Yes clearly a normal trim. I also butcher my trees annually. Fucking corpo dicks. /s
The sad thing is how many Americans are brainwashed into immediately siding with corporations and demonizing the workers in any labor dispute. Fucking gross.
Yeah. There was a guy I used to work with who would always complain if we heard workers were striking. “Why are they complaining about the conditions? If they didn’t want to work there they shouldn’t have taken the job.”
One of the more braindead takes I’ve ever heard on the topic.
You know, I saw the story about the actors strike the day after it started on the NBC national news. It was about two minutes of the resporter telling the audience which shows they were going to be missing out on, like the next season of The Handmaid’s Tale. It was so fucking blatantly one sided, to the point of just lying by omission. I’m not even sure they mentioned the AI issue. Of course no rational person should trust a TV network to give them unbiased, rational reporting about a fucking actors strike, but that’s exactly where the average person is going to learn about it. And that’s all that will come to mind - “oh no, my shows might take longer to come out.”
It was about two minutes of the resporter telling the audience which shows they were going to be missing out on, like the next season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
I wonder if there’s any footage of that. That sounds fucking wild.
I didn’t really care about it at first. My thought was, hollywood’s writing has been such complete utter dogshit lately, I literally can’t remember the last time I walked out of a movie blown away by something new. (Dune was exceptional, Maverick was good, but those are books and sequels so not OC. Can’t think of much else…)
Then I learned about fan baiting and how hollywood is actually purposefully trashing beloved franchises just to piss off fans, save money on writing, and essentially prep us for their transition to full AI writing and soon acting. For the last decade I’ve been mistaking their dogshit for out of touch but well intentioned corporate bufoonery. Now I realize it’s just part of their large scale evil plan to stay profitable in a world where hollywood and big budget productions are becoming obsolete and irrelevant.
So I’m on the writers side, but good luck to them, I don’t think they’re going to win this one.
Taking away a tree’s photosynthesis organs in the middle of summer when they’re supposed to be storing nutrients for winter is also really good for the tree I’m sure.
How much you want to bet they took those cuttings and threw them in the landfill?
God, Retire already! You’re not in the 80s anymore!
At least some bands from the 80s realized this, which is why they’ve spent some of their albums on experiencing new sound. Iron Maiden has done it, which is why they’re still awesome, they aren’t relying on their old reigns because they’re a talented band that can evolve.
Motley Crue, can’t do that. They’re a one-era trick playing pony.
You could have a personal garden, but to have a farm you’d have to obtain a lot of land. Then you’d have to make the land productive with either large and resource hungry machinery i.e. capital or you’d have to obtain and exploit the labor of farm workers to work by hand.
What if i agree with some of my friends that we will join our yards to make one big field and work it together? We could also ask others for help and pay them for their work, the amount of money we both agree with.
but if some of my friends dont want to work it they can just sell me the land. And if we produce more food than we need we can sell it so we can buy other things we don’t produce. I dont understand why its wrong to own a farm.
Once you start to accumulate surplus property then its very obviously not personal anymore. A person that doesn’t want a garden won’t have one to sell you, because they wouldn’t have one in the first place.
Don’t think in terms of “right” and “wrong”. Think materially.
10 acres is very very small and is not even a full time job for a person. Are you assuming this is all done without machines? like small hobby farms are all Amish or something? (actually even the Amish farm way more then 10 acres per person, they are not lazy)
(EDITING TO ADD THIS IS WRONG AND I MESSED UP THE CALCULATIONS. IT SHOULD BE 40 TIMES OR SO MORE)
Also just because this bugs me in a strange way.
10 acres of land growing wheat produces about 600lbs of harvested wheat a year. That is about 900,000 calories a year. Even of you ate nothing but wheat gruel you would just manage enough food for one person (about 900,000 calories assuming 2500 a day).
I think like a lot of people you have no idea the scale of farming required to feed the world. Is this why Holodomors happen?
Yes. But don’t worry, one of them just assured me that communist countries “never make the same mistakes as their predecessors,” so if we starve it’ll be slightly different than the holodomor or killing all the sparrows, so we got that going for us.
Also the holodomor was totally an accident and not malicious or abject stupidity, just a goof-em-up!
I’m glad you answered in their stead. Obviously you’re the kind of person to steel man arguments to truly show their weaknesses and strengths. You’d never regurgitate boiler plate talking points from people opposed to the ideology.
Never look up how many famines have been overseen by capitalist countries btw. It’d make your comparison lack any meaningful difference. India was run by the east India trading company when they had the bengal famine after all. And don’t forget how the Irish “potato” famine happened. (The British made it a crime to keep any non potato crop for themselves).
“Yes that happened, and it was bad. We shouldn’t repeat those mistakes, though we do not have to abandon capitalism entirely.”
It’s a little different than “nuh uh, real capitalism has never been tried that was imperialism/colonialism. Real capitalism is only when everything is perfect forever under free market capitalism so if anything bad happens it was never real.”
Actually I bring this up because when talking about famines people love to downplay the strife caused by capitalists maximizing profit and socializing loses.
Ironically your last paragraph is a pretty accurate paraphrasing of the usual dialogue around capitalisms faults.
I don’t think most communists would have a problem with people trading crops that they grow themselves. The problem comes in when someone hires employees to grow more crops for them, starts collecting profits, and grows the farm even bigger. All under the expectation that they own everything that their employees worked for. Cause that’s literally capitalism on a small scale.
