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My employer offers contributions to a retirement plan and there's like 20 different options for funds that you can put money into, only one of which is a fossil-fuel-free fund. But looking closer at that fund, it's basically only investing in tech, insurance, and weapons companies.

I just,

If they make Italian cuisine a World Heritage Site before they declare video games to be a World Heritage Site I'm gonna be so pissed

I think it's actually cool and good to judge historical figures through a modern moral lens, and we should do this more often

i love downloading textbooks for free and i can't stop doing it. i'm scared libgen will be gone one day so i've compulsively saved ~4000 textbooks lol. gonna go do some more

oh hey, i've been doing this too. it weirdly is fun for me, at the moment. i think mostly cuz for the past 3 years, i've been telling myself "i really need to lose some weight", but i could never sustain it for more than like 2 days, cuz i love eating food so much. but somehow something flipped in my brain and i've been sticking with it for 2 weeks now. i don't even really feel hungry? i hope i don't have a tumor or something.

i wanna quit my engineering job and go to school to become a doctor instead. or maybe just a nurse or something like that. idk, i'll just do whatever the first person who responds tells me to.

Hexbear is a little weird/embarrassing

Anyone have recommendations on what I should read as a per-requisite to understanding Baudrillard's Simulation & Simulacra book? It looks way too cromulent for me as someone who's read very little philosophy.

I keep hearing about the book though and the concepts seem tantalizing to me, at least as read on Wikipedia. I'd love to engage with the actual text

But also like, when have Pro-Palestine protest movements in the US called for violence?

I would be amazed at this point if Peter Theil had not funded some stealth startup to make an anti-woke LLM (like Grok but more openly fascist) to start spamming the internet with reactionary rhetoric. I try to not default to blaming everything on bots, but it really is only a matter of time until this happens, and I feel like the influx of batshit takes I'm seeing online does not correspond to the change in rhetoric I've seen from libs I know IRL.

I have a few friends who have mentioned to me that they barely do any work at their job, especially remote workers. One of them says they literally only work 6 hours a week.

Is this common??

For the past like 3 years I've been at a very micro-managey company that incessantly tracks time, so I've been pulling a solid 40+ hours a week. Job security is good, but damn, if I could go work somewhere where I can slack off more, that time would be invaluable. I'd love to read more