I read a LinkedIn post on Lemmy today.

The style was concise. Painfully concise. Sentences filed down to icepicks that stabbed at my sanity. And yet, somehow completely superfluous - how is this possible?

The answer separates ordinary workers from real paradigm-shifters in the modern economy: AI.

You dont have to like it. But when I get an application, I dont even read the resume. Skills and hard work don’t matter anymore. That’s what AI is for.

What matters is the cover letter. I look for jargon. Short, meaningless catchphrases. Humblebrags.

I dont want the next great engineer. I want the next great LinkedIn poster.

Welcome to the vaporware job market. Get on board or get left behind.

Pretty sure this is just a self-aware joke that a lot of scientific and philosophical breakthroughs seem obvious after the fact.

You should check out chessboxing it’s actually very entertaining

They dont actually fight and play chess at rhe same time, they alternate, but the whiplash is wild. And you’ve got high-level players completely shook making blunders cause they were fighting 30 seconds ago

There are multiple actual mercedes-benz commercials featuring the song “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin, which is not-at-all-subtly mocking consumerism and purchasing status symbols

I think that occasional social drinking is probably a good thing for society. It encourages people to socialize, open up and trust each other. Yeah you low-key are poisoning yourself, but your liver can handle a couple drinks a week. Id say I average about 1-2 drinks a week, and as such I have like no alcohol tolerance. The upside of which is that im a pretty big guy and I can get pleasantly buzzed off a single drink on an empty stomach.

The first time I had alcohol I hated it. The feeling, kinda like what you said, that my brains processing power has gotten throttled down. But once I learned to relax, its actually quite pleasant. I dont judge anyone for not wanting to drink, though, it’s not for everyone. But if youre gonna alter your mental state with drugs I think its a decent choice. There are safer drugs, like cannabis probably, but I think in today’s world alcohol is more the energy that society needs. I dont think that its a coincidence that the decline in alcohol consumption among young people is closely correlated with an increase in loneliness.

Not only is it outrageous… its also completely unfair!

True, I did think of Long, although the etymology of that one isn’t always clear. For Irish people apparently “Long” is derived from the Gaelic word for seafarer.

Funny timing I just saw a trailer for Wildwood and it looks SICK

Yeah I did think of Armstrong, although that’s not quite rhe same thing. Still a pretty sweet last name though I feel like you kinda have to be some kind of craftsman with a name like that.

It freaked me out pretty bad the first few times it happened but I’ve gotten used to it haha

I do like that the brain gives itself immune privilege and the blood brain barrier, it’s like “miss me with that shit” haha

I might be willing to support this project as long as he hates sand people even more than in the prequels

Yeah something kind of similar happens to me occasionally, usually when I am trying to fall back asleep in the early morning. It’s very… violent. It happens just as I’m falling asleep, I call it “passing through”. My eyes are closed but I will see bright flashing lights behind them, I have the sensation of falling, and I will hear a really loud sound like a train horn or sometimes screaming. And I get pins and needles across my whole body.

The cool thing is if I succeed in not freaking out and waking back up I always enter a lucid dream on “the other side” although it usually only lasts for a minute or two.

I thought it was more generally the health of the horse? Apparently it’s both

Yeah that’s not really the same thing as enshittification imo. That’s just classic supply/ demand disruption in a product that is difficult to scale up production on. It usually balances back out in the end.

It’s just a flag you can add to your search urls that returns a regular web search. There are firefox extensions that do it for you just search for udm14

It’s all real if thats what you’re asking

Also cool - the Spanish word for jeans is vaquero. So the English word for vaccine and the spanish word for blue jeans are both derived from the Latin word for “cow”. I always thought that was neat.

Oh I thought of one - the Cemeteries of Amalo series by Sarah Monette. The premise is there’s a guy that can kind of commune to the dead and he travels around this sort of magical steampunk-era city solving mysteries. It is occasionally spooky and intense but the overall vibe is very cozy.

Apart from that, definitely Chronicles of Narnia as some people suggested. Although I thought they had a very bittersweet feeling to them. My favorite one for coziness would probably be A Horse and his Boy.

Just make sure you defecate in the woods as nature intended!