And it probably doesn’t work in most cases.

“It’s what I’ve done!”

That is very cool about Cezanne, but I suspect he is one of the outsiders I am referring to.

I don’t care.

I try not to be presumptuous- as I honestly have no idea what art is because I’m too old to keep up- so maybe you can give me some examples that buck the trend? If not I’ll just assume you’re offended because you’re old.

The problem is that by the time you are retired you are most likely so unplugged from the cultural zeitgeist that fuels art that you can’t possibly be good at it. You can’t possibly create anything meaningful that would speak to people who really consume art, because those people are young. They’re a few examples of outsiders who buck this trend but it’s a little presumptuous to think you’re as good as them. So now you do “art.”

Its a gosh darn good thing we don't implement policy based on things that ClumsyPilot has heard about!

It is really bizarre the way that the aggregate/news/post/tweet + comment section + upvote/downvote format that is pervasive on the current internet creates an incentive for people not to talk to each other, but to just throw their ideas at the wall hoping to get points from people that agree with them or even points from bots.

Forums and chat rooms were nice because the communities were small and directed. People were jerks for sure but they weren’t getting points. Even among the jerks the communities were localized enough that the jerks that cared enough to stick around weren’t mere trolls.

WebEx does exactly the same thing as any of the other video chat clients. At least it did the last time I used it.

Ok but I’m not raging, I just don’t know why I should care about any of this in spite of it being shoved into my face 24/7 for weeks at a time???

Unfortunately I agree with you. Nobody is going to pay for a screaming match, though. The fact that it was free is the only reason we’re here.

Maybe this will shake out just fine anyway.

I dislike Elon Musk as much as the next guy but why are people upset about Twitter burning to the ground? It’s just another paint brush used to paint the downfall of our society. Good riddance. I hope Elon goes under with them.

Short tenure has always resulted in me getting massive raises by moving around. I’m not saying that’s always the case, but when my wife and I were 80k in the hole with student loans, wanted a house and a kid, I’ll just take whatever recruiter throws the most money at me. I had big bills to pay always going for 20-40k raises helped me pay them off.

We all got to see what life would be life if we put our entire existence on the internet. What we built does not make the world a better place.

Worst crime I ever experienced was in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Nobody gives a shit though because it’s Kalamazoo, Michigan.

And yet people love it and want to call it home, and are willing to make sacrifices to do so. I know I have here in the Seattle area. Mind ya own business!

Most of the time it’s because you get to live in a city and then also get to drive an hour and go hiking/skiing in the mountains or go to the beach. It isn’t very complicated.

Ultimate Online was a weird thing for me. I never played it, or EverQuest. I never had a good rig. Back then I had this dilapidated compaq presario with windows 93 that I would play shareware cdrom games on- we lived in a swamp in rural Michigan. Internet was only a thing if you were lucky. I would get pc gamer from the local grocery store and I would fantasize about playing these games on the internet. Print was my only portal to the world of the internet. Eventually I made friends with people who had it though.

I don’t even like video games anymore but back then it seemed like a whole new world. Now it seems like the butt end of a joke. However, I am no longer a teenager.

We’re all sort of complicit in building a network of networks that only really “succeeds”(driving clicks, generating ad revenue) by getting as much attention from you as possible. The best way to do that is to scare you and make you as worried as possible.

Putting our lives on the internet will either bring some crazy socio-economic change that makes everything better or it will go down in history as one of the dumbest things we’ve ever done.

Do your best to take back the short time you have on this planet away from this weird worry network we have all built and spend time with people, do things that make you happy and healthy, ignore the ad revenue machine and it can’t fuck with you.