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[ ID: Something you need to understand is that when capitalists say something “can’t be automated” what they mean is “it can be automated, but running a sweatshop is cheaper.”

Meanwhile, when workers say something “can’t be automated” they mean “maybe you can automate it but the results will be somewhere between ‘incredibly poor quality’ and ‘turns people into meat paste’.”

Anyway I feel like that’s a distinction worth mentioning. End ID ]

Sometimes, Atheists are even more annoying than Certain Subsets of Christians.

And by "sometimes" I actually mean "A Lot of the Time."

Person Who Digs Conservation: I think the concept of Animism (not a specific religion, just the anthropological definition.) is a useful metaphor in conservation.

Atheist: No! You're mixing religion and science! This is bad and wrong!

Person Who Digs Conservation: I am not promoting any religious beliefs. I'm saying that being aware that ecosystems are actually alive and interdependent is important, and animism is a--

Atheist: NO! NO NO NO! Religion bad! Religion always bad. NOOOOOO.

Another Atheist: Person Who Digs Conservation conflates science and religion and this is bad and they should feel bad. Also I am kinda bigoted.

She ran towards it.

...Eventually finding herself at the Embroidery department - or what was left of it.

“Hetemit?” she called, “you okay?”