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The three classes described in the article, core contributors, bounty hunters, and network participants are just employees, contractors, and share holders with new branding. The most meaningful difference is a lack of labor protections.

The difference is that one doesn't need a special education to identify porn. The average low-wage content moderator at Facebook likely does not have the scientific background to distinguish between bullshit and science. Case in point, this article.

> "I know I'm not alone in missing the hum of activity, the energy, creativity and collaboration of our in-person meetings and the sense of community we've all built"

Easy to say when you're not commuting an hour to and from work five days a week. I would bet Tim isn't too far from the Apple HQ. I say this as someone who does not like working from home but does live very close to the office.

The article isn't about "enjoying unaccustomed courtesy and understanding from the world." It's about the author's experience on a year long vacation. "Actually, depression isn't that bad because I don't have to work" has not been the experience of anyone I know. All this article does is minimize the very real suffering that many people are experiencing.

I think the article itself is what downplays and trivializes poor mental health. "Well, you know" is just the new version of "fine" - a way to brush the very real things the author mentioned under the rug and not speak about them. The societal response to depression, addiction, anxiety, loneliness, and despair should not be to stay at home and never talk about it.

I don't know how someone could write an article about the near-pandemic rise of mental illness over the last year but still come to the conclusion that, actually, this is better.

Lets be real - the reason Facebook and other networks were banning these opinions wasn't because they were scientifically unviable, it was because they were right-wing talking points.

If they had time to sit in a phone booth and do mindfulness meditations they probably wouldn't be peeing in bottles.

If they had time to sit in a phone booth and do mindfulness meditations they probably wouldn't be peeing in bottles.

I find it hard to get on board with Chia being a better alternative to Bitcoin because it uses less energy when the tradeoff it makes is the manufacturing and waste of millions of terabytes of hard drives. Does not seem very environmentally friendly to me.

Another thing I never see mentioned in the articles about restaurant staff shortages is how awful working at a restaurant is. The restaurant industry has more sexual harassment claims than any other industry, with 90% of women and 70% of men experiencing some form of sexual harassment [1]. Everyone I know who has worked in restaurants has plenty of stories about how awful the managers and customers are.

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/01/sexual-harassment-is-pervasive-in-th...

According to the New York Times vaccine tracker [1], only the Oxford-AstraZeneca (known as Covishield in India) and Bharat Biotech (Covaxin) vaccines are approved for use in India, and neither of these vaccines are available in the USA.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...

Loss of grant money

> The company said users will be able to report such behaviors but it may also investigate cases proactively, for instance if there is a verified news report that a user has been arrested.

> ...

> The new standards will apply even if the target of the offline behaviors is not a Twitch user or if the perpetrator was not a user when they committed the acts. Perpetrators would also be banned from registering a Twitch account, it said.

> Twitch said it would take action only when there was evidence, such as screen shots, videos of off-Twitch behavior or police filings, verified by its internal team or third-party investigators. Users who submit a large amount of frivolous reports will face suspension.

If you are accused of a crime you will be banned from Twitch?

The constraints of the Twitter platform make it uniquely bad to challenge something like Substack or Patreon, which leaves... Onlyfans as the only paid content platform they can take users from?

Treating desks like hotel rooms instead of apartments. Instead of having one desk that is "yours," you get assigned to any available desk every day. It seems like a terrible way to work, but it cuts down on the overall number of desks needed since large offices will never have 100% attendance.

Seems like part of the plan really. Why pay license fees to other studios when they can make their own movies?