happybadger
@happybadger@hexbear.net
Working class employee of the Sashatown Central News Agency, the official news service of the DPRS Ministry of State Security. Your premier source for patriotic facts.
- Comment on Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators 3 days ago:
I knew a facebook mod who worked in San Francisco. They made $20/hr in like 2018, not enough to live on in most small cities. Every day they’d be rotated through different queues based on the type of content. A full day of sitting there in the animal abuse queue having to watch thousands of psychopathic videos to find the fraction which violate the terms of service. The next day they’d have to watch 8 hours of cartel executions or war footage or child abuse or Nazi propaganda. Their coworkers would openly use drugs throughout their shift to cope and their level of PTSD from it was comparable to mine working in paramedicine. It’s an absolutely demonic job.
- Comment on Trump 'thinks' Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia 4 days ago:
source: made-it-the-fuck-up
- Comment on China now faces 245% Trump tariff 2 weeks ago:
245% embargo. If you dare try to export things to the US, you’re getting 245% of it back.
- Comment on Top Donald Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech 2 weeks ago:
Elon’s starlink ratfuckery in Ukraine should make that the easiest choice ever made. If you displease him he turns off the internet at a whim.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Stellantis going bankrupt: I chicken-bop
Stellantis executives being fed molten gold until their greed is satiated: I spongebob-party
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Imagine pulling up to a red light, checking your GPS for directions, and suddenly, the entire screen is hijacked by an ad. That’s the reality for some Stellantis owners. Instead of seamless functionality, drivers are now forced to manually close out of ads just to access basic vehicle functions.
- Comment on I got plans this weekend. 2 months ago:
mom never lets me play Introduction to Random Signals and Noise. I’ve beaten Environmental Plant Physiology so many times and even got 100% on soil pH challenge mode.
- Comment on Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well 3 months ago:
“Liv,” whose bio claims she is a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller”
Bazinga shit is so cynical. They’ve built a digital skinwalker to farm engagement off marginalised communities with autogenerated lies.
- Comment on Joe Biden issues 'full and unconditional' pardon for son 4 months ago:
With one of the colours censored by a bar reading “I will follow the law.”
- Comment on Joe Biden issues 'full and unconditional' pardon for son 4 months ago:
Liberals scared to admit how evil they are, but also too scared to wear a MAGA hat and be accurately perceived.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 months ago:
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch03b.htm
On the other hand, it is completely utopian to want, like Proudhon, to transform present-day bourgeois society while maintaining the peasant as such. Only as uniform a distribution as possible of the population over the whole country, only an integral connection between industrial and agricultural production together with the thereby necessary extension of the means of communication — presupposing the abolition of the capitalist mode of production — would be able to save the rural population from the isolation and stupor in which it has vegetated almost unchanged for thousands of years. It is not utopian to declare that the emancipation of humanity from the chains which its historic past has forged will only be complete when the antithesis between town and country has been abolished; the utopia begins when one undertakes “from existing conditions” to prescribe the form in which this or any other of the antitheses of present-day society is to be solved.
It’s why I’m Team Degrowth and a big believer in art nouveau. We need simplified, localised, non-commodified production and consumption. Craftsmanship and home economy, alternative agriculture systems which support individual families and immediate communities, mutual aid networks, severe regulation of resource extraction and pollution, centralised state control of those industries with a focus on becoming an ecological civilisation, and funding rural communities more to encourage a more even population distribution that’s still in line with the carrying capacity of the land. China has been pretty good about tackling a lot of these problems in recent years but I think a real solution is a more radical reorganisation of supply-side economics and infrastructure to make the countryside more evenly developed at a lower scale than industrial society.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 months ago:
It’s similar to colonialism: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch01c.htm
One of Marx’s first big ecological ideas was observing how sheep were transforming England. The growth of textile mills in cities meant that the cities became the economic, social, and cultural hubs. That’s the primary tax base and population centre so that’s where the money from the factories goes and where an individual has opportunities/infrastructure. Meanwhile to feed those mills and their growth you need a larger source of raw materials. That’s cotton from slave plantations and wool from English shepherds. The countryside was transformed as small farmers were displaced and nature was degraded to make more room for sheep, just as the American south became dominated by large slave plantations. The wool sells for a lower price than the shirt so they have less direct revenue coming in, the lower population density and alienation from opportunity/infrastructure both negatively impact its tax benefits, and to top it off they’re poisoned by the work of extraction and the pollution of the cities they build. Cities and markets have to grow to compete with each other, and that growth sucks the life out of rural and natural systems.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 months ago:
Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities at the cost of underdeveloping those rural communities, further alienating them and driving them to reactionary politics. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 months ago:
love 2 separate town and country with no consequences marx-joker
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 months ago:
In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary. One cattle town, Greeley, even attempted to secede from the state over the barest COVID restrictions. Raw milk is a big culture war thing for them and the hippies who flocked to the most densely populated areas of the state. Luckily we live in the 21st century though and it’s illegal for a commercial dairy to sell unpasteurised milk.
So anyways the dairies are owned by reactionaries who love selling raw milk to other reactionaries. Since it’s legal to drink the raw milk of your family cow, the dairies circumvent food safety laws by selling a “share” of a “cow”. That entitles you to X amount of raw milk per week. The cow is one of hundreds in an industrial dairy being fed chicken shit. The first human case from this current epidemic was a prisoner being used as slave labour to bury all the chickens at an infected farm.
It’s so much filthier than any of the racist shit hogs said about Chinese wet markets. This is a wholly manmade horror perfectly within our comprehension purely being driven for profit. I hope it ends with crucifixions.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 5 months ago:
Those are usually the scary ones to piss on, unless it’s a tree frog in which case you have to factor in the dexterity.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 5 months ago:
I never knew pregnancy tests had frogs in them. The sticks seem so small.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Own AI Chatbot Claims He Spreads 'The Most Disinformation' On X 5 months ago:
He can’t even buy a chatbot’s love with 44 billion dollars.
- Comment on same as it ever was 5 months ago:
They really understate Mozart. My favourite scatalogical composition of his is “Lick My Ass Right Well and Clean” where he compares his ass to nicely buttered roast meat: en.wikipedia.org/…/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_…
Super pretty choir piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNePP0DX1A
