310039 pts · July 25, 2014
Every now and then I spend my fake internet points telling people the truth so they can downvote it.
True story - first time my wife (who is a whole human in her own right) tried the VR, she did the one where the elevator opens up super high, said "fuck no" and immediately removed the headset. Couldn't be more proud.
That's entertaining enough to offer a do-over, maybe when the student is less stoned. Cool prank. I'll give you until monday to write a real one.
Yeah. It's not. It's very likely a manifestation of frustration at lots of things, but it very much isn't going to force change in business, other than security cameras, fire insurance, and maybe more jobs for security guards, raising prices.You force worker protection and higher wages with collective action - strikes - and getting legislation passed. Random arson just ruins likes and gets people killed.
Copycat arsonists.At some point they'll kill someone. I'm sure that will fix everyone's wages. /s
"Show you how the cow ate the cabbage"You know, both Alex and Donny are hateful old shitheads, but that's some prime "old man threatening" there.He'll show him what-for!He's cruisin' for a brusin'!Two men enter, one man leaves!I could watch those two make threats and piss on each other's ankles all day. 🍿
He did nothing wrong. Drunk asshole started it, ignored multiple warnings. He's *lucky* that the large gentleman showed as much restraint as he did.
Was waitimg for the dickbutt.Now I am disappoint.
To be fair - they've never needed or waited for excuses.The thing is - robots won't work when they're broke, won't work harder when they get yelled at. And the inevitable skilled repair folks cost more, are better educated, and have leverage, so they're not nearly a easy to lord over as the minimum wage laborers.
You can quit. Blocking you now, shithead.
And the only reason those assholes pay minimum wage is because there's a willing list of people who will accept it.We could solve this today by refusing to work without a living wage, and by refusing to do business with companies that don't offer one. Notice neither of those two involve lighting shit on fire.
He's not going to do a lot of organization from jail or a mental ward.
WorkerS. Plural. Mass protests and strikes. Broken windows. Equipment damaged - not product. One solo asshole goes to jail. 70% of the workforce picketing evokes change.This isn't some magic spell where you break things and suddenly the CEO sees the light. You need to convince management they are dealing with workers as a collective - and this doesn't. All it did is put his co-workers out of a job. You can't work at a burnt warehouse.
I'd th8nk long and hard before deciding the correct way to invoke political change is "light shit on fire".Seriously: if you don't think you are making enough money, find a better job. Or quit. Or organize a union, and picket. These all can be effective. You know what is *never* effective and just makes it worse? Lighting shit on fire. That's what a psychopath does.
Handjob, rubber gloves. Like in Animal House. 100% safe. Kinda kinky too, so that's a plus.
Again. All women, as women, or you're heading down a very slippery slope. You can support her as a woman while also treating her like a convicted killer. For example, supplying appropriate medical care, and feminine supplies. Because if you can decide a serial killer doesn't get pads, how about a thief, or a protestor?
Everyone insisting on privacy covers for those who need it.Someday that may be you. Or you.(Stares directly into camera, points) OR YOU.
The fun part is most of the people he pardons seem to go on and commit new crimes. I suspect a lot of what he pardons may also be state crimes. This isn't the promise/threat he thinks it is.
It's only a datapoint if everyone isn't using one. Everyone should.
If everyone trips the trip wire all the time - it's not much of a trip wire.This is like the argument about privacy - if you don't have anything to hide, why do you need privacy. The answer is because privacy is a basic human right, and nobody deserves to live in a goddamned fishbowl.The central premise in 1984 was universal surveillance feeds an authoritarian state. We need to remember that.
I nearly always use a VPN. I'm using one right now. I don't particularly want advertisers to know where I live.Privacy is something you have to fight for.
Not a cult, although he's certainly trying to make it one. People don't follow Kim Jong Un because they love him. It's because they fear him. People who speak out against him are killed. Say what you will about the MAGA - they don't follow dear leader out of fear for their own safety. They mostly follow because they're morons who mistook politics for team sports.