Of course it needs to be possible for multiple people to come together and start growing crops, but only as long as no single person can take over the entire operation. Leaders would be elected, and be given a somewhat higher salary to reflect the additional responsibility.
As shitty as people can be, it’s never appropriate to respond to non-damaging inconvenience with vandalism. That’s you stooping even lower than their level.
why is inconveniencing one person (admittedly on a worse level) worse than inconveniencing everyone that uses the sidewalk (so smaller level, but wider scale)?
why do you believe this? Is it just because the law states one is punished worse than the other?
It’s easy to estimate the damage to their car. What’s less easy to estimate is how damaging it is to slightly inconvenience everyone who walks by there.
I live in a country where everyone parks like there are no laws, because the police does nothing about it. There are traffic jams and accidents on a daily basis in a small (less than 20 million people) country, all because drivers don’t give a shit if they’re leaving the car in the first lane for 20 minutes while they’re shopping, or that kids are walking through traffic because the sidewalk is considered free parking.
Yeah, I won’t be inconvenienced too much by that guy’s car, I’ll just go around it. My neighbor in a wheelchair usually doesn’t have that luxury, he needs to pretend he’s a car for a few minutes and be in the first lane until the sidewalk is clear.
And no, an eye for an eye doesn’t leave everyone blind. The only one left blind is the jerk who tries it on two different people.
I know we disagree on this and that’s okay, I expect I’m on the wrong side of the fence on this one and I’m okay with it - different backgrounds & opinions & all that. I was just curious if you’re arguing from a legal point of view or from a moral point of view. Have a good one :)
Leaving the world blind? By scratching the paint? It doesn’t affect driving or put someone in danger, it would just look less pretty and annoy the owner of an expensive car who can’t park.
If there aren’t penelties to being an ass, why would these people ever stop? Clearly this person hasn’t learned how to park correctly and not fuck other people over, so until they do they should have consequences. Doing nothing just let’s them know they can keep doing this without consequences.
Damaging the car may cost the owner a significant sum to repair. The car blocking the sidewalk is definitely shitty, but mostly amounts to a minor inconvenience.
Maybe just deflate the tires or leave a strongly worded letter on the windshield instead.
I could tell them that, and they would be rightfully pissed off. In most cases, though, a disabled person can figure out this puzzle, go on with their day, and not have to pay $1,500 for the inconvenience.
Why not have it towed, or call bylaw to ticket it? The truck owner is inconvenienced, finds out why, and the sidewalk becomes usable again. Plus you get to feel better AND not act like the POS you want to see punished.
That’s a great solution if it works. I was explaining this in another comment, but in my side of the world the police very rarely issue tickets for this type of stuff. And mostly when you call them they’ll arrive in 30 min - 1 hour because it’s “not a priority”. Don’t get me started on having something stolen (it never gets solved and they call you in a few months or years to retract your complaint because they can’t solve it and it looks bad for them), or people being noisy at night or domestic violence complaints, where sometimes they’ll ticket you for calling because you’re “wasting their time” and “when they arrived there was no noise/sound of fighting/beating someone up”. Like, of course dumbass. It happened 30 minutes ago. You think the lady spent 30 minutes arguing after the first punch? Of course they’re quiet now.
And I’d understand their delay if they were actually busy with hard crime. But this is a small European country. We don’t have guns. Out here a “gangster” will at most pull a knife on you, and then if they don’t have another 3-4 guys with them they’ll run with their tail between their legs if you pull a knife right back. This isn’t a country of hardened criminals who grew up with the fear of bullets piercing the walls from gangs fighting on the block. Being police here is just being on a semi-vacation until 45, when you retire. They’re doing fuck all, so when you ask them to actually do their job and not even prevent, but stop an ongoing crime - they would rather stop you from complaining instead.
Sorry, I went on a tangent there. TL;DR: my experience with police is that they’re not helpful in these cases. I’ve learnt that the way you keep peace is by having superior firepower. Immediate physical violence or cost of fixing your vandalized asset are always better deterrents to being a prick than the potential outcome of maybe paying a few bucks, if some lazy assholes do their job, but probably walking away scot-free.
I think you have a vigilante justice fetish. Drop the comic books, pull up your big boy pants, and write a complaint letter to whoever in your city is in charge of the police.
For my city, that would be the mayor - he’s in charge of local police. He’s being investigated for illegally giving away some land to some friends, who then kicked back some $$. These investigations usually end by reaching the statute of limitations, at which point everyone is outraged at how bad the justice system works for the rest of the day. And then they move on.
Under him would be the chief of police. He is being investigated for covering up sexual harassment in the police force, and for announcing the head of the local council that a search warrant will be executed at one of his illegal businesses.
The two adjuncts to the chief of police ride through the city in an Audi and a Porsche. They also have several houses each. They make 20000 Euro a year. Their wives are a teacher (small salary) and a doctor in a state hospital (so low pay as well). For reference, since you don’t have the context of real estate prices - I make more than the adjuncts or their wives (on paper) and I’m not even close to being able to get enough money for a first apartment, let alone my 4th house. I must be a hater or something, cause for sure there’s no corruption involved.
Sorry if it seems I have a vigilante justice boner. I’d be the first to enjoy a regular justice boner, if I had the luxury to be able to get one in these parts.
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