They go out of their way to mention only European SSRs, as if the central Asian ones didn't exist.
Beaver
joined 4 years ago
Joyous humor :D
Anytime you see a dude advocate for or brag about working 60+ hours a week, it's either because their work is their entire identity, or it's because they have servants. Servants come in many forms (nannys, housewives, gardeners), but it's always a mini exploitation racket within their own household. Social reproduction is only barely possible with a standard 40 hour work week, any more and you're just annihilating your society.
Napster was a godsend, as I couldn't afford to buy music. I installed it on the school computers, and I had a sneaky little hidden folder with my mp3s. I'd plug in my headphones and listen over lunchtime. I eventually figured out how to use multipart rar files to put them onto floppy disks, so that I could get them back home and listen on my parent's computer. I was eventually able to buy a portable CD player that played mp3s on CD-RW, which really opened up the possibilities. Without piracy, I don't think I would be into music in the same way - I simple never would have had the opportunity to listen to most stuff.
I was hung up on someone for like ten years, but there was eventually a sharp dropoff in hung-up-ness. It was surprising to me that it happened, it felt like it was going to be a life-long thing. Living your life is the best thing you can do.