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Source: NPR

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this post deserves 100,000 notes

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call me stupid but i don't get why people act like you "own" the house if you haven't paid it off

you mean you owe money every month? you have to pay for something you "own"? and if you dont they will take it away from you?

sounds like Rent v2 to me. biggest update is that if you pay enough rent, then you own the house

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american idiot (2004) - green day

“dont wanna be an american - fuck america”

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

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capitalism

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"I think we need to be challenged. We need to hear challenging, radical, provocative things, even if we don't agree with them, because it's those things that make us react and want to bring about change.

We have the freedom to express ourselves, but also to hear the thing we don't want to hear, and that is equally important - the freedom to be challenged.

Let's embrace that. Let's not squander our freedom."

from The Freedom to be Challenged TEDx, by Sarah Maple

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on a completely unrelated note, science has shown that conservatives are less tolerant of uncertainty

unfortunately, “it’s complicated” continues to be the correct answer to most questions worth asking. yeah I’m annoyed about it too

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it's so fucked. they don't even try to hide it

Image transcription: Tweet from @Dch1United Not-so-fun fact of the day: Amazon has A/C at facilities that have robots because the robots overheat in this temperature. We don't have robots at DCH1, so we don't have A/C. Amazon cares more about their robots overheating than their workers overheating.

but they still deny it

note: the source is Vox, which ranks just below "Most Reliable" in terms of of rating the accuracy of their articles. you can see for yourself here. So take this at its face value: complaints from Amazon employees

CEOs are all like "we need people in the office for that energy, for that culture to come back" and they seem to be unable to grasp that the average sane person does not care about the success of their company more than their own health. telling people to perform at a less healthy state for the sake of the numbers.

they only - and i mean this - only have eyes for what's "better" for the corporation, which the will gladly admit is for the shareholders. they give 0 fucks about what is better for the employee unless it hurts the numbers.

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CEOs are all like "we need people in the office for that energy, for that culture to come back" and they seem to be unable to grasp that the average sane person does not care about the success of their company more than their own health. telling people to perform at a less healthy state for the sake of the numbers.

they only - and i mean this - only have eyes for what's "better" for the corporation, which the will gladly admit is for the shareholders. they give 0 fucks about what is better for the employee unless it hurts the numbers.

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maybe i'm clueless and ignorant, in which case please make me not so, but i don't quite get how a lot of people expect things to function given their demands on monetization

"i want it to be free but i don't want it to have ads or sell my data"

"i want my sites and apps to have features that the users desire but I don't want even anonymized data tracking"

"i want the service or site to be better but i don't want to fill out their survey"

"i don't want to pay for movies/tvs/video games/etc but i want them to continue making them"

it's not that it has to be an illogical standpoint, it just feels incomplete. what's the solution that scales to cover the an entire industry? how are creators supposed to make money if consumers want to give up zero anything?

of course there will be all the "#notallpeople" people and "buy a t-shirt at their show" people and the "but look at how it works in this example of mine with specific conditions" people and the "it's not my fault because i'm only indirectly not paying the creators/they are still getting paid" people but i'm not interested in those conversations, they sound small and tedious

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and then people act like this isn’t genocide

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"Maybe for-profit firefighting would be a good idea because multiple trucks would show up and bid on prices."

-sincere (?) thought from a Libertarian coworker