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