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Robot Diver

I sometimes wonder if anyone has calculated how much extra stress/cost we experience in comparison to previous generations when not only do we have to work harder and more intensively for far less pay, but also literally anything we purchase is now built/destined/formatted to break every two years like clockwork. My grandparents never had to buy six washing machines in their lifetime or replace their phone every two years. My grandpa had a drill from the 1940s that he was still using when I was in university. I've been through three in ten years.

#modernLife#generalFuckery#capitalism
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Milcom Miasma

Failure to upgrade.

A conversation with @Kierkegaanks made me realize that every phone, tablet, or computer manufacturer has only one goal - to replace whatever you're currently using to read this post with their product. And to do it over and over again.

To do otherwise is to "Instapot" your company into bankruptcy.

What a seriously screwed up (and unsustainable) economic model. No wonder we're crazy.

#ModernLife
#ComputerStress

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Mauricio Teixeira 🇺🇸🇧🇷

During the time when most devices were switching from Micro USB to USB-C, we used to get a lot of USB-A to USB-C cables, because the "receptacles" were all A.

After some time, the electronic manufacturers started shipping USB-C to USB-C cables, but we still have a lot of USB-A receptacles (extensions, hubs, power bricks, etc).

So now comes the choice: buy adapters, or swap the receptacles?

Either way, we're just making more trash.

#Rant#ModernLife
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steev hise

I'm so tired of working with people that just take on more and more stuff in their lives than they're really capable of doing in a quality way and just run themselves ragged, and thus do a mediocre job of pretty much all of it, watching them hanging on the edge of a cliff all the time and having zero time for actually collaborating in a meaningful way.

Sadly I think this is at least partly because a lot of people are driven to this kind of desperate flailing by the necessities of a precarious life under modern neoliberal capitalism. But a big part is also just I think some kind of psychological feature of people's minds these days, perhaps related to the loss of attention and focus due to screens and social media and shit. Flitting from one thing to another, never having the courage (or self-awareness) to admit there are limits and say no to any of it, hence biting off way more than they can chew.

It's just sad.

#modernlife#timemanagement#lifehack
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