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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 01:26:29 JST 
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@SK1ZM @jdslyd @skylar @Dicer @TrevorGoodchild @WoodshopHandman @sickburnbro I'm not even sure it's about alienation. It's probably not that jobs just "feel like" they do nothing, but they literally do nothing.
Skylar can joke about enjoying chores, but we aren't sweeppilled broommaxers who just feel bad when Roombas take a task away. We aren't really frustrated microwaves replaced wood stoves.
The lamentable thing here is as we improved tech, we didn't replace productive tasks with other productive ones. We instead replaced them with bogus activities that literally don't produce value at all.
It may seem wild that we're paying people to do things that hinder society rather than improve it, but look around and there's no shortage of such fake jobs.
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Deep down, the people doing them know they're pointless. They're aware they're a burden to the world, and that guilt eventually becomes depression. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 22:23:16 JST
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@skylar @WoodshopHandman @Dicer I don't think anyone's encouraging "working for money" for its own sake, but encouraging activities that provide fulfilment.
Lots of modern jobs are make-work that only exist because of one another. Coke only advertises because Pepsi does, and both move in a multimillion dollar arms race that leaves them back where they started had neither done anything.
Office work is considered so soul-sucking because people kind of know they're stuck in such red queen scenarios, not making any real change or actually producing anything, yet doing so in a stressful environment where they're required to act as though it matters.
Video games give a nice illusion of productivity, because they have the good parts of work without the bad. Minecraft was a good example. Even non-autists went to the trouble of tending fields and making big safe greenhouses and such. Why? Because you don't have anyone who'll get pissed at you for not doing some pointless thing how they want, or for missing a quota by three units, or being five seconds late to a do-nothing meeting, or for not following a regulation you know doesn't matter.
People are aware of what genuinely fulfilling work free from petty obligations feels like, and they crave it so much they even spend their limited leisure playing make-believe that they're doing it. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Apr-2024 09:51:54 JST
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@WoodshopHandman @Dicer "Advancements" don't even get us leisure. Thanks to electronic tools I'm at least twenty times as productive as someone who had my job a couple decades ago.
Does it mean I only work one twentieth of the time he did? No, we're all just expected to work the same hours and do twenty times as much. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 11:07:09 JST
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@Arkana @wgiwf @wan I think most of an attraction to armpits is the smell, but there's definitely a difference between a natural body scent (which can be amazing) and one that's just a result of being unwashed for a week (gag-inducing). -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 04:34:21 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend @SMetzeler @Omega_Variant No ethnic group has an average IQ 114 to begin with, but I ran the numbers on a similar claim for the hell of it in an argument here. Comment chain's kinda broken but here's the relevant response.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 22:19:29 JST
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Joyless liberals: Stop objectifying women. 😤
Women: Oh God I want to be taken and ravaged by a billionaire vampire doctor pirate werewolf so fucking bad it's not even funny.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 10:26:11 JST
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The "science community" sure gets upset when genes and self-described race are shown on the same chart.
I'm particularly fond of the objection that (heaven forbid!) this may lead people to believe race is real. :shock: -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 08:21:13 JST
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@RustyCrab There's this shitty youtube artist who keeps parroting that A.I.'s death is just around the corner. Poke fun at the idea in any way and he'll just delete it.
"People are only using it for a quick dopamine hit. It'll wear off. Nobody's replacing us" says increasingly-nervous nerd whose tablet has suddenly become a very expensive doorstop.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 10:37:37 JST
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@DrBHunter @Jim @William_The_Dragonborn Destiny has terminal hot-take-itis where he has to say retarded shit sometimes to boost engagement (e.g. arguing in favor of incest) but even he knows which way the wind is blowing on this one. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 01:02:55 JST
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@wan @GrungeQueef That's retarded. Wondering if this is the same woman who did the bogus political compass kink chart. That one only looked at quadrants and not magnitude, so republicans were identical to nazis and democrats were identical to communists. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 01:02:55 JST
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@GrungeQueef I posted this chart a while back and the most interesting part to me is which things are horizontally aligned, which implies similar attraction but people just wanting to keep it secret. Like pee is more enjoyed than pubic hair but three times as taboo. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 13:22:27 JST
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@skylar @SNEK Onolumi is a Japanese independent who started off having about the English skills of a kindergartener (check her Planescape playlist). She's gradually improved and is now pretty much fluent.
She also represents chatters as robots who walk around, and at the end of the stream she drops everybody into her cleavage. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 13:22:26 JST
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@Arkana @SNEK @skylar Canada
United States
Mexico
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 10:20:32 JST
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 19:47:42 JST
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@graf I've repurposed melted wax into my own DIY candles like that before. You don't even need a matchstick, as any little rolled-up paper towel piece can act as a wick.
But yeah, you have to be careful on the shape and how close the flame gets. These glass jar lids turned upsidedown have worked best for me. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 17:37:34 JST
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@PraxisOfEvil I thought it was a joke at first, but he defended it for hours in the replies and blocked everybody who poked at him. Guy has paper thin skin for making such publicly bad takes. -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 07:25:52 JST
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Caring about only yourself doesn't work.
Caring about everyone equally doesn't work.
The winning strategy is a group that looks after its own.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2023 07:28:50 JST
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Not that anyone should care about “misgendering” or “deadnaming” a troon, there’s an interesting friend/enemy distinction on display where liberals are perfectly fine doing both if someone’s an acceptable target.
White male conservative Alabamian pastor? Say no more, fam. That ticks every box of people we’re socially permitted to not show respect for.
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 05:55:15 JST
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"Tonight's score comes to a blowout 14 to :hitler:." -
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Blank (type_other@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:20:05 JST
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I was actually just thinking about this phenomenon.
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