UnderpantsWeevil
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- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 6 days ago:
Each one has their role
But they can’t perform their work efficiently, because of the artificial constraints imposed by the business. I’ve worked these jobs and I’ve seen the tight-fisted nature of corporate drag a job out needlessly for months on a number of occasions.
It’s why union jobs cost 10x as much as private
They don’t cost 10x as much. They cost maybe 10-20% more, but with much thinner margins, because the workers get a bigger cut of the gross revenues. So you tend to see unions employed in bigger and more professional tier projects, where failure costs far more than some angry retail sucker giving you a bad Yelp review.
On a normal jobsite, the plumber could dig his own hole, and sweep up after, but now that’s 3 different jobs done by 3 different people
There’s no such thing as a single “normal jobsite”. You have different levels of job and different requirements for the job. On a new build, you can have multiple professionals working simultaneously if they’re well-managed. Or you can have a bunch of apprentice-tier dorks waiting in line to do the next task, because the project manager is a paint-by-numbers guy taking instructions from some master planner that isn’t on site.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 6 days ago:
Thank you, that’s a union job
That’s just a job. If you think people are working harder without a union, you’d be surprised. More often they’re being paid less to do less work, because the workers aren’t trained by their veteran peers to manage themselves.
The suffocating bureaucratization of the corporate world tends to make work sites more difficult and dangerous to navigate, tires people out more quickly, and ends up with exactly this kind of “six guys staring at a hole in the ground while one guy works” dynamic - because corporate only delegated one shovel for six people, to save money.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 6 days ago:
Marathon runners take no breaks.
Marathon runners take breaks between every marathon. Runners can require nearly a month of downtime between races in order to perform optimally.
How do you think tradesman handle working 8 hour shifts with only a 30 minute break?
So yes, it is in fact wasted.
Resting isn’t wasted time any more than sleeping is.
- Comment on What kind of world has work but no jobs? Black Panther poster circa 1971 6 days ago:
Work creates value
Jobs create revenue
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 6 days ago:
It’s not a joke, there’s been studies done that prove it.
I mean, more that it’s a joke that we have to sit in an office for 8+ hours to do 3 hours of work.
So 4 hours of an 8 hour shift is wasted.
I think it’s unreasonable to call it “wasted”. Like telling a pro-athlete “if you’re not running the ball continuously for every minute of the game you’re wasting your potential”.
Some of it is socializing (which has knock on benefits). Some of it is simply resting/recovery (because intellectual labor takes real energy and people get exhausted). Some of it is bureaucracy.
The real gains of IT are in the speed of data transfer and processing. That saves human labor to a degree, but it also proliferates the labor. Excel allows every Mom & Pop accounting firm to do what required an army of NASA “computers” 60 years ago. But because everyone is doing this level of rigorous, high speed accounting, it actually requires more overall work, not less.
The individuals in question are no more or less efficient today. They were taking coffee breaks, long lunches, and clocking out early to play golf at NASA, too.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 6 days ago:
It’s something of a joke that office workers do maybe 2-3 hours of work a day.
Or, at least, they did. And now offices are playing the “how many people can we lay off before the system collapses” game
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We’re getting tantalizingly close to Repo: The Genetic Opera
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 3 weeks ago:
Lots of their electronics options are these really TEMU-tier garbage specs with half a mile of promotional material between the “Buy” button and the details/reviews.
You really need to know what you’re trying to buy, how to use the filters to screen out the crap, and even then its a gamble. Amazing to feel the temptation to just go to Best Buy.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 3 weeks ago:
Satisfying two women at once? That’s awful bigamy.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it would take a million. Maybe a couple grand.
- Comment on Anon has a very specific goal 3 weeks ago:
This feels like one of those “I’ve never kissed a girl before, but I’ve watched a lot of porn” fantasies that works great in your head and horrible in practice.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
First part: mansplaing and helping are often hard to tell apart. Especially if you get mansplained all the time. In this case I am sure you are in the right.
One of the problems with “Hello, I’m from the internet and I have a story where I was definitely right and the other person was the asshole” is that you’re getting a very one-sided narrative without any historical context.
Just-So rants are a dime a dozen around here.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 3 weeks ago:
All written accounts of God are produced by humans for an audience of other humans.
In the same way that we might describe a storm cloud as “angry” or a sunny day as “cheerful”, one might apply emotional descriptors to an omnipotent divine force in order to personify an impersonal and abstract force.
Past that, assuming you believe that a divine being is above humanity, why wouldn’t they have emotions? Emotions are a feature of sentience and God is supposed to be a super-sentient creature. If anything, it would experience these emotions more intensely and intricately than its creations. The human rage of a shout or the despair of a cry becomes the earth-splitting eruption of a volcano or the suffocating deluge of a flood.
At the same time, it is the overwhelming longing for companionship that drives God to form life from the void of space. The intense joy in the creative act leads this fundamental superhuman force to tirelessly build an entire universe. The deep and profound pride and love which brings him among his creations clothed in their own form, willing to endure the humiliation of this avatar form in order to enlighten and elevate his divine progeny to his own level.
