Job-hunting depression is complemented by the false ego boosting that occurs while you’re employed or studying.

When you’re “in”, you are encouraged to overestimate your own contribution to the economy/world. No one keeps each other in check. Then when you’re unemployed, you are forced to confront the reality of your position as a replaceable laborer. Mere personnel. It’s like this at every level, people lying to themselves and each other about their importance, and denigrating the unemployed in order to solidify their own tenuous position.

Even Antarctica is far more habitable than Mars. It’s warmer (usually) and you can breathe the air.

This needs to be canonized as an official emoji

What sort of life are you looking for? Do you want a relatively familiar lifestyle (ie western), English speaking, similar material wealth? Or would you be fine completely changing everything, speaking Spanish or Arabic or Chinese, owning next to nothing, and maybe losing life options but otherwise not being forced into a 9-5 slog.

Europe has a lot of problems, and your experience will vary a lot depending on the country. But it will be an easier transition for an American compared with idk, Honduras or China. And although Europe sucks in a lot of ways, it is better in certain key areas. More walkable cities, little to no second amendment gun nuts, more consumer protections, more vacation, etc. Of course as a tankie I understand the political and economic limitations of Europe, but practically speaking it is not a bad option for an American.

I love a good bass line, so I’m lookin forward to seeing some suggestions here

Most of the discography by Men I Trust has a dynamic bass line. For example, Lauren

Most songs by the The Smiths; for example, This Night Has Opened My Eyes

Parquet Courts - Before the Water Gets Too High

Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better

Thee Sacred Souls - Will I See You Again?

Microsoft is also pursuing power from nuclear fusion, a potentially abundant, cheap and clean form of electricity that scientists have been trying to develop for decades — and most say is still a decade or more away from generating electricity. Microsoft has signed a contract to purchase fusion energy from a start-up that claims it can deliver it by 2028.

Lmao what a way to close out the article

I mean, if the AI arms race gets us over the hurdle for cheap fusion energy in the next three years, then I will consider AI to be a net positive for humanity. But I’m not holding my breath.

Mirror

Mirror since the original doesn’t like adblockers

It’s likely that subreddit is astroturfed just like the rest of Reddit, if not harder

I never paid much attention to Russel Brand but I thought he was some sort of left-libertarian?

“Now the tech has finally caught up to my vision”

It’s hard to imagine a more smug statement.

Damn bro, you’re living in 3024 while the rest of us are wasting time not being as smart as you.

Many cis people make their gender their whole personality too, it’s just socially acceptable to do so

Because these people think of the world in terms of LOTR just like liberals think in terms of Harry Potter

The political cum piss is actually shit

Stormy sends her regards

idk being a liberal was extremely frustrating for me. Anxiously following polls and election results, volunteering time and money, and even when your person wins seeing nothing change anyway — I don’t like the word but cuck is really the only way to describe it.

At least as a Marxist I can be disappointed but also understand wtf is going on

Same lmao

random chemical bullshit

yeah people way overestimate the degree of determinism embodied in DNA.

Gene expression (epigenetics) are half, probably more, of the story.

I get what you’re saying but also disagree on the conclusion, if I’m reading right. Feels like a form of solipsism which is just … navel-gazey.

Imagining oneself in another’s position is simple empathy, an evolved trait foundational to human civilization. The point is not to be able to perfectly imagine that other life, or to understand it in full detail. The point is to recognize common humanity between yourself and that other person.

In empathizing, I make a basic assumption about another person’s experience, in its intelligibility to myself, despite not having experienced it directly myself. It is like how in physics, we can’t prove beyond all doubt that the laws of the physics are the same in other galaxies (although there is of course strong evidence, e.g. spectral lines). I am reasonably certain of a baseline humanity shared by all humans, and on that basis I feel valid in empathizing.