Hegar

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Hegar, (edited )

Ok, maybe suss is Australian. I was surprised to see it listed with "on cap" because I've heard suss being said all my life by a wide range of people, but I did grow up in Australia.

Hegar,

The joke here is so elegant. I think this is a really good example what's so great about far side.

US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years? (kbin.social)

Interpret improvements as you like. For me it's any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite....

Hegar,

I would say that the legitimate process of seeking opportunities has been intentionally made to look illegal by waves of xenophobic policy from both Rs and Ds who have created an immigration system that's designed to generate workers without a legal foothold. If there was a functional way for people to seek the life they want, they wouldn't need to resort to fake IDs and hiding in trucks to get a job. But then industries would have to pay them legal wages.

A lot of people want to create a distinction between someone who's fleeing full-blown war or starvation vs someone who's fleeing poverty. I can't see how it is a crime to flee either. It is just a reality that humans will try to escape suffering, monumental suffering and everyday suffering - legislation and bureaucracy can accomodate or ignore that but it won't change it. So when we ignore it, we know that the black market will step in.

More broadly it suits the needs of capital to restrict the flow of labour as much as possible. Labour free to seek the best conditions means upward pressure on wages, lower margins and less leverage for capital.

Hegar, (edited )

They don't though. It's not illegal to seek asylum.

Hegar,

My wife honestly loves the paintings of the war criminal george w bush.

Hegar,

I'd encourage you to expand your worldview - a lot of problems we attribute to capitalism are mostly because of hierarchy.

Hegar,

Mine was tailless, filthy, with a large hairless scar across his back and blue bow tie.

Hegar,

I opened the door one day and there he was. He looked up at me, meowed hungrily and put a paw up the doorway.

Hegar,

A conversation between those three people sounds like the theoretical limit of dull.

Hegar, (edited )

I see dope, pedo, and pood. Now I wonder why there aren't more obscene word search shirts.

Hegar,

This is one of the insights of the Daoist text the Zhuangzi. He talks a lot about the usefulness of uselessness in avoiding misery and exploitation.

"Enough!” said Woodworker Shi. “Say no more about it. It’s waste wood! Make a boat from it and it will sink; make a coffin from it and it will rot; make a utensil from it and it will break; make a gate from it and it will run sap; make a pillar from it and insects will infest it. You can’t make lumbar from such a tree; it’s useless! That is why it has lived to such an age.”

After Woodworker Shi returned home, the altar oak appeared to him in a dream. “What were you comparing me to? Did you mean to compare me to those lovely trees, like the sour cherry and pear, the tangerine and pomelo – fruit bearing trees that are ripped apart once their fruit ripens? Disgraced by all that ripping, their limbs split and their branches torn, they find only bitterness in life and end by dying before their natural years are up. They bring it on themselves, being torn up by the common crowd. It is thus for all types of things.

Hegar,

presumably not the same cave he was having sex with

It was exactly the same cave he was having sex with. He refused to remove his penis to prevent their children from leaving the womb cave, so Kronos had to castrate Ouranos so they could emerge.

That's the actual myth.

Hegar,

Fiction has higher standards than reality - fiction has to make sense.

Hegar,

One political party is publicly admitting they're over the whole democracy thing and the former president is a Russian money-laundering asset who launched a coup and walked away without consequence.

Our political situation is one of the few things substantially more dramatic than the media portrayal.

Hegar,

Are you looking at this picture, reading this post and then attempting to seriously debate the author on the merits of their argument of no-politics "inteded"?

Hegar,

I think being overrated is the defining characteristic of pop music, right? Any music where the most notable trait is that it's popular is pop music.

Hegar,

In part because the time we devote to something is felt as representative of how important it is - the sink cost fallacy can be visceral.

When you spend the minimum possible time feeding or looking after yourself, it's easy to feel like you're not treating yourself as important .

Hegar,

This just in: 10% of Tennesseeans forgot what state they live in.

Hegar,

There are so many regular comics in my kbin/lemmy feed. Usually amusing. Most of them I enjoy.

This one I really appreciate.

It feels like it does what a joke does, but to create poignancy instead of humor.

Hegar, (edited )

People think capitalists care about nothing except their net value but that's an unfair stereotype.

What's the use of having all the money if you can't make other people suffer? How else will the poors know you're better than them?

Hegar,

We can have nice things without crushing levels of inequality orders of magnitude higher than humans have ever known at any point in history.

Hegar,

Turns out most humans just do things.

Hegar,

Ploice is how you say please in Australia

Hegar,

China actually does this - they steal back artifacts looted by colonial powers. There have been many high profile heists of museums where the only items taken were looted Chinese artifacts that the museum refused to return.

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