#excessive capitalization

[thezestywalru]

The way I'm watching criminal minds and derek fucking morgan (from southside chicago) says "I'd never been to a cabin, much less a lake," like you lived in fucking Chicago on Lake fucking Michigan. Being from the Southside doesn't mean you've never been to the Lake. The City was founded around The Lake. The Lake is a huge fucking thing people go to in the summer. I have no doubts your mother (who worked a lot) just told you and your sisters to go to The Lake during the summer when you were out of school. You've seen a Fucking Lake

[trans-ylvania]

everything is awful right now so im making a 4 year survival plan, put in the tags any ideas you have

my ideas so far:

trust self & focus on values

get new copies of govt. papers

medical history binder

avoid self censorship

get high quality masks

research where my data is being shared

care for body as if theres already no healthcare

buy condoms

make sure vaxxes are up to date

self defense classes

renew passport

reblogs for a bigger idea pool would be very appreciated

don't kill yrself im so serious that is exactly what the government wants you to do stay alive out of spite even if yr miserable (& you will be) (joy exists in and amongst grief)

[infamouslydorky]

Fucks me up jobs expect workers to show up despite wild circumstances. I remember at a former job having to traverse sub zero temperatures just to walk to my job because they refused to close the building. I remember having to work front line in covid as an immune compromised individual with no vaccine produced yet and when concerns were expressed, my superiors responded with "when workers get infected, these parts of the building will be closed". God forbid you lose a family member. You're expected to show up anyway.

Today my boss told me to contact an office to confirm if a doctor has his papers in order. I say: they won't pick up, and he asks why, to which I responded: THEY WERE IN DIRECT LINE OF MILTON, YOU KNOW, THE DEVISTATING HURRICANE PART 2?? WHY WOULD THEY PICK UP???

[nochangeintheplan]

Preorder will go live on my kofi at 1:00 PM EST on April 6th!

Shipping is 6 USD for United States, 20 USD for Worldwide. Shipping is possible to any country covered by USPS. If your country has any specific shipping stipulations that you know of, when it comes time for the preorder you'll have my email to contact me about any of those extra concerns!

There will be 100 made; manufacturing is currently underway for the lil guys. I'll be sure to update my kofi with further info about the process as it goes along!

[potatohasarrived]

I know there are way better and more important reasons to hate Gen AI being used by academics/students to do their homework for them, but the one I will focus on is the fact that some of my classmates have never experienced the joy of closing 10+ tabs after a research project.

Like what do you mean you don't have one tab open to the assignment and 15 separate tabs full of random articles and blogs for reference and don't feel the euphoria rushing through your veins as you individually close each tab after you're done with the assignment, laughing manically to yourself knowing you wouldn't have to ever search for that topic ever again, feeling a wave of bliss hearing your laptop fans slow down from whirring like a helicopter propeller for the past 2 hours, i have felt it and nothing else during said assignment has brought me that much peace.

You will never be able to get that feeling of accomplishment from a single Gen AI tab, all that would ever be is a soulless click of a mouse, the sound echoing throughout your empty room like the void in your heart, no whimsy, no light, only infinite darkness after your very being was slowly taken from you by the machine you have feared as a child, and there was no resistance as you knelt at its throne and called it king, when it was nothing but silicon and metal, but you treated it like it was more than something fellow humans have made, and even if you wanted to, you couldn't fight back, you gave that ability up the moment you typed that prompt and realised that it was easier to surrender to the robot than it was to study, to understand, to learn. I pity you.

Anyway don't use Gen AI, it is better to be inconvenienced than it is to lose the ability to critically think for yourself!

[kingcaspian43]

not spotify trying to put lyrics behind a paywall

corporate fucking assholes

[ophthalmotropy]

How do you act more confidently when you firmly believe that people getting mad at you would result in your immediate death.

[cosmic--dandelion]

Some interesting parallels

[musique-electronique]

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[adrianastrix]

The reason why I'm so adamant about separating "earning money from your work" from "capitalism" is, firstly, that capitalism spreads the lie that "money = capitalism, so capitalism exists since money was invented and will exist until money fades out", making it look way more universal and strong that it actually is (capitalism is actually a development from 18th century free market ideology meeting freaking colonialism, so it's very recent and has a very spotty past).

But what gets me is that this association of capitalism with money, salaries and trading makes it so every time an artist sees how screwed we all are by this system and denounces it, they lock themselves out of financial support. Everyone start to spew vitriol about how you shouldn't take money since you hate capitalism so much, like the two things are equivalent.

You know what kind of people think that someone asking for payment in exchange for a service is fundamentally greedy, it doesn't matter how reasonable the price is?

Slave. Owners.

They are the ones who think every service should be provided for people who HAVE to work for them whenever they want, however degrading it might be, and for NO PAY WHATSOEVER. And that providing those workers with the bare minimum food and shelter instead of letting them die and buying new slaves is charity.

In every non-slave society, it IS expected that goods and services will be traded for fair rates. Criticizing capitalism has nothing to do with buy or selling things, it has nothing to do with believing that money, or trading, or advertising shouldn't exist. It has to do with criticizing a system that treat workers like uppity slaves that should be happy that they get a ridiculously low salary for brutal hours of work and aren't legally bound 24/7 to the whims of their employer anymore. What more should they want??? After all, if they get more money and free time they will blow it all in drugs and depravities anyway. Hey, y'all, are we sure those people shouldn't be legally bound 24/7 to the whims of their employer? For their own good?

So, by all means. Charge whatever you want to charge (or DON'T charge if you don't want to), buy iPhones, advertize like crazy and criticize capitalism at every single corner. The only ones who are hypocrites when they criticize capitalism are the capitalist themselves.

(And "capitalists" aren't all bosses. Capitalists are bosses who don't have to work. They make their whole living from the profits of other people's work (i.e., the capital). They are people who live from the interest the bank pays for their inheritance money, or from the rent paid by their 5 or more tennants, or from loaning some money to a company - "investing" on it - on a non-limited interest rate, siphoning that company's profits like crazy without ever lifting a finger to make it better. Sometimes, actively making it worse by imposing ridiculous conditions for their loan... *cough* investment. What, you thought interest in investments come from thin air, like magic? It's thinly disguised loan-sharking, my guys.

Your boss that will be broken in the streets if their bakery/youtube channel/print service fails isn't a capitalist, they are just a commoner providing goods and services like you, and they are in for a rude awakening if they think they can get away with acting like the local lord on the long run.)

[onnahu]

No i don't want your free tablet get the fuck away from me

[ennui-hearted]

i think what makes this whole duolingo ai usage shit all the more hypocritical is that the company ACTUALLY states this in their environmental statement:

they say that shit, and yet they go right ahead and use ai, which is something that HAS BEEN ACTUALLY KNOWN TO DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT AND LEAVE A MASSIVE CARBON FOOTPRINT ON THE WORLD.

i just... don't know what the fuck to even SAY. that is actually next-level hypocrisy.

don't trust duolingo when it comes to the environment, folks. they actually don't give a shit about the world we live in despite them saying bullshit like this.

[repurposedmeatlocker]

Yes I will proudly unfollow a person on Letterboxd who called Defunctland's video on the Disney Channel theme "infantile".

[maurypovichofficial2]

I folded and got YouTube premium :(