They definitely need to get off Twitter and onto mastodon. I'm surprised i don't see more hyperfamous people on there yet. Honestly, besides herd mentality, I'm not sure what's keeping them there instead of mastodon.
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Unfamiliar with the person. What's he infamous for? What sort of chodelicious behavior defines him to you?
Just say smith.
Religion is just slow to adapt to uh, reality.
The Church of latter Day saints is just newer by a thousand or so years.
Holy fuck voice-to-text...
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
Pork again noodles does
The problem is only a problem because the vast majority of normal people believe it's helpless.
If all workers, say, organized, grew a pair, became French suddenly, or just decided 'fuck it' and immediately started fighting for any little thing, workers would suddenly be in power, much like how tech was a couple years ago when there was a huge quitting spree.
Scarcity, wether it be artificial or real, is the reason we're all scared. And the reason we have artificial scarcity (in tech) right now is because there's no coordination and scared or hungry people are willing to do that bidding for less and less.
It's the classic test of social cooperation. I think one of the Green brothers just talked about it in the past week or so somewhere? I can't remember how it goes, so I'll try to make it make sense:
You have four people playing a game together. They have a sheet of paper and a pencil, the paper is not see through and until they reveal the paper, nobody can see what anybody else has written.
The players can all write "trust" or "take" on their papers.
After they decide what to write, all papers are revealed.
Everybody starts at 0 points.
If everybody writes trust, everybody gets 2 points.
If two people write take, they each get 2 points and the two people that wrote trust get 0.
If only one person writes take, they get 4 points and everybody else gets 0.
If three people write take and one writes trust, the three people each get 1 point and the trust gets 0.
So that's really not at all how that goes i think, but you get the gist: if everybody stands up and doesn't coward out and chooses to trust everybody, the net take home is literally double. But if the more people that greed, the less available.
The gist is just that the system is only shitty because of selfish greed and fear and cowardice.
I looked it up, i guess there's a bunch of variants but the core game is called the dictator game?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator_game
Which is a derivative of the "ultimatum game"?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
They're all interesting and slightly different versions of the same game to see how shitty or good people are and what causes it. It's all psychology and economics. Highly suggest reading the dictator game's "variants" section, as it's pretty fascinating.
"Betrayal aversion" is a neat new term.
You radiate wisdom and I cannot overstate how greatly I respect and admire you for that. It's rare to speak with somebody online that so clearly speaks from well deliberated experience.
I agree with much of what you say. However, while you got through your nursing home employment, how many more head-down nurses must suffer through and also perpetuate the broken system? You must let it break sometimes.
I feel you're older than me, and dare I say, wiser. But, you have clearly chosen yourself in these situations over solutions. Solutions that this world dearly needs.
I cannot fairly blame you in your situation or the admins, but if we as citizens in this great shitty machine are but cogs along for the ride, why must we serve the very people who will hurt us and many others like us?
I cannot, in good conscience say I would for sure act any different; I absolutely do have sympathy for those in these awful positions. I also cannot say that what they did was cut and dry wrong, it's not simple at all.
But, I will say that, eventually, when people are pushed too far, somebody or something must give. And currently, the pure volume of people willingly being used by, and doing the destructive bidding of billionaires and tyrants causing problems around the world helps nobody but themselves and the billionaires on this road to shit.
I applaud those capable and willing to do the right things for the good of all of our futures, but I also dually weep that we must abhor, and am sorry for those who are horribly stuck as a cog to serve the shit machine: you, the bound admins of Reddit, and myself, as nothing about what must be done is easy or safe for those who risk protest while closest to true tyranny.
These are my hard words. But in truth, I am overwhelmingly glad I've found this place and don't envy anybody still fighting on Reddit, as I, too, am obviously a coward in my own detrimental ways; I simply wish Reddit unwell and a swift and resounding failure.
I am still very unsure and in flux on much of the morality of this topic, and I really do want to express utmost respect in response to yours; I do apologize if this comes off as shaming you, my intent is not so - as I believe that collective negligence, rather than any specific individual, is to blame. My instincts say "fight", and my shitty knowledge of the world, too, but the successful and safe people in my life who advise me, unanimously disagree every time, and every damned time I listen, for some reason. It still feels... raw that I always seek outside pressure in decisive situations to sway me. I dunno. Maybe someday we can all have nice things and be happy, if I may so cursedly paraphrase John Lennon.
Yeah, but one option perpetuates the problem by living on your knees and you acting out of complacent consent of the actions that LITERALLY YOU ARE DOING
I just want to point out that...
Defending and siding with people attacking and sexually harassing innocent other people, by calling the people in power acting to protect those innocents, "nazis" for acting to protect said innocent people... is arguably closer to nazism than being liberal/woke and temporarily closing your doors to outsiders as a way to protect innocent people from sexual harassment and unwanted trolls.
Can somebody explain to me why you don't want to push the employee to push his boss? Like, I know it won't go anywhere because hoff has his head hup his hass, but so often it becomes a proxy war anyway and people down below refuse to push back because they wanna lick the boot that the enemy hides behind. We're not mad at anybody but spez, but if we can get people to quit supporting him, that's just an unfortunate place to be in for that employee to be in, but they're still representing and serving and acting on direction from that fucking wreck of a human hoffman.
I see both sides of it. It's like the guards that protect and serve the tyrant king. You let them hurt you or you motivate people to never serve the bastard again.
The guard may not be an evil person like the tyrant king, BUT THEY'RE STILL DOING HIS BIDDING. Give the guard the option to step aside, and if they choose not to, then they, too, are a bad cop nazi, and need to be taken out. I hate it, and normally things aren't actual dichotomies, but in this case, it's 100% "us vs them".
Nobody does what spez does without help and compliance. Force the workers out and you starve the company.
Am I wrong here? Am I off the mark? Is this just really old/conservative thinking? Has nobody read the art of war? I have sympathy for those without choice, but these admins are people too, and have brains and freedom of choice and they're choosing to continue. Stop making excuses for people to be shitty in society.
I'm sick and tired of people living in fear and cowardly going along with shit we all know is wrong. I'm absolutely sick of it.
I've been seeing bot-mirror accounts of real accounts on mastodon. Just do the reverse. Be on Twitter, but prioritize this "hot new thing"