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Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so theyāll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that
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Good news: if youāre currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
Iām an ant biologist and Iād like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.
Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!
That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.
itās also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me
Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.
Remember lions? Fellow apex predators?
Yeah, they spend 16-20 hours of the day laying around, socializing, raising Cubs and napping.
The last 4-8 hours are spent hunting.
Wait wait, theyāre not a primate so they donāt count.
How about Orangutans?
Well, they spend 90% of their time awake just hanging out in food-rich areas, eating fruit and leaves, socializing, raising children, and chilling.
Well, theyāre not people so it doesnāt-
How about Stone Age people in Europe?
They probably worked 3-5 hours per day, every day. (Though seasonal changes in food scarcity could change that)
Laborers in ancient Egypt worked 8 hours, with an hour break at lunch. They did this for 8 days, then rested 2 days. That sounds familiar. Exceptā¦ they also had regular time off for festivals and holidays, and only worked for about 18 out of every 50 days.
Artisans in imperial Rome generally worked from 6am to Noon, and then had the rest of the day offā¦ and only worked for half the year, due to all the holidays and festivals they got off.
But thatās too easy, what about a Peasant in medieval England?
6-8 hours per day, with Sundays off, Farm workers put in longer hours at harvest time but worked shorter days in winter when there are fewer hours of daylight. Economist Juliet Schor estimates that in the period following the Plague they worked no more than 150 days a year, due to the long holidays and many festivals.
Ugh, letās go poorer. 17th century France. Starvation was afoot for the working poor!
During the reign of King Louis XIV, the workers of France had it tough, and hunger for the poorest was a fact of life. The typical working day was as much as 12 hours long, but two hours were set aside midday for lunch and perhaps an afternoon nap. Nevertheless, the Ancient RĆ©gime is said to have also guaranteed peasants, labourers and other workers a total of 52 Sundays, 90 rest days and 38 religious holidays off per year, meaning they worked just 185 out of 365 days.
So what changed?
The industrial revolution, baybe~~
New factory owners could work their employees to the bone due to a lack of regulation and abundance of cheap labour.
The typical factory worker in mid 19th-century England toiled away for a soul-destroying 16 hours a day, six days a week, 311 days per year!
THAT nightmare became the standard by which western society began to judge āwork-life balanceā and anything gentler than the industrial factoryās unfettered brutality is considered āsoftnessā
(So many people died being mangled in those machines. Hair handkerchiefs went into style during American industrialization because working women would otherwise get their hair caught in the machines, and be either scalped or be bodily pulled inside to dieā¦. But thatās a horror for another time)
Americans in 2020 worked an average of 8.5 hours per day on weekdays, plus another 5 hours on weekends.
Taking out federal holidays and weekends, we work 262 days per year. Most of us get 5-9 sick days to take per year. (Yes, a fixed number, no matter how sick you really are), and usually either no paid vacation, or 7-15 days paid vacation, depending on seniority and the company. Unpaid vacation doesnāt have a max, but taking it often risks you getting fired.
Even comparing against the poorest laborers in ancient history the current working structure for humans is, frankly, inhumane.
We are mammals. Let us rest. Let us celebrate holidays and attend festivals. Let us attend to our homes and families.
Even the ultra wealthy folks who got their heads chopped off gave us more time off than this!!!
Someone in the comments said something like āhumans are instinctively industrious and productive, as social creatures!ā
Buddy, thatās a lie fed to you by capitalism.
In our default state, we attend to our families yes, but we also party like hell, lounge around, and make fantastic works of art just to be proud of ourselves. We made beautiful things for the joy of creating them.
Stone Age humans may have spent a couple hours hunting and gathering, but DEFINITELY spent loads of time painting every available surface. Time and weather washed most of it away, but some places like Arizona and Colorado still preserve a few of the endless murals made by ancient hands.
Evidence shows that the ancient world was COVERED in paintings and etchings - just saturated with images of birds and beasts and humans, sunsets and cool weather. We invented mythologies and painted about them. We did something impressive, and painted about it. We taught our children how to paint and lifted them into our shoulders so they could mark the ceiling.
In our most base state, humans will work enough to survive, but our instincts demand we use all other time to create art. We want to communicate. To make connections.
āWorkingā or ābeing productiveā is not on that list.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Are you sad that June is over and you don't have a pride month anymore? Fear not, friends! There's a different pride month just beginning! lgballt
oh my gdO CAN YOU DRAW GODZILLA MOMMA CARRYING LIKE A HUNDRED LIZARD BABIES ON HER BACK FOR TAKE YOUR CHILD (lizard) TO WORK DAY
oh SHOOT well i cant swing 100 but how bout
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SHES SO PROUD OF HER BBY
Dawwww!!!! Mommaās Little City Destroyed!! * sniffles * They grow up so fastā¦
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So.
Another 751 unmarked graves were found at a Saskatchewan residential school.
Seven hundred fifty one.
This school, The Marieval Indian Residential School, operated from 1899 to 1997.
It was one of the last residential schools to close in Canada. One of more than 130.Ā
In case you didnāt know, residential schools were created to ācleanseā the people of Canada. These schools operated from 1831, when the Mohawk Institute Residential School opened, to 1996, when residential schools were finally outlawed.
That is 166 years of cultural genocide.
An estimated 150 000 children attended these schools, and an estimated 6 000 children died at these schools (current records of death are incomplete)Ā
These children were beaten, sexually abused, even experimented on. They were treated like prisoners, like they were sub-human.Ā
A childās likelihood of dying in a residential school was one in twenty-five. In comparison, a Canadian World War 2 soldierās odds of dying were one in twenty-six.Ā
I am not Indigenous. I cannot pretend to know how painful this may be. But what I can do is speak out. This inhumane treatment of citizens of Canada must be condemned.Ā
The government of Canada, and The Catholic Church, must. make. reparations.Ā
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lines from the epic of gilgamesh that make me feel like this
āYou will take him in your arms, embrace and caress him the way a man caresses his wife. He will be your double, your second self.ā
āāGilgamesh, save me, save me!ā I cried. But you didnāt save me. You were afraid and you didnāt come.ā
āYou who have walked beside me, steadfast through so many dangers, remember me, never forget what I have endured.ā
āBut I cannot see you, you have not come to fight off this danger. Yet werenāt we to remain forever inseparable, you and I?ā
āBeloved, wait, donāt leave me. Dearest of men, donāt die, donāt let them take you from me.ā
āI will mourn as long as I breathe, I will sob for him like a woman who has lost her only child.ā
āFor six days I would not let him be buried, thinking, āIf my grief is violent enough, perhaps he will come back to life again.āā
āI will cross the vast ocean if I can. If not, I will roam the wilderness in my grief.ā
āNow let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, let it be sealed shut with tar and pitch.ā
āI imagined that you would look like a god. But you look like me, you are not any different.ā
Me writing at age 15: what IF the story was about people KIDNAPPING teenagers and CRUELLY EXPERIMENTING on them and I had a NINE YEAR OLD accidentally KILL A MAN with unharnessed DEADLY PSYCHIC ENERGY
Me writing at age 25: what if a vampire was just a really good dad to his loving family and my characters had a whole conversation with a faerie about human music genres
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Bones. We all have them.
move out of the fucking way camus, unus annus is the epitome of modern absurdism
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Mad scientist dysphoria
I will continue to call The CreatureĀ āFrankensteinā and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.
I also laughed at him totally deliberately calling attention to the fact Victor isnāt a real doctor because he dropped out of college and built a guy out of corpses
He punched the lycanthropy right out of wolfman
did he just throw ygor out a window
