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There is an actual literal hole in the bottom of my phone because its so cracked and i will still refuse to let my parents replace it because ✨capitalism is killing poor people in america like me and my family✨
I know santa isn't real but what if his elvs arnt paid a livable wage
I was going to the bathroom in the grocery store the other day. Bathrooms were located along this long hallway with a storage room or something at the end.
As I walked down the hallway, I noticed the sound of country music. It only grew louder as I walked closer to the bathroom. Like extremely loud. After getting over my shock, I went to the bathroom.
While on the toilet, the music abruptly stopped. It was replaced with the sound yelling. I assume, the guitarist’s boss was yelling. I could only make out, “disturbing the whole store!” and “get back to work.”
We need justice for guitar dude.
THATS THE GUY’S NAME???? YOU’RE KIDDING ME. THATS A MOVIE CEO SUPERVILLAIN. THATS NOT A REAL PERSON.
The dramatic irony just seeping out of this situation is delectable.
"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."
Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.
"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."
Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–
"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."
Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.
Man...
I just watched The Bikeriders and I'll say: I have A LOT to talk about this movie, I might go into one of my rants about it and toxic masculinity and just the overall male need for connection and the struggle against hegemonic culture in capitalism
Plus, there's so much depth in Benny's character and his relationship with Johnny and Kathy, and he barely even appears!!!
And Kathy, I love how unromanticized her story was.
Johnny and his desperation to be what Benny was effortless
The Vietnam War and its impact on a subculture as a demonstration of how deep cultural hegemony and capitalism can affect peoples' lives
It's amazing really
The Industrial Revolution of the 1800s saw a boom in manufacturing and technological achievement. Products as diverse as car parts to cleaning supplies were being assembled, built, woven, or otherwise created on a scale never before seen. But this renaissance required workers - lots of them. In capitalist countries in the West, business tycoons made profit off of the cheap labor of thousands of men, women and children. Most of them worked up to 16 hours a day, in insanely dangerous conditions. But where there is oppression there is resistance, and in the 1880s, worker’s unions across the United States began to fight for their rights.
Many members of the movement at this time were communists and anarchists, who believed that the capitalist system exploited members of the working class. They demonstrated for an 8-hour day, as well as better wages and working conditions.
In 1886, in the first days of May, thousands of Chicago’s working class went on strike. In Haymarket Square, a meeting of up to 3,000 radicals gathered to protest the conditions they worked in. When the Chicago police came to disperse the demonstrators, someone threw a bomb. At least 8 people died, and more than a hundred were wounded.
Three years later, in commemoration of what was called the Haymarket affair, the International Socialist Conference declared May first an international holiday for the world’s workers. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (now know as the American Federation of Labor) declared that “eight hours shall now constitute a legal day’s labor.”
But the US no longer celebrates Labor Day on May first, or May Day. During the Cold War, May first became associated with the socialist and communist movements that it had been born from. President Eisenhower signed a resolution renaming May Day as ‘Loyalty Day’, a holiday dedicated to American patriotism. We now celebrate Labor Day on September second.
But hey, in recognition of global celebrations and the industrious working class, here’s a shout out to May Day. Equality and vacation days for all!
video games are fun but i do think it's fucked how video games went from "hey remember to take a break every once in a while :)" to "if you don't log in every day and play 6 hours you're gonna lose your streak and won't earn the 10 in-game currency you're saving up to buy our overpriced cosmetics" in the span of like. 10 years.
Reblog this if you DID NOT order gifts from Amazon this year.
I just want to do a little test. Please reblog this if you DID Not use Amazon to purchase gifts.
To help everyone understand the gravity of the situation with Unity's recent bullshit, here are some games made in unity:
Cult of the Lamb
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Untitled Goose Game
Road 96
Cuphead
Power Wash Simulator
Genshin Impact
Getting Over It
Inside
Tem Tem
Kerbal Space Program 1
Kerbal Space Program 2
Rust
Rimworld
Outer Wilds
Dream Daddy
Thomas Was Alone
I Am Setsuna
Tunic
Night in the Woods
Pony Island
Return of the Obra Dinn
Among Us
Pokemon Go
Hollow Knight
Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Willow of the Wisps
Vampire Survivors
Two Point Hospital
City Skylines
The Long Dark
Firewatch
Oxenfree
Subnautica
Subnautica: Below Zero
Fall Guys
Many, MANY MORE
Unless you only play tRIpLE A titles this will most likely affect a game you like. Hell, it can even affect really big games like Pokemon Go.
