How good are you at detecting where the typo is in a message? Where the omission, or addition, of one word; changes what the whole sentence would seem to mean?
idk about words but extra punctuation can help with readability.
Xiisadaddy
joined 2 years ago
Sounds like your pretty down right now and if your posting about it here im guessing maybe you dont have anyone your comfortable talking to about it. Would you want to add me on matrix or something and just chat? You can talk about whats going on and see if i can give any advice or we can just chat about whatever. I am also in my 20s and pretty broke so i know the struggle and know how isolating it can be. Especially when its not like youve got money to go do anything social.
idk the logistics of it bother me. I just get 1 sweater? Then it would need to be enough money i both wouldnt have to work and could hire someone to wash it for me every night. Also can i wear a shirt under it to prevent nip chafeing?
DEI is just a dogwhistle for homophobia and racism. The issue with the Trump voters is he courts lots of just like pissed off poor white people and he redirects their anger at liberal elites towards immigrants, trans people, gay people, POC, etc.
If the economy wasn't set up in such a way that these people are so poor theyd be less likely to buy into all that nonsense. Happy people dont join cults generally. Its the desperate and angry that join movements like that and then get radicalized to the right.
But ya i mean the whole degree or no degree is really just a "did you have 25 grand to get this piece of paper with at 18?" signifier. Its a class designator. Just like how in ancient times higher classes wore different colored clothes and whatnot.
Like for example take a retail worker vs someone at head office. The retail worker makes dirext contributions to tons of sales and if theyre gone for 1 hour shit starts to fall apart. Yet they make minimim wage usually.
The one at head office has pointless meeting all day, and if they stop working for an hour no one notices. Yet they make significantly more money.
The money made by a job isnt based on the value of the work in companies like this its based on the class of worker that applies for said job.
Now outside of large companies this isnt always the case as you can have trades, and sole proprietorships, etc. But those are some rare exceptions.
In general they place "high class" or "middle class" jobs behind a degree requirement even if the job isnt really very hard and a highschool education would be fine to do it.
Even highschool's in the US are classed. Since they're largely funded by property taxes high property values means better schools. And we have different curriculum in different schools too. There are highschools in rich areas which emphasize thinking outside the box, social skills, etc then in poor areas its more do as your told, heavy punishment rates, keeping people in line. This plays into the school to prison pipeline too. Prison is the lowest class in America as it is used for slave labor.
Americas classes are generally like this:
Capitalists: The ones who own everything billionaires 100+ millionaires etc
High class: some politicians, CEOs, people who typically act as a proxy and serve the will of a capitalist. Altho some capitalists choose to do these jobs themselves.
Upper middle class: People making significant money living very comfortably but who arent filthy rich. These are typically your highly skilled professional types. Doctors, Lawyers, etc.
Middle class: This is a very mixed bag but one of the main jobs of the middle class is to manage the lower classes. So its common for them to fill managerial roles.
Lower class: your poor workers who do whatever job they can to make ends meet.
Prison Labor: The millions of people in Americas prisons who do hard manual labor for pennies as a slave workforce. Usually in prison for some stupid bullshit that shouldn't be illegal or shouldn't have such a harsh sentence.
There are lots of signifiers to let people know what class you are that are baked into the system. Money being an obvious one, but degrees, criminal records, the way you dress, car you drive, phone you have, etc all play into it. And people subconsciously take note of it all the time. I personally find it to be an inhumane and gross system so i dont try to participate in it.
I dont. I did highschool thats all. Then i got a job. So ill give you my perspective on stuff like this as someone who didnt do any of it.
I had undiagnosed ADHD in highschool and never did any homework or studied or anything. Only reason i graduated with Ds and Cs is that id basically get a 90-100 on every test or quiz without trying. I hated school. So as soon as i could i got a normal job. Ive worked in retail, warehouses, industrial sectors, etc all in the about 10 years since graduating highschool. Now i work in a more clerical position. Not physically demanding work. Which is nice.
Honestly as a poor person i see all of this stuff with higher ed, and knowing the right people as.... silly? I guess. Its like watching all of you play this big game of theatre pretending to be meritocratic while clearly being fully commited to nepotism. The biggest factor in how much money someone makes is how much money their parents made.
I think all of you underestimate how many of us poor people dislike you too. Maybe not you in particular but the system you participate in. That manifests itself in the form of chud Trump supporters and neo-nazism a lot. They were created by this economy that has left them behind. So they fell for Trumps lies when he promised to destroy all of you, but i digress.
Nobody talks about school at the places i work. What matters is if you do a good job. I have no idea what education my coworkers have. Ive never even had to show someone my highschool diploma i didnt even get it cuz i skipped graduation day. So i assume the school threw it away. When applying for a job i type or check a box that i did highschool and thats that. They dont care. They want to know about experience and if ill be good at the job. That's how it works when your poor.
As for my future plans as someone without a degree i want to get a cheap sailboat and live off the grid on it. Spending as little money as possible and enjoying nature.(solar for power, fish to supplement food, collect and filter rain for water, etc) Plus once the inevitable happens and theres massive civil unrest i can get outta dodge easier than most.
for me immutable makes more sense on like a web browsing basic use laptop that u plan to have for a very long time. And like very basic gaming. Cuz with immutable u never have to do a full upgrade which is nice on a laptop thats gonna last like 10+ years.
ah ngl i didnt read past the title
And if u wanna end the world just make smallpox as contagious as the common cold and release it into the wild with a small change to make all current vaccines useless.
Some common form of bacteria modified to break down plastics rapidly the way they do organic matter. Youd see buildings falling apart, packaging need to be redesigned for everything, electronics rotting, etc.
All the clothes that fit men especially big men be it tall or thicc are so.... boring. Its like the same few colors, and design isnt really considered. most of its just practical stuff. Some of the best quality clothes i have are "work clothes". Its hard enough finding things that fit and arent shit quality much less finding something that looks nice.
Im actually curious if Windows will lose significant market share. Not saying linux would take over but MacOS could really start to eat into Windows with Apple pushing more affordable hardware too lately. Linux will take some too but like if i was a normie and didnt know what Linux was and was choosing Mac or Windows id choose Mac at this point.
The dolphins should do democratic centralism