Its called the matrix, and people will work super hard if you give them a nice title for that external validation that is so juicy. One day they wake up 60 years old, with a house full of old stuff they rarely used, since they were so busy all the time with working.

Probably missed seeing their kids grow up, and maybe also grew disconnected with the partner they liked as a young person.

So yeah. Gather money and get the hell out of that.

Nostalgia for final destination movies. But I think I only liked them when growing up with them. I tried rewatching and they are pretty bad actually… Hehe.

You were the only person here who double checked if this is even real, or AI slop.

I think we are going to see so much popular content not even be real. And people will defend it, thinking you are weird for wanting only real stuff, using terms as “who cares”. Its funny. :)

How many users here are bots, to begin with…

It may be time to walk outside. Cant fake real people. Yet.

Strange. I can definently not agree. I think men look awesome. And im a heterosexual attracted to women, of course. But still, I think men look good.

I mean, not the men who let themselves go completely. But just ordinary men. Looks fine!

And honestly, when men get to 35 or so, they look better than women. At least my opinion.

To me, I dont care if my friends remember my birthday. I care if they are genuine friends and I have good conversations and laughs around them.

Someone remembering your birthday is just them putting a reminder in the calendar. Doesnt mean much, not to me at least.

So you have an actual human connection to these people? Friends could have a laugh over forgetting someones birthday, because its built on a real connection that doesnt go away over missing the small things.

“they required you”

Have you never thought that you can actually NOT do these things?

I mean, sure, maybe you had a good reason and you felt it was fine. But I wonder how many people just do what the screen tells them without realizing they can actually say no and be ok with the consequences.

Are they the police?

Would never upload picture to American big tech service and im surprised people think thats something they agree to. I guess the addiction is too strong, to these shitty services.

Thanks copie.

Copilot created this patch with pride.

True freedom to live outside the matrix.

Its basically living in a city that makes everyone so completely dependent on the matrix to survive.

And it changes your mindset too. All the pressure of work and then watch Netflix until you pass out, and you have to buy all these coping mechanisms like gym card, nice car, nice house…

Someone who lives outside can just say no to all of that, and they get plenty of exercise just moving around more and fixing things than the ordinary city dweller.

I really hate apartments. They are like prison cells.

I dont know… The movies made it seem great, but yeah, its movies.

I think there is something more sinister but thats another topic. Its not hard to see how America has really turned evil the last 10 years and its not just money. The mindset has completely changed.

Winter is beautiful. I take daily walks near the forest and it can be better looking than in summer.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

Hope the supreme court is happy to see the country lose everything that made it good in the first place.

Doesnt really work in practice. If a community exists on Lemmy world, you are not going to have success running the same community somewhere else.

Its just the nature of things. Even Lemmy is mostly centralized to large instances, despite its federated technology.

Yeah im currently on a sabbatical and I dont think I will go back to working in tech.

But ive been working with it for 25 years in different roles. Im just tired of seeing the same thing being reinvented again and again under different names.

I dont feel excited about micro services or AI or blockchain. Its just more and more complexity all the time and its exhausting, not interesting.

Also the culture has changed. It used to be a fun profession for figuring out how to write the code to solve something. Now its telling agents what to do, and pressure to always work hard.

It wasnt like that before. The company needed your skills and they couldnt push or replace people very easily. Which meant they treated you well and didnt stress you.

Yeah stuff like that. Or “where is bennet? He is letting off some steam”. :)

They are going to use Ai to moderate, lol… That will be fun to watch.