MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 3 days ago:
“5 more years, bro. I know I know, just 5 MORE years bro and we’ll have AGI on the moon bro, no idea how to monetize it but just 5 additional years bro!”
How the heck does this keep generating cash flow? Are investors really this stupid?
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 6 days ago:
Heehee this reads perfectly like a monologue from “Resident Alien” :D
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Yeah all these machines were supposed to have us working ten hours a week by now for a living wage what’s that about?!
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
they were often seen wearing as they spent a lot of time maintaining vehicles.
DUUUUDE…I thought it was about all the hair product they used LOL!
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
The biggest punishment you could enact on those monsters is to knock them all the way down to working class.
They couldn’t cut it in the real world, with a real job. They’d lose their mind having to respect anyone else.
Who knows, it could even possibly reform them.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
That’s it right there. The politicians are always rambling “We need jobs.”
No. We need money, which might come from decent jobs.
“Jobs for jobs’ sake” is how we have mental health crises from countless practically-parentless households because everybody’s desperately, constantly working in needlessly stressful conditions.
Jobs are why most of us have no meaningful connections shortly after our highest level of schooling, because everyone’s on wacky schedules and has no time for anyone but whomever they happen to be stuck working with.
Jobs gave us broken homes and skyrocketing suicide rates.
Jobs can shove right off, for all they’ve taken from us.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Yeah plus most jobs don’t like you showing up dripping and smelling like a varsity locker room.
My locale even tried to build in employee showers to encourage bike commuting, but it hits 110⁰F outside and there’s not a cloud in the sky LOL you gotta be kidding.
- Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
With various opening and closing sphincters you have to time properly.
It’d be like a trippy episode of Magic Schoolbus. XD
- Comment on Seagirl 2 weeks ago:
LOL that helps. Thanks for replying! :D
- Comment on Seagirl 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, can’t really relate but it sounds like a great time hahaha.
- Comment on Fingies 2 weeks ago:
Appreciate this.
Lol Tumblr biology is wild. 😂
- Comment on More unions! 3 weeks ago:
Lots of national parks can be thirst traps if you don’t come prepared with ample hydration!
…lol
- Comment on Spoilers 4 weeks ago:
See my brain OCR said “Tooth Fairy Spiders” and I was like “Oh THAT makes sense but I’m feeling brave.” But ended up sort of confused. 😂
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 month 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 month 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:
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Women having the opportunity to leave the home of their own volition and be in a career the same as a man? Awesome. Progress.
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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.
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Programs for kids to safely socialize and learn as a community? Fantastic!
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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.
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- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Mine is “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”
Why’d you pick yours, specifically? Lol
- Comment on Orthopedics 3 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.