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MLF @marklfilteau.bsky.social

Do these people even want to be alive?

aug 6, 2025, 6:59 am • 59 2

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social

no, they do not!

aug 6, 2025, 7:09 am • 38 0 • view
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com

Life entails choices, and choices are hard.

aug 6, 2025, 7:10 am • 20 0 • view
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social

oh they’re happy to make choices — they choose the bot.

aug 6, 2025, 7:11 am • 12 0 • view
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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social

Even before that, they chose to optimise life rather than enjoy it.

aug 6, 2025, 7:39 am • 11 1 • view
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social

yes! that’s such a great point same people it’s a pathetic kind of control freak cope, to avoid actually living life

aug 6, 2025, 7:44 am • 10 0 • view
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goldenbadger.bsky.social @goldenbadger.bsky.social

💯

aug 6, 2025, 9:03 am • 1 0 • view
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Keeper @keeper86.bsky.social

And still it is highly likely that by optimizing he fits better in the System and will be more "successful" in a capitalist way and will get lots of superficial attention and validation due to that.

aug 6, 2025, 8:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social

I've said it before and I'll unfortunately be saying it again: Philip K. Dick was a frakin' prophet.

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aug 6, 2025, 1:03 pm • 5 2 • view