• Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It's incredibly sad that some people are so brainwashed that they actually WANT to make their life as joyless as possible.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's wild that it's intentional. Like I've found myself "optimizing" myself to a more joyless life, but only because I didn't a realize that the longer route to school was more enjoyable, or that being alone with my thoughts while doing laundry felt better than using that time to do work. Like I always expect people who optimize their time into misery aren't accounting that some wasted time can be psychologically beneficial, I hadn't considered people are literally slicing off time that's normally booked for hobbies or entertainment.

    • LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      One would think "Hacker News" would be a cool anarco/techno lefties holdover website from the early 90s. A dumb name for a real-ass website for that sort of organziation that managed escape the walled gardens of web 2.0.

      It's a shame that it's actually just a start-up circus of clowns trying to get one over on each other while trying to write "I did it so can you" shit.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        That site sounds dope though. Like a confusing mix of lefty techno-optimists and the sort of people who submit papers to SIGBOVIK. You can talk about crypto currency on it but a moderator will apply a dunce cap to all of your posts.

    • layla
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      2 years ago

      This post reminded me that it's been a couple months since I last visited it, and you are so right. It's so fucking bad.