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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Google Assistant on Android and Home devices gets markedly worse as time goes on. My Google Home can barely even figure out how to turn on lights anymore. Things that used to be amazing have devolved into “I don’t understand”.

    It’s really quite shocking and hurts a little bit because it feels like everything in the world is degrading and decomposing like in some dystopian novel or something.

    How can such amazing technology get worse? Is it really just “we can’t make money off this”?








  • I don’t disagree. I grew up as poor as the characters in this comic and we were definitely not happy like they are. It’s fiction and doesn’t account for the harshness of reality and very callously ignores the lack of a social safety net.

    However, the point of the comic still hits home. Life was much simpler when I was young and poor. The complexities and unnecessary stress of the life I lead now seem almost ridiculous in comparison.


  • I think the message can be interpreted though. It doesn’t have to be taken so literally.

    I am the exact same person today in my big adult house with my grown-up job as I was 25 years ago in my tiny little apartment living off $9 an hour. Houses, cars, jobs, promotions…these things don’t really change who you actually are. A 25% raise at work won’t make you 25% happier.

    You can still have a job that pays money and benefits and choose to downsize the rest of your life and eliminate all that stress. You don’t need a 3,000 sq. ft. house with a 3 car garage and a marble kitchen island to be happy… You’re still going to be the same you.






  • Universal Basic Income. No strings attached. Everybody gets it. There is no income threshold.

    • Regular human: UBI
    • McDonalds worker: UBI + McDonalds income
    • Bus driver: UBI + Bus driver income
    • Doctor: UBI + Doctor’s income
    • Billionaire tech CEO: UBI + Tech CEO money

    Yeah, the inflationary pressure would probably be insane and would constantly negate any progress. I’m not an economist so I don’t really know.