#evils of capitalism

[hellyeahheroes]

Why billionaires should be ILLEGAL by the Market Exit

[filipfatalattractionrblog]

Planescape Torment and Disco Ellysium are two most philosophical RPGs of all time because they accuratelly potray life as defined by two main topic of philosophy - "What is the nature of the Universe and purpose of all existence?" and "Are we gonna do something about the fact capitalism is fucking us all to death?"

[sailoreuterpe]

Using the bathroom in general is a human right and should be enshrined as such and I'm not joking. Too many groups of people are denied bathroom breaks or the use of bathrooms entirely--disabled people, blue-collar workers, children, homeless people, prisoners, students, the elderly. I'm surely missing other groups. Not using the bathroom when needed can cause serious, long-term damage, not to mention death. Free, clean, accessible bathrooms should be available everywhere. It's fucking cruel to deny someone the use of the bathroom, regardless of the reasoning. I'd rather every student in the world goof off and every homeless person make a mess and every worker "steal company time" than let one person suffer because they're denied the right to fucking pee in peace.

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: Unknownfunction/Empath - Rebellion [Limit]

A few days ago we presented our first exclusive premiere of the collaboration between Empath and Unknownfunction, called Evils of Capitalism. Its concept is simple, but not easy: “To prioritize human welfare over profit and accumulation”. To this end, techno becomes impressionable as a sound in the service of people, not of a profit-driven control. This work of art was a result of an exchange…

[sonic06apologist]

Feels like they’re putting less meat in the hot pockets these days

[lobsterenthusiastt]

this has got to be my favorite c&h comic of all time. he just turns evil for no reason at all

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Michael refuses to be gaslit on “THE BITE OF 83”

[hellyeahheroes]

You can tell whose pocket he is in -Admin

Hang on Rishi, you were perfectly happy to ask ordinary families up and down the country to pay an extra £1,570 more per year for gas and electricity to meet the demands of energy company bosses?

[hellyeahheroes]

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

Those are words of Arthur C. Clarke, but I do not think he was exactly right.

We now live in a world where every one of us has a personal device that allows them to communicate with the whole world, if they wish so, read and research any piece of information, watch from endless well of content. And yet how many of us can actually explain how exactly does it work? If it gets broken, how many of us can open and fix it?

We're now slowly coming to terms with the fact that Gen Z and Gen Alpha, which everyone assumed will be more tech-savvy than Millenials, are technology illiterate, having to learn from the basics any UI that isn't the touchscreen tiles.

Both of those are by design, as the corporations do not want us to be able to repair or tinker with their product, just buy a new one whenever something goes wrong. The way young people have been taught to operate a smartphone and an ipad was purposefully designed to discourage learning past the basics, or they'll "mess around" in the programming or see past the marketing guy's bullshit when he is selling them new one. Hell, so much of grift of NFTs crypto and AI relies on people not understanding how it actually works. This is why AI bros love the "you say AI is bad but can you explain what it actually does?" defense, trying to lord over how smart they are over "the masses", rely on ignorance to push through the scam.

In one of the Witcher stories, I forgot which one, Geralt mocking asks a wizard to explain the difference between menstrual blood of a teenage virgin struck by lightning in an open field of dandelions under clear sky at midnight of the winter solstice, and blood of old peasant matron that drunkinly stumbled and fell off a cliff last thuesday, and what makes the former necessary for magic rituals in the way the latter cannot substitute for. The wizard, smugly, admits he's actually using pig's blood. But if any peasant would know that would suffice, they would be doing magic themselves, instead of paying him. And if too many people would be doing magic, the profession would be far less prestigious. And far less profitable.

Clarke was, fundamentally wrong. It's not advancement that makes technology indistinguishible from magic, at least not on it's own. it's how much work wizard from Silicon Valley put into obsctructing its nature and making sure no one but them understands it.

-Admin

[unacalatea]

can’t believe you can now drink something called a cold brew pumpkin latte in actual Italy this is an insane timeline

[hellyeahheroes]

American Empire got bored with killing Arabs for corporate interests for a decade, now it's gonna start killing Africans again. -Admin

Source

[queencolondarkwing]

EDD is down for 4 DAYS

The employees at California Unemployment deserve to be shot in the street in self defense. Causing homelessness is violence. Causing death to poor people is violence. Denying people food is violence. Killing the poor and disabled is violence.  And we have no means to retaliate or defend ourselves.

The site has been down for FOUR DAYS. After denying many people benefits for two weeks. People who are on the site are saying they have wrong information and other people’s security questions. The employees on the phone will snark at and hang up on people.

This shit is bad. I’m a fucking teacher. I don’t get summer pay at all. I need the benefits or I WILL have the tough choice of more pay day loans or homelessness.  People on disability are also being denied pay. People unable to feed their children.  People unable to eat. EDD says “sorry for the inconvenience” as if survival is simply a convenience.

This is evilness. I hope every EDD employee grows a heart and is driven to suicide out of guilt.  Fuck them.

[nando161mando]

CBS tries to ambush Ta-Nehisi Coates over Israel 'apartheid' book

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: Unknownfunction/Empath - Manifest [Limit]

One of our favorite producers teams up with Unknownfunction, an Australian artist who explores the relationship between structured rhythm and tempered sound. With influences as diverse as Autechre and Oscar Mulero, new aural combinations are synthesized from both ordered and random elements. Empath and Unknownfunction present Evils of Capitalism on Limit – the Australian artist’s label. Comprised…

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[decarabias]

forever thinking about royal’s bad ending. my thing with it is that maruki doesn’t necessarily give anyone what they want most, he gives them what’s most appropriate for them to want within a maruki-approved framework. iirc there’s a really interesting text sequence in the game where he just straight up changes someone’s career because they’re not “good” at it, regardless of whether that’s what they actually want. why struggle at all? ever? right?

and so ultimately i don’t think goro akechi’s greatest wish is necessarily ren. i think it’s a wish for sure, but his greatest wish is his own agency. despite any regrets he has and the fact that shido and yaldabaoth treated him like a pawn, he's generally pretty adamant about owning his choices and their consequences. he doesn't want that erased. and instead, you end up with pleasant boy™ if you take maruki’s deal. maybe maruki (incorrectly) thinks sanding off all of akechi’s rough edges will make him easier for ren to love. but the crux of it is really that maruki has to essentially lobotomize him to preserve the illusion of his perfect reality, because their ideologies are so diametrically opposed that akechi would spend every waking moment fighting back.

this isn’t to undermine ren’s importance to akechi btw — he explicitly acknowledges that he wishes they had met earlier, and there are countless moments throughout their confidant that underscore how much it means to him that they mirror each other so well. he absolutely does want more time with ren, just not under these circumstances.

and that’s also what makes ren’s choice on 2/2 doubly devastating. he knows that either way he loses akechi. and if he takes maruki’s deal, he loses him knowing that his last moments with the real akechi involved the two of them being unforgivably out of sync.