There being absolute fucks doesn’t imply positive and negative fucks though.

It implies we’ve set a point to measure against which we call zero fucks.

Perhaps there’s an absolute zero fucks which can never be reached.

🎶Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

I think you’re underestimating what service workers will do for a small amount of entertainment.

Being very subtly snide is a great way to pass the time.

Source: I used to refer to milk as cow’s milk when working at a cafe, because very occasionally it would trigger someone, and I found that mildly amusing.

(Everyone else didn’t bat an eye, because that’s what it is).

Triggering snowflakes is pretty fun

If they’re making profit, how in the world can they possibly think it’s charity?

Until I used spell check I wasn’t even 100% sure this spelling was made up

Top comment is about how Chinese censorship is not overt, but behind the scenes to stop your speech from spreading. It’s definitely censorship, but no one is going to arrest you for criticising the government online (to a point), they’ll just stop you from reaching others with your message.

I’m just saying that there definitely is censorship, just not what some “China Bad” people imagine.

My comment was in opposition to the “China Good” crowd who also pretend like everything bad said about China is not true.

Reality is inbetween, in my opinion. It’s a country with good and bad points.

@FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip thanks for the assist. This is indeed what I meant.

I think the top comment is the real answer on this.

There is censorship in China, as well as in the west. They just operate very differently.

In the west, outside the US, I think it’d be fairly easy to argue there’s more censorship in China. (Even with the pretty depressing clamp down on right to protest, and suppressing of anti-israel speech in many forms happening at the moment)

Equally though, people massively overblow what censorship is actually like in China. I’m not gonna get disappeared next time I go to China just for this comment. Or even if I overtly criticised the government on real-name social media.

tl;dr “China bad!” and “China so good!” are both equally annoying positions to find on the internet.

Reality is nuanced, but that doesn’t seem to make people happy.

Oh, I never knew this was a thing (also Voyager user), thanks!

\ is the escape character in markdown. Gotta do a double \ and then another \ for the underscore

 ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ =

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m thinking of keeping timer next to me for all the time I waste literally waiting for Windows 11 to load the bloody right click menu (and other things) at work.

My 5D chess move would be:

• Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
• In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they’re able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city

Watch them get mad because you haven’t technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you’ve just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)

I typically hear people say it at my company because we’re all busy as hell and time in meetings is time spent not doing tasks (which are a mix of necessary and not).

We’re “getting back” the time to work, not relax

Probably whoever was writing this in plain text didn’t know about the superscript numbers in unicode ³.

Somehow I’ve seen it written as cum multiple times in my line of, and never registered it haha

Context is a hell of a drug

So, along with continuing the genocide, hell, even advocating for it to be done quicker with Trump’s beach resort comments, the US is literally overtly more fascist now (instead of just an unjust capitalist hellscape).

https://lemmy.world/post/31482689

This is what pisses me off about high horse moralising. The righteous are so concerned with being righteous, they would prefer do nothing to mitigate the worst, if it means getting their hands dirty and voting for people they also despise, even if they’re the better option to the worst option.

How exactly is having an despot in power going to help the leftist cause? They (not the democrats in large part, the people) are scrambling to react to Trump and the Republicans rapid fire undermining rule of law.

Sure, under the democrats it’s business as usual of capitalist exploitation, but at least you wouldn’t have the president literally directing federal officers to target cities with kidnappings as political reprisal.

I’m not advocating for voting for the democrats forever, but until you stand a reasonable chance of electing someone who will implement voting reform.

Am I advocating for voting against Bernie Sanders, even though he’s technically an independent, and not a Democrat? No. Am I advocating for voting for the democrats in a very safe seat? No.

But Christ on a bike, if you live in an electorate that’s on the knife’s edge and can’t dirty yourself with accepting the awful voting system for what it is, and voting against the worst outcome, then there is no reasoning with you because you don’t understand the spoiler effect.

Voting reform is the first thing leftists in the US need to get implemented. Above everything else, literally. You have some states even outlawing ranked choice voting, because they correctly identify it as a threat to their stranglehold on power.

While the US is going to hell in a hand basket, our voting system (in Australia) means the socialist party can expand outside just Victoria. It’s still a small party, that’s what decades of eroding unionism, the Labor party losing it’s way, and living under capitalism has done, but there are little electoral barriers against them making gains (beyond obscurity and incumbent’s advantage). Our Overton window is shifting left. Our conservative and country parties (the Liberal and National parties) are further left than your Democrats.

Your Overton window is ratcheting further and further to the right, and at accelerating speeds partially BECAUSE Trump and the Republicans get back in power.

Do you really think the US electoral system is going to be left in a better position to be reformed after all this?

I reckon the US has pushed electoral reform at least a decade down the line, if not more. Everyone will be so concerned with “righting the ship” they won’t meaningfully change the system. Not unless it gets so bad you have some sort of revolution and seizure of power, and that’s not exactly a recipe for stability and actual democracy.

Anyway, I just came back to gloat (morbidly), but hopefully get through to you that bring righteous isn’t helping anyone.

I am still sad that Trump won over Kamala. We in the provinces need to live with it too, since the US is the preeminent imperialist power.

So, if you live in a competitive electorate, as a leftist you had better bloody vote for the most likely candidate to unseat Republicans at the mid-terms, and in the meantime organise like hell to have a chance of unseating both the Republicans and democrats WHEN ELECTORALLY POSSIBLE.

You can put your fingers in your ears, but it won’t change what your voting system is.

Christ.

In most of the US, who you vote for literally doesn’t matter, because your state will go to the candidate from whatever party has won your state for the last couple decades. Unless you live in the 8 or so states that could actually, realistically flip in a given election cycle, there’s literally no point in voting for the lesser of two evils.

I am aware of this, last I checked there were number electorates where non-voters (as compared with 2020) and third-party voters could have swayed the outcome. My assertion that not voting for the lesser of two evils where possible to do so is dumb in general. I am aware that certain places it is pointless to vote for the democrats.

Especially with the hodge-podge nature of it not really bring a federal election, and instead being a bunch of state/territory elections with different rules for each (gross).

If you understand that [you’re in a very safe seat], you can be free to actually vote your conscience and pick one of the third party candidates

I agree. Where I draw the line is in seats where it is possible to vote lesser of two evils.

Seems you understand tactical voting quite well! I have no issue with you.

I only have a problem with the drop-kicks that assert tactical voting is morally wrong, instead of necessary.

Godspeed on fixing your voting systems friend

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Welcome to the reality of the broken US voting system bud

In fairness, this one is practically reality haha

The actual number was $24.95 (AUD), an increase of 3.5%

https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/workplace-laws/annual-wage-review/annual-wage-review-2024-2025

Fair work commission still does work fairly well, despite the backsliding under 9 years of the LNP.

Though, due to cost of living, just keeping up with CPI is barely enough

And yeah, every time some right wing fuckwits are complaining about it