Can’t wait to have my thoughts hacked. “Hey guys! I’ve just decided super-techno-fascism is a fantastic system and I’m so glad to be living under it. Cyber-Leader is great!”

Yup. Somewhere out there Jeff rolled a 1 and now we’re all boned.

These are the sorts of thoughts you have when you’ve been on some recreational pharmaceuticals and you know full well that you’ve just discovered the meaning of life.

Kudos for getting it written down, no matter how daft. I always used to forget and be left with the sense that I’ve let humanity down by forgetting sacred knowledge.

I’ve never heard the term trail shift before, but I can’t see anything other than that that implies unpaid labour. You’re right to check though. If you’re seen as a troublemaker for that, they’re not a company you’d want to work for anyway.

Did you film Dr. Acula on your cell phone?

I feel that. I’ve had it a few times where a girl is walking in front same speed and direction for like 5 turns. I’ve had to go completely the wrong way before and make myself late for fear she’ll phone the police that she’s being followed.

She’d be justified in the fear, I’d be nervous if I were them, I just hate that that’s the world we’re in.

The song is so weird. It means absolutely nothing, just a bunch of imagery he thought would sound cool, but I still get goosebumps like it’s something real.

Depending on what problems you’re talking about, I think everyone is to blame to some extent. For example global warming is largely due to humans producing more and more energy to keep up progress, and here we are spending it on basically useless discussion.

Necessity. I didn’t have much of a support network so when mine got so bad I could no longer work I just let everything slide until I ended up homeless. At that point I absolutely had to go through all the motions and that means meeting a lot of people and pleading your case and so on.

I’ve seen many youtubers my family follow start out doing a thing - gaming, celebrity gossip, cleaning tips, guitar accessories reviews, whatever - and once they get to a certain size they’re in the drive thru at McDonald’s filming themselves eating a meal as an entire 15 minute video and people fucking watch it.

Did I miss a mini news cycle so suddenly VC is an incredibly common term?

In the last couple of years, seeing my toddler do new things. Any new things. Jumping, saying “cake”, eating a new food, today it was making toys talk to each other.

Overall, coding things. I’m incredibly newbie but wannabe game dev. Learning to code as I go copying tutorials and trying to tweak things and mash different ones together until it does what I want. I would spend an entire evening getting frustrated and not understanding error codes and pulling my hair out because invalid syntax and shit. Then finally it would do what I wanted it to do and I could physically feel my brain light up with buzzy happy-chemicals, big grins and jumping round the room like a kid on Xmas.

Then I’d start on the next minijob and break the whole fucking thing…

If they lied about that, so casually and unnecessarily, what else will they be lying about? The rat poison to taste as the special ingredient?

So you’re creating the doom you’re prophecising?

Nicely played.

I knew those thumbs were good for more than turning metal cylinders into food.

I think it’s always been this way, but social media has for sure exacerbated it. People really want to believe there’s some big order, some grand control, somebody in charge that all makes sense somewhere somehow.

“They” don’t want you to know because its all about power and control is weirdly a lot more palatable than “shit just happens”.

No. If something is too expensive I simply move on. I get anxious simply conducting commerce in a regular environment, like my desire to buy this thing is an intrusion on the shopkeepers day.

I also refuse to buy from places, usually burger vans, where the prices are so small as to be hidden until you get to the front of the queue. If you’re going to say “what do you want” at the exact moment I’m weighing up the price/object ratio, I’m out.

You’ve obviously put a lot more thought into this than I ever will, but I’ve never reached a point of claustrophobia, more the opposite, like agoraphobia. Every time I learn a little more there’s references to things I don’t know yet so need to learn those to understand that. But surprise! That topic also has references and underlying details I don’t understand and haven’t heard of before.

I get very intimidated by the awareness of the sheer scope of my ignorance.

I know the one you’re talking about and to me that’s the least egregious of them all. It’s contextual and thematic, even if it is just shit.

I’ve been looking over my daughters shoulder as she watches YouTube shorts, and a regular clip of brain rot will announc its using the greenscreen effect. Hidden behind all the username/soundtrack/description will be a teeny tiny brown man’s head muttering punjab almost imperceptibly quietly.

Not sure if they’re better or worse than the dickheads splitting the screen in two and passively pointing up towards the video that is also showing.

At the risk of doing some kind of ism, it’s weird that normal people do it.

I can see the merit giving them to someone who is a drug addict or otherwise mentally enfeebled so they can get the intended gift with a little more agency over specifics with less risk of them spending it unwisely.