Because liberal mystification with fancy-sounding concepts made to make you feel dumb so you don’t realize it’s just creative surplus labor value expropriation

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

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Lmao, I remember trying to do that dance and skinning my foot on a jagged floorboard

My friends’ parents were mad but in retrospect, sorta on them for having that janky floor

What if the malady is mere pain and inadequate well-being perception?

Covering edge cases in leetcode be like

Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices

Oh is that why the first android phone was so good? I had a developer edition of that and it slapped. Keyboard was amazing

This was the very top of my “top 6 hours” feed. Checks out

False; it says “100% Safe & Secured” right there on that logo. How could that possisbly be a scam?

Disengaged.

Quadrupled (probably) healthcare costs

To be fair this does hit them first as they age

But also they just strike even by metabolizing their life savings / real estate to pay for this

Leaving us… with no inheritance and holding the bag

Up next: companies continue 5-day workweeks anyway, because they’re not even rational in their mandates. (See also: forced RTO).

There was the incident of Target or some store realizing someone was pregnant before they did themselves, which seems relevant here.

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Same. The fact that it was “cheap” in this regard was heavily weaponized by my childhood best friend to mock me.

Memory unlocked: him beating me every round on Street Fighter EX plus Alpha (?) and then pointing out that every win by his was some kind of super special win, not even just a regular one.

He comparatively never wanted to play Soul Calibur

!cico@lemmy.world feels this in their soul

I wonder what it would look like without these measures?

Back in My Day™, we had minimal MDM on the school computers.

Yes, the kids that wanted to fuck around (look at porn, download music, play games) fucked around, but they would have the old-fashioned way, anyway. The most common thing was just changing the desktop photo to a Lamborghini, or something. Anyway, we turned out…. Well… not necessarily ok, but I don’t fault the computers for lack thereof where applicable.

Admittedly, these weren’t personal laptops but just ones in the library or computer labs, but still.