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I do not fully agree with this point, but this pig got to be Jeffrey DaHAMer or HAMnibal Lecter (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

How am I supposed to imagine a clothed pig splicing fiber cables or setting up a rack full of communications equipment with fiber patches. They don't even have opposable thumbs, how can they unplug an LC plug with its retention clip?

If my job isn't real I'm taking the internet down with me, then he can read his hand drawn memes to his neighbor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Take the Internet. We'll be fine.

pats 1998 Encyclopedia Britannica

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Richard Scarry to the rescue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

This makes me feel sad about my job, but i upvote anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Don't worry guys, it's human meat so it's not weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pig in a cute sweater planing war crimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

This looks nice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

I dare you to find a job that can't be portrayed like that.

Hacker Pig? sure!

Neo matrix Pig? Sure

Politician? Almost indistinguishable

Holywood Director Pig? Nearly by default

Slaughterhouse Pig... NGL, that hits different, but still, I can see that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Am I missing the obvious sarcasm that is somehow not mentioned? as in this pig is an obvious CLASS TRAITOR for being a pig that sells parts of (presumably) other pigs?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

It's allll beef, no pig :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Edit: huh, the '+' did do what i intended but didn't believe it would work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

You can't convince me the pig in the third pic isn't Winne the 🇨🇳 Pooh.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't there a very famous children's story about a pig that is more equal than the other pigs?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I wouldn't exactly call it a children's story

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

My school had me read it when I was a kid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think you could read it to children.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can read anything to children…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I once saw someone read a Metallica song to their kid as a bedtime story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hush little baby, Don't say a word...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

And never mind that, fire baaaaad!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Four legs good

Two legs ~~bad~~ better

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago

Now I'm imagining a pig wearing programming socks.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could totally imagine a clothed pig sitting in front of a computer

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally me (to be fair I'm not always clothed).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A pig wearing a shirt and tie, but no pants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

So the average cartoon character

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So a billionaire is a real job now? I don't even have to imagine a billionaire being a pig, they all already are!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But imagine them in a childrens book doing their job

That is the hard ppart

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is just a stock image but it's not hard to imagine it being in a children's story. Besides, Scrooge McDuck is an existing character in a children's story that is a billionaire as a duck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

At least Scrooge McDuck isn't portrayed as having a healthy relationship with wealth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But in this photo, they are throwing money, not doing their job

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

their "job" is literally none other than being rich

throwing money is part of that

the other part is swimming in a pool of money

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

Swimming in a pool of and throwing money arent jobs, they are hobbies

If they dont do anything other than that, they are jobless

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Being billionaire is not a job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

that's what I'm saying, but a pig could be it in a children's story

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.

In this hypothetical situation, if you can't imagine a fanciful depiction of a pig doing it, then it isn't a job. But the opposite isn't necessarily true. Just because you can imagine a fanciful depiction of a pig doing it doesn't necessarily mean it is a job, just that it could be.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why is the pig a cannibal

[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's human meat.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Understandable, have a great day.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Its just a long pig

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Capitalism makes cannibals of us all. 😔

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

There is a job that can be represented without any clothes at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Does a muppet count?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Ah, the pig is preparing soylent oligarch-green, a most sustainable job, I applaud you, pig.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What about Police? :O

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

The whole term sprung up when founding black panthers were studying police methodologies and found a precinct that used a pig as a mascot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Already pigs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

A pig could sit in front of a computer in those books right? Right?!

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