How long has it been on 99.9%? Still a chance you just need to wait for someone to turn on their computer?

If I can’t get an audiobook specifically I usually mark it as a request in the Libby app and hope the library will purchase some licenses. Does your library offer similar services?

To answer your original question though I don’t generally buy stuff I’ve failed to torrent. I intermittently search for it again unless I forget about it though.

The Big Mouse lobby has been leveraging our abilities for mouse healthcare research for decades! I don’t think it’s going to stop anytime soon. Though maybe they’ll reach immortality and ease up on us.

My brother (not adhd) was able to do it himself but basically compiled a database to do it.

Have a friend who is essentially bedridden who got denied 3 times before having an attorney file.

I wonder if it’s a bit like the food stamp process where what you get depends in large part on who you get as your program officer so it’s a bit of a crap shoot.

Will do:)

got it. Thanks for sharing your recipe!

When you say blend it do you mean in a blender or just mix them?

Excellent, definitely planning to move away from xbox once mine dies due to plan restructuring that has me paying the same amount of money to play online but without the benefits Gold originally offered (permanent access to select games each month)

The typical therapist advice about focusing only on the things you can personally change does not work well on macro issues. Issues that were created by lots of people working together like climate change require a bunch of people working together to fix. A bunch of people who don’t individually have the power to make any significant impact.

Moral philosophers get bogged down trying to figure out how to do a calculus that would reasonably obligate each individual to join the cause via our normal feelings of responsibility but these generally feel unintuitive and lack the kind of motivating responsibility most people feel towards things they had more control in creating or causing. I like Pinkert’s early work to help get my head around issues of collective responsibility and individual motivation.

Fact is that a whole lot of people need to take a leap of commitment to solve collective problems because if everyone acts rationally (in terms of their proportional responsibility to the problem and capacity to fix it) there is not nearly enough capacity to make a dent in issues like environmental pollution.

On the level of day to day life it depends on how you’re applying the advice but I personally don’t find it comforting to be told there’s nothing I can do to intervene—in this case too I feel better trying -something- and failing frequently vs forcing myself to be zen about my friend turning to drugs or my boss being a jerk all the time because my rational brain says my efforts won’t make a difference anyway.

Uh oh I think you’ve gone and added a new dystopia that we’ll need to incorporate:( I’d read it though, solid premise

Okay but hear me out, how would we craft a world that combined all of the dystopias science fiction warned us against if we left out mass surveillance?

In 2020 Freakonomics did a dive into the effectiveness of adverts. Link below (transcripts too). There are sources listed and such. My tl;dr based on memory is that ads in general are not very cost effective for most companies. Ads are very cost effective for companies that sell ads though.

• TV
• Digital

Yeah it could be contact tracing for red scare purposes rather than actually looking for evidence of a shadow organization

After 9/11, as the FBI reoriented itself to fighting terror groups like al Qaeda, they focused on identifying and locating individuals and then mapping out their networks of family, friends and associates. That’s the Trump administration approach to Antifa, imagining an organization network that encompasses everything from membership cards to elaborate funding.

This approach was evident to Serafini, who told me: “I could tell by their questioning that they were trying to figure out the shadowy entity behind the protest.”

He added: “What a waste of their time to go after shit that doesn’t exist.”

The FBI seemed more interested in who was behind the protest than the protest itself, with the agents repeatedly asking about who had produced the protest signs, he explained.

This is interesting to me because it shows at least bits of the government legitimately think there’s a centralized movement behind the ice protests rather than, like the guy they visited said, just a bunch of people very reasonably outraged at what ice is doing to them and to people in their community. I was under the impression they knew they were putting out a BS pretext.

Also lol that they think some shadow actor is paying for professional signage based on the line of questioning

When he said it could ‘zero out crime’ he meant ring could ‘make a lot of profit’ if they get lots of government contracts

True. I honestly think they will use bot consumers (and special finance math) to keep the numbers moving if they do realize their dream of eliminating human salaries

Amazon also hopes to automate consumers by 2032

Curlie.org as I’ve been informed!

True, true, I was being ridiculous

This has been clear to me the whole time? Hadn’t seen the other narrative.

Companies are definitely shooting themselves in the foot though because junior engineers are part of the pipeline leading to senior engineers so if you eliminate them you bottleneck talent in the future to only a few experienced individuals who can then charge you as much as they want.

Used to play this at the library :’)