As someone who remembers the time before spotify: people were pirating alot so legal streaming was the way to end this but giving a usable alternative

Be the ghost you want to see in the world

Iirc the movie is inspired by the book but I haven’t seen it yet and honestly barely read the book

Unicorns that “lost” their horns identity as “horses” but that doesn’t make them less of a unicorn. If you are auab (assigned unicorn at birth), nothing in the world will ever turn you into a horsey. That’s basic biology.

This is a psy op from the government because it’s so obviously wrong that it makes bird truthers look like idiots too, which we are not. If it flies, it spies. “If it gallops, it spies” neither rhymes nor does it make sense. See how fake it is!

Who’s that?

They can kill the penguin but they can’t kill the idea

Disagreeing with the intention of some 1700s guys is extremely low IQ?

For those interested

That’s how elections work: one wins, everyone else loses

They lost the election

Just for some context:

Sounds fair

Who’s there?

“I was waiting for you”

I lost the game

There is a difference between “btw etymological this used to mean that but since X we use it in other contexts as well” and “no, you are wrong”. The difference is one is fun at parties, the other is not.

The etymological fallacy…

You are right that not all Bullshit Jobs have the idle time I’m talking about but enough to create this culture. But I can’t say it better than he himself:

One might imagine that leaving millions of well-educated young men and women without any real work responsibilities but with access to the internet—which is, potentially, at least, a repository of almost all human knowledge and cultural achievement—might spark some sort of Renaissance. Nothing remotely along these lines has taken place. Instead, the situation has sparked an efflorescence of social media (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter): basically, of forms of electronic media that lend themselves to being produced and consumed while pretending to do something else. I am convinced this is the primary reason for the rise of social media, especially when one considers it in the light not just of the rise of bullshit jobs but also of the increasing bullshitization of real jobs. As we’ve seen, the specific conditions vary considerably from one bullshit job to another. Some workers are supervised relentlessly; others are expected to do some token task but are otherwise left more or less alone. Most are somewhere in between. Yet even in the best of cases, the need to be on call, to spend at least a certain amount of energy looking over one’s shoulder, maintaining a false front, never looking too obviously engrossed, the inability to fully collaborate with others—all this lends itself much more to a culture of computer games, YouTube rants, memes, and Twitter controversies than to, say, the rock ’n’ roll bands, drug poetry, and experimental theater created under the midcentury welfare state. What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces where even when there’s nothing for them to do, they still can’t admit it openly.

David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs 2018 (p. 382 of 895 in my ebook version)

I think you misunderstand my position. I’m not a cultural pessimist saying social media made us all into mindless zombies. You can use social media very actively by putting much thought into your posts and conversations and researching them thoroughly. And there is alot of stuff you can mindlessly consume at home long before the internet.

What I’m saying is that Bullshit Jobs created a whole new demographic with time on their hand to idly use online (since they work on computers) but not enough to be productive. As I wrote in another comment, in the time between meetings when a mail might come in or your boss might bump into you, a social media timeline is the way to go. You don’t have a TV in office but access to the internet.