BaldProphet

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Cheese balls. Giant tubs of cheese balls.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Marx Financial Freedom Steps

  1. Buy a gun and ammo
  2. Revolt against your oppressors
  3. Don't profit because profit is bad
[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I'll believe it when I stop getting only rejection letters for entry level jobs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The solution is to stop bailing out mismanaged companies. Crony capitalism/corporate socialism are scams.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

When people of good conscience are forced to support a literal genocide because of how broken our system is…

When people are incapable of understanding nuance...

I pity the rest of you who would choose complacency and the path of least resistance over doing what’s right.

This is some extremist cool-aid stuff right here. I hope you find the care you need.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Associating Joe Biden so closely with genocide demonstrates a lack of capacity for understanding nuance. Supporting Israel doesn't automatically equate to supporting Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza, but it does indicate support for the Israeli (and by extension, Jewish) right to exist. One can simultaneously protest the genocide in Gaza and support a friendly, cooperative Israel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Sounds like you got your daily dopamine hit. You should probably take a break from social media until you've calmed down.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Let me rewrite this headline:

"Democrats would rather elect a literal Nazi than Joe Biden"

Which is bull, but essentially what the article is saying.

If you won't vote for Biden because of Gaza, you are an ignorant, narrow-minded idiot and you are handing Trump the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why does Linux need to be more popular? This isn't some NRM with a proselytizing mandate. Use whichever OS you prefer and let others do the same.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is an extremely sheltered view. Most people don't even know what an operating system is, and they assume that it is an unalterable component of the computer they purchased at Best Buy. They don't have a last straw because as far as they're concerned there isn't anything they can do about it other than perhaps switching to a Mac.

 

In the two years I've been writing about Americans' changing relationship to work, there's one theme that's come up over and over again: loyalty. Whether my stories are about quiet quitting, or job-hopping, or leveraging a job offer from a competitor to force your boss to give you a raise, readers seem to divide into two groups. On one side are the bosses and tenured employees, the boomers and Gen Xers. Kids these days, they gripe. Do they have no loyalty? On the other side are the younger rank-and-file employees, the millennials and Gen Zers, who feel equally aggrieved. Why should I be loyal to my company when my company isn't loyal to me?

I knew it would happen again the other month, when I was reporting on white-collar workers who secretly juggle multiple full-time jobs. Overemployment, as the phenomenon is known, violates society's implicit norms of loyalty to one's employer more flagrantly than anything else I've encountered. But when I asked these overemployed professionals whether they felt bad that they were essentially cheating on their bosses, they were unapologetic. "My parents told me, 'Don't switch companies, grow in one company, be loyal to one company, and they'll be loyal to you,'" one guy told me. "That may have been true in their days, but it definitely isn't today anymore."

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