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  • When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.

  • Maybe another time traveller disturbed the shooter by pushing him because what would have happened if Trump was shot dead would have been truly apocalyptic in the longer run. Maybe we just witnessed the n-th time loop without remembering the other ones and this is the first one where the bullet only grazes Trump's ear instead of blowing his brains out so now life on Earth as we know it can continue, and we can post about it on Lemmy.

  • I believe it was Marx who first observed that superfluous jobs, as well as unemployment, are inextricably linked to capitalism.

    EDIT: Found a relevant Marx quote in Grundrisse:

    Capital itself is the moving contradiction, [in] that it presses to reduce labour time to a minimum, while it posits labour time, on the other side, as sole measure and source of wealth. Hence it diminishes labour time in the necessary form so as to increase it in the superfluous form; hence posits the superfluous in growing measure as a condition – question of life or death – for the necessary.

    See also Marcuse, 1969:

    The absorption [i.e. disappearance] of unemployment and the maintenance of an adequate rate of profit would [...] require the stimulation of demand on an ever larger scale, thereby stimulating the rat race of the competitive struggle for existence through the multiplication of waste, planned obsolescence, parasitic and stupid jobs and services.

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  • Join some Whatsapp group that piques your interest and meet with them IRL. I wouldn't have thought that drinking beer and shooting the shit with total strangers could be so much fun, but here we are.

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  • Geez, that reminds me of a former colleague that, when asked for "the numbers," would just send screenshots of tables in the ERP system instead of exporting them to a spreadsheet. What's even worse, usually a lot of values were plain wrong, on one occasion more than half of them.