indecipherablerat!

[libraford]

Lesson learned: do not attempt to drive in mud.

[libraford]

No amount of yeehaw hubris is gonna save you from the viscosity of wet sediment.

[libraford]

So every time someone at work makes an embarrassing mistake, someone puts 'the trophy' on their desk. It is a 2-tier, 4ft baseball trophy we fished out out of the trash.

You have to write your name and what you did on a piece of painters tape and what you did to get trophied and cover up the tape of the last person who got it.

I got unstuck, but not without calling the boss to get someone to come chain me out.

It might be my turn to get trophied.

[libraford]

Plant Boss says I am not likely to get trophied because Vines Guy was half-buried in the mud before he asked for help and it took him 3 hours to get him out, while mine was like 10 minutes of mild embarrassment.

[krystal-prisms]

The Chev got stuck and the Ford got stuck

Got the Chev unstuck when the Dodge showed up

But the Dodge got stuck in the tractor rut

Which eventually pulled out the Ford

With some difficulty

[indecipherablerat]

"No amount of yeehaw hubris is gonna save you from the viscosity of wet sediment."

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[draconym]

It burns my biscuits whenever I hear someone say that a person or group "doesn't contribute to society." Society is comprised of people. Those people are society. Society exists for and because of the people in it. It's like when I'm bicycling in the city and some schmuck leans out the window of his lifted pickup and yells at me for "blocking traffic." Bitch, I am traffic.

[palimpsest00]

I think what they usually mean is more aimed at people (rare people) who stay at home all day doing nothing (like people who live in their moms basement for no good reason except they're lazy mooching off their parent type vibe). Those people /are/ doing nothing for society technically. They aren't contributing to the place, they just exist.

But they often will say it aimed at those who work in fast food, delivery, etc. and that isnt fair at all. People in those jobs are important building blocks to making this place run. So it isn’t fair to say it about them.

And yes, they are in society, but they may or may not be contributing. Contributing means working. If theres no delivery drivers, no fast food workers, no businesses, no trash collectors, society as we know it starts to fall apart real fast.

[draconym]

I'm actually including """"lazy moochers"""" who sit in their mom's basement all day. My beef is that trying to measure if someone is "contributing" to society is pointless. As long as there has been money, there have been people who don't make money and people who wring their hands and whine about whether the people who aren't making money deserve to live or not.

I brought up bicycles because a lot of people appear to think that the driver of the largest and fastest vehicle has a divine mandate to punish the drivers of smaller, slower vehicles by running them off the road. Sometimes when you are driving you must yield to bicyclists and pedestrians, even if it prevents you from driving your vehicle as fast as it can possibly go. Sometimes when you live among other human beings you must account for people who "just exist" because the alternative to accepting them is running them over. I don't care if they're lazy.

[indecipherablerat]

What a lot of these people don't seem to understand is that when we say we want everyone to be able to live comfortably, have healthcare, support, etc, we mean everyone. I want the """"""""""lazy moocher"""""""" in their mother's basement to have a good life, I don't care whether they benefit me or others by doing so. I have no way of knowing why that's the choice they've made, it could be for health reasons, they could have a shit support system, they be uncertain about what they want, or they could simply just like how their life is. I want them to have everything they need to decide what's best for them, and maybe with time they'll figure things out and do something different (or not! That's fine too!)

It is impossible to legislate against this tiny specific category of people who are able bodied, mentally healthy, well supported, and still choose to """not contribute to society""" without hurting other people that aren't in that category. It is impossible to legislate morality, it is impossible to account for the everyday nuance of the human experience in this, and I honestly don't get why some people hate other people so much they'd see them suffer just because they aren't "productive" enough.

[dappermouth]

strange omens gather at the end of the street