freaking and burn are bad words now?
What in tarnation
Something I think we don’t talk about too much that has additionally fallen to the throes of Late Stage Capitalism is the dissolution of nuclear and extended families, as well as the normalcy of shared households.
Before, the everyday tasks of any one domicile could be reasonably expected to be split up amongst its cohorts. Kids do their chores, dad mows the lawn, mom does the wash, nana does the cooking, auntie takes the kids to school/shopping, or your housemates help out, etc etc.
But most of this generation is living in isolated pods, single-serving everything. You are solely responsible for the cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, studying, working, running to the bank, filing taxes, trip planning, car maintenance, home repairs, and your godddamn mental health. Of course it’s too much work for just one person, but it’s become so normalized by now that people hardly even notice there’s a problem, much less any viable solution to it. Instead, we all resign ourselves to being “tired all the time”, physically and emotionally, and not knowing why.
And not to go down the conspiracy rabbit hole - I think this is more of a blind “race to the bottom” scenario - but it makes a lot more money for the rent-seeking class when we’re socially isolated. A couple shares a house/apartment, shares chores, may even be able to share a car. When they break up, that’s now 2 apartments, 2 cars, individual trips for everything, etc.
It’s not quite that clean of course, and plenty of folks live with roommates. But there’s definitely a perverse economic incentive to keep us detached from community and partnership, and everything from AI/social media/online dating to the gender/culture wars seems to be pushing us farther in that direction.
Get a significant other, share the pain.
It’s on my to-do list.
Why is Pepe AI
Our lives wouldn’t be so complicated if we had financial freedom via a UBI and didn’t have that metaphorical gun put to our heads to make us keep working forever.
Most animals do very little every day, humans are one of the only animals to have no resource scarcity but still work ourselves into an early grave from stress.
Uhm. Most animals live by the grace of chance and circumstance. Barely getting enough to sustain life.
I think I understand what you’re trying to say, but you can’t seriously think that pre-industrial age people were sitting around and doing nothing? Post-industrial age came with an explosion of people to match the new amount of resources. If we don’t produce the resources then people die.
Do you want a simpler life or an easier life? Those are two very different things.
There are theories that hunter-gatherers worked significantly less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
I’m all for testing 6 hour work days.
But the fantasy of universal income is too farfetched. Who will produce the food? Are we to collectively agree that we take turns on producing the food? I sure as hell don’t want that, and there lies the core issue. How do you force people to do things that they don’t want to do?
Lol, these downvotes. Explain the system instead. How do you propose to force people?
Why the hell do you immediately think of slavery? You don’t force people to do anything. If you need work done, you pay people to do it. Obviously.
And since workers have a guaranteed income to fall back upon, employers have no choice but to pay a fair wage. That’s the entire point.
Seriously, if you want to understand UBI, there are whole studies available online for your reading pleasure. There are dozens of books on the subject. Your question isn’t mysterious or insurmountable, but worse, it’s not even insightful. It reveals that you’ve never given it the slightest consideration or study. Do some work. You were down voted because you’re so wildly off-base as to not even be wrong.
Since you brought it up though, what do you think our current society intends to do with us besides slavery and genocide? And how do you propose to stop it?
Why the hell do you immediately think of slavery? You don’t force people to do anything. If you need work done, you pay people to do it. Obviously.
So just capitalism then. But with extra steps.
And since workers have a guaranteed income to fall back upon, employers have no choice but to pay a fair wage. That’s the entire point.
No…? The ones that work to produce would control the supply and the prices would reflect it. Kind of like that other system that starts with c.
Seriously, if you want to understand UBI, there are whole studies available online for your reading pleasure. There are dozens of books on the subject.
I’ve read plenty of articles about it, not sold on it. Was curious if anyone had any way to sell it. You just present it as capitalism, which i suppose is one way to do it. Though I would argue that people would stop doing necessary jobs, since they no longer need to work.
