MonkeMischief

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that drives me so mad, and it’s exactly why corporations need to be strictly regulated on a global scale.

  If people are granted any voluntary dignity, someone out there is always willing to “undercut” their fellow workers to get an “edge” on the market or whatever and prove what a sweaty exploitable tryhard they can be, then it races to the bottom for all.

  If a company wants to pay its workers a living wage, their competition will undercut them by stepping on their employees for an “advantage in the market.”

  You’re right, it’s simply not a system that solves for human well-being, it solves solely for hoarding and growing large numbers of imaginary value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, no I don’t believe I conveyed myself in that way, updoots seem to agree.

  I do think we’re in alignment here, but also I understand nuance is often lost over Internet posts so let me clarify my position. “Family values and housewives” as you put it being a great example:

  • Women having the opportunity to leave the home of their own volition and be in a career the same as a man? Awesome. Progress.

  • Women AND men alike, in a family unit, forced simultaneously into the career-style workforce or multiple garbage jobs because the family goes bust and destitute otherwise? Bullshit.

  • Programs for kids to safely socialize and learn as a community? Fantastic!

  • Overwhelmed daycares staffed by burned out underpaid care workers, costing half of everyone’s salary, because otherwise the only alternative is literally child abandonment, thanks to everybody needing to leave the home and devote a majority of their time to wage labor?

  That’s basically a systemic form of indentured servitude to pay ransom for one’s own children. It isn’t right.

  Parents should be free to choose parenting their children over creating shareholder value without starving. Parenting is already a full time job, and outsourcing it entirely to someone else’s employees sounds like a great way to wreck a society’s future adults.

  Especially in the U.S when maternity leave is laughably short for many, and paternity leave is a fanciful myth from faraway lands, and those early years spent with one’s family are CRITICAL for a child’s early development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds daunting but also incredibly noble of her. Prayers and well wishes to both you and your wife, especially in the early days of this endeavor!

  I love hearing about when someone sees a need they can fill in their community and they’re passionate about solving it. That’s so awesome. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah there, friend. Aren’t we being a little bit aggro here? I’m happy to hear your perspective.

  I never meant to come off that childcare is bad as a concept! That was never the point.

  What I am decrying is the requirement of families being coerced to put their children into a very expensive facility, because if everyone else in the house isn’t working a 5x40+ fulltime job, they can’t afford a reasonable quality of living. THAT is where it’s broken.

  Childcare as an option is fantastic for all the reasons you mentioned. Childcare as “the market raises your children with underpaid and exhausted, overhelmed wageslaves unless you’re insanely privileged” is not cool.

  I’m happy you’ve had a good experience though, and hope we can reach a solution where it’s done right for more folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL almost. They basically take out all your teeth and replace them with synthetics, I guess?

  I’m sure there’s plenty of good dentists in Turkey, but what’s with this trend of people getting MAJOR medical work or body modification done ANYWHERE by whoever’s got a flashy Instagram or TikTok reel? Nuts.

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/turkey-teeth-leaving-brits-toothless-35327173

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s funny in a sad-not-haha way, is that labor for caretaking of small human beings is the enormous untenable driving cost here.

  Parents can’t afford the rates, daycares can’t afford living wages doe the caretakers. This is an endeavor, like many, that the Hand of the Market™ is OBVIOUSLY unsuitable for solving.

  The “funny” part: Parents would gladly do this job for free as they have for centuries and millennia. This problem was already solved, and wouldn’t be an issue if every member of the household wasn’t forced into full-time 40+ hour work plus hunting for side-hustles, and being taken away from their loved ones for most of their waking friggin lives, just to survive.

  How many generations deep are we now? Where so many kids spend so long in daycare from infancy that they never even get to form a decent bond with their own parents? How healthy is that, for anybody, much less larger society?

  “Parenting as a Service” is peak capitalistic hellscape…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking of going abroad for dental implants.

  Just don’t go to Turkey to hit up an Instagram dentist. That stuff is terrifying. <_<

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A perfectly apt analysis. Thank you for the link. Anarchist Library has some good gems in there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When I.T and nurses are complaining that they keep getting ghosted and can’t find work? That feels like a major economic failure signal to me. It’s freaking mad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate your realistic assessment here.

