this is exactly what customer service is like

so there’s this funky mobile game

reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

this whole 'which job would you have on the leftist commune?' meme is really bringing to light the gulf between internet opinion-havers and like, actual blue collar laborers. removing the exploitative nature of capitalism isn't going to abolish all needs for labor. getting people their meds is still going to take hard work. getting people their mail is still going to take hard work. getting people their food is still going to take hard work. none of these tasks can be 'fully automated luxury space communism.' it doesn't have to be an economic hostage situation, but shit's still going to have to get done and people are going to have to do it.

if you wouldn't want to do the hard work of growing food or building maintenance or community meals on your little idealized leftist commune, how is it different than a gated community? a fucking suburb? congratulations, you've invented a gay homeowners' association.

i've gotten a few responses to this, in the tags or in my inbox, that pivot the point of the discussion to what can and can't be automated. but i'm going to reiterate: some tasks *cannot* be automated, and some tasks can be automated but definitely *should not*. a large portion of many jobs, especially ones that bring products and experiences to the end user, are heavily dependant on judgement calls. a machine could but should not be in charge of transporting goods on public roads. a live person should be present and in control of the vehicle no matter how smoothly an automated process would drive, because a real human person can better handle the situation of, say, the trailer unhitching in transit.

and hot take, guys? some people enjoy this work. my father drove truck for decades. and he loved it! the man loved his little radio, being out on the open road, just him and his thoughts. he would not have been happier if a communist society automated his job and took care of his expenses while he sat at home. he would have been happier if a communist society had made his job safer and took care of his expenses so that he wouldn't be *forced*to work more than he wanted just to maximize someone's profits; and could be home more. many jobs are like this, and many workers are like this. there is work you might be able to conceivably automate that i would tremendously prefer to do myself. i like the exercise of working as a package handler. i like honest work, just me and my thoughts. i would rather prefer to be able to support myself working optimal four-hour days, and not be pushed past my body's safe boundaries for someone else's profit, than have the work just somehow done by some machine.

the impulse behind 'what work can we make it so we don't have to do it?' is very uncomfortable for me. the focus of your future leftist society should be upon the workers, and upon the work. how it can be made safer? how can the people be supported?

i pointed out the gulf between 'internet opinion havers' and 'actual blue collar laborers' because the impulse to minimize work as much as possible displays a complete lack of community. this is why we're always talking about mutual aid! about mutual defense networks! about community gardens! no one else is going to do this shit for you. we talk about communism in the abstract but it's apparent that a lot of people are unacquainted with the fact that *any* society takes hard work to sustain. roll up your damn sleeves, because no one's going to make a better world for you.

This is also indirectly a great critique of fully automated luxury communism too. The goal of communism shouldn’t be to abolish work, but to abolish the exploitation of work. Thank you op for putting this into such eloquent words

Sorry gotta rant but

In a mood because I can’t finish the Tianqiu Valley side quest like, I’ve been at this for a week and CANNOT finish the southern tower third floor

I was going to invite a friend to start playing because the game is fun as shit but, I’m perma locked from co-op until I can finish this SIDE FUCKING QUEST

Not a STORY quest, which is understandable. A SIDE QUEST. A dumb, world-building SIDE QUEST

I actually thought it was a bug at first and reported it to mihoyo, and they responded by sending me a link to the fandom wiki and basically telling me to git gud.

Over a SIDE QUEST

I’ve tried every strategy I can with the characters I’ve got, and I cannot do this I’m not strong enough (level wise and emotionally) holy shit

UPDATE I FUCKING BEAT IT

IT TOOK SO MANY FUCKING TRIES AND SO MUCH CAREFUL GRINDING FOR EQUIPMENT BUT I GOT IT

holy shit not gonna do that again ffs

Source

This is bloody genius

Okay, you people have no right to make me cry in public like this. This is the most heart warming shit I’ve read all December

Reposting because the whole Santa concept is Hermes AF and so is this amazing parenting

AWESOME.

BEYOND obsessed with this house in fort worth, texas i mean

okay pretty normal, let’s look at the interior photos—

WHAT THE FUCK

here we see the first example of a pattern that will recur throughout the house, which is that once your eyes adjust to the bonkers dictator chic marble-and-gilded-everything, you notice some pretty egregiously shoddy workmanship. look at how that baseboard intersects with the outlet. look at how the marble… uh, thing on the wall (i was gonna call it a fireplace but it’s not a fireplace, i have no idea what that is) has gaps and weird angles wherever two pieces meet. it’s like they’re trying to recreate versailles on an ikea budget

i… don’t hate the kitchen. i mean, obviously it’s ugly and #toomuch and there was zero effort made to match the very modern appliances and sink to the cabinets, but still, i’m a sucker for a pass-through and a big sink with a window above it.