Semi-kinda? Yes in theory, no in practice.The issue today is liability and compliance. 100 years ago, you could just build a house in many places. Boom. Done. And if it was shit and lit on fire, that was on you.But - today we have electricity and earthquake standards and zoning laws and mandatory inspections, and they are all different depending on where you are. The single set of plans you could sell to anyone isn't a thing anymore.
Name one cult that has successfully designated a heir.JD wants it, but he's a wet blanket. Doesn't i spire loyalty in the cultists. The reality is it doesn't work that way. A cult of personality dies when the personality does. Elvis might be the exception, and even that didn't transfer to someone else.
Certainly one of us doesn't. I'm looking for solutions. Not spectacle. I'd like to see actual change. Call me crazy.This guy is like to monk who lit himself on fire as a means of protest. Bold! Dramatic! Did *absolutely nothing* to effect change. Just self-harm.The response to this will be higher prices to pay for better security for fucking toilet paper. It won't change wages - this was California, the minimum wage is already higher than most of the nation.
Because MAGA isn't about Melania. Or JD or Rudy or anyone but Donny. It's a cult, and cults revolve around their figurehead.That's the saving grace - when that figurehead dies, so does the cult. It doesn't pass down.Until Donny dies, Melania will get a pass from MAGA. And afterwards? A few weeks of grieving widow than "Melania who?"
Pracmatic and realistic.If you can pick and choose which women you support as women - you aren't supporting women. It's easy to exclude other groups like trans or poor or pregnant or black women. Fuck that. If Melania came to her senses and divorced Donny - I'd support that. No woman, no matter how much a soulless witch she might be, should be stuck in a marriage with that thing.
He won the war on sparrows. It just didn't have the results he wanted. But I've pointed this out elsewhere on Imgur - wars rarely actually have a winner. You might obtain your objective, but you rarely win.
And what's coming as a result of this is more prices going up, meaning anyone else's wage is now just a bit less livable.Strike. Protest. Collective bargaining. But sabotage is an act of war not a bargaining chip.
True story - first time my wife (who is a whole human in her own right) tried the VR, she did the one where the elevator opens up super high, said "fuck no" and immediately removed the headset. Couldn't be more proud.
That's entertaining enough to offer a do-over, maybe when the student is less stoned.
Cool prank. I'll give you until monday to write a real one.
Yeah. It's not. It's very likely a manifestation of frustration at lots of things, but it very much isn't going to force change in business, other than security cameras, fire insurance, and maybe more jobs for security guards, raising prices.
You force worker protection and higher wages with collective action - strikes - and getting legislation passed. Random arson just ruins likes and gets people killed.
Copycat arsonists.
At some point they'll kill someone. I'm sure that will fix everyone's wages. /s
"Show you how the cow ate the cabbage"
You know, both Alex and Donny are hateful old shitheads, but that's some prime "old man threatening" there.
He'll show him what-for!
He's cruisin' for a brusin'!
Two men enter, one man leaves!
I could watch those two make threats and piss on each other's ankles all day. 🍿
He did nothing wrong. Drunk asshole started it, ignored multiple warnings. He's *lucky* that the large gentleman showed as much restraint as he did.
Was waitimg for the dickbutt.
Now I am disappoint.
To be fair - they've never needed or waited for excuses.
The thing is - robots won't work when they're broke, won't work harder when they get yelled at. And the inevitable skilled repair folks cost more, are better educated, and have leverage, so they're not nearly a easy to lord over as the minimum wage laborers.
You can quit.
Blocking you now, shithead.
And the only reason those assholes pay minimum wage is because there's a willing list of people who will accept it.
We could solve this today by refusing to work without a living wage, and by refusing to do business with companies that don't offer one. Notice neither of those two involve lighting shit on fire.
He's not going to do a lot of organization from jail or a mental ward.
WorkerS. Plural. Mass protests and strikes. Broken windows. Equipment damaged - not product.
One solo asshole goes to jail.
70% of the workforce picketing evokes change.
