CyberWyatt

If we're posting story recs, Scythe is an incredible trilogy set in a utopia ruled by a truly benevolent ai as well and while there's a lot of stuff going on, the ai actually follows all its rules properly and really cares about everyone on the planet and any loopholes it uses are only used in good ways.

started work at the bakery and I'm literally making cookies and gay jokes and flirting with my partner all day and making more money than I did when I was breaking my spine in a factory

Environmental Storytelling

john gets really mad when amanda calls old timey dental apparatus saw traps, but she counters that they were also trying to help people by hurting them, which does not make him any less mad but which he can’t think of a good retort to

challenge among the apprentices as to who can call the weirdest thing a saw trap without john being able to come up with an argument as to why they’re diluting his message

talking of surplus labor one time my father and I calculated how much money he moved at his warehouse job with one single shipment and it was several times his monthly salary. the technical base of capitalism is so advanced that a warehouse peon can generate the value necessary to sustain themselves for an entire month in mere hours, having the rest consitute surplus labor that can be reinvented to economic development exclusively. the monumental amount of value generated by a mature capitalist economy is large enough to sustain its entire population multiple times over, but at the same time, the parasitism of the small class that owns all of this surplus labor is monumental enough on its own that those workers are barely paid enough to take care of their own health and their working hours cannot be reduced a couple of hours without sending shocks through the entire capital chain. never has the degree of separation between producer and production been so large, never has the chasm between the classes been so ample

of course he didn't produce the commodities being moved, his job was to put them into various boxes and shipments. this warehouse moved textiles, as part of a large international textile company. this one single shipment that could have fed him for multiple months came from an unnamed place in Bangladesh. Even greater is the dispossession and alienation suffered by the proletariat of the parasatized nations, paid for cents on the hundredth euro. Were those textile workers paid fairly, the parasitism of the capital owners wouldn't be sustainable at its current magnitude, but the products would still be sold and the materials would still be paid and the supply would still be more than enough. and the price or production wouldn't even rise that much or at all.

Can you please just have an ounce of shrimpathy?

It sucks that there's only 20 minutes in each day. If there was more than that I would get more stuff done I'm sure

im being so serious when i say this but we need to bring back the "my genitals are none of your business" "if gender is whats in my pants then my gender is some loose change" mentality from the late 2010's because too many people on here are openly flirting with exclusionary people who spout enbyphobic rhetoric. stop caring about what people's agabs are you assholes. they literally mean nothing. they're not a zodiac sign or indicative of people's character. you are not wholly pure or wholly evil because of your assigned sex. you're just a person.

"what genitals do you have?" Is sexual harassment regardless if its from a security guard or a chronically online furry