MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on I guess we are fucked now 3 weeks ago:
That’s how it works in the Planescape universe. Lol
- Comment on Wobble Wobble 4 weeks ago:
Edit: sorry for the rant. Morning Adderall and lots of thoughts on the subject. :)
I think a lot simply don’t know what they can effectively do about it. As is usually the issue with lefty causes, it’s a lot more brain-work and more complicated than chanting a petty slogan and/or a vague willingness to raid a capitol with no actual goal or understanding in mind.
Right now, beyond just trying to hustle the next dollar to keep existing while under this stupidity, it’s very difficult for us average working-class folk to understand how we can actually punish these powers responsible. Corporations and their fascist backers have become hydras.
If there was some kind of “Here’s how you can effectively ruin these bastards’ day for a better tomorrow without risking prison” playbook we could agree on, I’m sure a lot of people would be willing.
We mock neoliberal masses for buying EVs thinking it’s saving the planet, but at the same time, buying something is one of the few levers the average person is allowed to pull, and they were told it would help. I’d like to think they mean well even though they’re being manipulated.
They try to recycle and try to vote and try to stop buying stuff on Amazon, then sigh and keep trudging along when that obviously doesn’t change anything. They probably get tired of being told they’re not doing anything, especially without some sort of unifying “do this instead.”
Some radicals block traffic and make a general nuisance of themselves occasionally and we watch as nothing happens.
Schoolkids appeal to liberal politicians to stop a doomed future and get chuckled out of the room. Nothing happens.
Whistleblowers expose corporate plans too evil for Saturday morning cartoons and end up conveniently killing themselves. Nothing happens.
I think we’re past the point of diminishing returns on silly stunts for “Raising awareness”.
Enough people know. Although complacent, they care. But give them a week off work to stop climate change and they still don’t know what options they have available to them. Or where their allies are.
Furthermore, generally we tend to want to be good people who don’t want to ruin our lives by openly warring with powers that be.
The Right gets away with their BS because they don’t negatively impact profits. They’re sock-puppet proxies for an astroturfed holy-war that’s ultimately about cutting labor and drilling more oil, so even treason charges aren’t enough.
But if we could finally stop arguing theory and get pissed off enough to march on Washington together or whatever, 2nd-amendment toting or not, we’d definitely be met with force for wanting to shut down the slave-driven garbage machines.
So besides “beg your reps” and “stop buying stupid things from evil companies” (almost everything at this point)…
What’s our rallying cry?
How do we engage? Who’s going to step up and lead?
- Comment on I don't think they understand. We're interviewing them too. 4 weeks ago:
What a toxic choad.
Upvoted for bringing back a most classic insult. Lol
- Comment on Humans included* 5 weeks ago:
Username checks…out…? 😂
- Comment on U.S. drivers lost 42 hours—a full work week—to traffic in 2023: Congestion 'hinders economic growth,' expert says 1 month ago:
It feels a bit radical but I feel the same way. Maybe not before I leave my home, because then they’d wanna tell me what I can do with that time, but commuting? Heck yeah.
It’s like paying for shipping and handling. I wouldn’t otherwise be expending resources to go do this thing, and I’m being compelled to do it by currency. Sounds like employees need to tack on a “transportation fee.”
- Comment on U.S. drivers lost 42 hours—a full work week—to traffic in 2023: Congestion 'hinders economic growth,' expert says 1 month ago:
Yeah as they say sitting for long periods physically doing nothing is similar to smoking for cardiovascular health.
…I shudder to think of the effects of being stuck in traffic while breathing in everybody else’s fumes.
- Comment on A job well done 1 month ago:
So, so far ahead of his time. What a genius.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
I don’t wanna just say “this”, but for real, excellently put.
“But we just have to abuse people for a little while until…”
Then it’s not a viable business model. Easy as that.
Cooperatives are a thing, and they work, they just don’t scale like cancer by generating hype-funding over destroying their employees, so they don’t drum up so much excitement from the moneyed.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
Their logic is like “Yeah, our bosses mistreated us! But they’re in a tight spot because the invisible economy forced their hand! The market is flooded with mythological job-stealing crime-doing immigrants we’ve never met, so we understand, boss-man. The democrats will pay for this.”
Lol
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
“Bad, bad, BAD, naughty mega-corp!! That’ll be…$5000, megacorp!”
–The justice system, probably.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
Thankfully I’ve managed to buy any sorta niche stuff I needed from literally anywhere else.
A cursory glance at Amazon revealed it’s basically a bloated corpse stuffed with trash at this point.
