PlasterAnalyst

The media keeps reporting things that people engage with because those figures drive advertising. If people didn't engage with ragebait, then people like Trump wouldn't have a chance of being elected. The entire media strategy of any politician right now is to say or do the most wild shit possible so that they appear in the news. Come up with a 3 word slogan, and bam, instant support.

"acting"

Modafinil is just like a strong cup of coffee without any jitters. The only reason it's controlled is because people would abuse it to stay up longer. I was taking two a day when I was on lithium because lithium made me tired as hell, I was still so sleeping 9+ hours at night.

Thanks for making Lemmy!

Not when health insurance is a fixed cost and retirement savings match is a percentage. People needing more money have it better than people making less.

You could hire a cleaner, pay to have your lawn mowed, take your clothes to be washed for you and afford to fly somewhere on vacation a few times a year. Those are luxuries that many people can't afford.

Get some humongous intimidating gym bros to block the door and tell the tiny weak politicians that is they can't beat them at arm wrestling to go use the women's.

Turn it around on them. Make them show you their genitals before they go in the bathroom. Then have them arrested for showing you their genitals.

management: I'm going to fuck that up anyway, because I can't read.

AI can easily replace upper and middle management.

Then don't use it.

There was a bunch of downtime over the holidays. I assumed it was due to the Lemmy update withholding posts for several days and then flooding kbin. It doesn't bother me in the slightest and I have multiple fediverse accounts.