That’s always fun. I only did one job in concrete and decided that was enough for me. I once, though, had to carry 8 5 gallon buckets of paint across a street and around the corner because the boss wouldn’t let me pull my car onto the sidewalk and there was no parking where the job was.

Long ago, before many of you were alive, I worked as a mattress delivery dude. It was honestly not a bad gig, but there was a few things I found doing it.

One, the poor treat service workers far better than the rich; I literally never got a tip from the people with big houses or fancy cars, but I would frequently get $20-30 from those living in cramped apartments buying our cheapest mattresses. With people living in McMansions in middle class areas at least tipping $3-5 usually.

Two, driving box trucks up canyons requires you to be on another level, I ended up having to pull over and letting the more experienced guy drive because I wasn’t comfortable going twenty over with a 500 foot cliff as my reward if I messed up.

And three, “organic memory foam mattresses” are fucking heavy as shit. Like, I could carry a California king typically easily in one arm while moving quickly up and down stairs, but that thing… holy fuck did I struggle hard. Added to the pain was that this was a hyper rich client with chalk walls, who was so super paranoid us lowly workers would damage them that she made us carry the mattress around her entire house up two stories and back down one on this crazy cliff side deck that she had. Then, of course, no tip. We did get the satisfaction of telling her off a bit though. She claimed that she ordered “king size pillows”. We told her, we don’t sell king size pillows, and after some back and forth, decided to keep her pillows and told her that she can come down to the shop and pick up her pillows herself then. A small bit of satisfaction after a terrible delivery. Oh, and we had to back the truck up her 500ft winding driveway built into the side of a mountain barely wide enough for the truck to fit on. Fuck that lady, decades later and I still get upset thinking about her.

There is historical record in the west going back to at least WWII acknowledging that area as Chinese territorial waters. Just because you only follow news cycles while they’re hot, doesn’t mean all of history prior to now stops existing.

Yep that’s the one I saw there I think. Drone goes into a little kiosk and then you pick it up from the claim window thing.

I like Chinas drone delivery model, you can look up videos of it online.

Bourgeois democracy does work, just not for the majority.

So. God. Damn. Much. Filler.

It’s beautiful, and I’m still playing through it because like, FFVII is genuinely the best game ever, but holy crap I’ve long since given up on climbing the Ubisoft towers. They ruined a lot of the messaging and tone with both sides-ism and making it “silly”. I don’t want to ruin it for you, but one point in particular was so ridiculously tone deaf I turned it off and haven’t picked it back up in a few weeks.

Not necessarily.

My lil bro ate his twin in utero. I never thought about the fact that he might have two different genetics in there. Hmm…

Still have spots? I have a couple interviews today, but I could DM you later if so.

I just lost my job, I could use something to hold me over while I find another one. How’s the hours?

Edit: after scrolling the comments it looks like you already answered my question. You still have spots if I DM you?

I used to be extremely critical of China And the CCP. Used to post publicly on my Facebook and other social media about them. I just got back in April from China after deprogramming myself from decades of Sinophobia, and I had absolutely no issues.

In my day we didn’t have YouTube. Our online videos were drawn in Macromedia Flash. They were mindless and half of our jokes were just about traumatizing our friends with shock sites like rotten.

I honestly have no clue what Gay Luigi is, but I do remember Scarface Mario. Really, I think I’m too old to get any of those references.

Basically all big tech companies have three letter spooks in their upper ranks. They’re all compromised and you should treat them as such.

There aren’t even 400 openings in my field in my whole state, I’d be doomed if that were the case for me. That sounds so frustrating. I finally got an offer after sending in probably 25 applications over the last six months and that was already frustrating enough. Too few companies will let you know they’ve decided to go with other applicants.

Sports, more specifically in my opinion, American football, is a tool in the belt of the empire to divide the people and increase support for jingoism and dichotomized world views.

Excerpts from Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky interviewed by various interviewers

Now there are other media too whose basic social role is quite different: it’s diversion. There’s the real mass media-the kinds that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack — that kind. The purpose of those media is just to dull people’s brains.

This is an oversimplification, but for the eighty percent or whatever they are, the main thing is to divert them. To get them to watch National Football League. And to worry about “Mother With Child With Six Heads,” or whatever you pick up on the supermarket stands and so on. Or look at astrology. Or get involved in fundamentalist stuff or something or other. Just get them away. Get them away from things that matter. And for that it’s important to reduce their capacity to think.

Take, say, sports — that’s another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it — you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that’s of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about — [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it’s striking to see the intelligence that’s used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in — they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.

You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laughter] I mean, I don’t know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn’t mean any — it doesn’t make sense.

But the point is, it does make sense: it’s a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements — in fact, it’s training in irrational jingoism. That’s also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that’s why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on.

Long since dead here. Nothing but scams and data harvesting.

For real though, fuck every bank that’s never been robbed.

Real “I DONT AUTHORIZE FACEBOOK TO USE MY IMAGES.” Energy.

/r/collapse used to be mostly left leaning, if a bit lib and doomer sometimes. At some point, it got an influx of right wing reactionaries, and it was pretty much over then. They used to heavily police eugenicist rhetoric, and it mostly served as a climate change space that wasn’t just techno hopium about how carbon capture and nuclear power were going to save the world.