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— Independent Women's Voice (@IWV) April 8, 2024

Part of what I'm doing is going through every document provided by the institutions (Pretty much just possible future peer info that's heavily redacted) and I don't trust any of them to provide an accurate report. How the frick am I supposed to be okay when the only sections of the reports spelled correctly are copy and pasted from EMRs and something basic like ASD is spelled ADS, GMDD is spelled GGMD and there are typos everywhere. Doctors misspell shit all the time but gets fixed in a correction note within 15 minutes. These are the most recently updated records that are some over 6 months old.

I wonder what recent world event could have finally caused him to publish an article on how npr became terrible 10 years ago

Askhistorians can't handle the searing questions I'm serving up.

Probably been posted already

@QuakerOats I need more help since you are knowledgeable.

I'm investing in a new wig and want to know if this one will work with my face?

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Here's the picture of me for reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

Mud flood

There's the "underclass" of "darker-skinned fellow humans [that] work in their factories, pick their crops, look after their children and tend their gardens." The virtual class isn't just materially reliant on the underclass; it actively seeks to automate away the need for all this "wet-ware." Though that first part of their analysis is still as relevant as when it was written, now that the tech industry has further developed, we can directly observe the class structure, which I argue is different, or has at least drifted away, from the one described in the essay.

Though once "promised the opportunity to become a successful hi-tech entrepreneur," the virtual class now starts companies hoping to be acqui-hired, barring them from truly entering the upper class. The venture capitalists that have come to dominate the industry continue their obsession with automating wet-ware — that much hasn't changed — but they've increasingly turned their attention to automating the work of the virtual class, which once, perhaps naively, felt secure. Whether or not they'll succeed, projects like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta's Code Llama, and Google's Gemini, combined with the decreased upwards mobility, show that, from techno-capitalists' perspectives, there are only two classes, the owners and the workers, defined by their relationships to the firm. Owners make their money from owning things, and workers earn wages from working. This is the standard leftist class distinction.

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But techno-capitalists also have a novel relationship to workers. Now that the digital world dominates so much of our lives, techno-capitalists, who own said digital world, also extract unprecedented amounts of wealth from our leisure time, mining it for data, cluttering it with advertisements, and so on. To understand what this means for the role that they imagine for the underclass, we'll examine an instructive though disturbing internet subculture (consider yourself warned).

Gooning allows two people to actually connect, not through mere physical contact, but in an enlightened spiritual state that can only be achieved by masturbating together. In other words, pablito's gooner philosophy claims that the best form of sexual collaboration is, counterintuitively, not collaborating, but instead focusing entirely on the self. Im an r-slur but they are "led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention," except the hand is quite visible.2

Gooning is neoliberalism for s*x, or, at the very least, it is to s*x as neoliberalism is to society. If, as economists claim, human beings make rational choices with the information available to them, and more and more of that information is porn, then the rational choice is probably to masturbate.

And herein lies the problem. I have absolutely no problem with people who prefer to spend their time masturbating, but many gooners view the rejection of connections with real people, especially women, as well as the rejection of reality itself, as self-evidently rational.

For Marc (who is notoriously sensitive to disrespect, so I will refer to him by his first name), the "plebs" in the underclass have nothing to do, and, reading between the lines only a little, deserve no say in what is done. He imagines a future in which all menial labor is automated, and the now-obsolete wet-ware of the underclass ought to be satisfied consuming what is on offer, on the platforms that he and his buddies own. The underclass is given a digital simulacra of a meaningful life, so immersed in the technology owned by people like him that even theological pursuits, like those of pablito, become confined to the meaningless solipsism of content consumption. They are forced to live in and make sense of both a digital and material world entirely outside their control. They're relegated to be consumers of the content created within this milieu, developing hyper-specific tastes, the inevitable result of the highly personalized advertising-driven content delivery systems that power the web.

Basically me and @sandkwinn

Entire thread is like “omg anything more than once a month and I'm done ahaha I just can't do it”.

Anyone employed by an insurance company should automatically be sentenced for eternity to the Greek Fields of Punishment, Tartarus is a playground in comparison.