seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you’re done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything
When the last human dies on this planet, whether in a few hundred years of hundreds of millions, our ideals and laws and rules of the universe will die with us. What will endure far longer are the physical and chemical manifestations of our presence. If I want to leave behind anything after our extinction, I want our monuments to boast about how we loved each other, stronger than anything that will ever exist on Earth or in the universe or otherwise. I want our time to be spent seeking pleasure, relief, a patch of sunlight to laze in, something to eat. The fact so many of us are forced to spend our lives working 40+ hours a week at minimum to live, is evil. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. What do we gain from any of this. We’re telling the future that a few of us ruined everything for absolutely nothing at all
twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right
A new analysis by the research organization World Resources Institute reveals that deforestation remained rampant in 2022. More than 4 million hectares (about 10 million acres) of forests vanished from the tropics that year in places like Brazil and Central Africa, according to the analysis, which is based on data from the University of Maryland. That’s a Switzerland-size area of forest gone, WRI said.
Alarmingly, the world lost 10 percent more tropical forest in 2022 compared to the previous year, indicating that countries are, on the whole, moving in the wrong direction. This is especially troubling considering that tropical forests are among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They help regulate weather, store vast amounts of carbon, and provide homes to the richest assemblages of wildlife on the planet.
