Right, it’s just a front door lol. I never considered that was a thing.

Pyramid scheme, not profit scheme.

Pyramid because the shape is a pyramid.

The first person, the one who sent out the original picture, received X books and sent none.

The next layer sent one book, and possibly received up to 36.

But those 36 each need 36 new people. It’s impossible. You’d hit the population of the earth in just a few rounds.

The companies BUILD IN backdoors so that they can steal your data.

But because the backdoor is built in, they have to constantly monitor and update the security around it so that “bad guys” (they don’t think they are the bad guys) don’t get in.

They only do security updates to prevent liability iirc.

The whole thing stinks.

Note: I’m not a software developer just an outraged bystander with tech hobbies and techy friends, it’s possible this isn’t true.

But if you tell the customer how much things cost they won’t buy as much.

It’s just layer upon layer of dishonesty. The only time businesses get honest is when the government forces them to.

And the volume is cranked too high.

And they are intentionally annoying.

And the last time I had a video on without my adblocker, an ad came on that was literally a person acting like they were a content creator. It was over 3 minutes long. I was only half paying attention (I was driving and just listening to the video) and when I realized it was wrong I thought I had bumped the phone and changed videos. It was so disorienting.

All the ads are lies or propaganda. I hate them. I actively avoid products that find a way to force their ads in front of my face.

Costco.

It’s not all companies that are trash. It’s just most.

Costco is (afaik) not unionized, though the company is union friendly (there may be unionized stores?). They are publicly traded. And workers are paid better than a living wage and have a bunch of benefits.

The company chooses to do this despite their shareholder responsibility, and I will never shut up about it.

Once you’re getting a fair shake, if the company establishes trust, you can get rid of the union. And the company can save the money they spend trying to ruin your lives on something else instead. Not all companies are trash.

But most are.

It’s absolutely vital for governments to promote workers’ ability to unionize and provide employees with rights to protect them from corporate greed.

That’s because the manager is incentivized to not help you, while the union is incentivized to help you.

Unions are game-theoretically necessary.

Just wait until the market stabilizes.

These aren’t GPUs in the crypto boom, they don’t produce their own profit. Stop buying from scalpers and the price will crater.

The crime happened in the past when the children were abused. This is some weird amalgam of criminal trolling.

Edit: yeah yeah I get that csam is criminal, that’s why I called it an amalgam. It’s both trolling and criminal.

They treat your subscription as a promise of continued business. You’re literally funding them trying to continue monetizing you and dominating your attention.

Fuck Spotify, fuck Netflix, fuck all of them.

You need to earn my trust if you want me to pay.

Many of these legacy media outlets are demanding Netflix-level fees for fanfic-level content.

I mean, to be fair, it’s also a business strategy on the Internet.

Unpopular opinion, but a great way to treat many neurological conditions is a ketogenic diet. It works great with intermittent fasting/time restricted eating.

Low budget carnivore is very cheap and surprisingly healthy. It’s also guaranteed to be ketogenic and it’s easy to prepare the food.

The ketones that your body produces have a protective effect in your neurons that can help them recover if they are being damaged by inflammation or a host of other things.

Childhood trauma is highly correlated with a host of digestive and inflammatory conditions. So if you had any trauma growing up, it’s even more likely.

If you’re unwilling to change your diet, intense resistance training (weight lifting) and sleep hygiene are also huge.

I personally recommend looking into free lifting programs that are simple like stronglifts 5x5. Melatonin for sleep (start very low dosage and adjust up if it doesn’t work - stop after a week and see if you still need it). Also Sam Harris’s meditation app which is free if you email and ask for access because you’re struggling financially. Meditation is great on it’s own but it will also help with sleep.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the label, just focus on your symptoms. Impulse issues, restlessness, difficulty relaxing, difficulty falling/staying asleep. Emotional regulation issues. Unsafe decisions. Etc.

Great point. I am not familiar with sync or the dev so I couldn’t speak to their reliability, although the outpouring of support suggests they’ll be active.

I recently cancelled my Netflix and Spotify accounts because of horrible support and constant rate hikes. It’s the perfect time to splurge and support a dev that deserves the money.

These models are designed in such a way that those who can afford to support do, and those who can’t afford to still have access through the free version.

They certainly don’t expect everyone to purchase ultra, let alone lifetime.

I feel as though this information is left intentionally absent in this post.

App development ain’t cheap and lifetime subscriptions are an incredible deal if you like the features and intend to keep using the app for the next decade plus. But you’ve got to look at it that way or else it’s not worth it.

As I get older I begin to realize that people love to work.

However people hate being treated like shit.

Treating people like shit or building an environment that supports shitty behavior poisons the well and will absolutely make people leave, even for a pay cut.

If you just respect people and properly value them and their contributions to your organization, you’ll never have trouble keeping them.