I’d put more trust in careful Ebay shopping to avoid straight-up fakes anymore.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 1 month ago:
berated during a meeting with my boss a month later
A MONTH later. I’m willing to bet it didn’t even impact anything, and boss wouldn’t even have remembered it happened at all if they didn’t scribble it down in their little black book.
I had a boss like this too. Would never just talk to me about any concerns, they would act like everything is fine and then bring up a laundry list of petty complaints they’ve logged over like 4 months.
All it proved was they spent more time side-eyeing my work and spying on me than doing their actual job. When they weren’t wandering off to the other side of the building chatting up other management about nothing, for hours on end, while I handled their job too, alone every day, of course.
Not all people are bad. But the intersection between stupid and evil tends to converge in management.
- Comment on Fame 1 month ago:
Reminds me of poorly designed MMOs, when everybody is fighting hard to bring down a tough monster…and the player who pokes it for the last 5 damage gets all the EXP and loot!
- Comment on AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo 1 month ago:
(ding! Elevator doors slide open)
“Oh, hi there. If you didn’t schedule an appointment you’re gonna have to take the stairs.”
- Comment on AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo 1 month ago:
I wonder if they want everyone to RTO because they know they can’t rely on their own infrastructure. Lol
- Comment on Over $1.5 Billion in Workers' Stolen Wages Recovered From 2021-23 1 month ago:
Time to populate a crowd funded bounty board! In Minecraft.
- Comment on Fear of job loss hits its highest point in years—but workers won’t accept less than $81,000 1 month ago:
I’m gonna guess… Only after filtering out all the applications that didn’t include one in the first place? Lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
until it is wrested from their cold dead hands.
Does the wresting happen often or do most folks just wait for Father Time to do all the work? :( lol
- Comment on DNA 2 months ago:
Hehe I remember Muphies. That Kermit always got up to shenanigans!
- Comment on Domination 2 months ago:
In b4 "hahaha ‘pinus’ " lol
- Comment on Tokyo government to introduce four-day workweek for its employees 2 months ago:
“But that guy’s taking a 7 day work week! You don’t want to be seen lagging behind, do you? NoooOooo…”
- Comment on Tokyo government to introduce four-day workweek for its employees 2 months ago:
This is incredible. So much that it’s kinda hard to believe.
Yeah, as it sounds like you’re aware, if you’re not a full-time-company-person in the U.S, you’re basically expendable dirt here.
But we also have a majority of benefits tied to full-time employment. My wife and I live with family and both work part time…we both agree that jobs’ intrusion into peoples’ life space is a huge source of destroyed relationships and broken homes, depression, and plenty more social maladies.
It’s simply not worth it.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 months ago:
“The power of the Sun… …in the palm of my hand…!”
—Dr. Otto Octavius
- Comment on super squirrel 2 months ago:
Stories like this are the good part about the Internet. Riotous rodent recounting tale, sir. :D
- Comment on Heads up, don't link to the Guardian on 5/6 December 2 months ago:
Y’know, in Minecraft maybe.
- Comment on huehuehue 2 months ago:
Yeah, I think he just comes to mind first because of the whole “D.A.R.E” thing, and his horrible effects on literally everything are still felt so profoundly today.
- Comment on Drift!! 2 months ago:
This is encouraging if they’re onto something! I’ve been obsessing over it lately, finding some way to actually recycle or at least destroy plastic. Sadly I don’t have that kind of background.
There isn’t gonna be “profit” in this. But man, people are voluntarily putting subdermal chips in themselves to become diet-cyborgs, and gene-hacking plants together in their garages.
Ironically, look at 3D printing and how that exploded! (As well as the very niche research into spooling plastic bottles and stuff into filament!)
Plastics up-cycling or elimination has to be headed by hobbyist hacker types more than anything. It won’t get the grants, it won’t get the government sign-offs, and in sheer mind-blowing stupidity, waste production is projected to increase exponentially in the next coming years.
There’s plenty of people with hard science degrees getting ignored for jobs, getting radicalized just by looking out their window. I know it’s a complicated subject, but coordinating efforts like distributed protein folding and I dunno, limited use of LLM to scientifically predict things…
People way smarter than me gotta be on this already right? We gotta figure this out and open-source it to anybody and everybody who wants to deploy it, before the world’s big players has a chance to do anything to stop us.
- Comment on sampling bias 2 months ago:
Why oof? O.o
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
I appreciate your gratitude and I really do hope it does some good for others… Especially because I really hate needles but I have it done anyway for this reason. Lol 😬
- Comment on Understandable, copy that. 2 months ago:
“Have you ever had a dream where like, where, where like um you could…”