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I took this screenshot myself from the government release page.

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Cory "Pluralistic" Doctorow, the coiner of the term "enshittification", wrote an article about the uselessness of the finance sector. He refers to an article by John Lanchester.

Lanchester starts by stating that while we think of the role of the finance sector as "capital allocation" – that is, using investors' money to fund new businesses and expansions for existing business – that hasn't been important to finance for quite some time. Today, only 3% of bank activity consists of "lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services."

The other 97% of finance is gambling.

And here are a couple quotes from the Lanchester's article, For Every Winner a Loser. He used selling mangoes as an example in his article.

In his indispensable guide to the current condition of the financial industry, Other People’s Money, published in 2015, John Kay talks about the state of the UK banking sector, whose assets then were about £7 trillion, four times the aggregate income of everyone in the country. But the assets of British banks ‘mostly consist of claims on other banks. Their liabilities are mainly obligations to other financial institutions. Lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services – which most people would imagine was the principal business of a bank – amounts to about 3 per cent of that total.’

The total value of all the economic activity in the world is estimated at $105 trillion. That’s the mangoes. The value of the financial derivatives which arise from this activity – that’s the subsequent trading – is $667 trillion. That makes it the biggest business in the world. And in terms of the things it produces, that business is useless. It does nothing and adds no value. It is just one speculator betting against another and for every winner, on every single transaction, there is an exactly equivalent loser.

E: much better title

It's terrifying to become intimate with someone like this as you slowly realize there's a glitch and part of their soul is missing. And they think they are always right, and will never understand what they're missing in their prefrontal cortex.

But oddly enough their mental defect serves them as a strength & an intimidation factor as they go about life intermixed with neurotypical people, they plow through life unbothered, they win at everything as they remorselessly use & manipulate & plow through everyone in their path.

I wish in some dystopian(?) utopian(?) parallel universe these people would be identified then given a one-way space flight to a different planet where they all would live amongst their own kind. What do you think an entire planet populated ONLY with narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths would be like?

Let them all use & manipulate & destroy each other their entire lives while we innocent guileless fairer folks can have our peace restored.

so they can put their penis in ASAP. They don't care whether or not we feel pleasure or achieve climax.

Mischievous Pardamat is still up to his usual tricks. One morning, he woke up and decided to cause some chaos. On exiting his room, the rascal hung left and positioned himself in front of neighbour Talek's door, blocking her exit. Talek pushed and tried to squeeze her way past him — but this was impossible. Luckily, Latika dealt with the situation and so we did not have to intervene. She forced the boy right into the girl's room, creating a space for Talek to run out, leaving the naughty boy in her stable.

That's all I wanted to say.

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Drew says: [Captain Hook voice] SMEG! Yes, when you need an ordinary toaster that looks like someone decorated it with contact paper, SMEG is the vendor for you. This is an appliance for people who don’t actually use appliances. You buy your fancy little honeybee toaster, then you invite Town & Country magazine into your house to take a photo of your kitchen with the toaster in it. And then, when you want an actual piece of toast, you ask your Olive to order you one via Seamless. God, the future has been such a letdown.

I get that they are more space efficient and I will use them at the airport or a stadium, but to me it's just so degrading. Like this is a restaurant not the back woods- and don't get me started on the trough.

Also if it's empty in the restroom I might scroll Wikipedia in peace, and that makes me a scholar. The urinal? That's for ticktock at best.

I learned so much on the pot that I pretty much have 3 PhDs at this point.

Anyway I guess sitting down to piss is joked about as immasculating; but if spraying my pee like a rarely used showerhead setting across 3 toilet seats makes me a man, then I don't wanna be one.

...I'd have to buy 7 packs of tortillas and 6 packs of cheese before coming close enough to matching 1:1 with only 1 cheese slice left at the end so just eat the last fucking cheese slice by itself.

And please don't try to make too much sense of my diagram up there because I made 2 mistakes that only make sense to me & I don't feel like explaining.

But what I REALLY want to know: If you're aware of an algebraic method for solving this timeless hot dog bun vs hot dog conundrum, please share your wisdom.

ok so i was talking with a friend a few months ago when i came up with this idea, but i never get the chance to mention it, so I'm talking about it here.

so the basic idea is that its this chubby lil boy scout, maybe twelve years old, and he has no idea why hes here, but he does know that a scout should always be prepared, so in literally any situation he reaches into his backpack and pulls out exactly what the party needs (and maybe he has a dumb gimmick like "i have just the tool for the job") every time he manifests a new tool.. and the catch is that there isn't any magic involved at all, its all normal stuff, the party could be fighting a dragon, and since hes so little he doesn't register as a threat he can sneak up to it with the fire extinguisher hes had this whole time put out its mouth or something.

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Idk man. Maybe it's because the world has gone mad and I can't stop reading the news or maybe it's because I'm going through a rough and decisive year but I'm just feeling bad lately. So much work to do, no time or motivation or money. Bad attitude too.

I miss being a kid