No idea, tbh. I’m nearly half way through it and I’ve yet to hear anything controversial other than religion is basically made up, but I already thought so. It’s really just super thought-provoking stuff.

If I were to describe it, I’d say it’s moreso an incredibly well thought-out narrative on the story of the human species and where we fit in time and space.

For example, the part this meme is from blew my mind. It’s a couple paragraphs and gets set up with the backdrop/context of the agricultural evolution and kind of comes out of nowhere.

Lastly, one interesting thought I had while reading it is how evolution doesn’t really “care” if we’re depressed, as long as we’re still reproducing the cycle continues (this was moreso a thought I had while reading the book than something explicitly said, I think)

Haha. I’m reading Sapiens right now, too

Ngl, I did not actually expand the picture to see the caption. I just saw the main image about knowledge. Post-docs absolutely get fucked and I do feel bad for them.

I quit one year into my PhD because I was miserable in grad school. I have to assume most post-docs have some crazy resilience or some kind of mental issue/trauma that keeps them going and going. I guess that’s probably true for most people but post-docs do some seriously hard mental work and basically get shafted the entire time (at least in the US).

Unpopular opinion (apparently): I value the overpriced, yet imo absolutely priceless, education I received when I was in college/at a university.

It’s honestly unbelievable (to me) how much people in the US look down on learning and getting an education

Does getting in pointless arguments online count as socializing?

Asking for a friend

They already made it possible to clone your dog, just do that! Same shit

Yeah I pay a buddy 8 every 2 months for music+no ads (+all the other stuff)

It’s definitely worth it for me but it’s definitely a fucked up pricing model for single users. There should be a sub or something for people to link up 6 people so they can all save monies

All three of you are insufferable

Yeah fuck that. That’s unsustainable and will only result in the end of piracy. We should feel bad for being leechers forever, imo. And we should strive to assist the causes we believe in, however we can.

On a similar note, I struggle to reconcile my contempt of Russian/Chinese policies with my adoration and support for piracy and the brave souls that maintain all the big projects we enjoy/rely on.

I’m not defending the price, I’ve bought plenty and felt dirty doing so lol.

Well shit, what do you call what you’re doing? If all you wrote’s not a defense of their prices, what is it?

Remember when zippy died? All those beautiful, obscure, working links… gone

This Zaslav guy’s kind of dumb, overpaid piece of shit, eh?

Anyone know how the $250 mil he’s paid in stock options works? In one of the links in the article above it says he only gets that money if the stock goes above a certain price. Surely, there’s tiers or brackets or something, right? Like, considering the stock has only gone down, it seems hard to believe he literally gets zero value out of all that stock

I’m gonna pretend there was a windows update at that specific time so it makes a bit more sense to me

lol. That was good

I’m surprised no one uses DNS66. Is there’s an alternative that’s better?

Can’t you just hide the paid movies/tv tab? Or is it a principle thing

Is jellyfin better? I’d never heard of it 'til now

I absolutely love z library!

Did you even try to read what you shared?

She’s making a lot of good points. I mean, thanks for sharing, I guess. I didn’t know who she was

Yeah, I think I’d totally try dog meat. It feels hypocritical not to

I mean, do you know anyone that would actually care about this? How many would sit and read/watch a story about it out of their own interest? How loud would you have to be to get heard?

The average American is simply too stupid (read: “overworked”) to care about any kind of personal civic duty. We’re too busy thinking of everything we wish our country would do for us, not what we could do to save the country. Tbh, must of us don’t even know what good citizens are supposed to do

Literally its best feature. Y’all are fuckin buggin