PrimeMinisterKeyes

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[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In tech, is there really a need, though? All of this year's new hires I've met communicate exclusively in English. No-one cares.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The housing crisis is prevalent everywhere in Europe, though. But it's not like droves of people have to sleep rough. Yes, rents keep going up, but they are still only a fraction of what you would pay in the US.
And you can actually still buy houses. Really cheap, even. Far off the highways, but some people opt in to exactly that.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here?
What better time than now?

Lights out
Guerrilla radio
Turn that shit up

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

'Member that song "74-75" by The Connells? That was a big hit in the Nineties.
We're now at 31 years after the release of this single and 49 years after the class of 1975 graduated.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hard disagree. Else, there would never be any revolution, but history shows otherwise.
Or, as Marcuse put it, the prerequisite for radically rejecting something is not that you have to know what will come afterwards, but at first, you'll enter a process of rejection of the existing situation and during this process of rejection, you'll gradually free yourself from shackles and figure out what is to come next.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

She's ferocious, and she knows just what it takes to make a pro blush.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As you might remember, it used to be called "information superhighway." As it turns out, not only does it make information flow faster from A to B, it also divides people that lie to either side of the road, in a metaphorical sense.
Required reading See especially figure 3b. TLDR: Increased information access and increased connections lead to more echo chambers.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It does. Because now somebody can jerk YOU off, and it won't inflate your own score.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 5 points 1 month ago

In a very traditional Afghan restaurant I used to frequent, if you ordered something really spicy, they'd bring you these small mint drops afterwards to chew on, no extra charge. Worked very well for me.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First of all, thanks for showing a different perspective.
But that's just the way capitalism works. It not only destroys families, but everything in the way of profit maximization for the few chosen ones at the top. What conservative politics are striving to restore is merely narratives: of "good old days," of "a honest buck." But that's really only lip service. The system is fundamentally flawed. The selling out of the working class will continue until there's a violent revolution.
In the same vein, all this public kowtowing to our axiomatic corporate overlords as "job creators" is fundamentally flawed, because a) workers could organize all aspects of work themselves, but are being suppressed by an artificial notion of "competition" designed to divide the working class, and b) the jobs being created in the current system are often of the bullshit kind anyway. What a pointless exercise.

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