@TheGibson Here in the UK you can still form a social life by visiting a local pub often enough to get to know the regulars. Or go to church without the Internet. My 82 year old neighbour doesn't have it, and still manages to get to concerts at our local town hall.
I refer you to my old joke about the first thing our new AI overlord will say is 'Shut up, you chattering monkeys.' š
@raphael I used to lucid dream the worry. I.e. I was in bed sleeping, dreaming I was lying in bed worrying. Spotted it because I didn't used to be able to hear the bedside radio in my dreams.
@raphael One thing I've definitely found is worrying about the worry is a way to keep it going. Lie down let your mind drift and don't give a damn about whether you sleep or not is the way I do it naturally. Works well enough most of the time. Just you might be a few hours short on sleep š
I donāt understand this fear mongering over Boris. I mean...itās not Robert Mugabe, Bashar al-Assad...Charles Taylor, Muammar Gaddafi or Idi Amin.
The dudeās just a fucking buffoon and in a situation where thereās no better alternative, in a world where things could be much MUCH worse...youāll all be just fine...and if not, youāll be fine relative to countries (who have) experienc(ed/)ing widespread poverty, famine, civil wars and brutal dictatorships...so relax.
We rightfully excoriate IBM for selling shit to Nazis which was then used for predictable ends. There's no such thing as "neutrality" when you're providing resources to fascism; you're either a party to it or you aren't.
@TheGibson Do they say posture these days? To me 'position' would have less of the taint of 'pose' posture does.
I'm not sure how many non-CTOs will follow it, particularly pp.2.
Seems a bit more like a flyer than a mission statement. Like the idea of the services offered, but not sure such a detailed listing of them lives in the mission statement. I was taught a mission statement should be good for at least 10 years.