Either this is a significant personality change that would indicate an illness requiring treatment, or this is who he’s secretly always been in which case you’re really not losing anything but your illusions and if this is the last time you see him then you’re not really losing anything important.

If it’s the former it may help you to feel better by trying to get him some help, even if you fail then at least you tried. If it’s the latter then it’s just best to cut your losses as soon as possible and move on.

In the tech world drug users, particularly of hallucinogens, probably make up the top 10%.

On the one hand, better you know what they collect about you than not. And as long as you use a streaming service they’re collecting data on you.

On the other hand, streaming services are inherently wasteful and lead to pointless and excessive power usage which contributes to climate change, not to mention the privacy concerns, all of which could have been avoided by reasonably priced buy-once-own-forever media.

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That you don’t see the problem

Then he’s a popular lord

And the lord is back in his fiefdom

Capitalism literally Weekend at Berniesing the corpse of Robin Williams for profit.

This is fine

Ohh, I’ve seen this one, it’s a classic!

Ohh, I’ve seen this one before, it’s a classic!

Hard to fit that massive member in 1920x1080.

I mean, depending on the number of owners, a private company like Reddit (per Wikipedia) can function internally like a dictatorship or oligarchy. Occasionally they can be benevolent, but consider dictatorships in nations: how many of those are benevolent?

Ultimately, anything less than workplace democracy (like Mondragon) will likely devolve into rampant exploitation at some point in time, and even they aren’t completely immune, just generally less bad than their alternatives.

That moment when you laugh so hard you cry

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