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I’m up to the “I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys” part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven’t read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring “experts” to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how “well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it’s actually just so complicated, it’s too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It’s science, you see. Economics doesn’t work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN’T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It’s just so complicated…”
That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where “everything is so complicated, and it’s actually a lot more complicated than you think..” that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how “complicated” everything is, and how “unrealistic” a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of “intellectuals” “explaining” how working 13 hours at age 10 was “vital” to the “moral fibre” of those poor kids.
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“kill them with kindness” WRONG. hitting nonstop with swords 🗡🗡🗡
“turn the other cheek” WRONG. SWORDS.
“before revenge, dig two graves” YES. WITH THE SWORDS
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sexting like a school discussion board “I agree with what you said about being horny. In your opinion what would you do if I was there?”
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ktae:
also somwtimes when you dont understand a piece of art it’s not bc ur dumb it’s bc you havent had the very particular emotional experience that it’s trying to invoke in you and you just cant relate. which is also why sometimes you will hear a mountain goats song and say Meh and then you go through some shit and you listen to it again and lose your fucking mind at how real and raw it is. art is how we communicate with each other about experiences that cannot be adequately represented straightforwardly with language. sometimes you have to abstract your representation of the experience in order to truly communicate how big and insane it felt
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They found a new animal under a rock and it just sucks. So fucking much it’s just godawful. They didn’t even bother naming it they just shot it with guns and blew up the rock it was under.
Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970)
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its really cool that we discovered glass which is the material that doesnt have any chemical reactions with anything in the universe very useful for doing chemistry due to being able to put things in it to contain chemical reactions and never having it react with the things that are in it due to it being completely and entirely unreactive to every chemical
Posts from a 17th century chymist who’s about to have their bones dissolved by hydrofluoric acid.
HYDROFLUORIC ACID MENTION‼️
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DICKS OUT FOR HYDROFLUORIC ACID!!!
NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!!!
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has anyone seen my sharp rock? i left it in the river for 100 years for safe keeping and now i can’t find it. its many uneven edges have sentimental significance
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TTRPG players
the rulebook is not your enemy
if the rulebook is your enemy, the game is your enemy
play a different game
play a game whose rules support the things you want the characters to be doing rather than fighting against those things
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A 10-millionth visitor to the Rijksmuseum of Netherlands was allowed to spend the night at Rembrandt’s painting “Night Watch” with a bottle of wine and dinner.
me in my animal crossing house after that fox has sold me another fake painting
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I think the biggest sign of the grand “fall of Bethesda” or whatever is the fact that Starfield officially released a full calendar month ago today and I literally have zero idea what it is about or what happens in it. absolutely zero cultural osmosis seems to have happened, which would’ve been unthinkable for a Bethesda RPG like ten years ago
you don’t get it. Skyrim is one of the most iconic video games ever released, the Dovahkiin is firmly cemented in pop culture and stuff like “arrow to the knee” and “ah, you’re finally awake-“ became the bedrock of gaming culture for literally years. New Vegas is a continually surviving series of Simpsons-fan-level injokes about Benny and Courier and Joshua Graham, endlessly quoting every line of dialogue and modding the game with seemingly infinite hyper specific absurd add-ons. even the relatively middling reception for Fallout 4 was followed by months worth of people memeing about The Institute or Dogmeat, hair twirling over how much they were attracted to robots like Curie or Codsworth or Nick Valentine, it gave us THE FINAL PAM for gods sake. even Fallout Fucking 76 had John Denver stuck in everyone’s head for six fucking months.
the idea that I have not seen a single character or plot point or literally anything about Starfield in the month after its release other then “it looks pretty and runs at 60fps” is an impossibility. it’s absurd. absolute downfall material for bethesda
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yeah man i’m homebrewing d&d 5e for a rugrats inspired campaign. yeah spells are like the babies using their imaginations you know. barbarian rages are tantrums. yeah no they’ll still be fighting gnolls and driders and shit
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