This isn't some magic spell where you break things and suddenly the CEO sees the light. You need to convince management they are dealing with workers as a collective - and this doesn't. All it did is put his co-workers out of a job. You can't work at a burnt warehouse.
I'd th8nk long and hard before deciding the correct way to invoke political change is "light shit on fire".
Seriously: if you don't think you are making enough money, find a better job. Or quit. Or organize a union, and picket. These all can be effective. You know what is *never* effective and just makes it worse? Lighting shit on fire. That's what a psychopath does.
Handjob, rubber gloves. Like in Animal House. 100% safe. Kinda kinky too, so that's a plus.
Again. All women, as women, or you're heading down a very slippery slope.
You can support her as a woman while also treating her like a convicted killer. For example, supplying appropriate medical care, and feminine supplies.
Because if you can decide a serial killer doesn't get pads, how about a thief, or a protestor?
Everyone insisting on privacy covers for those who need it.
Someday that may be you.
Or you.
(Stares directly into camera, points) OR YOU.
The fun part is most of the people he pardons seem to go on and commit new crimes. I suspect a lot of what he pardons may also be state crimes. This isn't the promise/threat he thinks it is.
It's only a datapoint if everyone isn't using one. Everyone should.
If everyone trips the trip wire all the time - it's not much of a trip wire.
This is like the argument about privacy - if you don't have anything to hide, why do you need privacy. The answer is because privacy is a basic human right, and nobody deserves to live in a goddamned fishbowl.
The central premise in 1984 was universal surveillance feeds an authoritarian state. We need to remember that.
I nearly always use a VPN. I'm using one right now. I don't particularly want advertisers to know where I live.
Privacy is something you have to fight for.
Not a cult, although he's certainly trying to make it one. People don't follow Kim Jong Un because they love him. It's because they fear him. People who speak out against him are killed.
Say what you will about the MAGA - they don't follow dear leader out of fear for their own safety. They mostly follow because they're morons who mistook politics for team sports.
Semi-kinda? Yes in theory, no in practice.
The issue today is liability and compliance.
100 years ago, you could just build a house in many places. Boom. Done. And if it was shit and lit on fire, that was on you.
But - today we have electricity and earthquake standards and zoning laws and mandatory inspections, and they are all different depending on where you are. The single set of plans you could sell to anyone isn't a thing anymore.
Name one cult that has successfully designated a heir.
JD wants it, but he's a wet blanket. Doesn't i spire loyalty in the cultists.
The reality is it doesn't work that way. A cult of personality dies when the personality does. Elvis might be the exception, and even that didn't transfer to someone else.
Certainly one of us doesn't.
I'm looking for solutions. Not spectacle. I'd like to see actual change. Call me crazy.
This guy is like to monk who lit himself on fire as a means of protest. Bold! Dramatic! Did *absolutely nothing* to effect change. Just self-harm.
The response to this will be higher prices to pay for better security for fucking toilet paper. It won't change wages - this was California, the minimum wage is already higher than most of the nation.
Because MAGA isn't about Melania. Or JD or Rudy or anyone but Donny.
It's a cult, and cults revolve around their figurehead.
That's the saving grace - when that figurehead dies, so does the cult. It doesn't pass down.
Until Donny dies, Melania will get a pass from MAGA. And afterwards? A few weeks of grieving widow than "Melania who?"
Pracmatic and realistic.
If you can pick and choose which women you support as women - you aren't supporting women. It's easy to exclude other groups like trans or poor or pregnant or black women. Fuck that.
If Melania came to her senses and divorced Donny - I'd support that. No woman, no matter how much a soulless witch she might be, should be stuck in a marriage with that thing.
He won the war on sparrows.
It just didn't have the results he wanted.
But I've pointed this out elsewhere on Imgur - wars rarely actually have a winner. You might obtain your objective, but you rarely win.
And what's coming as a result of this is more prices going up, meaning anyone else's wage is now just a bit less livable.
Strike. Protest. Collective bargaining. But sabotage is an act of war not a bargaining chip.