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"Ok, ma'am that'll be 226.03$."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

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I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

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I saw a post about deradicalization via learning to care about things other than yourself but about halfway down there was a comment like

"It is hard to want to care about other people when the treat you like you're ontologically evil."

And everyone ripped this person to shreds. It's your responsibility to fix your own behavior, you can't say "boo hoo no one was ever nice to me" and use it as a justification. Which is true! Everyone is ultimately responsible for their own behavior and choices.

But that single commenter was nevertheless absolutely correct.

If people have a responsibility not to become abhorrent because of the way they are treated, people also have a responsibility not to treat other people so badly that they think that's the only reasonable response. It isn't but that's not the point. The point is that you, person with all the correct opinions, are also responsible for your own behavior.

If you are mean to people they probably aren't going to like you

If you keep saying how much you hate a certain type of person they probably aren't going to support your movement

If you tell someone they are ontologically evil they probably aren't going to start caring about you

If you insult your constituents they aren't going to vote for you

If your response to this is I can't believe everyone else is so stupid and evil, then you are the problem - or at the very least, you are never going to become part of the solution

You cannot hate yourself into becoming a better person, and you certainly cannot hate other people into supporting you

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We need to let adults fight without catching an assault charge...like I'm talking about consensual fighting. Not jumping folks, hiding no weapons none of that. Just going at it in the parking lot

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Yemeni media reported a new round of airstrikes by US and UK warplanes that hit the Bajil District in Hodeidah province on 28 November, just minutes after Ansarallah leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi confirmed that Sanaa will continue its military operations in support of Palestine. [...]

Houthi also revealed that the US and UK have carried out 844 air raids and naval bombardments inside the Arab world's poorest country “to no avail and without any effect on [their] position” since the start of the year.

Washington and London launched an illegal war against Yemen in January in a failed bid to stop Sanaa's pro-Palestine actions. In response, the Yemeni Armed Forces have repeatedly targeted western warships deployed in the Red Sea, most recently forcing the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier out of West Asian waters.

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this might sound harsh and it may be pointless to try and salvage the youtube comment section but youtube comments should display % of video watched and/or timestamp of when comments are made. make it an option controlled by the uploader.

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Oh hey random storytime:

My mother had a dog of a fairly unusual breed, the kind breed whose existence I hadn't even heard of before the breeder became a family friend. This specific dog was a zero brain cell masterpiece specimen, so while he was fucking stupid, he had an impressive enough pedigree that it would have been a waste to not take him into dog shows, maybe win a few prizes and have him sire pups.

Anyway, this one time we were at a smaller dog show, not really an amateur one but definitely not a huge international event. It was held outdoors on a football field(?), and not only was my mom's dog the only one of his breed in the show, they had somehow completely forgot to include him in the show's schedule. We had come all the way over here to show off a dog that didn't have a time, judges, or ring for him anywhere in the plans.

So while my mother isn't the type to Demand To Speak To The Manager when something doesn't go her way, everyone was in the agreement that the fuck-up was on the show runners' side, and they were very apologetic about such an unprofessional mistake. And they did manage to find a show ring with a slot to squeeze him in, just before the next breed was about to start.

So they made a quick announcement in the ring just before the scheduled breed was going to start, and into the ring went the breeder and mom's dog. And while they were doing their little lap, surrounded by a mostly quiet, uninterested audience, I heard some random kid's faint voice asking

What happened to that one?

And it suddenly hit me how funny this whole situation must look like with no context. Mom's dog or his whole breed were not on the printed out leaflet schedule of the show, in this specific ring or otherwise. If someone showed up now, or somehow otherwise missed the announcement (which wasn't even broadcasted in any way, just yelled out over the crowd by one guy), holy shit they would be confused.

The dog breed that was booked on that spot was samoyeds. My mother's dog was a peruvian inca orchid. Imagine being at a dog show in the right place at the right time, 100% expecting to see one of those fluffy clouds on the left, and out walks the motherfucker on the right.

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the clock app always picks the numbers for you but in calculator the numbers can be anything you want

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obsessed with this costume

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I may need this later, for cosplay reasons...

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It's over

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EEEEEYIKES!!! my odds of finding ""the eight pages"" are pretty ""slender"" if this ""man"" keeps following me around!!!