Because, on one hand, yes, absolutely immigrants should be allowed to work and live and thrive regardless of status (and that no human being is illegal in the first place), but on the other hand I don’t believe anyone should have to sell their labor on a “labor market” to a capitalist owner who will give them pennies on the dollar for what they produce.
Answering disagree makes it sound like I don’t think immigrants should be able to find work, but agreeing makes it sound like I’m okay with wage labor.
“Now there’s a devil in the fish trap” – an expression of a situation having gone from bad to worse, or an issue that previously appeared to be a mere inconvenience turns out to be serious trouble.
Similar to english “shit has hit the fan”, but without the implication of anticipation of the inevitable disaster occurring. Finding a devil in a fishtrap is always a surprise.
Dumb bitch in the notes arguing planned obsolescence is necessary to keep costs down,
I thought planned obsolescence was to prevent your phone from just suddenly turning off and never working again? Like it’s meant to be an “oh, my thing isn’t working, I should invest in a new one soon.” Kind of thing?? Like shits gonna break either way, I just thought this let us know like a month earlier than it would otherwise.
I mean… that’s kind of what they want you to think?
Sure, throttling your phone’s cpu so that the battery doesn’t wear down faster is certainly… a thing that’ll extend battery life… but, uh………… Hey, why don’t we just allow customers to replace their old batteries, you know, just like batteries were originally designed to do?
This extends far beyond phones/computers/etc as well. I recall, there’s light bulbs that exist from around the time of their invention that can still burn to this day. But companies only manufacture light bulbs that degrade and burn out over a few years, so that they can keep selling more light bulbs and turn a profit.
There’s a lot of examples of this, really. But, no, the main purpose of this is simply to make people continually have to replace their old “““broken”““ products for new ones, when the only reason they break to begin with is because they purposefully build in deficiencies that cause the product to degrade over time. It’s capitalism, baby
My mom had one vacuum cleaner all through our childhood. That first generation of vacuum cleaners was made to a very high standard because the companies were trying to convince people who had never seen one to buy them. Now, unless you buy the very high end models, they break in five years.
Can confirm, once helped my dad paint a client’s house interior and needed to vacuume after due to all the sanding we did. Dad’s shop vac would have taken us hours to clean since it was made for small messes and not whole carpets. Dad dug out the client’s home vacuum (with permission) which was this ancient heavy metal kirby from the 70s and holy shit not only did it still work but it had the strongest suction I have ever seen in a vac and it was that day that really hammered into me that planned obsolescence was A Thing.
Dishwasher from my childhood worked for over twenty years. The one we bought to replace it broke literally two days after the warranty period and it would have been more expensive to fix the control panel than to buy a new one.
Planned obsolescence is real. It’s peak capitalism and it’s ruining our planet.
Try to find somewhere that will recycle or even just dispose of televisions. Try it. It’s nearly impossible unless you have extra money you can pay someone to take it away which is stupid.
why do russians end their sentences with) while texting. ??
Yeah I was wondering the same thing! Can anyone explain?
ooh i’m glad to explain this! see this smiling face 🙂 ? well! in Russia we somehow ended up not using the eye part. so if someone texts you with lots of “))“s in the end of their message, they are just trying to be friendly and smile! same with (, if a russian person ends their message like that((, it means they are sad. hope that helped!)
That mention of not only a fair few autistic/otherwise ND people ending up in certain fields, but that also meaning that other people in those fields may be kinda used to dealing with us, reminded me of one conversation with Mr. C a while back.
Years ago, he was running a game at some con, and an acquaintance’s known-autistic little brother wanted to join. Apparently the adults defaulted to “are you sure that’s OK?!” 😕 Sure, why not.
The kid had some trouble with his voice automatically going louder and louder as he got excited–which, you know, so do I. Over time I have learned to keep a better watch on that (as most people will), but sometimes it still helps if people around me keep that in mind and maybe nudge me if the volume has unintentionally crept up to a bothersome point. Which is exactly the approach Mr. C took! And the game went fine. No big deal.
That apparently surprised the kid’s family. It sounded like gently reminding him that his voice was creeping up was…not necessarily an approach they’d been using 🤔 Which surprised Mr. C. Just from what he said, I felt pretty sorry for kid living with people who did seem to be trying, but just not really getting it. Even at that simple example level. As is unfortunately common, and winds up doing a lot of harm.
Anyway, the punchline to that bit of background story? “Well, I did work with the Swedish Youth Science Federation for years. I mean, dealing with autistic people? That’s just Tuesday!”
I just barely controlled myself from “Dude, you are nowhere near the same universe as NT yourself. No wonder it doesn’t seem particularly unusual to you.”
(Not going into a lot of details, because privacy. But, if he’s not at least a cousin, I would eat my metaphorical hat. I actually started looking into it myself after I moved in with him, and in some ways he reminded me that much of my engineer dad who had recently been diagnosed. Pretty quickly started seeing unexpected commonalities with my own experiences, reading stuff from autistic people. But, trying to understand better what might be making him tick was what got me started there.)
But…he just doesn’t see it that way at all? It’s amazed me for years. As far as he’s concerned, he seems to think he’s as close to NT as pretty much anyone he knows.
And I was struck by the idea that this may really be so. From the perspective of someone whose main social circles from the time he was a kid have largely consisted of other people with the Youth Science Federation, other people who practically lived in the computer labs in college, other people pursuing somewhat unusual special interests the whole while–and then working in IT for his entire adult life to date.
I mean, at the risk of falling into stereotypes? In settings like that, I am highly unlikely to stand out as the most obviously unusual person around. (With enough experience of my own to say this with some confidence.) Never mind him.
And no wonder he hasn’t yet been put off dealing with my weird ass 🙄 “It’s Tuesday!”
Another place where context and frame of reference likely matter quite a bit. I was just prompted to make some more connections there.
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