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In its fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday, Meta said Facebook user numbers were down for the first time, as its metaverse business lost $10 b

cyle

nobody wants the metaverse

nobody wants to use facebook anymore

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explorerrowan

If this is the only thing we manage to kill this year, it will be worth it.

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fuckyeahanarchistposters

“Take naps, destroy capitalism”

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They have spoken!

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Simply 12 bosses who you'll be very glad you don't work for

Simply 12 bosses who you’ll be very glad you don’t work for

Life Poke Staff. Updated November 24th, 2021 There’s a very popular and fast-growing corner of Reddit called ‘antiwork’ which is devoted to ‘those who want to end work, are curious about ending work [and] want to get the most out of a work-free life’. So most of us, then. Lots of it is devoted to snapshots of people’s bosses and the working conditions people are expected to work under. And these…

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dicksmasher

If you can't pay your employees enough, then your business gets to fail. That's capitalism. Free market, baby!

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Hunting, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

smallandfurious

the movie WALL-E us pretty anti capitalist if you think about it

global scale corporates destroy the sustainability of earth for personal gain and said company pulling out a pointless project to promise the people a better future, the future being herding them like sheep, maintaining absolute control over them and blinding them of the potential lives they could all live.

EVE, a robot created in this system, expected to follow orders, revolts against the long gone authority assigned order for a better future alongside WALL-E who always lived outside of this system and a bunch of other robots who don't know how to act accordingly, to comply, to listen.

some things that stuck with me was in the ship, there's countless advertisements and billboards cheerfully telling people what to do, what's the newest, basically what orders to follow. and people complied because they're too far gone to think for themselves what's right and what's wrong. the scene where all billboards changed to advertise those blue bodysuits, everyone immediately changed into them, not even trying to think about it first.

another scene, they locked up robots that seemed to not fit in, to not follow orders, to act differently. they were all locked up in their respective "jail cells" and even then, if they acted harshly, they'd get detained. they seemed perfectly happy and content with the way they were but since it caused "disturbances" to others and disrupted public order, they were locked up. however, those same robots were the ones who would later help humanity get back on their feet and settle back on earth, literally.

corporate greed and mass consumerism took over their lives and eventually it destroyed their home. yet the same companies, the same authorities still rule over them after their destruction all the way in space, hypnotizing the public and making them all into mindless puppets.

a lot of things in this movie can be incorporated into real life.

the idea of "you have to work to survive" and MANY other things that we basically assume has to be the way it is, actually, is not necessary.

the residents of the ship are born, living their lives on those hovering chairs and a screen over their faces all their lives and eventually they pass away. we are born, we're thrown into working environments and we eventually pass away.

those who don't comply, those who are against this life, or those who cannot comply with this life (such as leftists, disabled people and neurodivergent people) are seen as crazy, rebellious, lazy, even a stupid conspiracy theorist but are they really?

huge companies destroy the land, the waters, our wildlife and plants to make a quick buck and we have to comply and consume items produced by them because small businesses are receding and mass production is more affordable to the working class.

honestly, it's really insane how this movie is seen as a cute little children's show when it depicts such heavy and radical topics. the movie isn't about cute robots saving mankind and falling in love, it's about revolution.

it's impressive that they got such a strong message through with symbolism in a children's movie honestly.

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tunashei

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

ironmist

Realising you don’t have to tell anyone anything about yourself or your life is.. a very liberating feeling. Realising you can tell the trees and the rivers and the lakes and the mountains instead? Even more so.