Capitalism is when a small amount of people own the means of production while doing no work and profiting off the labor of many. It isn’t when people buy and sell and work for money.
When you suggest that people must be forced to work, it demonstrates you don’t understand it at all.
UBI simply puts power back where it belongs, in the hands of the workers.
capitalism is when a small amount of people own the means of production.
Wrong. That would be oligarchy. But i can tell that you are confused since you present UBI as capitalism without even realizing it.
underrated comment.
The post above yours would make more sense if we had reached a Star Trek level of future where the baseline population is educated enough to know what’s best for them and their own rights.
Unfortunately we are so very far away from it, sigh
In the universe of Chaos, stability doesnt exist. Its an illusion
WHO IS CENSORING THE WORD “BURN” ???
FREAKING? FREAKING. NOT FUCKING. FREAKING. WHAT.
I initially thought it said “bitch out,” meaning that the censorship made me think of a “worse” word.
edit: Also didn’t realize until now that that freaking said “freaking.” Again … Censorship made things seem more extreme.
I suspect there’s an algorithm out there on some other platform where boosting is adversely affected by any kind of negative language, and people have figured it out and try to game it with this kind of thing.
The people who know you’ll engage with the post with a comment like this.
It’s basically free engagement from nothing.
fire hot -> fire bad! if fire bad, need to cover word to not summon fire!
why did they self censor “burn”?
To my knowledge, it’s because advertisers don’t want to be displayed next to potentially negative posts.
That then means that commercial social media platforms would rather display posts for which they get paid. So, potentially negative posts get downranked by the content curation algorithm to the point where they will be seen by virtually no one.
And that then means that users self-censor, and also potentially overdo it, because they don’t know for certain which words will get punished.
This is similar to the phenomenon known as algospeak, where words such as “unalive” are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algospeak
Yet they are fine with being seen next to Nazi propaganda.
I fucking hate goddamned social fucking media.
Fuck advertisers.
i wish reaction to that would be that users go to use some other service instead
Engagement bait
And “freaking”
that is at least kind of understandable. but if one thinks “Burn” is bad word, why stop there :D should censor also adult and problem, maybe also endless, never and no too since those could potentialy also have negative connotations which seems to be big no no. oh and also laundry since moneylaundring is a thing.
and “adult” clearly means porn, and “ends” clearly refers to murder or suicide 🙃
gaaaaaasp plz tw c*nsorship
So glad they censored fre*king. I almost had to read a minced oath.
I’m more concerned about the “barn out”
I’m just glad they censored
Trigger warning: non federated platform
/r/AskReddit
Seriously, so fucking gross
NSFL tag please.
gasp! such language! burn!? as in burning!? for shame!
Should have said flame instead.
It says freaking, not fucking
It’s “barn”, not “burn”
Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the decensoring effort. Hang in there.
But why did you leave the subreddit and usernames censored
•o••a•• ••o, that’s ••a•y
SHIELD YOUR EYES
goddamn bro, that’s crazy
(I’m not trying to format all the escapes needed for that many asterisks, lol)
They also censored the names of the pseudonyms on a public website.
I really do get why it’s being called out, its silly and annoying.
8/10 of the top comments in my client are complaining about this, though.
It’s easy for me to ignore and move on from the censored text, but its harder to ignore the comments when they are taking up so much space.
Again, I get why, and I understand that each commenter probably didn’t see eachothers comments at the time of posting. And again, I get that this censoring is ridiculous.
I am not really offering a solution, and I’m not sure that people should stop calling it out but… theres got to be a better way? Maybe such posts should just be banned? Deleted by mods? If it is so frustrating for so many people.
It’s just engagement bait at this point
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Smashmouth tried to warn us. The years keep coming and they do not stop coming.
Why the fuck is burn censored?
You mean,
W*y the f*ck is b*rn censored?
Bro! Watch your language!
“y**r language” please, won’t someone think of the children.
***nguage!
Manage your mouth words!