this ceiling Fucks but the wrinkly, uneven curtains and terrible caulking around the faux-column in the middle anti-Fuck

why did we suddenly completely switch aesthetics. why is there an old TV set into the wall at floor level. why is there a tiny set of doors next to it. why does the fireplace look like an asset ripped from the original dark souls. i feel a sinister presence sucking at my soul the longer i look at this photo

i feel like whoever designed this monstrosity started with the dining room and then once they’d finished it realized they’d blown half their budget on just this one room. it’s so overdecorated that the gaudiness feels intentional, like it’s a statement rather than a side effect of genuine tastelessness. i can applaud that.

here we have the antithesis of the dining room. i don’t know what this room is supposed to be but i hate it. i’m pretty sure everything in this photo literally came from ikea. there is a lack of commitment here and it is rancid

ladies, gentlemen, distinguished colleagues, we have now hit the cornerstone of any great tacky real estate listing: the heart-shaped bathtub! this one gets bonus points for being next to a gilded mirror and surrounded by bright red damask wallpaper. as a bathtub i’d give it a 1/10 because those angles look incredibly uncomfortable, but as a place to shoot my lover through the heart while wearing a gauzy fur-trimmed bathrobe before fleeing with our ill-gotten fortune i’d give it a solid 11/10

here we are with the lack of commitment again. this literally looks like the kitchen in my college dorm but with a weird fringey lamp and some curtains that are absolutely too long for their windows

again, the mix of styles here is just killing me. half damask wallpaper and carved wall panels, half normal-ass bathroom? really? isn’t there anything truly unhinged left in this house? anything truly opulent, decadent, off the chain, extravagant, gaudy—

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT BAY BEE!!! THAT’S MORE THE FUCK LIKE IT!!! COMMIT! TO! THE! BIT! GO BIG OR GO HOME! IF YOU’RE GONNA STICK A CEILING DOME IN THE FOYER OF YOUR SUBURBAN TEXAS HOUSE IT HAD BETTER BE TWELVE FEET IN DIAMETER AND PAINTED WITH DOZENS OF FLOWERS OR ELSE WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE??

and finally, to close out the show, a reminder that this entire acid trip of a real estate listing took place in an ordinary, modern single-story house in texas, one with a backyard and utility boxes on the exterior walls and neighbors who may be blissfully unaware that they live mere feet from a yawning pit of madness.

i love tacky real estate listings.

Tips for kids online

Please kids on the internet, BE SAFE. Remember these are strangers. Remember the internet is full of real people with their own motives and intentions. Remember that you can’t control the internet. Please please PLEASE be safe!

Is Russia even real

I think it is necessary for me to transcribe what she’s saying because it is EXACTLY how I babytalk to my cat:

“Oh Stepa! So little – little Stepa! My little kiss, where’s my little kiss?? Where are my little fingers? Where are my little legs? Where are my little paws? Stepa!” *shakes his paw* “Say hello! Hello my little one! Hello!” *lies down on him* “Oh how nice, how warm. Good boy…”

to be clear, this bear is named the russian equivalent of “steve”

It’s that time of year again

Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

“MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN”

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

“sasha no”

@burstofhope the Christmas tiger is watching

She is making a list

It is not easy with her paws but she is making it

shes almost here

Okay fine this is the ONE Christmas thing I will reblog before Thanksgiving BUT THAT’S IT

SASHA’S BACK ON MY DASH!

Y’all better behave, you have two months

You better watch out

You better watch out

You better watch out

MAG 186 without context

looks like october is…. octover

It’s nowvember

Behind a strong DPS is a strong support UwU

Funny how that works

I am so pleased at how many notes are some version of “I don’t fear the science, I fear the corporations who control it” because that is EXACTLY the attitude you should have. GMOs can save us. Monsanto will kill us.

what people fear about GMO- ‘theyre gonna make frankencarrots that crave human flesh and cause diarrhea ’ what GMO actually is- ‘we made rice crop that is both drought resistant and flood resistant which will prevent about 20% of major famine disasters, also it now makes vitamin A because vitamin A deficiency in poverty stricken areas is a major killer of kids as most vitamin A rich foods dont grow there’ what people SHOULD be upset about- ‘i made all crops sterile so all farmers have to buy the seed from me in perpetuity and i will sue anyone who tries to go back to crops that produce their own seed’

^^^ THIS

don’t forget 

“ Remove the first 4 letters from your name and add Fuck. “

this is people with 4 letter name oppression. my name is now just Fuck. height of comedy.

Fucknelle

Fuckssa

Can you do something for me, please?

I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship. 

Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another. 

Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it. 

I’ve never reblogged anything faster.

quick unofficial survey, reblog this and put the first fandom you read/wrote fanfic for, and how old you were, in the tags

do you ever just go on zillow and look at homes you’ll never be able to afford or am I just turning into a boring adult