Didnt know that. Maybe thats the secret to long life… :)

Maybe they import unhealthy food into your country because its popular there. Usually the food chains knows whats selling and are keeping those products.

Yeah thats true also. Also they have higher average iq than the rest of the world.

Must be the healthy food. They work all the time and drink alcohol aswell.

I will stop using it of course. There is a price to pay for not being affected by this. Its not going to be free.

Ah you meant like that…

Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.

Then I will just update my profile to a link my own cv page.

Absolutely never using any service that requires this. I dont even have any account on those platforms and I never will.

I quit at 50, living on savings and stock market…

I dont know, its just something awful about working every day. I got sick of it.

Now im not doing anything special but im free to just live.

You would need more, because also paying for fuel or public transport, expensive lunch, maybe coffee…in my case I spent hundreds of dollars every month just from office related costs.

Its scary how bad it is for us to go to an office. Sure, if you single and you need coworkers to not feel lonely, it may be worth it. But im super happy not going.

If you do the math, its just horrible. If you have one hour to work, its 2 hours every day just getting to and back from work, which is 10 hours per week.

So you are spending more than an entire work day every week in traffic! Every year, you are spending 41 full working days in traffic!!

Isnt that just insane? If you are working from home, you have 10 hours of free time every week. The value of that is insane. You could go to gym, spend time with family, learn how to cook, whatever. Its a lot of time.

On a related note, you should get off big tech social media because that will suck up so much time you could use to improve yourself instead.

For me, I have given up. Since I cant think in office, I just produce shit code because im tired of trying to think in that environment. I just stopped trying.

At home, in my home lab, I put a lot of effort in to make it just work, with lots of thoughts about simplicity, unity, security and so on. But when I work on my home lab, I do it from a mental state of fun and no pressure or interruptions. Its a different world.

Yeah covid will be the best time we ever had (work wise), until there is a big reform in the future. At some point, humans will realize the waste of draining everybody to death like this.

Yeah its such a huge difference in life quality.

When I was forced to go into office three days per week, I felt like a prisoner. It was really affecting my life. I had no energy left after work and was generelly just so tired that i watched tv and went to bed.

That feeling of being completely drained is not fun. For what. Its not a good life.

No, all your suggestions will just accomplish nothing except get people who follow them into huge problem with zero gains.

Not paying taxes, being violent, how is that a plan? Thats why the downvotes I think. You are just being angry and wanting change, but you also dont have a plan that will do anything. Just like everyone.

No change to Trump will come from that. Blocking roads or dumping manure? That may work in France because French police still are humans. But in America you may get shot doing that and called a terrorist afterwards.

If you are logged in to anything, what you do is tied to your account. Welcome to the internet. Instance admin on your instance can figure out your ip. Nobody else. You can run your own instance to avoid this if you want. Or just use a vpn.

Google track you constantly even when you are not logged in by the way, with scripts on almost every web page. So they have your real name, your entire search history, and what exact programs you use on your phone if you have android.

I would never go to see a movie with such a person. Wtf.

And she is 40…she sounds like a teenager.

Yeah its so strange to watch people treat Trump as a good guy. What the hell is going on. I can only assume Americans are overworked and overstressed and cant think anymore. I probably would be too in that country.

Trump will always do what is in his own best interest, money or power wise. He gives zero fucks about anyone else.

Yeah I agree. We have to wake up a bit. Real change happens outside of this place.