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tech illiterate people are the funniest thing

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i hate what diet culture has done to ethnic food my ancestors (my GRANDPARENTS) ate rice and injera and bread and coffee all the time and they turned out fine. i hate white people

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you ever think about all the friend groups you could have joined if you had made other decisions. all the people you could get along with just as well as you do with your current friends but you dont even know they exist

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There's a stereotype that USAmericans tolerate very long car rides.

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Did I just employ the "Treat Them Like You are A Kindergarten Teacher Again" method with my insurance company today? I surely did. Did it work? Probably better than intended because I made an actual doctor feel contrite.

So, my insurance has been trying to not cover my SNRI because it is new on the market and no generic available yet, so pricey.

I apply for a refill and the request gets locked for review. Again. For the 3rd time.

This time I call and immediately ask to speak to the actual doctor making these clinical decisions. Very politely. Must be a slow day because they allow it.

ME: [Teacher voice] I'm calling in regards to the SNRI you have placed a lock on. Why was this decision made?

DOC: Well, there are dozens of other medications on the market in that tier, and far cheaper for you and [insurer]. We have sent a request to your doctor to consider alternatives.

ME: I am aware of that. So, can you do me a HUGE favor and look up my prescription history really quickly and tell me how many SSRIs and SNRIs were only filled once in 2022 for me, showing they were poorly tolerated?

DOC: It looks like eight.

ME: Great job! Now, can you please look at my genetic test for psychiatric drug tolerance and tell me how many medications are listed in the safe category?

DOC: Two.

ME: Awesome! Now, can you tell me what type that other drug is that I'm not taking?

DOC: Yeah, totally, it's an MAOI.

ME: That's correct, you're really knowledgeable! Should I be taking something as dangerous as an MAOI with my other medications, or even just in general?

DOC: It's contraindicated for sure.

ME: It is! So true! So, last question since you've been incredibly smart and helpful. Is it less expensive for [insurer] to pay out for the medication knowing they already get a huge manufacturer discount anyway, or is it more expensive for them to pay for me to need potentially long-term inpatient psychiatric care?

DOC: I'll clear the code, ma'am and flag it as medically necessary. I'm sorry about this.

ME: I appreciate you SO MUCH. You have a great day now.

WALGREENS PHARMACY TECH WITH 5 NOSE RINGS AND PURPLE HAIR STARING AT ME: ........... OKAY! It'll be ready in five minutes. You wanna come work here?

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if punk is a rebellion against the man, then is it still punk if it gets popular, or is it just music with all the trappings of punk but without the punk?

it's whatever. being deeply invested in the broad concept of a pure and true "punk" betrays that someone isn't deeply invested in an actual underground scene, or even worse, that they've tied their identity up in a mistaken assumption about the ubiquity of what those scenes are

the REAL punk attitude is to confidently assert that nothing outside of your local scene is punk, because if you somehow heard about something that wasn't local, that means it's pop now

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multiple choice question[very hard for liberals]

is the lesbian artist who refused a white house invite explicitly because of the administration's involvement in the slaughter of Gazans and has hosted several fundraisers for Palestine refusing to endorse a candidate who has expressed their commitment to funding said genocide because she is:

A) someone who does not value American comfort more than literally every other life on the planet, as evidenced by all her past actions and statements.

B) a closet MAGA and actually a queerbaiting heterosexual, as is evidenced by the blue America-first neoliberalism worms slowly munching on your brain 'til it is moist mulch.

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I wish it was easier to talk about mobile phone addiction without sounding like a boomer

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when you come out your shit is still there

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Rule

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hi! I hope this isn't a strange question, I'm just starting to read theory and got curious aby what Marxists think of service workers and economies largely dependent on service instead of production? not just like food/retail but also like cleaning and tourism and sex work and such... I'm looking for stuff on that already but was curious if you had any pointers

I haven't personally read any Marxist work that specifically sets out to analyze service industries, but this is in part because as Marxists we generally do consider service workers to be engaging in production. Production in the Marxist sense does not necessarily mean "manufacturing." Rather, it refers to the creation of any commodity through labor. Service workers are producing a commodity that is then sold, even if this commodity does not necessarily take the form of a tangible object.

Service is itself a commodity that is given to the consumer in the same instant in which it is produced. If a business contracts a company to clean its premises, the cleaning company will send out workers who will perform the service of cleaning. The cleaning company is selling the commodity of service for its exchange-value, the amount it is able to sell that service for; the contracting company is purchasing the commodity of service for its use-value, the practical use of having a cleaner building. During this process, the workers hired by the cleaning company are performing labor for which they are paid a wage which represents only a portion of the profits the company will make for the service commodity it sells to its customers, meaning those workers are exploited like any other.

You can analyze other service industries in the same way and you will find the same phenomenon. Someone who works in a hotel at a popular tourist destination and is paid to perform a service is likewise producing the commodity that is that service, for instance.

I'm drawing all of this from Marx's Capital, which analyzes the capitalist mode of production itself, and its analysis is easily applicable to modern day economies, including in imperial core nations which have since largely phased out manufacturing in favor of service-oriented economies.

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astronomy club sent up a weather balloon w a gopro in it last friday. put in three packs of fruit snacks so they could have a giggle over eating fruit snacks that had been to space.

balloon went up into inner space, about 90,000 feet. came down right near the dinosaur park. a few physics teachers drive out to get it, crack it open on the way home to start watching the footage.

fruit snacks are missing.

multiple sources confirm that fruit snacks were put in balloon and sealed in with duct tape. physics teachers check entire balloon. no fruit snacks.

physics teachers watch footage. all 7 hours of it. right in the middle of footage, there are about 8 minutes of visual and audio static when balloon is in orbit. no other interference with balloon recorded.

conclusions: ???????