Ah, so anyone with a phd in a high-value field and a binder full of accolades is able to apply for competitive grants.

But they still haven’t opened the gates to ordinary americans seeking refugee status, have they?

People like him make me wish hell was real, because a quick and painless death is too good for him, but the sooner he croaks the better. Except we’d still have to deal with Vance, and the electoral backlash might not be as strong if he drops the baggage

As long as they’re federated, does it matter if there’s multiple different softwares? Wouldn’t they be able to communicate with each other, so it’s not like each would be in its own silo?

Or can matrix only talk with matrix, IRC with IRC, XMPP with XMPP, etc?

As long as it doesn’t result in silos, I think having multiple choices is a good thing. It gives you options, and can grow in multiple directions to suit different needs. Plus there’s redundancy so no single point of failure. Part of what’s good about open source is that anyone can fork it, right?

Keyword “can.” Not everywhere is unionized

I’ve been saying for a long time that a catastrophic market crash is the only way for the US dollar to return to a reasonable purchasing power.

If it’s not catastrophic, big financiers will just buy in the dip and then further consolidate the wealth of the nation while things climb back up. When I say catastrophic, I mean irrecoverably. I mean the concept of Wall Street needs to disappear due to how complete and total the stock market crash is.

People just call me a sociopath and say “think of the 401ks!” Yeah, well, toxic system has to break sooner or later, and we’ve been kicking that can down the road long enough. People who are heavily invested in that system shouldn’t be protected from feeling the consequences of a tower stacked too high.

I think you’re the one not arguing in good faith. Projection, much?

In this context, the “bread” is a symbol, being used to comment on a much broader range of social phenomena, just like political cartoons have always done since they were first invented.

Everyone else here seems to pick up on that, because they live through the reality every day of being overworked and underpaid while the cost of living goes further and further out of reach. The fact that you don’t get it just tells everyone how glaringly out of touch you are with the plight of ordinary everyday people.

And your inane comparison to cats in restaurants is nothing more than a strawman, not worth even taking seriously.

And digging a hole just to fill it back again does not fix any pipes :) it just makes the soil a little bit looser.

Nobody is getting paid to dig a hole and fill it in without a reason, so your imaginary scenarios aren’t going to convince anyone that the average worker is already getting paid enough, or that if anyone is poor they probably deserve it because their job is pointless or they don’t work hard, or whatever point you’re trying to make.

Fetterman loves fascism.

You apparently can’t read subtext. It’s a fucking meme and you’re trying to take it literally, missing the point entirely. It’s clearly about drawing attention to the alienation of labor, wage stagnation, and the cost of living crisis. If you’re incapable of picking up on that then you must be extremely privileged and sheltered.

someone that spends 8 hours a day digging a hole and filling it back up again.

The people who maintain your roads and water lines would like a word.

And a farmer that is hardworking and manages to produce 10 kg of grain per hour should be able to afford more than a lazy one producing 0.5kg per hour.

A couple fallacies here. 1) that’s not how grain production works. It takes days of labor over an extended period (weeks and months) to produce a harvest. It’s not a “kg of grain per hour” scenario.

2. harvest output does not directly corelate with “working hard.” Weather plays a role. Some seasons have better harvests than others. Some people own a few acres, some own hundreds of hectares. It’s not “farmer who only produces .5kg is lazy.”

3. the people who own the land, in most cases, are not the ones doing the farming. The people doing the labor are often compensated the least. So your “hard work” fallacy is extremely flawed.

I can agree that all real jobs if done with an acceptable performance for 40h/week should be able to afford all that + more if those expenses are reasonable (a mansion rent and 1bedroom apartment rent are both rent).

You have to be extremely out of touch in order to think like that. Were you born into wealth or something?

People who are living paycheck to paycheck and struggling to make ends meet aren’t worried about living in mansions. In some places, the shittiest studio apartments in the most run-down neighborhoods already cost $1000 a month or more. And if you’re a family of four, you’re gonna need something bigger than that.

Source?

Anubis is supposed to filter out and block all those bots from accessing your webpage.

Iocaine, nepenthes, and/or madore’s book of infinity are intended to redirect them into a maze of randomly generated bullshit, which still consumes resources but is intended to poison the bots’ training data.

So pick your poison

That sounds like iocaine and the book of infinity

Oh, so then you should also be firmly against the russian dictatorship overseeing the aggressive invasion against Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty, right? …right?

Not even comparable.

Ukraine’s constitution doesn’t allow elections during wartime. They are currently at war, fighting off enemy invaders who can pack up and leave anytime putin says so.

The US constitution doesn’t allow elections to be canceled, and never in US history, including times of war, have they been. The “threat” to US elections is also made up by those in power as a weak attempt to justify the actual threat to them, which are the ones making it up (accusations in a mirror).

Yours is much politer than mine!

Nope, king escorts pawn across the board, pawn gets promoted to queen, king and queen work together to get checkmate.

The only danger of stalemate is after the pawn gets promoted, and even then it’s easy to avoid if you know what you’re doing

No foreskins allowed, even.

Someone that spends 8 hours a day five days a week in any 1st world country can afford plenty of leaves of bread

Maybe if the only essential recurring expense is bread. In reality, at a bare minimum, people also need to afford rent, utilities, healthcare, transportation to and from work, and food with enough variety to provide full, balanced nutrition. Suddenly the bread budget looks much smaller.

The reason you can’t bake a single loaf and buy another is not because the CEO ate your loaf.

Thanks for admitting you’ve never actually looked into the numbers concerning social stratification and wealth disparity.

As long as there is the labor of more than one person involved at all in producing anything, selling that product will not earn you enough to buy it back since you have to give part of that to the other people that put in their labor for that product.

That would only apply if you’re selling the product at cost, in which case the necessities you need to buy on a regular basis would also be more affordable. The reality in the current system is that products are sold for a huge markup, making most of the essentials less affordable for the people doing the productive labor, while the profits from those markups go straight to the top.

I am honestly in awe that there are so many people that can’t comprehend this.

Then you might want to check your own comprehension, because there are layers of subtext that are going straight over your head.

For further reading, see “the alienation of labor,” and “the appropriation of the surplus value of labor.”

You’d have to be nearly functionally illiterate to be unable to recognize how those concepts manifest in modern society.

I hate these fucking fascists.

Except that people who spend 8 or more hours a day, five or more days a week, making thousands of loaves of bread for corporations to profit off of, are barely scraping by, hardly able to afford the necessities, and in many cases making tough decisions on what essentials to do without, while corporations rake in record profits which go straight to the shareholders and C-suite, who contribute next to nothing to the process of production.

If that seems totally fine and normal to you, then I can’t help you.

Not sure what you think my “ideology” is, but seeing as I merely stated a plain and simple fact, if you think it equates to “ideology” then your version of “reality” is quite delusional