Absent these primal emotional urges, why would a God choose to be a God at all, and not simply languish within the darkness for eternity, content to the echoing silence of dead space?
- Comment on Guess the director 3 weeks ago:
The existential horror of suicide bombing is implicit in the nihilism of the bomber, an individual who believes their only value to society is as a personification of military technology. The show doesn’t explore this at all. The character doesn’t have any character. He’s just a throw-away threat used to explain another Supe’s disfigurement.
They got away with it because it has similarities with what happened in the past
Naqib is a lazy caricature of a Syrian guerrilla fighter. He gets something like two lines, then gets decapitated. The writers got away with it because lazy caricatures of Arabs in action media are the standard for western media.
Compare him to Ted Sprague in the TV Show “Heroes”, a guy with a legit story arc, a tragic backstory, multiple confrontations with the protagonists, and an ongoing beef with “The Company” (the Vought counterpart in the Heroes setting) that drives the plot forward.
Of course Sprague is a mash up of Ted Kaczynski and Timmothy McVey rather than Cliche Arab. So I guess he deserves a bit more respect.
- Comment on Guess the director 3 weeks ago:
This supe was specifically made to trick the US into allowing supes into the military. The show got away with it because they’re criticizing the same thing you are.
It’s a cheap and lazy critique. “We gave the Muslim the Blow Himself Up power, virtually no lines, no real story arc, who is a cheap throw-away useful idiot character to advance a plot that’s mostly about white people grappling for power”.
The writing isn’t particularly original or compelling anymore. It’s like they just gave up after season 3. Now every episode just an excuse to have Homelander laserbeam people in the dick. Invincible has gone the same way. They’ve substituted gross-out visuals for all but the most basic-bitch “Bad Guys Are Bad, Good Guys Are Annoying and Conflicted” story arcs.
- Comment on Guess the director 3 weeks ago:
Can’t believe the TV Show that freely trades on ethnic tropes would do this.
- Comment on average red state university 3 weeks ago:
Victor Orban is also very much not Polish
Is he European?
We were talking about popluational trends and statistics though
Since the collapse of the USSR, the trend towards reactionary religious movements has only increased over time. You can definitely blame this on western evangelicals and Catholics piling into these countries during their brief liberalization phase. But to say Europe lacks a large and wealthy Christian community is to deny what’s in front of your eyes.
I will explicitly say that I’m talking about “median” population, not literaly the extreme 0.1%
The extreme 0.1% are the ones with all the money.
Past that, European parliaments all have their variation on the Christian Democrat Party. The CDU is currently the largest party in Germany, following the ignominious collapse of Olaf’s Greens. Idk how you win 208 MPs without a plurality of popular support.
- Comment on The 22 Richest Men in the World Have More Wealth than All the Women in Africa 3 weeks ago:
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How is China imperialist?
It helps if you insist the natural state of Chinese territory is a balkinized patchwork of ethnic enclaves fighting border wars “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” style, and the amalgamation of territory over 3000 years of dynastic rule gets dumped on the head of the current government.
Bonus points if you don’t mention Uyghurs
Uyghurs are the only Muslim group that the NAFO crowd are allowed to empathize with. And only when they’re local to the Tarim Basin. God help you if you’re a Uyghur living in Europe or Southeast Asia or the United States because they’re not welcome.
the zenz/ US propaganda
Mentioning the name of Adrian Zenz, the history of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (and where it gets its money), or any choice passages from the book Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation marks you out as a Wumao Far-Left Ultra-Stalinist Botfarm with cooties and a stupid face.
- Comment on Hungry 3 weeks ago:
Would take a filet from the fridge and lay it out there, since I don’t want him leaving disappointed.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
lol the US is bad. do china next!
That’s sort of the joke. The OG copypasta was supposed to be something you’d post under a pro-China guy, listing all the Chinese atrocities in a mix of English and Mandarin.
MLs would assume everyone already knows this
Some of them are pretty deep cuts. I don’t know too many people who could tell you about Ax Handle Saturday or the Columbine Mine massacre
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That is the joke, yes.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 3 weeks ago:
I wish that were true. Unfortunately, you have a large population of liberals who believe “This far left and no further” is a policy they’re willing to see others kill and die for.
We’ve got a bloc of political consultants who exist to infiltrate and undermine civil movements, a media sphere that propagates all sorts of hysteria around any kind of local leftist control of government or the economy, and a professional managerial class that is all in on a permanent labor underclass they can profitably exploit.
They’ll wave the rainbow flags and write op-eds about how much they love immigration and wistfully pine for a health care system that’s more affordable, right up until someone suggests their Starbucks Baristas might strike for better benefits. And then its fascism time.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 3 weeks ago:
None of these people are British Communists writing in defense of trade unions.
- Comment on Personalized Political Spectrum 3 weeks ago:
Nice try, Tankie.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to hear it, buddy.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A People’s History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book (updated in 2003) by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional “fundamental nationalist glorification of country”. Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Just pick up a copy of Howard Zinn’s “People’s History”.
