SunriseParabellum

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[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago

"I think both things are bad!"

"Do you spend a roughly equal amount of time complaining about both of them?"

"Well... no..."

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Honestly wtf was up with old time adventure people? They'd like drag a whole fucking house with them, "Oh dear I can't spend a week in Antarctica without a claw foot bathtub!"

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Also, I'm pretty sure the image on the right is more than 1600 calories.

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

True, gas would make more sense in their situation

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Curious if they're electric, diesel or hybrid. Article doesn't say.

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

UBI without some sort of partner program to de-commodity the things humans need to live (food, shelter, healthcare) and eventually things we need to live a decent life (education, recreation) would likely lead to a situation like in The Expanse where the "basic income" is truly basic, just enough to live off ramen noodle and rent a crap studio. What jobs there were would be hotly competed over since everyone wants more to life than microwaved noodles and playing the first Halo on a 20 year old Xbox.

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (11 children)

This may sound a bit weird, but it's a random thought I've had, does anyone ever feel like memes like this almost make us leftists come off a bit too idealistic and romantic?

Lemme clarify where I'm coming from here. As I get older, I'm in mg 30s now, I've come to the realization a lot of people don't want the life of a bohemian artist who's traveling constantly and does six different types of creative hobby. A lot of people want a kinda boring stable life with a house, a job that's rewarding but not too physically or mentally taxing, enough time off to take a nice vacation once or twice a year, and the resources to keep them and their family comfortable. I guess I say this cuz this is increasingly how I feel as I get older. Add this to the fact that I don't think FALGSC is coming anytime soon, if Mecha Lenin pulled off the perfect revolution today we'd still probably have a few generation of people needing to pull 9-5s before we got to the point we could all be space traveling poets like in Star Trek so maybe don't oversell what we can deliver to people alive now? Focus on shit an actual socialist government could achieve in our lifetimes, like public housing, more vacation time, free healthcare?

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dude, you have some hair in your face.

Some days are a good day to die, some days are a good day to get EGGs

The problem is who gets to decide what's acceptable and what isn't?

Yeah! Who gets to decide if it's acceptable for me to take a shit on the floor at Arby's? Who died and made you God Arby's manager?

It's better citations than you fucking Libs can ever provide

[โ€“] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Those dudes couldn't get cooler looking balaclavas?

 

Random insults that don't make much sense unless you uncritically agree with the most boot licking China / Russia defenders.

It's not insulting, it's just boring. It's like bots repeating old Chapo comments from different articles, none of which make sense.

 

I get there are people who look young for their age but come the fuck on!

 

The War in Ukraine has completely melted people's brains, the propaganda push was 100% effective. Anyone in this demo is dying with a Harry Potter book in hand and their final words being "Slava Ukraini". I'd declare anyone you know in this demo to be a lost cause and just give up on them.

Edit: weird so many people are giving me shit for posting a Doomer take on the fucking Doomer comm. Thought this place was for nihilistic venting Jesus.

 

Had to take a physical for a job I was accepted for, I haven't been to a doc in a while cuz my last employer had shitty healthcare and made it a fucking pain to take time off. Anyway, they hooked me up to an EKG machine and told me it looks like one side of my heart is enlarged. Also my blood pressure is pretty high. This apparently disqualifies me for the job, thought the manager claimed if I could badger another doctor into writing me a note I could still get it. Thing is I don't have insurance right now, ironically the health insurance was the primary reason I wanted this job.

Thankfully my family is relatively well off and said they'll support me in this shit. Still a little freak out though. FYI I'm a rather big, muscular dude who's worked a lot of manual labor jobs. During COVID lockdown I put on a lot of weight, the main culprit there was drinking. Since then I've managed to get some of that weight off, and cut back on the drinking, but I guess not enough. Also while my diet isn't terrible, I do love me salt and fat. Plus both my dad and grandpa have a history of hypertension, so even if I was fit as a horse I'd still be at risk.

I'm gonna go teetotaler for a bit, maybe forever, quit weight lifting for a bit and eat nothing but kale for now, but I do need to get on some insurance and see a doctor about this.

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