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[audley-and-cherry]

My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that "nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!" and I have 2 responses:

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

[sleepyowlet]

Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.

But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It's hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.

[trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter]

🎶People won't stop working! If so, fuck it!🎵

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

I'll be making sure we still have engineers and machinists haha

[the-haiku-bot]

I’ll be making sure

we still have engineers and

machinists haha

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[chaifootsteps]

[sagacious-sdaughter]

"Hey there pepperhead, legal isn't super exited about this tweet"

[depsidase]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as 'You should kill yourself.' However, for all the times that 'honesty' is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns."

-Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

[catgirl-kaiju]

[emnesoi0]

the problem with visual novels is that they are novels, but they are almost exclusively sold on video game distribution platforms, which means that they're novels being read by gamers who are by and large entirely unequipped to critique that medium

[vivvy-of-the-lake]

gamers are by and large unequipped to read

[spamton]

cooking my husband a delicious and nutricious breakfast consisting of lead pipes and

e

[spamton]

idont remmeber what the rest of the post was going to say. use your impregnation i dont care

[spamton]

you get what i mean.

[free-post-store]

$0

[spamton]

[itsdetachable]

I am 100% positive that orange snakes share a single brain cell just like orange cats

[mediocrefantasy]

The very same one, in fact. The two species have it on a timeshare.

[victusinveritas]

[rostekhorn]

It's even better than that.

At least according to the old continuity, the Wookiees were skilled explorers, and their Clatuuvac Guild had the secrets to a number of hyperspace routes, especially through the Core (it's why the Separatists were so keen to take the planet in Revenge of the Sith)... And Chewbacca was one of the people who knew these hyperspace routes.

So the Millennium Falcon being the fastest smuggler ship in the galaxy? About half of that is down to Han's modifications, the fact that he drives like crazy, and the fact that he's almost as good as he thinks he is. The other half? Is just Chewie knowing a bunch of shortcuts, which he got from all the classified information he knew when he was a commander.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Look, if the respected commander wants to bring his rescue human along, so be it. Even if said rescue is poorly socialized.

[dogpuppy]

[squirrelly-13]

they got married btw

[visit-me-here-in-wonderland]

oh you’re not kidding

[liberalsarecool]

Vote for progressives. #DSA #ZohranMamdani

[myrandomstuffpage]

Democrats, are you taking notes? This is how you get shit done.

[teaboot]

There is a reality not so far from our own in which Ratitouille (2007) was filmed as an avant-garde conceptual horror akin to Eraserhead (1977)

[teaboot]

There is a young American man in France. His mother has passed away. He has few friends, and works the thankless job of a bus boy in a prestigious restaurant, but dreams of becoming a chef despite having very little skill.

He returns one night to his humble apartment, which is known to have vermin, and comes across a rat, which he could easily kill or set loose on the street.

But the rat- it is special. It seems to speak to him. Promises him every little thing he desires- talent, fame, and fortune. Recognition and esteem like he has only ever seen from afar; fine company like the wealthy men and women whose scraps he picks at over the sink.

Put me on your head, the rat says. Put me on your head and think of nothing.

It is strange at first, yes. Strange to feel another take control of his life and live it better than he ever could. To see miraculous things created with his own two hands, to feel his feet move in graceful and fantastic ways with a confidence he has never had.

But the rat delivers as he had promised: he receives promotions, notoriety, admiration. He is noticed. Envied. Every day is a waking dream, rubbing elbows with beautiful women and handsome men and influential personalities who lavish him with praise. It is addictive, this lifestyle- never mind that he is only ever truly conscious of it as a passenger of in own brain.

It is when he has reached heights few can ever conceive, with all that the rat had ever promised- a beautiful wife in a beautiful house with all the world in his palm, in possession of all the wealth and success a man could ever want, that the rat says that it is leaving.

Leaving? The rat cannot leave. Everything he is, the rat has provided.

"I have delivered on our bargain", the rat says. "I have brought to you all that you have ever dreamed. What more could you desire? I must live my own life, now."

The man is furious. He is terrified. He destroys the rat, in all of the ways that a rat can be destroyed, until nothing is left of it but a fine smear of marinara sauce.

He returns to the restaurant the next day moving like the shell of something hollowed-out and brittle. He cooks well- his fingers remember the movements, his eyes recognize the patterns, his mouth knows without his asking what orders to speak and what platitudes make patrons smile pleasantly with their straight white teeth.

He retains the talents of the rat. The charm of the rat. All the worldly pleasures the rat had provided him.

Still, it seems, he is little more than a vessel for the talents of the rat.

But the rat is gone.

What remains of the man?

[teaboot]

You see my vision

[mediocrefantasy]

Flour for Algernon

[daveedmee]

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

[netherator]

also a nearby guy with a broken leg got better

[pancakerabbit10011]

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead -1 injured

[wolfertinger666]

ppl talking Abt Genshin impact debuting a """"fat"""" character whose weight plays a role in her combat while being cow themed is funny because that concept could have cooked but then you remember it's genshin impact and they absolutely get horrified over the idea of adding a character with melanin.

[wolfertinger666]

this is her btw

fattest girl Twitter can handle before they start getting scared.

[wolfertinger666]

I'm not amazing but I wanted to give her some meat...

[wolfertinger666]

i simplified her design a bit, added some more roundness and shapes plus warmer hues...

[aircraftsillustrated1976-deacti]

[gemstone-gynoid]

[yumebfdotcom]

Hotel Transylvania

[hellothepixel]

im sorry the what

[missjukebox8bit]

this one

[koth-harvest-final]

the current meme is based on the following which is based on that one

which i assume is from tumblr based on how one of the panels is lifted from that "its ok i am a lesbo" picture

[hellothepixel]

So the timeline is

- I am lesbo

- I'm stuff

- i am lesbo x I'm stuff fusion

- transfem Jonathan and transmasc mavis

[missjukebox8bit]

as far as anyone can tell this is the original “I am a lesbo” image, for the record

[astrathepasta]

I'm sobbing oh my god

[queerlilacroses]

I heard...now don't shoot the messenger but this is the og I am gay tho

[redwyverndht]

Why the fuck is it woody and bolt

WHY THE FUCK IS IT WOODY AND BOLT

[biraptor123]

Wait why does Dracula refer Joanne as *his* daughter?

[gemstone-gynoid]

if your child marries someone, that partner becomes your daughter-in-law or son-in-law. 

[handhond]

[aquilacalvitium]

There is

So much going on here

[delta-domine]

This is like an archeological dig site but the philosophers are still alive and talking

[thequeenoftheentiregoddamnworld]

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

[shadowicepuma]

@noodles-07 get peer reviewed