The things we like don't change much from day to day.
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As a former overnight IT worker, I always just assumed my browsing history would be reviewed by other IT people. Maybe they wondered why I spent so much time on horror game forums, maybe they already knew I was a disturbed mind.
Ever notice how all the world's worst animals only evolved in Australia?
They saved the rest of us, but they couldn't save themselves...
Or unless a kite with a cut line drifts into power lines, or helicopter rotors, or traffic, or a factory smokestack...
My in-laws are keen kite flyers and travel around the country to kite festivals. As soon as someone sets up an Indian fighting kite stall, the serious flyers pack up and go home. No-one's going to spend thousands of dollars on materials just to let some 12-year old with a $10 kite cut their lines.
I close the company-mandated interruption generator and only check my email hourly.
I disabled adblock for a forum I use. Some time after that, the owner independently decided to disable adverts for supporting members, so now it looks pretty much the same.
All that modern tech, then I bet a grey-hair from Göbekli Tepe shows up in reed sandals and takes the silver with a throwing spear that doesn't even have fletching.
It's hard getting a game organised when everyone has a conflicting schedule. You make compromises.
In a civilisation that can beam food to your table a waiter is a performer, not service staff. And I do believe there are some entertainers who would find satisfaction in putting on a performance for an audience of two, whose attention is going to be somewhere else most of the time.
What do you grow? Carrots, right?