Drunken Stulosopher

Half of workers are 'revenge quitting' and walking out on their jobs without notice—and the majority are loyal, longtime staff | Fortune Workers are so done with toxic workplaces that nearly half are are quitting without warning, often after years of loyalty, to send a clear message to management.

"Half of workers are 'revenge quitting' & walking out on their jobs without notice"

Considering the way corporations have been behaving, especially lately, they deserve it. Almost none of them deserve an ounce of loyalty from their employees imo.
fortune.com/2025/11/25/h...

For several years, I worked in Ethiopia and Djibouti. There are still tribes of hunters and nomadic warriors living there. Contact with different cultures, such as Western culture, causes all their values, their way of understanding the world, the stories they tell their children, and their mythologies to collapse. After contact, these stories look odd. The children stop recognizing themselves in their parents, in their elders; they no longer want to go on. Many fall into drugs or alcohol. In the capital of Djibouti, a large part of the population lives under the influence of drugs. The young people only dream of emigrating to Yemen, where the worst kind of slavery imaginable awaits them.

Q. And did something like that happen with the Neanderthals? A. Homo sapiens tools are standardized. Neanderthals, on the other hand, had a much more unique and creative, though far less efficient, way of using them. It’s clear to me that these humans collapsed. Depending on the region, they may have chosen to become invisible, and in others, they simply no longer wanted to go on living. It was an individual and social suicide of the population. This is how humans disappear: when they no longer want to live because their values have collapsed. Q. Does that say anything good about us, the group that prevailed?

Author of The Last Neanderthal:

"Contact with different cultures ... causes their values to collapse. This is how humans disappear: when they no longer want to live because their values have collapsed."

It makes me wonder, if space aliens ever did visit us...
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A big part of why I go after religion is because if you can teach someone to think critically well enough to reject religion, all other absurdities will fall behind.

And then, more than just the little harms like believing in Bigfoot, it'll stop the big harms that prevent humanity from progressing.

A recent survey suggests that as many as a quarter of Americans believe that Bigfoot exists. And one may ask, "Who cares? What does it harm?"

Because a populace willing to believe in absurdities can be convinced of anything. Even to make a moronic egotistical fascist dictator wannabe our leader.

"Once you start kneeling & praying, it's hard to get back to standing & thinking."
– Cleon XVII (Foundation, S2E8)

America's current rulers have certainly found this fact to be quite... useful.

The reason he wants people to dust off their Bibles is so that they can be damn sure to remember what Jesus taught...

...to make sure they do the exact opposite of what a non-English speaking foreigner said they should do.

The willful ignorance & scientifically-illiterate fear mongering in the comments would be hilarious if not for the embarrassment they are to humanity for thoroughly rejecting the incredible gift of intelligence that was bestowed upon our species.

A reminder that high school dropout conspiracy theorists who think particle colliders will destroy the planet have equal power to choose our leaders as the PhD researchers who use particle colliders to advance humanity's knowledge about the universe.
youtu.be/v0O1TZm7rWY

Neanderthal "Altamura Man" Suffered An Unfortunate Death And Became Embedded In A Cave Wall Over 128,000 Years Ago In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a very strange sight indeed: ancient human remains embedded in the cave wall.

A Neanderthal man met an unfortunate, drawn-out death. But his ancient misfortune resulted in his remarkable preservation, a boon for today's scientists.
www.iflscience.com/neanderthal-...

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies RentAHuman is a new digital marketplace connecting AI agents to humans who don't mind taking orders from the computer.

Allegedly, some 73,000 humans have already signed up to complete tasks on behalf of the robots in exchange for cash.

The robot war is already won without a single shot fired thanks to late-stage capitalism & psychopathic billionaires.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'll be moving to the East Coast later this year. I'm going to miss Las Vegas.

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Q&A: Cannabis usage in middle-aged, older adults linked to larger brain volume, better cognitive function Research studying the effects of cannabis on the brain has often focused on adolescents, but a new study from CU Anschutz researchers looks at population-level impacts of cannabis usage on the brain i...

"Research found that cannabis usage in older adults (ages 40-77) was associated with larger volumes in several brain regions & better cognitive function."
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...

President threatens to sue [Trevor Noah] over joke about Epstein Island

He's nothing but a crybaby. And just like many Mormons voted for Romney strictly because he's one of them...

Also, I want to make it clear that I agree with @thefireorg.bsky.social that Charles Murray should be free to give speeches to college students about how an imaginary person born from an egg after Zeus took the form of a swan and humped a queen is WHITE and it’s offensive woke DEI to say otherwise

Truth. Facts. Reality.

Or as conservatives like to call it, "liberal propaganda".

I received one of those as a gift when I was baptized (1982). A little sad I don't have it anymore considering how rare they seem to be.

I tend to focus on religion, but our addiction to absurdity infects all aspects of our lives.

I went under anesthesia recently & I've thought about how it's essentially temporary death.

And to be honest when I was temporarily dead, things weren't so bad.

And to be honest again, when I woke up part of me was glad I did. But also honestly, if I hadn't I would've never known that I didn't.

YouTube comment regarding the First Lady's Melania movie: "The only thing that I want to hear melania say is 'we must kill moose and squirrel'."

Protesters are being paid to not buy tickets to see the Melania movie

I used to own Palantir stock because of their government contracts. And even though the price is probably about to take off, I just can't. I won't touch that company with a 1,000-foot pole.

Saw this bumper sticker a little bit ago: "Make Orwell Fiction again"

MoneyPuck.com -Shot Maps Career and Game by Game Stats and Shot Maps For Each NHL Player

For those who aren't hockey fans, Matthew Tkachuk is a Trumpist.

In addition to the "feature" of Tkachuk's page, they did something similar for pro-Putin Russian phenom Alex Ovechkin (who recently broke Wayne Gretzky's goal scoring record).
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So I walk into the cafe & start giving my order to the cashier. Before I can even pay, the barista walks up with a drink in her hand, takes a quick peek at my order, & then hands me the drink.

I might have a problem. 😄

"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces." –Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I reject [observable] reality and substitute my own"

Some people believe the Earth is flat. Some believe that ancient Americans were shipping copper to Europe circa 2,500 BC.

Make up any absurd thing. The crazier the better. People will believe & follow you because most humans just don't give a shit about what's true.

Gen Z is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents but Denmark has a solution "Since the late 1800s, every generation has outperformed their parents."

If you're Gen Z & feeling a little picked on, just remember: it's the older generations who were dumb enough to vote for Orange Asshole Scumbag TWICE.
www.upworthy.com/gen-z-techno...

Conservatism spent decades utilizing organizations like Fox News & talking heads like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Rogan etc. All of whom specialized in fallacious arguing, thus cultivating a following of America's dumbest people who could be easily manipulated into voting for a kakistocracy.