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  • LePoisson@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    16 days ago

    Are you missing a /s on this, because some people unironically believe what you said so you’re gonna get showered in those down votes.

    I want this to have a /s, I wish it wasn’t necessary but in today’s world it seems to be. I read your post as satire fwiw





  • LePoisson@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCringe rule
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    1 month ago

    Seems weird someone supportive of pride month says they don’t want to engage with it or be supportive because a corporation also knows June is pride month and marketing capitalizes on that.

    I don’t understand that, or maybe I’m misreading this post somehow?




  • Is it though? Because evolution is only really concerned with a thing living long enough to reproduce. It’s not planned like eugenics would be.

    That’s why there’s tons of examples of dumb as hell stuff in biology because as long as an organism is “good enough” to keep reproducing and spreading their genes that is fine and that species will continue to evolve.

    Eugenics would be more like if evolution somehow could select only for specific traits and then made sure to only let things with those traits reproduce. Evolution is much messier than that.



  • LePoisson@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldName them
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    2 months ago

    Idk if 10% of the town patronizes it regularly and there’s no other shops around that’s like 250 customers coming in year round, let’s say each spends an average of 150 in a year that’s what … 37 grand? Plus whatever online retail they can do.

    If it’s just like one dude that runs it and works there and pays themselves I could see it being viable.

    Edit: probably would be a good way to launder some drug money though and I’ve found a lot of weed smokers in the mix of my nerd shops I frequent.


  • LePoisson@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHonest mistake
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    2 months ago

    I always wonder if people complained about stores when we started to get the merchandise out of the warehouse ourselves.

    Something like, “why isn’t there a clerk getting the groceries on my list for me, I don’t work here, I shouldn’t have to go into the back and get my own shit.”

    I prefer bagging my own shit anyways when I go shopping. I don’t break shit and at least in my area it looks like they disabled the weight shit or set the tolerances higher so I’m not constantly told to bag something I already did or getting told I bagged something without scanning .

    Now it’s pretty good actually.


  • Yeah, it’s called employee rights and strong laws. Those exist overseas, most European countries are good examples. The USA is ass backwards when it comes to our employee protections.

    As an example, in many countries they need to give a reason for terminating your employment - pay out x amount of time depending on the reasons given and since your healthcare is NOT tied to employment you don’t need to worry about that going away. That’s not even discussing their paid vacation time or other legal protections.

    Basically, you can’t just fire people for some janky made up reason. As you can imagine this also leads to better hiring practices because the companies can’t just cut a person out of nowhere so they need to make sure they’re hiring good folks from the get go. Plus it means more job security and that the companies do a better job forecasting labor demand since they can’t just hire a bunch and fire whatever percentage as a rule of thumb.

    Anyways, I don’t know if we would ever have a chance as Americans, but I can tell you what you’re asking literally already exists.




  • LePoisson@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMr Rule
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    4 months ago

    That white collar supervisor is part of the proletarian. They are selling their labor to make a living.

    You’re right about stratification of society based on income when it comes to us proles though. Some of us have nicer toys and living places but we still need to work to survive unlike the bourgeois that make their money by capital investment (ie: they make more money with the money they have and don’t actually need to labor).