Word: boredoms
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...form of optimistic technological determinism, in contrast to the typical 1980s cyberpunk dystopian future. Your model of the Bitchun Society in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in particular seems to be, if not quite a utopia, at least a world in which boredom is one of the biggest problems for most people. Do you think today that our technology is gradually narrowing the possible outcomes into a miasma of mediocrity...
...well as exploring health concerns of “non-human primates at the center and elsewhere, which is part of the center’s core mission.”PETA also accused the HMS lab of subjecting its animals to “stress stemming from confinement, boredom, loneliness, and the common practice of separating babies from their mothers” and claimed that “federal Animal Welfare Act violations,...painful and invasive experiments, and an unwillingness to make humane improvements” were rife at the center, according to a press release. Primate Specialist...
young indigenous people in remote communities often fall into boredom or worse. I broke my arm when I was about 18 and spent 11 months off work. Before long I was smoking marijuana, sleeping in till midday and couldn't be bothered shaving. I understand how you can get caught in that. And often your role models are in the same situation, and people who work are seen as the weirdos...
...some obvious adverse effects. Passing through the reading room near dawn is almost surreal. Slumped figures drool unattractively onto their course-packs, cursing their professors in slurred whispers. Having arrived optimistically the night before with a full head of steam, students find themselves trapped in a mist of boredom. They stand no chance in the stuffy atmosphere. Further soothed by a lullaby of turning pages and tapping keys, is it any wonder that Lamont’s midnight tenants yield to sleep? Could this, rather than Harvard’s natural exhibitionism, be the real reason behind Primal Scream? Come...
...efficient kidneys and liver mean that the same quantity of drug hits harder and stays in the body longer. Older users who think they're keeping their doses fixed are thus, in effect, steadily increasing them. What's more, the loss of a spouse or job or merely the boredom of retirement could tip the nonuser into experimentation and the borderline user into full-blown addiction. Moses, 57, never touched heroin until 2001, when his wife died. But when he picked it up, he got hooked fast. "I missed my wife. I was lonely," he says. "I didn't want...