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why do we fix someone else's tie for them instead of just telling them how? why do we hold hands when they're cold instead of just putting them in our pockets? Get real

redemotionalglobe

[ID: A link to a Quora page titled "Why do we light people's cigarettes for them instead of just giving them the lighter?" End ID.]

reh-hateshumans

i wholeheartedly believe i deserve fangs

lohboh

Really makes you fucking think.

infectedwithnyanites

There is no justice in this corrupt rotten land that does not flow from the barrel of a gun.

modelsof-color

Sacha Quenby by Tanya Posternak for M Magazine November 2023

tastefullyoffensive

yummy-tummy-time

wtf kind of combination of time, resources, energy, and dedication do your friends have to build an entire mini room in your room as a prank??

ampervadasz

eerian-sadow

It’s true. I started calling “the cloud” offsite storage, and the comprehension that dawns in my customers’ eyes is super gratifying. They understand external hard drives, but many couldn’t wrap their heads around this mystical floating in the air storage–because that’s not how it works at all. You’re just using space on someone else’s hard drive.

into-the-weeds

[Image is a t-shirt which reads:

There is no cloud It’s just someone else’s computer]

findingfeather

I explain this to eeeevery patron who comes in to ask for tech help etc. I find ways to explain it, because it’s important.

“Oh ‘the cloud’ is just what they decided to call it. What it actually means is that you use the internet to connect to some dedicated computer somewhere where your file is stored, and then you can access that file, which is why it only works with an internet connection. You’re just renting space on a computer the company owns.”

Suddenly everything is less mysterious.

etrianodysseyobsession-hd-deact

“the cloud” suddenly felt like deliberate obfuscation the second someone explained it to me, one of the first times I’d felt truly bamboozled by a tech marketing term.

bogleech

Storage has only gotten cheaper to manufacture, more compact and more efficient, to the point that many terabytes can fit in the same small space as gigabyte or even megabyte hard drives of the past at no real additional cost to the manufacterer. Every single device could come with more storage than almost anyone will ever use.

But every time I price new laptops it is DIFFICULT to find one that has as much storage space as the laptops I used a decade ago. They all gave a fraction as much local storage and boast a bunch of extra cloud storage instead. Some fucking corporation’s computer that would only let me use my own files with an internet connection.

It DISGUSTS me. It should be illegal. The only conceivable reasons for it are all greedy and intrusive.

painkillerscoffeeandcathair

I've been rolling something around in my head.

If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?

Just let that marinate for a moment.

Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.

a-queer-little-wombat

Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.

When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.

It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to "enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country" and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.

Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That's affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.

Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.

athelind

maxknightley

Online job applications were a widespread crypto-eugenics program that took hold during the late 20th and early 21st century. These applications were notable for heavy use of videoconference interviews, little to no emphasis on exams and assessments (with rare exceptions, usually implemented to obtain unpaid labor from applicants), and a general disregard for time, scheduling, results, or basic human dignity.

Despite widespread contemporary criticism, the online job application was only abolished after the Job Board Riots in the latter half of the century.

maxknightley

Behind The Post

Linkedin used to have these little micro-exams you could do to prove that you really do Know A Skill. apparently they removed them this year because hiring managers wanted the candidate to Describe In Their Own Words how they've ~used~ a given skill, thus reinforcing the "need experience to get experience" problem. all hiring managers die a thousand firey deaths.

maxknightley

Reading Comprehension Quiz

"Hyperbole" is a literary device that involves deliberate exaggeration for the sake of emphasis or humor. How does this post employ hyperbole?

Why is this post written in the style of a Wikipedia article? Why does one of the links reference a fictional event from roughly thirty years in the future?

OP is an underemployed autistic person living in a capitalist economy with a frustrating and underfunded social welfare system. How might these factors have influenced her decision to call the job application and interview process "crypto-eugenicist?" What role does the prefix crypto serve in that context?

iberiancadre

this may shock the viewer but I actually do prefer the temporary violence the bourgeoisie will suffer in the event of a revolution over the unending and worse violence the working class suffers every day just to maintain the status quo

m-aremagnum

jewishdragon

Hold on i need to ask my friend Claudia, who is a college student and edits wikipedia something real quick...

THIS IS MY FRIEND CLAUDIA

lifeafterpsychiatry

"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?

"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?

"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?

"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?

"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?

"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?

Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!

snipertrifle

Having someone who knows you on such a deep level that they see past your mask, or sense you need a check in is such a deep satisfying fantasy. It's up there with living in a cottagecore farm, or buying all your friends houses when you win the lottery. But you have to make peace with the fact that this is also a fantasy. It is unfair to expect people to "just know" when to respect your boundaries or to push them.

Being cared for is not a fantasy. But you have to let people know you need it. And you have to understand that sometimes they will let you down. Just like you totally could live in a cute farm, but you still have to shovel shit, and the crops sometimes die anyway. Or maybe you win the lottery, but you still have to manage your money and learn real estate law.

The fantasy isn't the caring, the fantasy is not having to do the work. And it sucks. It's embarrassing. But like the meme says, it's not rotten if it's YOU. So do it for yourself.

lifeafterpsychiatry

"The fantasy isn't the caring, the fantasy is not having to do the work"! Thank you for that addition. Because it's not a naive expectation to want someone to care to treat you right. But it requires communication and mutual effort to actually get there