Murais @ Murais @lemmy.one

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It's almost like the culture war is completely manufactured and the people perpetuating it don't actually give a shit because they're just playing the grift for their own benefit.

Remember kids, the only solidarity is class solidarity and rich people understand that better than you.

EDIT: Autocorrect butchered my spelling.

My dude, if you can only imagine one system of social organization as being correct or successful, I don't think it's my intellect you need to concern yourself with.

I never implied a necessary return to subsistence farming. I said that hierarchy is not necessary for society to exist, but you continue to equate the two.

Mayans didn't build highways, because the technology and the necessity were not present. But they did build roads. And bridges. And pressurized aqueducts. And they did it without an "Assistant Director of Construction."

Y'know. Infrastructure. With limited hierarchy.

Saying that human civilization and the necessary infrastructure to support it is impossible without traditional corporate hierarchy isn't just wrong, it's fucking propaganda. And it's propaganda designed specifically to depress the value of labor.

No hierarchy doesn't mean the same as no infrastructure and never has.

It's a commonly repeated lie to equate them as meaning the same thing.

EDIT: Middle management is also a phenomenon of the Industrial Era. Prior to industrialization, humanity (and jobs) existed for thousands of years.

According to some here, that is impossible.

But in all seriousness, think of strikes and the inherent power of labor.

How come management never strikes?

When workers strike and there are no workers in the building, the day comes to a screeching halt and NOTHING happens.

If there are no managers in the building, business continues as usual. Because it happens all of the fucking time. That's why your manager can go on vacation for weeks at a time and nobody gives a shit, but you're lucky if you get 5 days in a whole calendar year.

John Riccitiello

Yes. What ever did humanity do for work before the invention of middle management?

It must have been chaos. Bedlam, even!

As long as you commodify my labor, it has value.

Whose labor generates more value? The worker, who creates the product being sold to generate profit, or the boss who manages them?

Hey now! That's not fair!

You're forgetting that he was also photographed next to Ghislaine Maxwell.

Oh hey, look.

The former CEO of EA made a greedy, short-sighted decision to fuck over his entire customer base.

I am shocked, friends.

SHOCKED.

Blocking an instance.

This will not have the effect you think it does.

This will make dudes kill a lot of pregnant ladies.

When my little sister was a toddler, she was wearing one of those one piece zip up pajama suits.

Just her, me, and my dad home one day. Suddenly smell an awful, gut-churning smell in the house.

Go to pick up sister, sister goes squish in a place that should not squish. Noped out (I was 9 at the time) and told dad.

Dad notices the squish. Takes the toddler to the sink and unzips the pajama suit.

SHE FILLED IT.

UP TO THE TOP.

ZERO SURFACE AREA LEFT UNSOILED.

Several hours of gagging later, we survive.

Pajama suit is now a cursed object. Tossed it in the fire pit outside to avoid the smell being inside forever.

Forever burned into my brain.

The fuck does this dude think soldiers did in the Civil War and World War I?

They had nothing but time and laudanum. You do the fucking math.

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I love everything else about island life.

Except the fucking roaches.

I'm getting some cats this weekend and I hope they "help" my problem.

I now live in a climate with HUGE roaches.

I grew up in a climate where they were rare. I never saw a roach in-person until I was in my 20s.

For the first year in my current apartment, it was rare for me to see a roach. Maybe an odd one every once in a while.

Now, I get multiple every time it rains. Which sucks on its own. But, they've all taken to the same habit of crawling up the back of my couch and staring at me 3 inches away from my face to say hello.

When this happens, I transcend beyond fear and anger and enter a blackout rampage mode. Move all my furniture. Couch cushions. Hunting until I'm absolutely certain that every single one of them is dead.

I've bought drain covers. I've bought roach traps. I've cleaned my house top-to-bottom. I've checked the seals on my door and windows. They're nowhere in sight on a dry day, but every time it rains, they're fucking back.

It's genuinely starting to fuck with my head, because whenever I see peripheral movement out of the corner of my eye in my apartment, I think it's a roach. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Are those a pair of little antennae poking out from behind my couch, or am I imagining it? I don't know until I've done yet another sweep.

It's harder to fall asleep. I keep having brief bouts of imagination wbere bugs are crawling and swarming all over me. I constantly do visual sweeps of my apartment. I can feel my stress level rising on rainy days. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

I fucking hate roaches.

I flew Air Canada once and it was the worst experience flying that I have ever had. I fly international on an annual basis.

Never again.

Ah.

So white ladies are going to start fleeing across the border to get abortions that they can't get in the States.

Conservatives really ARE trying to bring us back to the 1950s, aren't they?

Shoplifting shouldn't carry a death sentence. Ever.