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I swear there was something like this pre-covid as well. They've been pulling this shit

I guess I was thinking that every business is basically a gambit where you take on as much debt as possible to trebuchet yourself into profitability hoping that an established company buys your out. If you have money to pay people it's by virtue of the debt-buyout cycle. Then you get wealthy by virtue of 6/10 of your dogshit ideas succeeding while 1 of them goes parabolic. Before that it's basically hard gambling on one idea surviving the chaos of business ownership.

Is that not how venture capital works? I thought that was the premise of the entire US economy.

For me it's that it seemed very knowable from the beginning. US being a bad ally isn't a new phenomenon. Why the fuck are you a leader if you're lagging in geopolitical insight compared to a fucking id*ot who just yesterday managed to beat tier 3 desert in Megabonk? What do you even do all day?

Dropping popcorn all over my exposed belly in my recliner while rolling my eyes Fucking idiots... what is this? Amateur hour?

I was thinking "damn, it's crazy that any of the things suggested about how a sustainable, just society would upset anyone. Even those in power should be able to see the merit of it"

But then I remembered my preferred outcome for troops, politicians, the police, myself, gamers, Europe, espousers of the protestant work ethic, and HR professionals.

I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK I WILL DELIVER MY DELIVERABLES THIS WEEK

If I can eat well and sleep well in addition then I'm having a good time

The problem, even if I'm simply critiquing your approach to your failed ideology, is how much you have to explain. Let's say that someone doesn't really like conservatives. After all, they're abrasive, pigheaded, greedy bastards. But you see some shit you don't like - POC on the TV, POC in government, prices of something going up. My MAGA evangelist ass comes up to you and goes "hi, how ya doing, my name is Holden. Do you like America? Do you like the direction we're going? What would you change?" and then you go "Yeah, I actually HATE that thing that's happening, that's why we want to Make America Great Again!" And before you know it, you have a

who votes for you. Why? Well, I understand the word Make: you do stuff. America, yeah, I got enough propaganda to know what America is. Great? Well, I'm glad you asked, it's exactly that thing you said was making America annoying. We're doing the opposite of that. Again, yeah, we're unchanging the bullshit. It's simple, it's easy. It puts butts in seats.

Strong Floor No Ceiling? First off it doesn't roll of the tongue. There's like a stutter step in there. And before I get to anything, one has to ask how many times you can simply ignore making a strong floor before you get a reputation for it. So that same corn golem in the midwest you think of as the holy grail median voter is going to eventually call you a corporate golem in return. But let's say you get that same blank slate asshole. "Hi, how ya doing, my name is Deez. Do you like the direction America is going? What's got you down?" Let's even ignore the challenge that you have absolutely 0 interest in fixing the problem they tell you, after all, we did that for the Republicans. "Yes! I feel your pain. That's why we're coming to you with a new idea, Strong Floor No Ceiling." You're going to have to explain what the floor is. Unlike great which can mean whatever you want it to mean, you're implying a whole situation. Great? It's simply the absence of the annoyance. I have a solid floor? So I'm going to have heal- I'm going to get my family ba- I'm going to have access to abor- My representative is going to- In the same split second your victim is contemplating, the Republican has convinced them that it's going to be great. They'll go watch the TV and a charismatic leader is going to talk about how you're going to have the cleanest water and the most competitive hospitals. You'd need a strong leader who's popping off about a future worth sticking around for (and he already served for 8 years doing nothing). You have to make a case that your victim is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire for no ceiling to even come into play. In essence they have to already believe what you believe to be influenced by it. They have to already believe in the civic religion and believe that Dems are delivering effectual change. Otherwise you have to go on a diatribe about how complicated shit is and how incrementalism is... le good! and how the future could be so good despite having no figurehead.

You're not beating the cynical Republican at their own game and your toolkit is not fit to inspire people into mobilizing. Like @deforestgump@hexbear.net : "medicare for all!" how about "no hungry children!" ? how about "legal drugs"? how about "democracy in government, democracy in work."? If your strategy is convincing people to imagine the future, you need something positive to imagine (and preferably not having a reputation of fucking it up).

One of the reasons I need to commit to a more disciplined reading of theory is to better express this idea I have about surplus value. It makes me think of how people are all "if you took all of Bezos' wealth you wouldn't even be able to pay for healthcare for a year!" I'm not concerned about the dollars that he has, I'm concerned about the societal-social contract we all tacitly endorse where he has infinite buying power. That idea has its basis in the Communist Manifesto.

So in that same vein, you could theoretically go AFK on the clock and eventually get back the same buying power you would have if you worked in the presence of justice, sure. Marx has the simple equation regarding the labor-time spend to create a product. The surplus is the value of the labor minus the wages paid for it. So yes, if you could put a price tag on the goods you produce, you could find that number of hours.

