Insurance companies seem slightly over-represented here

These are relatively easy to find in Japan

Couldn’t tell you why but they are

Flying cars are also horrifying: they’ve existed for about a century, popular culture won’t accept they’re a bad idea and imagine the research breakthroughs drone warfare would experience if a consumer market were funneling funds in from a whole new closely-related industry

Idk what your society or definition of “insanity” is but assuming you’re asking what we believe most commonly leads to one’s mental health entering a negative feedback loop:

Broadly speaking it’s some form of hopeless desperation (yes, the hopeless qualifier matters here) that commonly kicks into high gear after falling into homelessness, at least based on my own observations

Some also get to play on hard mode simply for winning the genetic and/or socio-economic anti-lottery

Does this refer to the overall Lemmy meta or was there a specific “sucks your mum died; maybe it was from the shame of you using Adobe products” moment?

If the other comments knew the details, the response would be terror not annoyance:

Management types in smaller, growing businesses are shockingly susceptible to the promise of “cleaning things up” by making everything a “Microsoft shop”, even when that means transferring data and control to Azure (competitors also try but MSFT almost always wins)

They’re happy, they own nothing and they don’t even know it

Note: this is largely referring to corporate accounts

Different jobs are different

Sorry for rambling

I agree in spirit but a CPI applied to military expenditure would be adjusting for prices of irrelevant items and could become very skewed at such large scales

Admittedly I don’t know have a better idea either so… Guess I’m hoping somebody smarter than me can chime in

How did that cat manage to keep its phone’s reflection out of this selfie?

Grub Rescue

Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game

I had a lot of fun with it

Doesn’t sound familiar but I understand there’s very little to go off here

Can’t remember the name but there’s a novel set in Ireland in the not-too-distant future

Synopsis implied it had become a surveillance state but didn’t gave up before confirming due to the literal writing style

I swear every sentence was written in the passive voice (poorly remembered examples):

“It was made known through the clothes he wore they were sent from the department of security”

“As she walked outside the smell made Spring’s arrival clear”

Totally fine normally but do it every single sentence and it becomes a mystery novel where the mystery is what the hell you just read!

… Or idk, Harry Potter 5 is pretty meandering

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Pick any human development index measurement and view its progress over the past 10 years

You’re not wrong but this image is a parody

Counterpoint: what?

Why is the date range backwards?

I see some of their paintings are dated at less than 2000 years old so it would be CE but that’s not necessarily true for all their artwork

S*

It doesn’t stand for anything

Ironic neither Power Rangers nor Teletubbies are on this list