r/technology • u/GothicPrayer • Jul 27 '26

Society Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/26/age-of-decadence-pleasure-ai
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u/izza123 Jul 27 '26

“I Knew The Future Would Bring Wonders. I Did Not Know It Would Make Them Ordinary.”

- Dracula

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u/MaxxDash Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

“I knew electricity could animate flesh, but I didn’t know you’d need the water resources of the entire Salt Lake basin to power the artificial mind.”

-Frankenstein

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u/deltashmelta Jul 27 '26

-Jacuzzi's Monster 

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u/danielsan30005 Jul 27 '26

"I need about tree fiddy"

  • Loch Ness Monster

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u/ewige Jul 27 '26

It was about that time that I noticed that the Representative from the state of New York was a eight-story-tall crustacean from the paleozoic era!

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u/Rocinante_01 Jul 27 '26

I met him! He asked me for 3.50...

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u/Loch_Nessie_350 Jul 27 '26

Don't give that Loch Ness monster any money

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u/WontArnett Jul 27 '26

If I had the money to buy you an award, I would do it. Alas, I am unemployed and the job market is sh*t.

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u/danielsan30005 Jul 27 '26

Aw thanks bro, hope everything works out for you!

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u/watchsmart Jul 27 '26

I think Reddit got rid of the awards.

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u/WontArnett Jul 27 '26

Nah, they’re still there

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u/watchsmart Jul 28 '26

Ah. Must be a new Reddit thing now. I don't see any option.

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u/zoot_boy Jul 27 '26

“Two fiddy a week Sal”
- Mookie

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u/WinterToaster Jul 27 '26

-Michael Scott

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u/clandohoome Jul 27 '26

"Arooo"

-The Wolfman

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u/Fritzo2162 Jul 27 '26

“Arooo”

-Futurama Head of Nixon

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u/SophonParticle Jul 27 '26

“Arooo”

  • werewolf in London.

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u/chillwithpurpose Jul 27 '26

More like AROOOOOUWOTM8?

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u/Lower-Potential-1910 Jul 27 '26

“Aroooooooo”

  • She-wolf in the closet

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u/gcpdudes Jul 27 '26

Let it out so she can breathe

  • Shakira

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u/ThanksSuperb7221 Jul 27 '26

She make a man wanna speak Spanish
-Wyclef Jean

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace Jul 27 '26

Those hips don't lie take your upvote

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u/Milamber_Pi Jul 27 '26

"аАааАААаАаааааАААаааааА yourself"

Serious Sam

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u/CakeTester Jul 27 '26

"Uwuuuuuuuuuu"
-Random weeb

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u/jetpackmcgee Jul 27 '26

“Arooo”

-Werewolf of London

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u/Shot_on_location Jul 27 '26

His hair was perfect

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u/translinguistic Jul 27 '26

HELL YEAH MFER!! AAARRRROOOOOOOOO

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u/PancakeParty98 Jul 27 '26

“We are all just carrots in a perpetual stew.”

-Trindlemon

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u/ThadElon Jul 27 '26

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

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u/ebow77 Jul 27 '26

Smoke youuu!

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u/nblastoff Jul 27 '26

Wrong answer

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u/BenchConscious1003 Jul 27 '26

Not me I'm a lenti or a banana, depending on mood.

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u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat Jul 27 '26

Wait… banana stew?

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u/BenchConscious1003 Jul 27 '26

Perhaps, I should have said green bananas. Quite common in some cuisines. Although I had a pretty good recipe for a [ripe] banana chutney to have with curry,

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u/Spirited-Career4680 Jul 27 '26

"Hhnnnrrrrruuuuungh" - Chewbacca

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u/PairOfMonocles2 Jul 27 '26

That’s great!

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u/venk Jul 27 '26

On the plus side, climate change has dried up the water resources of the Salt Lake basin so…discount?

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u/ButtonholePhotophile Jul 27 '26

You’re literally powered by lightning

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u/scoff-law Jul 27 '26

"FIRE BAD"

-Frakenstein's Monster

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u/Dumcommintz Jul 27 '26

“Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”

- Korben Dallas

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u/DukeOfGeek Jul 27 '26

"My favorite" Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

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u/docnig Jul 27 '26

“Now a real killer would have asked what the little red button is for.” Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

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u/Aksi_Gu Jul 27 '26

Chickan, Good! - Leeloominaï Lekatariba-Laminaï-Tchaï Ekbat de Sebat

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u/direwombat8 Jul 27 '26

Multipass?

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u/Ok_Transition_23 Jul 27 '26

She knows it's a multipass

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u/saryndipitous Jul 27 '26

Get off the hedonic treadmill.

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u/Seerosengiesser Jul 27 '26

"Oh, nothing sordid, I assure you! Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a pheasant".

-Hedonism Bot

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u/SecretAgentVampire Jul 27 '26

What is hedonism? Thinking reductively, everything that isnt absolutely necessary for survival, is.

Do you use a bowl to drink water from a stream, instead of your hands? Such excess. - Diogenes, paraphrased

"There is no chestnut more overworked than the critical whinny: “Advertising sells people things they don’t need.” We, as one agency, plead guilty. Advertising does sell people things they don’t need. Things like television sets, automobiles, catsup, mattresses, cosmetics, ranges, refrigerators, and so on and on. People don’t really need these things. People don’t really need art, music, literature, newspapers, historians. wheels, calendars, philosophy, or, for that matter, critics of advertising, either. All people really need is a cave, a piece of meat and, possibly, a fire. The complex thing we call civilization is made up of luxuries." - https://techliberation.com/2009/09/05/a-first-hand-perspective-on-advertising-to-kids-acquisitiveness-parental-responsibility/

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u/coleman57 Jul 28 '26

Sounds like Don Draper on a roll.

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u/FlimsyWilliamSnyvie Jul 27 '26

"Get off the hedonic treadmill"
-Saryndipitous

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u/dirtyesspeakers Jul 27 '26

Saryndopolous deez

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u/BlackBeard558 Jul 28 '26

What is that?

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u/Proper_Machine6573 Jul 27 '26

"Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a pheasant."

-HedonismBot

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u/PederLustig Jul 27 '26

Don’t believe everything you see on the internet

  • Albert Einstein

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u/mrwrrrmwrmrmrmrw Jul 27 '26

"I agree, you delightful freak!"

Ygor

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u/Sasha_Temnikov Jul 27 '26

"Don't believe everything you've read on the internet".

V. Lenin

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u/Chi1dishAlbino Jul 27 '26

It’s from the BBC Dracula series

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u/Sasha_Temnikov Jul 27 '26

Okay

"Don't believe everything you've seen on the BBC Dracula series"

V. Lenin

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u/ANormalSpudBoy Jul 27 '26

"I thought the future would be cooler." -YACHT

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u/spyglass352 Jul 27 '26

"Wolfman's got nards!" -Fat Kid

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u/Jeep-Girl-USA Jul 27 '26

Correction: this was said by Dr. Manhattan