Yeah. The problem isn't that everybody is turning into wimps.
The problem is that a critical mass of people are turning into paranoid busybody boot licking narcs.
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Ah, the gentleperson's ever-present silver lining when they find themselves living in "interesting times":
This is going to produce some great documentaries!
...I hope I live long enough to see the end of this shit!
...plus a few years for journalism and research and production on the documentaries using humane working schedules, of course. And some totally understandable production delays and interview re-shoots.
It's the perfect expression of that meme.
It should be the only version the entire internet uses. Or, at least by those of us in the US. But let's be honest, everybody is kind of into rich powerful evil pedos seeing some kind of accountability for anything anywhere.
Nah, we're dealing with psychos here.
They still exist, but now Russia has a copy.
Plus, Trump has other Russia attack plans being drawn up by a secret second military headed by a random other grifter that found the right combination of gold plated baubles and ass kissing.
God damn, through his psycho filter Mexico probably just looks like trillions of dollars of tropical beach front property that needs to be cleared of the natives and any other dangerous wildlife.
Never has the world witnessed such a wave of the stupidest people suddenly changing their minds because of a new piece of evidence. Oh, it would be amazing!
My instinct is to say I'm not holding my breath. But in this case, since it's not just the ordinary people involved but some of the spreaders of propaganda, I can at least imagine a plausible outcome where this one sticks. And by "plausible" I mean in the sense of a meme of Dr Strange holding up one finger towards Jim Carrey who replies "so you're saying there's a chance."
Yes, exactly that! That convenience == productivity connection is exactly why I am a Linux Mint fan!
Convenience has value, so a lot of people will give their "free" information, attention, and control to commercial entities in exchange for it. Enshittification ensues and many of us are conditioned to beware of things that are simple to use because it REALLY just means you've been locked out of 95% of the options.
When a good FOSS project can bring convenience and productivity to more people around the world with NO strings attached, that is an incredibly good thing. It's like, humanity actually working together just for the sake of the greater good, but doing it on the internet because governments can suck at it.
Damn, I need to find a good open source project to help out this winter when I'm forced to stop my oudoor "engineer turned farmer" hobbies for the season.
Edit: probably something Jellyfin related. Can't believe I forgot to mention that!
Employers argue that these clauses are a way to recoup their investment in employees
Uhhh, don't the employers get to keep all the profit from the employee's productivity because their role is to take financial risks to reap the rewards?
And the employees just get their paycheck because they are just selling their time to the employer and not participating in the risk vs reward?
This is just the 37th consecutive flavor of socialize the losses, privatize the profits.
We need to see a subtle shift where one more character evolves into a crab between each panel of the comic.
It really is the worst when shitbags like this take what could be a useful, healthy nugget of advice and paint over it with their antisocial garbage.
For all people, having a "mission" in life, finding a purpose, and having something to look forward to are all generally good things that are good for you.
Your mission that you look forward to does not need to be any specific thing that some scumbag who does not care about you prescribes.
For those of us who want families and have them, and considering that we are a social species, it also turns out that your partner, your kid(s), and your immediate environment that you can control (home) can be a pretty significant and rewarding part of your purpose each day!
It's just a part of how conservatives think that they can claim a monopoly on family values while actively destroying families left and right. Which in turn is part of their warped view of the world where to love X means hating that which is non-X.
I have the most traditional looking family you can imagine. It works great for us, and I say fuck messages like the one in the OP that say our individual paths to fulfillment must look alike.
Many of our paths DO look alike, because there are billions of us living in the same world, and that's why it's worth sharing anecdotes and advice while we shout down the "thou shalt" garbage.
Yeah it's more about the idea of Youtube rather than something it actually used to be. Google has owned it so long that there's no real difference.
Today's kids have the benefit that insanely amazing graphics in huge budget games is commonplace, pixel art is a popular visual style that has new games coming out all the time, and janky homemade graphics with visual glitches (essentially memes in game format) are also popular thanks to everything from garry's mod recordings to platforms like Roblox where a million people make their own goofy little games.
So if I take my 3rd grader though some gaming history, starting at least from the NES era where you have decent resolution, smooth scrolling, and numerous colors, things are not instantly dated like we olds might expect.
I could fire up Super Mario Bros, TIE Fighter, Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Symphony of the Night, VVVVVV, or Elden Ring, and I honestly don't think any of them would get a particularly positive or negative reaction based on visual fidelity. It's just a question of whether it looks like the type of gameplay he is into. Even with the obviously popular chunky Minecraft/Roblox look, he's draw to it because it's a popular style that he likes. If I comment about how ooh they updated the Xbox version to 4K rendering, or look at the crazy stuff I can do with the draw distance in the Java version on Linux, he does not give any fucks. It's the command line and the mods that let us do wacky things that are actually entertaining.