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  • Zombie@feddit.uktomemes@lemmy.worldWork mode
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    15 hours ago

    Everybody pisses.

    But if you’re pissing every 30 mins there’s a problem, likely diabetes.

    Many of the ADHD memes are the same concept. Things “neurotypical” may experience but not necessarily experience all day every day, whereas an ADHD person will.


  • Freedom of Speech depicts a scene of a 1942 Arlington town meeting in which Jim Edgerton, the lone dissenter to the town selectmen’s announced plans to build a new school, as the old one had burned down,[9] was accorded the floor as a matter of protocol.[10] Edgerton supported the rebuilding process but was concerned about the tax burden of the proposal, as his family farm had been ravaged by disease.[11] A memory of this scene struck Rockwell as an excellent fit for illustrating “freedom of speech”, and inspired him to use his Vermont neighbors as models for the entire Four Freedoms series.[12]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Speech_(painting)

    For anyone curious about the source of OP’s image.





  • No one wants to leave because nobody is leaving.

    You’re still on WhatsApp and Messenger, they can still contact you that way, so why would they bother changing?

    Pick a date, a week, a month, whatever, from now. Tell those you message regularly that you will be deleting all Meta apps on that date. Make it clear that that includes WhatsApp and Messenger. Explain why. I just linked some articles instead of having a long explanation but it still made it clear why.

    Let them know they can contact you via Signal/SMS/email whatever you use after that date.

    If the informed don’t take the leap, the ignorant never will.







  • Zombie@feddit.ukto196@lemmy.worldFreedom to Rule
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    11 days ago

    And even in the magic utopian ones people dream up, untethered by reality or human nature, I’m trying to picture a version in which the garbage truck guy somehow doesn’t prefer to taking a year off instead of hauling garbage around.

    It sounds like you have an individualist approach to society and a view that money is the only true incentive to work (known as Taylorism and generally debunked by the 1930s but still in use around the world). There are always people who can see the work that needs done and are willing to do it, for the good of their community. In a society without garbage trucks, garbage will soon pile up and there will be people willing to fix that.

    Hedonism, greed, and money are the values pushed upon society via capitalist propaganda but most people aren’t as inherently greedy as we’re pushed to be.

    The good of the community and society can motivate a worker under a system that doesn’t treat money as its deity (or, to be even more radical, in a moneyless society). There’s also no reason why someone must be a garbage truck driver day in day out for the rest of their life like the current system encourages. We can live in a world with a more flexible approach to work, where perhaps you drive a garbage truck once a fortnight to do your bit for your community but spend the rest of your time doing something with a similar skillset like driving a bus or even something completely different to live a full and interesting life.

    Your comments come across as arrogant whilst simultaneously ignorant. There are many different systems that have been theorised, trialled, quashed, debated, etc over the years that have various pros and cons that are better than the capitalist system that we currently wage slave under.

    For example:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_ideologies



  • Yes! Being active politically is always important.

    Be civil and polite at first, you want these people on your side after all. But don’t be afraid to hold back if they respond with bullshit either. They are your representative, make them represent you and hold them to account if required.

    Encouraging friends and family to write is usually a good idea too.

    Not being politically engaged, I feel, is one of the main reasons for the downfall of democracy throughout the globe. Too many people think ticking a box every 4-5 years is all they need to do.