Big if do.

After the ‘4’ incident my calibration for guessing if something like this is a joke is completely broken.

To be fair to them the default with “user friendly” phone UI makes it difficult to have any idea where things are. You often really have to go out of your way to open a file manager.

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The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week

Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.

It’s not naive, it’s their excuse to switch their brains off.

If uncomfortable thoughts only come from faraway malicious others trying to undermine your “democracy”, you can dismiss them guilt-free.

Now you can simply drop a piece of paper in a box and call it good. Nothing scary needs to be done or considered to arrest the decade long freefall into overt fascism that you wait no stop you’re thinking again.

and that finally – and this goes for the capitalists too –

an inhuman power rules over everything.

If I’d only put off de-googling a bit longer before I saw the news I could have skipped this hop. Oh well…

I’m eyeballing Tuta. Anyone have other recommendations?

Give it a few generations for the selection pressure of the market / the temptations of new leadership to take over.

What would Machiavelli do? is a fine continuation of that energy.

… and it is only in so far as the appropriation of even more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations, that he functions as a capitalist, that is, as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will.