For a long time, starting years and years back, a lot of people have been talking about the preservation of games and being against moving to digital only games for reasons like this, and how the greed of various big companies in the game industry will negatively impact access to games and their preservation. It's happening. This will impact games that are already out. This will impact games being made. This will impact games made in the future. So if you care even a teensy tiny bit about a single game made in unity, or you care about the future of game development period, I suggest you pay very close attention.
A good article from an indie developer detailing the changes and exactly how it screws devs over:
Oh, interesting! Nothing bad has ever come from a Car company buying a rail line, nope nothing at all
📷 @flictedimages
Muscle beast
June 2011 cover.
i just
want to live
i want to take care of my little plants and look at my dogs and make art and instead i’m going to work until i die because some billionaires want us to think we have to earn the right to be happy
i think a lot about exactly 1 thing from the roman empire: the concept of bread and circus. the idea was that if your population was fed and entertained, they wouldn't revolt. you are asking us to give up our one small life, is the thing - for under 15 dollars an hour.
what would that buy, even. i am trading weekends and late nights and my back health. i am trading slow mornings and long walks and cortisol levels. i am trading sleep and silence and peace. for ... this. for what barely-covers-rent.
life really is more expensive right now. you aren't making that up. i make almost 3 times what i did 5 years ago, and despite an incredibly equal series of bills - i am still struggling. the most expensive line item i added was to own a dog. the money is just evaporating.
we were okay with it because it's a cost-benefit analysis. i could handle the customer harassment and standing all day and the manager's constantly changing temperament - i was coming home to hope, and my life planned in a blue envelope. three hours would buy me my dog's food for a month. i can give up three hours for him, for his shiny coat and wide, happy mouth. three days could be a new mattress, if i was thrifty. if i really scrimped and saved, we could maybe afford a trip into the city.
recently i cried in the car about the price of groceries.
business majors will be mad at me, but my most inflammatory opinion is that people should never be valued at the same place as products. your staff should not be a series of numbers in an excel sheet that you can just "replace" whenever you need something at that moment. your staff should be people, end of sentence.
it feels like someone somewhere is playing a very bad video game. like my life is a toy. like someone opened an app on their phone and hired me in diner dash ultra. they don't need to pay me well or treat me alright - they can always just show me the door. there is always someone more desperate, always someone more willing.
but i go to work and know i could save for years and not afford housing. i am never going to own my own home, most likely. i have no idea how to afford her ring, much less the wedding. my dog doesn't have his own yard. everything i love is on subscription. if i lose my job, i have no "nest egg" to catch my falling.
this thin life - they want me to give up summer for it. to open my mouth and throat and swallow the horrible hours and counted keystrokes. they want me to give up summer and any non-federal holiday. to give up snow days. to give up talking to my mom whenever i want. to give up visiting the ocean and hearing the waves.
bread and circus worked for a while, actually. it was a the kind of plan that would probably now be denounced by republicans as socialist commie liberal pronoun shit.
but sometimes i wonder if we should point them to the part of the history book that says: it worked until it didn't.
debunking a capitalist thing
"people will only work if u pay them" holds true when the worker doesn't actually like what they're doing, and when they live in a society where they cannot live without being paid decently. it's all well and good for some ppl to work for free, but that is not a reality for many. they rely on an income to survive; their family may not have money, they may be completely financially independent. it's nice that some ppl (w/ privilege no doubt) are using to do good, but we shouldn't berate others in less fortunate circumstances for not following suit. if u were in their position, would u work for free?? hell nah. bc iN tHis eCoNoMy working for free without financial stability is unsustainable and frankly impossible for so so many. and this causes them to demand, no- deserve, payment for their work- whether they enjoy it or not. but i'm pretty sure ppl are willing to work for less pay when they enjoy the job, it's not exactly a revelation :// and as great as 'doing what u love' is, we can't let capitalists exploit our passions by providing our free labour to them- at least, not until something changes. they will spout all this "passion for your work" talk, and it's bullshit and irrelevant rn, bc that's idealistic and not realistic. they know this and are trying to appear progressive but actually they're benefiting from the current system, so keep that in mind. don't give them what they want.
(passionately written after seeing post fr @bravecrab, raised some very good points here. so good that i had to make an account pronto)
Holy fucking shit finally
Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.
Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.
“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]
amazing
a comic about printers
I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker
If someone knows it please tell me, I'm pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!