A couple tabs of acid and you can do whatever you want

That’s from The Truman Show, yeah?

It really does just look like heat dissipation from rooftop heat exchangers, not gasses out of an exhaust. I’m sure that building uses (and wastes) an ungodly amount of power, but I’d imagine it’s grid-tied, and therefore any noxious gases are being generated elsewhere (with the exception of on-site backup generators).

I’m all for telling AI to fuck off, but let’s at least have the facts straight.

Yeah, but the sad part is is that way too many people will blindly follow suit

Fuck that, they’ll have to kill me before I leave my home.

VIDEO calls

One of the bigger reasons I don’t want an iPhone. I’d much rather talk than text as it usually is quicker, but I hate video calls.

They easily could push more socially positive virtues, but it’s likely more profitable to push a divisive narrative, especially as someone else said, to keep us occupied fighting amongst ourselves, as opposed to unifying against the wealthy.

No worries! It may be exposure bias, and I’ll be honest that the only BI articles I read come from here and there certainly is a certain slant. But from where I’m sitting, it really does seem like there’s a coordinated effort among so called ‘culture journalism’ articles such as this to push a certain normalcy of nothing I’m that I can’t help but wonder if there’s something funny about it. Perhaps it’s a sort of tin foil hat theory, but prescient in a really stupid way. This article in particular isn’t exactly a defining example, but more of a contribution to that nature. I dunno, I probably need to go to bed lol.

It just seems like a good chunk of the articles I see from them are stories promoting going without, dealing with less, and downgrading lifestyles in response to cost of living, but doing so in a “feel good” sort of way, kind of like a life hack in a sense. They just seem to keep pumping out stories that portray families and people in their 30s to 40s that are downgrading into small homes or even trailers, eating next to nothing, or forgoing basic necessities as a way to somewhat normalize not having shit but still working your ass off, or at least that’s what I’ve perceived from it.

Like with this article, they promote it as some kind of performance-enhancing life hack to not have an internet-centric phone, yet the person on the article is carrying three of them for different purposes. It just seems ridiculous. If you want to spend less time on your phone, uninstall the time wasting apps, set do not disturb on a per app basis for the ones you keep, and make a conscious effort to put your phone away. It just seems like a clumsy solution for not having self control.

But hey, that’s just my opinion.

BI is one of the biggest culprits of trying to push social trends in a ridiculous, serflike direction, and then they wonder why their ‘prestige’ has dropped to the level of rag.

It’s worth noting that even though a building might have solar, the systems usually disable themselves in the event of a blackout to prevent back feeding into the grid.

I really wish we would make it a crime to spin narratives in bad faith.

Oh deer

One thing I’ve always wondered, who/what decides their hierarchy?

Electrican here, it’s even worse. Fuck lightbulbs and florescent tubes, you don’t need me to change those.

But I only had two marijuanas, I was told that was ok by the cool guy on the corner.

Again, that was the style and not the exact ones we had, but yeah they were all fixed position, however ours weren’t too bad. I dunno, I don’t remember anyone complaining much, I was on the taller side of my peers and fit fine while I recall even the smaller kids were alright too. Id wager a big reason they were chosen was so kids couldn’t balance on the back legs, fall back and crack dome. They were great for cracking your back!

Not even that, but they are simple and repairable. I remember we had these sleigh-style desks (same idea except the seat was one-piece molded plastic) that were a total of four parts (two rails, the seat and the desk top) aside from bolts/hardware, and they had a graveyard of parts to replace pieces as needed. And those desk were tough as all hell.