R Scott Bakker's books if you're feeling like questioning your free will. Beautifully bleak and philosophical. Imagine if Tolkien had his heart broken instead of marriage and wrote on that.
We make a sad couple,” she said, as though making a casual observation.
“Why would you say that?”
“A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There’s something sad about that.”
He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. “There’s something sad about all couples,” he said.”
Not only Idiocracy, but Silicon Valley gives perfect insight into our train wreck of a tech industry and the type of personalities that sink to the top in it.
Long story short, a perfect red heifer is needed to purify clergy in order for the 3rd temple to be consecrated. The only problem is that there's kinda an important mosque sitting where that temple would be.
Pay attention to history. Supply crunches like this are followed by supply glut.
There's a reason why a company like SanDisk is signing multi year fixed price contracts now with the big data guys. That's not a bet on hardware prices continuing to rise.
It's not even waits at bathroom lines (which are fine once the show starts). It's the simple act of having to leave your spot. The fomo is that strong.
They don't want to give up their spot on the rail. And they lack the confidence/assertiveness to work their way through the crowd back to their spot.
The general lack of proper crowd etiquette and insistence on being part of the show I attribute to streamer/online culture. It's not enough to be there, you've got to be acknowledged. This does predate the pandemic. But what the pandemic did was give these already learned behaviors a void of a couple years for those behaviors to fester without check.
You've an uptick in this type of behaviour coupled with a decline in enforcement.
You can go to countries where there are no traffic rules being enforced at all, but there's not the same wanton disregard for life that I see daily on US roads. Recently was in Houston and you couldn't pay me to live in that hellscape of entitled drivers.
Cons: splinters