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For youtube you should use Revanced and the subscriptions feed. No ads, no garbage recommendations but just a small amount of effort.

I think movies are worse now, I may be getting old but I the time between "Wow, that was a great movie" seems to be getting longer.

On the other hand, TV shows are getting better, when I watched Firefly recently (don't kill me) it was good but not great while The Bear and Ted Lasso are just amazing.

Anime is also getting better, there are new animes that are great being released all the time. Chainsaw Man, Frieren, Solo Levelling, Delicious Dungeon and Dan Da Dan are all great picks that came out recently.

I feel like Steam is also really great these days, there's a bit of a downturn in AAA game quality but the indie scene is going strong. Slay the Spire, Hades and Balatro all came out semi recently. You're better served with getting some gaming recommendations since the catalog is so full of games that are worth playing you'll have to quit your job to actually get through them. I really would like to dump another 100 hours into Factorio to get through the Space Age DLC.

All in all, yeah, things are getting enshittified but there's still plenty of entertainment that's good being released every day.

I have a moderately strong opinion. I used to be very pro full minimum wage UBI until I calculated how much it actually costs and realised that it's more than the entire budget of my country.

I feel like there's a lot of benefit in a BUI system though, a $500 a month UBI is a substantial difference for people, prevents starvation and so on. It should be done in increments.

Currently the everyone in Iceland gets a tax break of around $400 on the first income they make, this amount should be directly deposited to everyone instead as a start and have it renamed as "Basic assistance" or something.

Then since you already have a payout scheme you add in all other benefits that essentially modify the amount such as disabilities, unemployment, maternity, child support payments, retirement and so on.

Having a unified payment scheme and just checking if people are eligible for benefits is less beaurocracy than having each institution handle payments each month.

I get where you're going with this but it's not that dumb IMO, the maximum penalty absolutely is dumb.

If a person can barely cycle and obviously is drunk on a bike I think it's fair to assume that they're a danger to others so it should be illegal but the police shouldn't be breathalysing everyone.

With tweaks to the law I think it's fine:

1. Allow 0.3 instead of 0.15 so you can have two drinks and ride a bike. Bikes go a lot slower so the reaction time requirement is not the same.

2. Removing driving license for a non-traffic violation doesn't make sense, it disproportionately affects those that have licenses.

3. The fine and jailtime is ludicrous. Add in recklessly riding a bike for those such as riding too fast past pedestrians and jailtime for seriously injuring someone like breaking their leg or something.

Generally you want people to ride a bike instead of driving a car when drinking, it's a lot safer for everyone but still discourage it enough so people consider taking public transportation. If people walk their bike through crowds and then ride along empty streets just let them.

Bottom line, it's a good idea, but horrible execution.

You just need to find a hobby that you can do at work. Can be reading books, making music, playing video games, watching TV shows, chess etc.

Working on some hobby coding project could also be fun. When work is slow I work on an HTTP client that's terminal based.

Also check if you can go out for a haircut or do misc errands and with enough excuses you could put a gym workout while at work. Maybe you say you have a dentist or a doctors appointment but go to the gym instead. Kids are also a great excuse like "my kid is sick today so I'm going to pick him up and leave early" and you just go to the gym and do groceries.

If I had that type of situation I'd play tons of video, right now I'd play factorio and go to the gym. I might also see if there are some nice people at work that I can schedule a meeting with to just banter.

You get used to it, I know from experience. I found it easier than getting used to Sunday church bells because it's more frequent.

I'm going to say "The prince" by Machiavelli. The modern title would be "How to play power games and hold onto power" or something. The content is nice and solid but it's clear he should have hired an editor. His sentences are longer than most paragraphs.

The advice in the book is outdated to be fair. He essentially says "use money to make money instead of your time" and recommends getting on the housing ladder and using the fact that upgrading houses doesn't cost capital gains.

Never read it, but what I've heard it's wishful thinking combined with a self-fulfilling prophecy. Like "I manifested getting a healthy body so I started eating healthy and going to the gym so the Secret works". The manifest part in completely optional but I can see it helping some people.

The main point of the book could have been summarised up in an email. I listened to it as an audio book just to know what it's about and it's just "communism bad" mixed with everything Margaret Thatcher could masturbate to.

That makes sense and I agree with you, I got a bit confused by the the way it's phrased since I felt like it implied "Good kicks out bad, good becomes the bad" infinite loop. But general enshittification of most things is a very strong trend in history.

I've read about a bunch of "Power consolidation - > one man controls all - > successor is unqualified - > people get upset - > regime change". Have an upvote for intention :)

That's a pretty broad statement for the amount of nuance history has on liberation movements. From what I can tell it's usually more along the lines of 8 steps forward and 6 steps back over time. Voting rights for women are very unlikely to be removed for example.

Right now it's a period of democratic backsliding and fascism but this is nothing compared to the imperial era where European powers would just massacre Africans and take their resources.

To sum up my point, we swore to destroy a lot of things, then we destroyed a bunch of them, reintroduced some back and ended up making progress.

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