**** **** ****
What the fuck, here there are no algorithms to please, there’s no fucking need to censor “freaking” or “burn”.
Meanwhile, the Reddit sub and the username in the left corner are censored so poorly, I don’t know why OP (original OP, whoever first “censored” the screenshot) even bothered at all.
When users are so brainwashed they can’t even say the word dead, it probably becomes second nature to be PG rated everywhere all the time.
Pretty sure it’s engagement bait at this point
My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.
Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.
My wife’s side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they’re also dark skinned, I’m worried about ICE.
I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for “looking how I look”.
My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I’m sending them food money.
Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I’m not doing enough to stop Trump.
I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for “looking how I look”.
I’m very sorry for you, and fuck the women in your family for saying something like that. Someone who thinks you look like a sexual predator and says you deserve to get harassed for your looks is no family of mine. I’m a woman, but I’d slap the shit out of someone if I knew they said that to their male family member.
I appreciate the kind words. Thank you.
I feel like the manosphere is so loud right now that average dudes is caught in the crossfire. All I can do is politely apologize on behalf men for all the toxicity. Which again, a tiny fraction of the many things going on in the world.
Acknowledge their complaints are valid, sure, but you should not apologize for the actions of others just because they share superficial similarities. Internalizing guilt for things other people do isn’t healthy.
Keep being a decent person, that is the best you can do.
Especially after offering to look after the kids
I respect you. If not for a random parent being dual citizen somewhere else, I’d be in the exact same shoes. We got out four years ago.
Try to ignore the people on this site who can’t distinguish between real people and real problems. The system is all about making good people less activated. Just keep doing your best.
Lots on your shoulders brother. I praise you for holding it all together. You’re doing a great job despite being ask so much and disrespected. Man to man, family man to family man, this all will pass. Stay kind brother.
Stay with us, friend.
This, too, shall pass.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
True, also these thoughts are somewhat depressive. Many if not most people are perfectly happy with what hey have (family, home etc) and the work they have to do. This is impossible to imagine if you have depression, but it’s a reality.
Because he CHOOSES to push the boulder. That’s the important distinction. If you wait until you HAVE to do laundry it’s not really a choice and it feels like the chores are now dictating your schedule instead of the other way around.
Actually, sisyphus was forced to roll the boulder by hades as punishment, bc he tried to cheat zeus. N the boulder keeps rolling down bc hades enchanted it, so sisyphus could never complete his task
Yes, I know it was his punishment. But he later comes to accept his fate and DECIDES to push the boulder up the hill everyday. It’s just a made up story anyway I’m sure people heard other versions hence the downvotes.
Thats not rly deciding tho is it? Bc he was never the one to start pushing the boulder of his own volition, he was made to do it. N the fact that he may have accepted his fate eventually doesn’t change that. Also dont worry abt the downvotes :3 it happens sometimes 🫂
You can always decide, that’s the point of the story, or so I thought. That even if something is forced upon you (like laundry or having to work or eat, etc) that you can still make a choice to do that thing. It helps give you a feeling of control, even if it might seem small and unimportant it could make a big difference. Maybe I’m just projecting lol
I think reframing a situation can be a healthy coping mechanism :3 but it’s also fine to acknowledge that it wasnt u who got urself into that situation to begin with. What u focus on in the end prolly comes down to whether ur a more problem or solution oriented person :D Ig im just a bit more problem oriented lol
They literally teach you this in highschool science. They teach you that the universe is a dynamic system driven by entropy. They teach you that equilibrium, i.e. a state of stability in a dynamic system, is achieved when the rate of structural formation equals the rate of destruction, e.g. bonds forming/breaking, population birth/death, organizing/disorganizing one’s room… Managing while not burning out is stability.
The classic question of “when would any of this be applicable in the real world” is intended to be a critique of how school curriculums can be dated or out of touch with chages in how the world works. It also highlights the often understated goal of a good education–shaping students into people who have the fundamental tools and the mindset to actively answer that crucial question for themselves.
