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> people who don't entertain any thoughts of poking their consciousness in some way are missing the point of life. If you don't ask "why am I here" or "what's this all about" then things get pretty bland pretty quickly.

I didn't get anything "spiritual" out of them. If anything, it made me realize that spirituality is a complete sham

Hot take, the "spiritual" reason for doing psychedelics is this: they hate their own lives and think that some "transcendental experience" will change that

There's only one legit reason for doing them: to get high. The "spirituality" reason is just a bunch of BS. The people who buy into it are the last ones who should be doing them

What I don't get, sorry for my own reductive attitude, is that if you volunteer for one of these projects you're working for free. If you don't like terms of project, just don't work for free?

Kind of like reddit moderator situation atm

> But stability deteriorated elsewhere. Striking workers in Greece, pension protests in France and deadly clashes in Israel and Peru reduced scores in those countries.

???

Who is this list meant for? Seems kind of odd to penalize France because of pension protests

Am an American so might be lacking details, but my understanding is that Macron decided to raise the retirement age which was highly unpopular, and people were pissed off because of it? How do those protests make France "less livable"? If anything, it makes it more livable by my book.

Seems like Economist is just airing political grievances. Usually whenever I see these lists (e.g. "livability index", "democracy index", etc), the list maker shuffles around the top 10-20 countries in order to grind some political axe

> I love how you hardcore Marxists only take the good parts of what you say while conveniently leaving out the guy that's gonna be wallowing in the ditch for you

Uhh no? I just think that the people working in ditches should be compensated a living wage, preferably through forcing the ultra rich to pay their fair share in taxes and redistributing

More like, a concerted media effort to nudge people to churn out kids. People can chill on the rat race, so long as they churn out kids so that the wheels keep turning

Just acknowledging the trend as I see it

> What do you think society would look like if you just did away with all the modern conveniences and the "ruling class".

You're drawing an association the ruling class and modern conveniences. Those are two incredibly different things.

I have a really hard time believing that because a small group of people have a disgusting amount of wealth, somehow modern conveniences are "divined" from that

Would not do this, current job market is not favorable, you're most likely better off working towards degree (assuming it's undergrad)

> but got put in “10x developer” expectation projects where I’d churn something out, get a big shiny star sticker for it, and then 2 years later it would be abandoned

I feel like I've fallen into this hole at my current gig, where I just churn shit out to solve a problem as quickly as possible

I get away with it just bc general code quality was already not good to begin with

Biggest mistake was going fast the first time, now I'm getting assigned way more shit

Word of advice to readers: don't make the same mistake I made. You'll just get taken advantage of

> When we tried to decline testing, we were threatened with a CPS case and the removal of our just-born child.

Pretty sure that test is voluntary in a bunch of states?

> The bottom line us that these 3 businesses make money. Billions per quarter. It's coming in so fast they quite literally dont know what to do with it all.

Revenue might be going up, but are they actually providing additional value to users? Or just gutting them more thoroughly?

I look at the amount of utility that Google's products provided back in 2013, and I look at how much they provide now. Can't say the improvement has been anywhere close to stock price