zbyte64

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I mean churches should be anticapitalist and before the turn of the last century they often were. But then property got expensive and churches would need loans... Now we have prosperity gospel and mega churches. The internet ran the same course but in just a couple decades.

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

Last century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call

This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond

Wait, that sounds like the last century as well...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Oh man I have a story about an unhoused lady who has dementia. I walk my dog and sometimes she recognizes me, other times she has no idea. One of the days I was walking the dog and she forgot who I was and asked to pet my dog. She thought I was unhoused as well for some reason and told me about some good spots to sleep. These people know what it means to survive based on the kindness of others.

PS

Her name is Catalina, and sometimes I see her at church and she donated what little money she has. It sorta painful but then I remember how we treat her. We always have a place for her at our table to eat after the service. She's our neighbor as far as we're concerned.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Aside from the systemic reasons why the internet leans heavily right: when you deport people's neighbors then politics is no longer a sports game and even the nonvoters understand this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

I honestly think how we treat the service industry is how many people end up treating their kids.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I think it was David Graeber that pointed out that the poorer you are the more you need to be able to empathize with your boss and clients in order to survive.

But this notion that the middle class are somehow more empathetic is interesting because I think it is based on the (correct) idea that people need to actually own something in order to be generous. However, I find from personal experience, poor people have an easier time giving what they have because they know they can survive having nothing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Just unlock it using your white voice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Developers destroyed the internet. Or do you think normies built the new advertising surveillance paradigm on their own? Hopefully they were well compensated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They'll blow their money on AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

They are getting the war they voted for.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Article 1 of the Dutch constitution states

Sir, this is a Wendy's

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

May day massacre was just union workers having a picnic with their families. Making protests family inclusive works

 

A critical and funny critique of an AI written song.

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