  When we consider all that reasonably goes into running such a service, we can rationally figure out how much is being diverted to the wrong pockets and make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wriggidy wrekt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “And even the word “raptor” means… “Bird of prey””

  The line delivery of so much of this film is stuck in my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pshh. Yeah.

  I have no idea how they passed and we accepted this concept of “Salary means we own you and your thoughts and ideas, labor laws basically don’t apply, and you never actually stop working.” Absolutely deranged.

  It was probably pitched as such a great thing to employees, too, but I’ve always seen it as a scam.

  (No judgment on you personally, of course, if somehow this affords you a good life balance!)

  I’m also paycheck-to-paycheck with little in the way of advancement prospects unless one of my creative projects lands. So I’m not exactly writing as a sage of material success or anything 😂.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies will begrudgingly give you the bare minimum they’re mandated to, and pretend you’re only getting it out of their sheer appreciation and benevolence.

  Maddening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weeeeazels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I was a little annoyed by the change of “Revolt” messenger to “Stoat.”

  …I like it better now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity explained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is very educational, more than I was hoping for. Thank you!

  I’ve heard that saying over and over throughout my life, too, (by laymen, never actual electricians lol) and I was always confused by it.

  I was always trying to think “Okay is there some crazy high-voltage-low-amperage shock source you can sustain and be fine?” I guess I thought the difference was between something like, a taser vs. a home electrical socket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity explained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”

  Why’d you pick yours, specifically? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orthopedics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a cheap bluetooth/2.5Ghz trackball for my laptop, and wow, those are SO nice when you don’t have a lot of space to work with.

  I hope some mid-level enthusiast trackballs that aren’t ridiculously boutique become a thing soon haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trippy" Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno if I’d call this hallucination, although I get what you’re saying and I agree with you! But wouldn’t “interpretation” be a more apt description?

  If someone is seeing a message out of this very text, rather than the strict “material reality” of each individual letter just being an arbitrary glyhph, or each pixel, or each little diode or electron forming those pixels…

  …to call this miraculous level of ascribing meaning “hallucinating” seems a disservice right?

  Your comment just brought me a lot of wonder and awe, because you’re right, our brains’ wiring to tell stories and weave concepts and interpret the world around us in a way that’s useful, and beautiful, is a wonderful part of being alive and setting us apart from mere machines, rather than simply a feed of raw unfiltered data input from the world around us “as it is.”

  Truly marvelous. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trippy" Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, they just…saw more beauty and wonder in things most folks consider ordinary? That doesn’t sound so bad, actually. XD

  I don’t remember more, sorry ^^

  Haha all good. Thanks for replying. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Trippy" Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly I haven’t done a lot of deep diving on it, but what kinds of personality changes did you observe? I haven’t heard a lot of testimony like this around psychedelics. Mostly just people praising them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's ask this AI app!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo, homie, 👋

  I wasn’t trying to “um akshully” you, I was legit just trying to contribute to the conversation for others who were interested.

  Thanks for the link and sincerely wishing you the chillest day, though. <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's ask this AI app!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolute nightmare fuel. 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we talking like, bags of rice and beans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL yeah. Stuff actually grows in tropical regions! :p

  I’m happy for you there. (Although I imagine pest control gets interesting haha)

  Southwestern U.S desert? Yeah, another story. Hydroponics are basically the best bet for your typical suburbia-dweller, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s far enough away from the noisy mitochondria part of the neighborhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL! 😂

  Sure thing! 🤗

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Tits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You nailed it here! :)

  Commas basically go where you want to separate two thoughts in a sentence or “take a breath” without the full stop of a period. They also often separate objects in lists, or signify that you’re talking to somebody.

  A classic joke:

  “Let’s eat grandma!”

  “Let’s eat, grandma!”

  “Commas save lives!”

  😂 Hope that helps a bit! You’re doing great though, don’t worry. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, people are gonna start being called “Rizzards” soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dicks out for Harambe. 😔