I think there's a disconnect here.

Imagine not having anything important to do, having a complex and interesting hobby you'll really enjoy doing scheduled, and then not doing it and doom scrolling all day because of the work required in setup vs lying in bed.

This isn't a problem you can solve with positive thinking and some project management software.

Others have gotten the main points, but I'll add one more.

Before Uber, there was no guarantee that your taxi would ever come.

You had to tell the dispatcher both your location and the destination, it would be relayed, and then the drivers would decide if it was worth the effort.

Often short suburban trips outside weekends would not be as profitable to drivers and so they wouldn't pick you up and there was no way to tell except repeatedly calling up.

So, imagine 11 year old me, standing outside alone in 40 degree summer heat for 90 min waiting for a driver that never came. This happened several times.

Uber really did make things better for awhile.

It turned out to be much easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Undefined, we cannot get a new game until the selectives stop dancing on the adamantine tower and the dragon break ends.

We have no choice but to change all twitch streams to Swan Lake for the duration of the emergency

Market liberalism under collapse is objectively the slightly less moderate wing of Fascism

Some trots are ok and have good theory, just gotta tiptoe around the pain points.

Also Trot hasn't been a meaningful description since 1960.

HARDCORE!

It can't save us, but SuccDems in South America are at least not actively trying to doom us.

An extremely enforcible law that I'm sure more abortion friendly states will co operate with.

There was some ghoul on twitter recently saying what they'd do if they had no money, and that was grift a $10,000 credit card and use it to set themselves up as a middleman for tree clearing work, using cheap undocumented immigrant labour and undercutting the competition so he could raise prices and expand the franchise.

At no point did the scam (which had multiple fatal flaws but assuming it works here) involve the "business owner" doing any actual work except illegally littering the street with signs advertising their supposed business which was actually just a middleman money pump exploiting cheap labour on both ends.

Usually I'm used to a fig leaf of obfuscation in these schemes, but no, full mask off "I'm exploiting labour for profit and that's good actually"

Its fun, I'm having fun, but frustratingly not as good as it could be.

Level grind curve makes Morrowind look forgiving. There's just a lot of annoying shit and ways things could be handled better like transitions could have been done in game rather than via cutscene, just keep the warp animation up like every space game since Privateer. Encumbrance is irritating, base building is frustratingly obtuse. In terms of choice outside of a couple of quests you are railroaded down good/evil paths. Let Me Shoot the Quest Critical Character Bethesda! There are so, so many CEOs in this game I just wanted to shoot as soon as they tried to push me around. Finally, it looks like the deep lore isn't. The big questions like the main quest and the Varuun seem to just hit a brick wall, and there's so far not a lot of small questions outside "I think the terrormorphs are a sentient civilisation."

The worldbuilding is so, so depressing. It's easier to imagine the complete ending of the human condition than the end of capitalism.

And I'm stuck with the bug where when you go into menus it re-renders at 4k and your framerate tanks into single digits. So that sucks.