But that doesn't feel like a path towards liberation. Notably, you're still likely spending that money on rent and health insurance. Your taxes are going to harassing farmers half the world away. Even all of that aside - it's not really getting at the idea of surplus value, just providing a backdrop to talk about it with. I think it's harder to put that price tag on the goods and services today than it was in the 1850s. If you're making algorithms for day trading or making billboard ads then you're not making society any better - I'd argue you're making it worse. So it's like making a valuation in Bezos bucks for causing harm.

Therefore it seems two dimensional and small to use S = LT - W to get a number for what you're owed. In its best application such a number might clue you into the idea that you're being conned out of a good world. But that means that it's a signpost that might allow you to consider the colossal inputs into the system only to get absolute bullshit in return. It'd scratch the same itch as seeing the beautiful metros and cityscapes in China compared to how America looks. It's the same way that Bezos' dollars matter a lot less than the possible social good+utility of a giga datacenter that could stream media seamlessly in a single app alongside the resource organization and distribution of the warehouse system. You wouldn't need to go AFK for X amount of hours to afford spotify, a bunch of show subscriptions, and plastic toys from China if they were just part of the one app with society's music+movies+games and a well staffed warehouse that can get to items to you when convenient.

We need to have a conversation like "what the fuck are we doing here?" Healthcare doesn't need to cost that much. Food doesn't need to be that insecure and wasted. Housing doesn't need to be a commodity. Education is easier to come by than the price tag would suggest. Don't even get me started on transport! Nobody needs your AFK soul to sit in an office staring at an excel sheet or frankly digging in a coal mine for everyone to eat, drink, and sleep. You'd be better served in a better society if you didn't have to think about how many hours you must spend idly and instead got to think about what needs to get done. Given the opportunity and bandwidth, some people would create shit sometimes instead of regurgitating Toy Story plot lines and IPOs for enshittified SaaS products. If the goals weren't to make the numbers look good for Q3 and instead designing automation, high speed rail, power plants, and green+human friendly architecture then not only would you likely be getting a bigger share of the pie, you'd be getting a much more delicious pie. So much so that even if you got the same percentage of your surplus labor as today you probably wouldn't care because life would be good and you'd get a say in how the public decides to spend the surplus together.

Podcast? What do you mean podcast?

original subreddit? what?

oh, you love your comrades? Just replace comrades with the state of

and their actions. Doesn't sound so innocent now, does it?

It might seem like a lot of fuss over a $400 item, but for some companies – and co-workers – there's no lower limit to pettiness. The fact the winner was an intern likely played a big part in him choosing to leave the firm, and the incident should have convinced him there are better places to work. Plus, he got to keep his RTX 5060.

Don't think I could think of a better take myself.

I guess it's that I have a few different pieces of a project to put together. I need to anonymize some sections to get it ready to open source, I have to have different deliverables for different people, and there's some more work I could do to make it a little more user friendly. It's got me feeling overwhelmed and like time has finally caught up to me. I feel like if I organized the pool of tasks into a plan it would give me a lot less anxiety. But I've never really made a plan that I followed through on. The second there's a permutation (and there's always a permutation) everything flies out the window.

absolutely 100% genuine response that I feel in my heart

fw*ck off, nɘrd

insulte

Oh, if you think that made me giggle you have another thing coming. It DIDN'T make me giggle. In fact, it p*ssed me off

Feeling sick. I honestly blame my comrades. Frick you

Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders

“We will protect New Yorkers’ First Amendment rights while making clear that nothing can justify language calling for ‘death to’ anyone,” Mr. Mamdani said in a statement to The New York Times. “It is unacceptable, full stop.”

“A synagogue is where Jews learn, pray, and strengthen Jewish life,” William Daroff, the chief executive of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said on social media. “Teaching about aliyah and Zionism belongs in that space. It reflects who we are as a people.” (Jews make “Aliyah” when they move to Israel.)

I'm tired, grandpa

Women need to shower to smell like a flower. Men take a bath, once a week on the sabbath. Theys jump in the lake to think of a good take.

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They are right, the rich are right there waiting to be expropriated.

is it possible to commit enough time theft to get all your surplus value back

hello again

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Mamdani hit piece Zionist trash from the NY Times

Still not totally convinced he's not doing a long con bit.

Badposting is a art

Just watched Icarus. Not a big fan of this "Russia" fellow.

I don't know what this main shit is about but I'm not going to learn it either. Fuck you.

So are any of you weirdos or not?

A quick reminder that even though my posts are badposts, you are still required to upbear them

Just got a stimulus check of motivation.

Bit idea: Let in a couple libs from the fediverse, but have them be rare. That way we can see posts to criticize like crystal lizards from Dark Souls