I like the fact that it attempts to provide an alternative narrative to the artificial medicalisation of 'mental illness'.

Maybe it isn't totally factually accurate but it has enough truth to me that it represents a small flicker of hope in what is too often a chronically invalidating world.

If you're well off economically, then maybe.

But outside of the freedom in how you spend whatever money you are able to 'earn', I'd argue that the Western model of life (i.e. work) is pretty damn authoritarian. It's entirely possible that people in the past felt that they had more freedom than they realistically do now.

edit: To the coward who down-voted me without deigning to engage in debate, here's some evidence that when empires (like the west) collapse it can improve the lives of the 99%: https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse

>To the coward who down-voted me ...

From the site guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Vibe correlations

If the broader economic system wasn't based on what is essentially theft, security wouldn't be as necessary as it is.

> This wasn't an "Apple only" law -- it would have affected all platforms with data on customers that live outside the UK.

Yeah, the law still exists. Apple just successfully managed to refuse to comply with a request made under it.

> Do you mean "should've"? That's a common contraction of "should" and "have." In many American accents, the difference between "should've" and "should have" is negligible, and will sound like "should of" even though it isn't.

I think they specifically meant "should of" which is a colloquial form of "should've" in a number of places in the UK.

I went to school with a large number of people who would write "I should of done X instead of Y". In fact I'm pretty sure I made that "mistake" a number of times growing up.

We are not talking about writing; we’re talking about language.

Is there really a difference in how “should have” and “should’ve” are pronounced? There isn’t in any accent I’m familiar with.

> Is there really a difference in how “should have” and “should’ve” are pronounced?

I sure hope so, one's a contraction and the other is not...

Likely gp meant "should of" and "should've."

Indeed

What I'm saying is that people in certain regions actually say "should of" instead of "should've".

And yes, there can be and often is a difference between saying "should've" and "should of".

I think "Try and X" means "Try to X and do X" which means to my mind means to attempt and, upon success of the trial, to complete X.

"I’ll try and eat the salad." could be expressed as "I'll try eating some of the salad and, if possible, finish eating it."

Can I let my AI chat bot do the interview for me? I want to filter out all of the crap companies before I commit my time to actually talking to them.

Next iteration: Send your bot to work while you enjoy beach

That's the right response. The direction this is heading is that all content distributed over the Internet should be assumed to come from a bot. This company has a couple years tops before that is obvious enough that companies don't even bother.

Would you mind sending me your Ai Resume? We could do a virtual onsite and get a feeling for what it would be like to virtually work with you and see if your Ai contributes positively to the culture of our team

All ass, zero class?

> Keep up the good work!

Sounds a little tone deaf/hollow to me.

I'd encourage people to find ways to look after themself so that they don't feel like they have to keep stubbornly plodding on.