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How about this:

- you are working

- you have a family

- you have access to a forest

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Whether or not more and more people will be unemployed or not due to advances in technology and shifts in society is probably up to debate. I personally think that we'll see more unemployment with uneducated folks. And even if they work it will be paid badly, unstable due to being easily replaceable and rather stressful and dull.

Same for having a family. Finding a spouse will be difficult for the disposable and getting children risky. So, also not an option for many.

And access to a forest - as in a place with nature where you can walk for half an hour without meeting anyone. Good luck with that living in the middle of some ghetto without public or individual transportation options.

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Those products will be the new Opium for the People. The new couch with chips in front of the TV. A sedation and escapism.

> You log in with your VR headset, create your avatar (that can look like anything you want) and spend all your time in there because it’s so much better than your pathetic real life.

All your time ... or rather until the skin on your face gets irritated due to weiring the headset with a microatmosphere within. Man, this must be a bummer returning to your dystopic shitty apartment. We already consider social media interaction as kin to regular drug consumption (stimulants I suppose) then that experience will be sort of a come down hang over.

> The metaverse is already here, and it’s called the internet.

I beg to differ - experiencing a virtual reality through a comfortable 3D head set is more immersive and exciting.

> Mark Zuckerberg is touting open protocols and interoperability.

"Open" probably just means that they will openly document their APIs.

I'm confused. Is this valid as of now? As in ... I can buy an OQ2 and use it without an FB accunt?

how about intentionally flawing the book by adding a line with a pen somewhere or similar. that's how I have it seen done in Germany to bypass price fixing.

20 years late ...

Being German it feels weird reading someone praise our tax system. The problem here is that you almost always pay too much tax and will be reimbursed when filing a return while at the same time the German Finanzamt already has the required information to do that on its own. But it won't. End of story is that tax returns are exclusive to people educated enough to take of it. And even if you take care of it in an informed way doesn't mean you will be reimbursed fully. For that you'd need to hire a tax attorney in many non-trivial cases.

have you ever heared of antibiotics?

I'm pretty sure a beer would be more healthy than diet soda ...

> I cook 6 chicken breasts at a time, that way I have chicken for today and the next 5 days.

you eat chicken six days in a row and you think that is healthy? dude wtf :D

> and very few families have a house wife cooking food from scratch these days

is that sexist or are you stupid? I have news for you then - guys can cook, too - no kidding

> The "diet" in diet drinks may be a false promise for some soda lovers.

Now that's a surprise! Seriously - okay if you like the aspartame taste of your diet coke, go ahead. But if you actually think diet coke is "healthy" in any meaningful way - then I'm sorry, nobody can help you!

I'm pretty sure this has been building up since the morning (Germany). I've had odd connectivity problems to a number of sites including slack for a moment.

Journalists got killed over reporting about and investigating the Panama Papers?

I guess you are referring to Daphne Caruana Galizia. That would still be singular, though.