ShaggySnacks
@ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 21 hours ago:
I prefer my billionaires to be sacrificed to The One Who Stirs Under the Mountain. We must keep the The One Who Stirs Under the Mountain content.
- Comment on Getting Off with the Luddites: Hanging with NYC’s tech-critical youth cultural front 22 hours ago:
Despite their modern reputation, the original Luddites were neither opposed to technology nor inept at using it. Many were highly skilled machine operators in the textile industry. Nor was the technology they attacked particularly new.
The Luddite disturbances started in circumstances at least superficially similar to our own. British working families at the start of the 19th century were enduring economic upheaval and widespread unemployment. A seemingly endless war against Napoleon’s France had brought “the hard pinch of poverty,” wrote Yorkshire historian Frank Peel, to homes “where it had hitherto been a stranger.” Food was scarce and rapidly becoming more costly. Then, on March 11, 1811, in Nottingham, a textile manufacturing center, British troops broke up a crowd of protesters demanding more work and better wages.
As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”
Luddites didn’t have issues with technology. The issue was how technology was being used to suppress wages and erode labor rights. A modern day Luddite would still have a phone and an email address they just wouldn’t use AI or social media.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I start clapping as soon as the plane crash lands.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Alt text: A drawing of a person and a computer. The person tells the computer to say I am alive. The computer responds with “I am alive.” The person is now convinced that the computer is alive by saying “Oh my god”.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 2 days ago:
That would cost too much money for the poor companies.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 2 days ago:
Hating Jerry Seinfeld. I think the joke is about how Jerry Seinfeld is Jewish and Zionists have made their life mission to equate any criticism of Jewish people or the Jewish faith to be anti-semantic.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 2 days ago:
If you are pooping long poops. I suggest carrying a poop knife.
- Comment on rats 5 days ago:
Rats, rats, rats. We are the rats.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 5 days ago:
Sorry, insurance is going to deny that wheelchair claim.
- Comment on No More Moth, Corn, or Anything. There is Only Nod! Kane Lives! 1 week ago:
My brothers, sisters, and those that reject the binary options. Kane has advised me that we have unbelievers amongst us. 3 non-believers have down voted the Brotherhood of Nod and rejected Kane’s teachings.
- Comment on No More Moth, Corn, or Anything. There is Only Nod! Kane Lives! 1 week ago:
ONE VISION, ONE PURPOSE!
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 1 week ago:
I heard the wind is very good at taking down Flock cameras.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well, new kink unlocked for me.
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- Comment on The Ol' Switcheroo 1 week ago:
Sweet. Thank you Lemmy Shitpost.
- Comment on please...just go.... 1 week ago:
This is why you keep a poop knife with you.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 weeks ago:
Clean, empty, serviced by “I have no mouth and I must scream” AI robots and rewilding.
A very tempting offer of my death brings the dystopian, apocalyptic hell of “I have no mouth and I must scream” for billionaires.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 2 weeks ago:
Damn it. As soon as FIFA overturned the red card ob the behalf of Trumpty. I was like “Finally, a chance to get in on the corruption. Time to place all my bets on Team USA.”
Now, I am fucking broke.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This is what literally popped into my head when I read the blatant anti-union propaganda.
- Comment on Name this celebrity 3 weeks ago:
Ass-face, because they got crabs.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
We live in a two tier justice system. The rich get the easy justice system and the rest of us get the get fucked justice system.
- Comment on Hannibal was right 🔥 4 weeks ago:
Fuck, you mean Hannibal is real.
- Comment on freedom after speech 4 weeks ago:
Damn, you got me at the end there.
- Comment on Men against bush 4 weeks ago:
On October 23rd, 2017, [Twitter] user @BravoCoolee made a post that read, “Twitter the only place where well-articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?” No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.”
- Comment on Sound of silence 4 weeks ago:
This applies not just to beach. It applies to everything. Everyone congregates near entrances/exits, landmarks, close to the door in a parking lot, etc.
- Comment on Starmer succeeded in shedding blood and destroying our rights – good riddance! 4 weeks ago:
despite knowing it would win him no fascist votes and would lose him those of sentient human beings. A disease left by a noxious, poisonous figure.
The Ratchet Effect is not just for the US. The Ratchet Effect applies to a lot of countries.
The Conservatives dragged the UK to far enough to the right that the Reform Party has a decent chance at winning. What does Labour do? Double down on conservative policies to try to win the right from the Reform.
- Comment on In France, to slow down traffic, they have these fake children by the side of the road 4 weeks ago:
Damn, that went dark fast.
- Comment on Mission Accomplished 5 weeks ago:
Aww, I didn’t know Lumpty Trumpty could be so proud of shitting his pants.
- Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed 5 weeks ago:
I remember the first time I huffed canned asbestos. Woke up six days later in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee; dressed like Santa Claus in the middle of April.
10/10 experience. Totally worth the deliberating lung cancer.
- Comment on Always with the hidden fees. 5 weeks ago:
The OP blessed us with a true shit post.
