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[nitewrighter]

I was about to make a post about like… how my family has this lemon tree out front, and one of the funniest things about having a lemon tree is occasionally I’ll be out in front doing whatever and I’ll see someone walking past and quickly grab a lemon off the tree and stuff it in their pockets as quick as they can like they’re shoplifting. 

I was about to make a post about how that’s funny and how, y’know people can have our lemons, it’s not a big deal because the tree pumps them out like gangbusters, but I really can’t make that post without thinking of… them…

[pretentioussongtitle]

I’ll admit it, OP. As soon as you mentioned your family had a lemon tree in their yard I wanted to ask you how they were dealing with the whore infestation.

[the-rain-monster]

I did this with a fig tree once while hungover as shit and on a walk of shame. Best damn figs I ever ate in my LIFE.

[roach-works]

when i was a teenager in san diego i was an absolutely unrepentant orange thief. climbed a fence to reach a particularly good pomegranate too. scrumping is a noble tradition of whores stretching back centuries and i won’t hear a word against it

[kingscrown666]

I understood what it meant from the context, but I had to look it up cuz no fucking way is that a real word. And

It is. Scrumping.

[guerrillatech]

[lierdumoa]

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

[dramaticowl]

[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]

[ruinedrainbowpooka]

okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?

I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”

Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.

Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.

[actualaster]

I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both.  She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.

There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing.  Honestly?  A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs?  Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.

If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!

[amuseoffyre]

Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.

[giantgayratthatmakesalltherules]

I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.

[hulking-godless-child-beast]

My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.

If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)

[atopfourthwall]

There's also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they'd do absolutely nothing, as if they'd be satisfied being completely bored all the time. They'd still buy food. They'd still buy video games. They'd still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn't want to work because they still want to LIVE. They'd buy movies. They'd go DO stuff. I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can't afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.

[naamahdarling]

I'm disabled. If I were handed enough money to live, I would work. Because I wouldn't have to worry about the tomfuckery it plays with my benefits. Maybe I could find a job that only asked me to work as much as I'm able, not 40 hrs, and didn't penalize me. I could just...go work at an art store or frame shop for a couple of hours a day or something. We need to create jobs that are doable for people who can't do 40 or even 20 hours a week. I do not dream of labor, but I do dream of being able to have a humble profession with clear expectations and adequate compensation.

[malkaleh]

I’m also disabled and honestly, I don’t know that I could work but maybe I could like, work in a playgroup for babies a few hours a week. Or help people with world building for their writing without having to worry about income reporting (which is a trigger) or losing income and feeling really secure and comfortable.

[beatrice-otter]

There are, in this country, two groups of adults who (by and large) do not need to work a paying job. The wealthy, and retirees. (I’m not talking about people who are elderly but can’t afford not to work, I’m talking about people who genuinely have enough with social security and their savings that they don’t need to work.)

Most of the people who are wealthy enough not to work at a young age are still very active. A large percentage of them still have jobs! And even those who don’t have a paying job do a lot of stuff. They sit on the boards of charities, they play sports, they do stuff!

And as for retirees ... most of them are busier than they were when they were working, up until the point their health gets in the way and they can’t any more. They take care of their grandkids. They travel. They volunteer--seriously, a huge percentage of the community groups in any town or city run on retirees. Most small towns I know would cease functioning entirely if the retirees stopped volunteering.

And there used to be another large group of people who didn’t have paying work: housewives. Now, we all know that taking care of the house and kids is a really time-consuming job, but the crucial thing is that it’s more flexible than most jobs. And those women not only did all that housework and childcare, they also volunteered in a wide variety of social groups. That had a huge impact on society that we haven’t really ever studied to my knowledge.

The only group of adults I know of who a) don’t have paying work and b) don’t do other stuff are the people who can’t because they’re disabled.

The issue isn’t that people won’t work. It’s that the ‘shit’ jobs won’t be able to treat them like shit and still have employees, if nobody’s choosing between that job and homelessness.

[klinger4yossarian-deactivated20]

and if there aren't enough people to do essential jobs (like garbage collection or cleaning up biohazards) for the satisfaction of the work itself, there'll be enough people who will pitch in out of a sense of responsibility, satisfaction in helping with something so important - esp if it's not full time hours

I don't love cleaning so much I'd get a housekeeping job if I were rich, but in a better world, I'd be willing to give a few hours a weekw keeping public spaces scrubbed & tidy, or washing other people's dishes, if otherwise it'd become unfairly burdensome to people who clean for the joy of it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm doing literally the same thing now as I was doing on unemployment benefits. I'm paid for it now. I wasn't then. Me doing it hasn't changed.

[owl-scribbling]

Audio is Reneé Rapp

Frank and Julie belong to @partycoffin

[guerrillatech]

[jv]

This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:

"Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?"

Yeah, I remember. And I'm sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.

[alarajrogers]

No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that's a very good thing.

[oligopspispopd-deactivated20221]

see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles

[cop-disliker69]

International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.

[silly-jellyghoty]

Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.

We don't talk about acid rain because there isn't any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.

We don't talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.

On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there's nothing to notice. But don't be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.

Now it's time to do that thing again and make sure that we don't kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.

[silver-tongues-blog]

[spacelazarwolf]

call him jesus the way i make him bred and whine

HELP

[greek-orthodox-priest]

call me holy trinity the way I father a son in his hole n ghost

[greek-orthodox-priest]

I have been hacked.

[chancesofindigo]

I love this post so much I made it into a tshirt.

[spacelazarwolf]

I AM FUCKIBG LOSING IT HAHSHSJSJDJSJSK

[owl-scribbling]

soft relaunch w birthday grimmy and his cake

[owl-scribbling]

"Coronation Day! Congratulations Sans on your landslide victory. In this historic win Mister Undertale would thank God, his mother, and the late Queen Elizabeth II"

[owl-scribbling]

just a little guy

[owl-scribbling]

Trying to make more art 🌈 featuring some ocs and my cat

[owl-scribbling]

✨ 20 years of Lilo & Stitch 🌺🚀 If you know literally anything about me you know that I am OBSESSED with this movie. I've been saying for years that it shaped who I am as a person, and I stand by that wholeheartedly. I was 5 when it came out and I saw a lot of myself in Lilo - this oddball little Hawaiian girl with so many off the wall interests. It reflected some of my own experiences and it continues to resonate 💙❤🏝👽👹

☆

Also hi I'm trying to revive my account after like 75 years 🖐 'sup

[owl-scribbling]

Day 9: -a pink tea cup ☕ -a tire iron -a tandem bicycle 🚲 -and twenty toads

[owl-scribbling]

sun came back ⛅

[owl-scribbling]

2 months 💕

[owl-scribbling]

Day 8: -a haiku -a harem 👫👭 -a habanero 🌶 -and a handshake

[owl-scribbling]

When you're waiting patiently for your inks to dry like a good little artist

[owl-scribbling]

Like facial expression madlibs

[owl-scribbling]

"Everyone has problems... Friends, family, boyfriends, girlfriends. Comes with the territory."