UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on The land before time 5 hours ago:
you do not need special skills to apply for the job
That’s definitely the economic definition.
But the colloquial definition is that you don’t need special skills to do the job. Employees are interchangeable outside some minimal qualifications (rudimentary intellect, marginal physicality, gender).
And therefore you should be able to fully staff your organization paying the lowest prevailing wage rate, so long as some number of unemployed people exist. Anyone can be fired and replaced at any time with near-zero friction.
- Comment on The land before time 6 hours ago:
And if you couldn’t pay for the pizza, they’d have sex with you
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- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 21 hours ago:
Uh…
Medieval robber barons most often imposed high or unauthorized tolls on rivers or roads passing through their territory. Some robbed merchants, land travelers, and river traffic—seizing money, cargoes, even entire ships—or engaged in kidnapping for ransom.
I mean, we have a kind of tentative re-implementation of this in the US/Iran fight over the Strait of Hormuz. Also, with the vision of the Network State professed by Silicon Valley elites. And then there’s the Trump economic plan of high tariffs and walled-off borders, which seems to echo the Israeli strategy of segregated micro-communities and settler expansion into neighboring enclaves.
Idk if I’d call any of this “investment” in the neoliberal sense. Much of it seems to involve rent-seeking through enclosure and extortion. There’s no real value-add to any of it.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 21 hours ago:
Abandoning tech for a few generations might be a good thing.
Are we “abandoning tech” or just segregating access to infrastructure based on professed loyalties to surveillance tyrants?
- Comment on Anon gets lost 22 hours ago:
many of you have guns and there’s much more violence and insanity in general
Every third article in the UK is about “Knife Crime!!!” The French and German news networks make it sound like Paris and Berlin are active war zones. FFS, even the Swedes are insisting half the country is living out the plot of Taken.
Like, I’m sure the US is marginally less safe than Europe. But I suspect that has more to do with Europe just being on-average five years older than the US. By and large, both continents are extremely safe. Violence - particularly street violence - is extraordinarily rare. And the areas where it does crop up tend to be between people who know each other and having some kind of deep interpersonal dysfunction (abusive spouses / parents, school kids fighting one another over some accumulated grudge, sports hooligans brawling with their rivals).
What we have, in practice, is a handful of highly glamorized violent events (school shootings, most notably) that get international news coverage. FFS, we spend more time covering shootings in the US than we do covering our active military campaigns abroad.
- Comment on Anon gets lost 22 hours ago:
Total missed opportunity for
They invited me to their house for drinks. As we approach, you can hear the music blaring through the windows.
Open the door
get on the floor
Everybody walk the dinosaur
- Comment on Anon buys cigarettes 1 day ago:
You can get away with a lot of zingers from behind bullet-proof glass.
- Comment on Actually on second thought, ill just die 1 day ago:
show up to my old fishing hole two weeks later
dozens of EMT fishermen
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Tbh, I think Valve needs to design an addon for the Steam Machine that’s a blu-ray player that hooks onto the side or bottom
Congratulations, you just invented Sega CD.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
This is a feature they’re rolling out, specifically with an eye towards the PS6. As far as I’m aware, that console hasn’t even been released yet.
If Sony is retailing games for $100 on their new console, that would strongly dissuade me from buying the console.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
total price control
Isn’t this the same line they used with Steam?
Can’t you just… buy a different console?
- Comment on Best before August 3rd 2 days ago:
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
Eh. Think about how Ayn Rand hated Libertarians.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
It would be really hard to make the movie today without making the main character MAGA
That’s one angle. I could just as easily see him as a scratched-liberal. Someone akin to Bradley Whitford in Get Out, who brags about having voted for Obama (twice!) and spouts indignation at corporate greed and military policing. But as the movie progresses, he becomes increasingly callous towards equally put-upon neighbors, family, and his working-class peers.
By the end, he’s demonstrating sneering contempt for a litany of people whom he blames for the current state of the nation - prideful gays, immigrants who won’t assimilate properly, minorities he repeatedly accuses of being anti-white, ungrateful young people, worthless civil bureaucrats, the homeless who refuse to get a job - until he’s expressing all the same grievances as MAGA, but still reserving open contempt for anyone in a red hat.
A man driven to the point of ultimate alienation and self-destruction, because he cannot get off his high horse long enough to show compassion or comradery with anyone else.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
You can read “Falling Down” as this tragic story of a normal guy pushed too far. Or you can read it as an entitled Boomer gone off his rocker over trivial consumerist bullshit.
So much of the movie is couched in racist/classist undertones - Douglas losing his temper with Korean and Hispanic immigrants, retail service and blue-collar workers - while presenting the main character as this righteous force of white masculinity that can only be defeated by an even more righteous agent of Law & Order.
Describing William Foster in the same terms as Redditors describe upper-class middle aged white women is pretty on-the-nose.
- Comment on Probably accurate 3 days ago:
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 3 days ago:
he’s likely the first one to spend his whole campaign talking about other peoples dongs.
Bush Republicans beat this guy to the punch decades ago, with their fixation on prohibiting sodomy
- Comment on Probably accurate 3 days ago:
I mean, the smell alone would be pretty horrible
- Comment on Probably accurate 3 days ago:
I mean, set aside the slavery politics for just a minute, because that’s low hanging fruit.
Imagine showing Thomas Jefferson the Hoover Dam. Imagine introducing Thomas Paine to the internet. Imagine George Washington’s face illuminated by a mushroom cloud. How fucking dumb do you think Benedict Arnold would feel if you dropped him onto the deck of a US Aircraft Carrier. How flabbergasted would James Madison feel if you explained that we literally call it the “White House”, because we never changed the color after the British burned it down. What do you think Patrick Henry would have to say about Social Security?
FFS,
- Comment on edible 3 days ago:
Short answer, “No”.
Long answer, “No, you still owe me for the last order. I’m not giving you any more freebies.”
- Comment on what of it? 🤨 3 days ago:
Short Kings Rise Up
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- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 5 days ago:
The real question is why does anyone think this is what they need in life.
Sometimes you want to entertain and square ice cubes are a nice touch
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 5 days ago:
Square ice cubes made with clarified water are a real pain to make at home unless you have all the tools
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- Comment on 5 days ago:
All so the military becomes the attractive option…
Since Bush invaded Afghanistan, the appeal of military service has been sinking faster than lead weights.
No sane person wants to join the military.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
whenever anyone is critical of anything in America
Unless it’s the price of gas. You’re always allowed to complain that you needed a second mortgage to fill up your third F-650
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t write off all of public education based on one Reddit post
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 5 days ago:
Has anyone been really thirsty while you’re wandering through the desert and your HeadBot tells you that there’s water on the horizon but it’s just more sand?
Really need someone to patch this issue.
