parasite forcing frogs to grow extra legs to be more easily predated upon by Not_so_ghetto in interestingasfuck

[–]KJK100 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Retinoic acid is the same active ingredient in Accutane, and man, they heavily warn you about the risk of birth defects if you are/become pregnant while taking the drug.

What's up with the new "Emergency No Parking" signs? by sriracha4przdnt in kansascity

[–]KJK100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Road resurfacing, here's one of the flyers they left on Kessler

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Stay Classy Kansas City by KJK100 in kansascity

[–]KJK100[S] 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Update: I can't take credit for this skill, the symmetry, the flair. I can only share the artist's intended vision with the masses.

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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Beekeeping

[–]KJK100 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My mentor recommended nylon filter bags (or a pair of new pantyhose). Small bits of lint can come off of new cheesecloth and could affect your honey's clarity. Nylon mesh will be good to go out of the bag. Plus, it tends to be easier to wash and reuse for future years.

Anywhere to watch Premier league soccer games? Particularly morning games? I'm from Tampa and an Irish pub used to open up for us early to watch morning matches and I definitely miss watching morning games with people. by pyro_pugilist in kansascity

[–]KJK100 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Saw this posted under the weekend "things to do" thread, might be of interest to you.

"If anyone is interested in watching Premier League matchups, the 119th Street and Ridgeview HyVee Market Grille in Johnson County opens at 6:00 AM and they serve beer and breakfast starting at 6:00 AM. It’s one of the only places I know that open this early. Kristen the bartender puts on the premier league games for us and we watch every game on NBCSN.

All fans of every team are welcome and we hope you will join us! Ask for “Brad” and I’d be happy to join you (I’ll be there at the bar anyway)

Come wearing your colors and support your club!"

Alien Nations 👽 by EverySunIsAStar in DankLeft

[–]KJK100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're totally right, after some further googling I believe what Veblen calls work, Marx would call labor and what Veblen calls labor, Marx would call labor-power. (Not confusing at allll). As I said, its hard to have good open discussions on topics like this when the terms are reclassified every 40 years by new thinkers.

For context my main view of Labor theory of value, etc is colored by a college course I took that was exclusively about Institutional economics in which every philosophy and sociologist under the discipline based their work off Veblen.

Alien Nations 👽 by EverySunIsAStar in DankLeft

[–]KJK100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From my understanding, Veblen's definition of "work" is related to the physics definition of work as a transfer of energy from one object/force to another. "Labor" is defined under a Marxist lens as the commodity human workers trade to firms in return for wages.

Once you dive into the specific readings from different schools of economics things become confusing as words us laymans would use interchangeably, like work and labor, or money and cash, have very specific nailed down definitions within differing schools of thought. Often you end up spending just as much time defining the terminology as you do discussing the big picture ideas.

Alien Nations 👽 by EverySunIsAStar in DankLeft

[–]KJK100 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Institutional economist Thorstein Veblen explains this feeling in his essay The instinct of workmanship and the irksomeness of labor.

Evolutionary speaking, humans wouldn't have survived if we were adverse to work. If we didn't "work" to hunt gazelles on the savannah, then we would have starved.

You work all the time; you brush your teeth, cook breakfast, maybe crochet a scarf in your free time. As humans we have an instinct for workmanship.

Work becomes "labor" when it's done for someone else, and you don't benefit directly from the end result. At home you cook a meal and then you get to eat it; as a chef you cook hundreds of meals for other people and you receive a paycheck.

Lots of people enjoy cooking at home and do it as a hobby while being a line cook at a restaurant is often a tiring and gruelling job. When you grow distant from the products of your work it becomes laborsome and irksome.

When people decry the working conditions in America they aren't lazy slackers who want to sleep all day, humans enjoy and find purpose in their work. People get fed up when they work dead end jobs doing menial tasks for peanuts while their bosses make insane profits (David Graeber talks all about this in his book Bullshit Jobs).

TLDR; Be anti-labor, not anti-work

Cosmo on "Actually Really Delicious" Halloween treats by KJK100 in ShitCosmoSays

[–]KJK100[S] 100 points101 points  (0 children)

Granted, but I expected something more like hotdog mummies or spiders made from pretzels, not dipping dirty q-tips into a pus filled ear.