I feel this pretty hard. I got fired last July and spent 8 months straight applying for about 10-20 jobs a week.

I have a degree in programming as well. It took my 6 years to even get a programming job even though I graduated top of my class. I've pretty much since given up and am hoping to get a freelance web developer thing going here in the next few months after a bit more work on some things.

My angle is that if we are having this issue others are too and after the AIpocalypse, everyone is gonna do their own crafty or handyman business thing since they won't have corpo jobs either so I can make them sites.

Or at least that's my daydream.

In any case, solidarity ✊

Lol same bro. I only realized I had previously made an account when I went to make a new one and used the same email.

Which company is this? I've been trying it on the Annotation one and I guess I don't exist to them? If you wanna pm me said referral I can check it out next week when I got back to civilization and even if they tell me to fuck off you still get your bonus, right?

Maybe they swapped seats on the plane. We just gotta wait it out for the sequel.

It's Schrodinger's Chomsky.

It still cracks me up that that fucker went with a Luigi ass player 2 controller and no one even considered where else he might have skipped on monetarily.

Something that fucking stupid looking deserves to be called a gigawiper.

Still working on Minish Cap. I'm stuck between the second and third dungeon doing all the in between stuff. I just got my Pegasus Boots. I haven't had a chance these last few days to play it because I guess I decided last week to finish 3 books instead of play my handheld emulator. 🙃

I can look into him. I was doing meditation a while back for depression but not sure how much it was helping. I did a quick search for Jon Kabat Zinn for a reminder to look into it later.

Wait hold the fuck up... The title of what I grabbed is "Thus Spoke Syphilis" rofl. But it has that on the cover page of the epub. The actual file is Zararhustra.

You know I typed that and went "that doesn't look right... Oh well"

Cool, will check it out.

I'm gonna come back to your comment for sources when I'm back at my computer.

I wonder if I was actually asking, regardless of them both being flashy, if it's important as a foundation going into the rest of the existentialists, phenomonilogists, nihilists, etc. I think you answered that. I am less interested in Husserl to be honest so if skipping him is ok, then coolio.

I am eventually hoping to get to Merleau-Ponty but want to set aside a time specifically for him. I didn't even know of him (or Beauvoir) until Existentialist Cafe and they both stood out to me.

I actually have A Short History of Decay and will probably get to it in the next 3 or so books. What I'm wanting to get from Pessimism is if "optimistic nihilism" or Absurdism is something worthy of me aiming for since I'm a pessimist and very doom and gloom as it is. Again I want a sort of foundation. I'm having a hard time accepting my own mortality and basically being a "useless lump" since society has been so harsh against my own existence so pessimism is sort of my base state. I'm trying to figure out if it's more worth living in the absurd I think. I think that's probably why Cioran and Camus both caught my attention. They seem 2 sides of that coin maybe?

I'm already looking at tackling Being and Nothingness, as well as, The Second Sex lol. I donno how many other 1000 page tomes I can do rofl.

Not gonna lie, I wasn't a big fan of Watts and am probably lying gonna skip anything else by him for now. Onlt reason I read it was from a reading list suggested on reddit for existentialism.

Do you know of a synopsis that is good or would I be ok with trying to find a YouTube video or something?

I do have an English translation of Zararhustra, or I do if it's Thus Spoke Syphilis which web search suggests.

Gonna come back to this and davel's links later when I'm back in civilization. Thanks!

Gonna look for Losurdo and Lukacs. Different sources site Camus as a nihilist and an absurdist. Though I think he disregarded himself as neither even though he wrote the Absurd trilogy(Sisyphus etc).

I don't think I care about someone that thinks that a group of people should rule over another group just because they are strong and that's one of my uneducated takeaways about Nietzche so far. But then again that was Beauvoir's whole angle for The Second Sex(also in my list) and she flipped the master/slave concept on its head, or so that is my understanding.

Gonna save it and convert to epub when I get back to civilization, thanks.

I'm keeping a list of books to download when I get back to my computer and just added this one. Thanks for the rec.