I’m a programmer. Programmers are the way the are because of biases inherent to pre-existing wealth and historically in-demand skills / high pay. It’s only a matter of time till they learn the boot of capitalism will crush them the same as any other worker.
Bro’s legit out here thinking there’s some sort of meaningful wealth redistribution instead of winner takes all for the few, abject poverty for the rest.
The only thing Putin needs is a bullet in the head.
Can’t he just do what America is known and loved for? … Denying entire countries their basic human rights, sovereignty, and democracy?
I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently. Taking it to trial and giving this guy a voice could make things so much worse for them. They’re afraid of creating a robin hood, and class solidarity; of giving the working class a hero and cause to rally around.
They’re so close to creating a robot army that can suppress the masses. They just have to bide their time until revolution is impossible.
While most work is hard, and I dunno how bespoke this gig is, there’s a massive difference between a generic fry “cook” and a restaurant line cook/chef.
Most fry cooks, like a Macdonald’s, are a finely tuned production line where most of the food is pre-prepped and premade (most of the “cooking” is done in a factory). The “cooks” in those roles usually just assemble the pre made components, and in the case of fast food, have finely tunes tools to serve their generic menu.
A restaurant cook/chef requires significantly more attention to detail, skill, flexibility, and knowledge because most of the food is made from scratch, using raw ingredients, which is why there are culinary schools. Real restaurants can’t succeed with a kitchen full of deep fryers and teenagers pushing buttons. Naturally, the expectation is that they should be paid more because it requires more skill, knowledge, effort, and dedication.
I don’t feel this way about dudes kissing or PDA, but if I accidentally click the wrong link or scroll past a thumbnail with some explicit gay porn, I feel the exact same visceral disgust.
That’s how I OG confirmed I’m not gay back in the day. Trying to watch gay porn and having my dick shrivel like a frightened turtle; wanting nothing to do with it.
It’s kinda peaceful, knowing that I’ll just end and nothing will matter anymore for the rest of eternity.
The prospect of living for eternity is so much scarier; basically nightmare fuel.
Gee. I wonder why.
In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for assurances from Russia, the United States and United Kingdom to respect the Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.
This is probably a response to Israel’s genocide/wars, and the US electing Trump (plus christian evangelism). Nukes reduce the likelihood of invasion significantly. Regardless of whether we despise their authoritarian regime, Iran is smart to proceed with nuclear sovereignty. No nation or its oligarchy can be trusted to defend your sovereignty over their own profits or domestic politics. There are no friends in business.
Yet none of them really paywall you for using an adblocker.
Actually come to think of it, porn sites are the only place I allow ads (obv blocking the pop ups and other dark pattern fuckery)… probablys because I learned to ignore them entirely as a teen before ad blockers existed.
I’m happy to say that nobody in my family ever really code switched.
The closest was my WW2 vet grandfather responding to my disdain for nuking Japan with the higher amount of civilians killed by firebombing… but in a non-racist matter-of-fact kind of way. My disdain never stopped, but I did learn that there is no such thing as a moral or just war; only some sides are more moral and just than others, and each create hell on Earth trying to win it.
I’m not suggesting we abandon those ideals in the slightest. I’m suggesting we acknowledge reality as it truly is, hold the charlatan virtue signalers and criminals accountable — whoever they are — and start creating the ideal world we all thought was possible.
Be the person your dog thinks you are… but to everyone, including yourself!
It’s depressing, but the reality we were taught to believe never really existed. All of these aspirations were virtue signals taught to us by a capitalist oligarchy whose politics, policies, laws, wars, economics, and judicial system always clearly displayed otherwise with their actions.
It started with the virtue signal of “all men are created equal”; shitting all over non-landowners, women, and blacks.
The question isn’t if the emperor has clothes or not. The question is what we the people are going to do about it… probably nothing… also depressing.
So you can doom scroll faster… duh!
The millions of free porn sites would beg to differ…
When he declared Nov would be the last election, and winning it meant they wouldn’t have to worry about elections again, he meant it!
He’s doing exactly what he said he would do.
In reality, fuck you! There are no rules for the oligarchs, because you live in a corporate dictatorship. What you gonna do about it peasant?
So he’s the classic centrist, and by that I mean a criminally corrupt neoliberal/conservative corporate whore scab, with no ethics or morals; guided by nothing but what he believes will benefit him personally…
Those are functionally equivalent? The consequences are nearly identical, so what’s the difference?
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.
Capitalism hasn’t spent decades, and a depressingly small ampunt of money, capturing the political class, to improve the lives of the working class.