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Nah, I think it's a different thing. Someone experiencing ego death will be totally unable to interact coherently with the outside world at all.

Well, it really has nothing to do with how nice they are outside of work. I'd be disgusted to associate with anyone who has made a career out of treating working people like livestock.

Are there any good summaries of the Ukraine war in The Ukraine so far? I haven't been keeping up with the news on this much for the past seven or eight months.

What's the consensus around here on what the end of the war will look like in general? From the discussion I've seen, it looks like Russia is firmly dug in and fortified, while Ukraine can't seem to make any significant breakthroughs. Does Russia already have all the territory it wants and is now simply waiting for attrition to cause Ukraine to either surrender or rout?

How do HR people have friends or any sort of personal relationship whatsoever outside of family?

If I found out a friend of mine was working as a fucking HR person, I'd probably never talk to them again. I can't imagine there aren't literally millions upon millions of other working class people who feel the same way. They aren't as bad as landlords, but wow are they up there.

I think it's most to do with exactly how much wealth a person was born into.

Someone who is constantly on the verge of being homeless, possibly even starving, will very soon get desperate enough to do things they aren't proud of to survive.

On the other hand, someone born into immense wealth will have very little understanding of people who are struggling. That'll make it very hard for them to empathize. And with all that power, their sheer indifference will have them crushing the poor under their boots like ants. This is highly exacerbated by the fact that it is in their best interest to support policy that transfers wealth upwards.

I've asked about opening a general comm for recreational drugs before, but the consensus seemed to be that the mod and admin team weren't up for the extra workload keeping such a space safe would require. Not to mention the chance of catching law enforcement attention, giving pigs a much loved opportunity to send a bunch of communists, LGBTQ people, racial minorities, and neurodiverse people to prison on bullshit drug charges. I'm not sure how founded that concern is, but the people running this site probably have a better idea than me about how vulnerable it is from that kind of attack.

However, it was very early on in the site's history last I asked. I think the admin and mod team might be different enough now that it's worth asking again. You should probably go to the comm request community and make a post about it there.

I got worried when every big media corporation started buying into this en masse. I thought they'd use their resources to keep this going as long as possible, but it looks like the whole idea was too dumb to even be sustainable as a grift.

This sent me on a rabbit hole of looking up the origin of state names, and it turns out that it is to this day unknown where the name Oregon even came from. There are several ideas on the wiki page for etymology of Oregon, but apparently nothing is conclusive.

I had a similar thought, but instead of the committee excluding the participation of landlords who don't actually live in the neighborhood, it simply excludes their heads from their bodies regardless of where they live

I like that North Korea has turned the Truman Show into a real thing all for the sake of western tourists. It takes a serious dedication to the art of theater and acting to transform an entire country of 26 million people into an endless and infinitely deep stage production. They've built full skyscrapers just as back drops for their sets. They painstakingly carved and painted millions upon millions of wooden props to resemble food items such as fruit, vegetables, and grains to place in store sets ubiquitously since real food no longer exists there. The wide assortment of actors walking the streets and pretending to go to work and do their jobs, each of them with their own unique backstory handcrafted to resemble the life of a real person. The fact that they've maintained the illusions of functioning trains by using clever line of sight techniques to hide the dozens of stage crew that need to push the cars along the tracks.

This is a very impressive accomplishment once you consider 90% of the country is currently being held in concentration camps for disrespecting the Kim dynasty by not maintaining the same haircut as their supreme leader. That the remaining 10 percent can put on this kind of show is spectacular without any kind of monetary compensation or even food. Everyone there is starving to death, but they've managed to hide such inadequacies through industrious makeup and lighting techniques. The country's dedication is so intense even that these actors are allowed to have their own haircuts so as to not hurt immersion.

Yeah, it was comr, not comi. You should probably edit that, it'll suck if comi were to log back in and see this in his inbox

I would pirate even if it were stealing. In fact, if a company lost real money every time I pirated something, I would make an effort to pirate more often.