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I don't think I'm just projecting when I say we've pretty much reverted to that? As far as I can tell it's not 'cool' among schoolchildren any more either to have some song or joke sound or whatever.
The vast majority I hear (i.e. if it rings at all, not just vibrating!) I would say are 'simple'; it's the 'songs and joke sounds or whatever' that grate.
Lately, stand-up comedians have been saying they're out of a job, because the absurdity of reality is escaping parody. Nothing stays funny for long, because soon enough it's true, and then banal. In a world where all things are absurd, ipso facto nothing is absurd. An interesting question becomes what remains? What are the solid relations that underpin our humanity? Having a boss that tells you what to do? No, long s…
Taxes have never been as high as now in recent history. You dont have to worry about them going away.
Today it's 37%. So it's really the other way around — taxes have never been as low as now in recent history.
Lately, stand-up comedians have been saying they're out of a job, because the absurdity of reality is escaping parody. Nothing stays funny for long, because soon enough it's true, and then banal. In a world where all things are absurd, ipso facto nothing is absurd. An interesting question becomes what remains? What are the solid relations that underpin our humanity? Having a boss that tells you what to do? No, long s…
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Stand up comedians are saying this while they're...performing standup?
Yeah, so? Your comment is like saying "CEOs saying the current market is bad for their industry, while ...still running companies?!" It's not like the observation that a trade is being hurt (in this case, in the kind of disconnect between your job being pointing out absurdity as something that stands out and making it funny, and a society that seems to drown and revel in it) cannot be done by practitioners of said tr…
Lately, stand-up comedians have been saying they're out of a job, because the absurdity of reality is escaping parody. Nothing stays funny for long, because soon enough it's true, and then banal. In a world where all things are absurd, ipso facto nothing is absurd. An interesting question becomes what remains? What are the solid relations that underpin our humanity? Having a boss that tells you what to do? No, long s…
Taxes have never been as high as now in recent history. You dont have to worry about them going away.
When we all have telephones embedded into our brains, linked in to our neural circuitry. When Google advertises to you in your dreams, daydreams and nightmares. When Huawei gives their government control over their citizens' thoughts, and feelings and desires. When Samsung kills millions with a botched over-the-air firmware upgrade.
If we let them wire something into our brains, it's a lot easier to connect it to the happiness centres:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984894/
If you can gain networked control of such a device, you could easily gain complete control of their motivations and disires. Much more strongly than with any drug.
Not only would you be able to make these people hand over everything of value to you (bypassing any needs to advertise), you could even make them WANT to work for you (and even go to war for you) with fanatical motivation and effort.
Lately, stand-up comedians have been saying they're out of a job, because the absurdity of reality is escaping parody. Nothing stays funny for long, because soon enough it's true, and then banal. In a world where all things are absurd, ipso facto nothing is absurd. An interesting question becomes what remains? What are the solid relations that underpin our humanity? Having a boss that tells you what to do? No, long s…
They can just literally quote real-life dialogues instead. Rick & Morty featured a whole court session that really happened.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bjDkQR57fA
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Taxes have never been as high as now in recent history. You dont have to worry about them going away.
In the US, the highest marginal tax rate for individuals was 70% as recently as 1981. It was 92% in 1952. Today it's 37%. So it's really the other way around — taxes have never been as low as now in recent history.
what's more interesting to me is at the date of this comic, even the landline phones were not fully adopted :)
Yet it predicted the future more accurately than Blade Runner (1982) where people still use pay phones in 2019.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Taxes have never been as high as now in recent history. You dont have to worry about them going away.
In the US, the highest marginal tax rate for individuals was 70% as recently as 1981. It was 92% in 1952. Today it's 37%. So it's really the other way around — taxes have never been as low as now in recent history.