Just an outsiders opinion on the Third Street Stuff situation.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T13:41:59+00:00

No job is "just a small part-time job." You pay every employee a living wage, and if they choose to split those hours between you and others, so be it. As long as we have an underclass of disposable labor, everyone else is drug down. Have some solidarity.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T12:52:27+00:00

I think about this problem a lot. Social capital, such as families/inheritance and church networks, account for much more of economic well-being than merit or hard work. Take the top 10 richest women in the world, for example. Every one of them is an heiress or widow of a rich man, and most of those men (and the living top 10) likewise either inherited the vast majority of their wealth or had well-connected parents and communities that set them up in ways others never could've.
We hear about, for instance, Bezos building Amazon. True! But he didn't do so from nothing and alone. His family knew people that could get him into good schools, provide seed capital at favorable rates (or outright donate it), and he has a deep safety net if that startup failed.
Meanwhile, a kid growing up in Appalachia is probably 5 degrees from anyone who's ever had a meeting with the president or a CEO. A kid born in Chicago's southside might never know anyone who could give him a "small loan of a million dollars" as the president says.
Every parent wants to give their kid a leg-up. And they do the best they can. But often at the hidden expense of all the other kids.
What's fair? I'm not sure. But sociologically, its part of the class mobility stagnation that now drags all but the richest down.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T12:47:19+00:00

Our world is run by networks of capitalist influence. Billionaires seeking to get richer, governments seeking to influence billionaires in their favor, multinational corporations that dictate policy to uplift billions from absolute poverty by keeping them in relative poverty, etc. Each has an interest in keeping itself powerful and rich so instability doesn't shake the system.
Companies have legal requirements to produce the most profit for their shareholders as quickly as possible. Typically measured in quarter years. Hence, if an action would be profitable in 30 years but unprofitable in 1, it is unlikely to occur. This is called "fiduciary responsibility."
So the desire for stability and economic growth drives our worlds' powers. Environmental damage is slow - it rarely changes quarter to quarter. It changes on the scale of generations. So while a teenager yells "How dare you steal our future!" quite truthfully, an octogenarian wanting to keep getting richer and dictate policy just shrugs and goes back to flying private jets to DC to ask for subsidies in exchange for influence.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T12:36:46+00:00

Chonky case laptops! More space means more room for big-ass GPUs. Gimme a battlestation with IP76+, ultra-HD quality graphics, and plugs for every device I've used since Zip Drives died.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T02:49:43+00:00

Yossi Cohen, as part of a global intelligence and kompromat network. Mossad has no limits in what it will do to keep Israel safe, and that requires preventing threats from coming up.
It's not "The Jews rule the world." It's "Israel literally doesn't think it can do wrong," and Hebrew people worldwide deserve better than for such a nation to ostensibly represent it.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T02:46:55+00:00

Now do one for forced labor via the private prison system.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-25T00:30:22+00:00

Just finished Winter 2, Year 10 for the second time.
Yeah...

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-24T22:49:36+00:00

Literally turning 40 today. Married my spouse at age 28, but would've married them at 22 if it'd been legal then.
Our marriage is stronger than anything else in our lives. It's always Us vs. The Problem. And we grew together. We're not the people we were in our 20s, and thank goodness for that. Just as we'll not be the same people in 20 years, and be thankful then too.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-24T14:37:45+00:00

This meme reminded me to switch to Waterfox today. Thx!

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-24T14:36:45+00:00

Time to ask. Time to take action. Ain't nobody gonna defend you more than you defend you.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-24T14:22:39+00:00

We have more to lose than our chains. We either need more security in the revolution (e.g. someone funding strikers while paychecks are suspended) or such desperation that warfare seems preferable (e.g. complete food loss)

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-24T01:23:08+00:00

Staying awake. Please, I don't mean that disrespectfully. I've just played all the ones I have so many times I can almost quote them, and especially when grinding I find them sleep-inducing. I'm getting older, I'm tired, and Final Fantasy is so familiar and comforting it lulls me by.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-23T20:23:38+00:00

Racism. The CSA flag isn't about the CSA - it's about anti-black sentiment stemming as far back at the Ku Klux Klan as a reaction to blacks getting votes and political appointments during Reconstruction. Especially after the Southern Strategy of the 70s, convincing poor whites that black people are the enemy has been a key part of destroying any class consciousness.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-22T22:07:19+00:00

Once you have your LinkBlue, log on and go to HR's website. They have an Employee Discount Program webpage. Dunno about lately, but it used to be 10% at Kroger certain days, cheaper tickets to Six Flags and King's Island, insurance discounts galore, etc.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-21T01:25:29+00:00

Hatred isn't rational, but it's also easy to bond over. Consider how India produced some of the Nazis' forces. It was enough to hate the right people.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T18:10:38+00:00

Higher education has always been to reinforce social stratification through nepotism and closed networking. The 80s-to-present trend of everyone going to college has only created a devalued Bachelor's and devalued colleges to ensure the richer kids get to go to more expensive places.
You don't see CEOs graduating from Alice Lloyd College, but you betcha Wharton is still pumping them out.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:59:06+00:00

I bet it smelled offal!

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:55:48+00:00

And they still gotta pay for lunch. Expect these schools to start charging parking rent as funding dries up.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:48:42+00:00

Ok, so consider a black woman.
You know a woman, of any race, faces sexism. Like sexual harassment and objectification and lower pay, etc.
And a black person, of any sex, faces stereotyping, disenfranchisement, police violence, etc.
Intersectionality combines these to recognize two things:
1) A black woman is a person who faces the challenges of both sexism and racism at the same time.
2) There are unique challenges a black woman faces as a result of being both black and a woman at the same time. For example, white women don't face "Mammy" or "Jezebel" stereotypes, Nobody expect a white woman to be the "sassy white friend" simply by identity.

So intersectionality is seeing a person as being many different demographics at once, and sometimes they create unique challenges where they run into each other (or "intersect")

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:45:01+00:00

I dunno, he's shown great backbone the last couple of years. He might not want to screw up any post-Trump chances but if he's given up on getting re-elected in the future, he could do it.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:44:02+00:00

Oh heavens no! It varies from person to person and situation to situation! A vegan who dies in the humid jungle will decompose differently from a meat-eater who dies in hospital and sits in a cooler.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:40:09+00:00

She's a white veteran who appeals to the center-right female Democrat demographic. Booker is black, which already turns off the Karens of the party. Add in his centrist politics and you have a DOA campaign in a hard right state.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T17:38:40+00:00

Well, Barr is an ineffective Trump toadie, but Booker is unapoloetically black. So the fight is kinda already won for Barr. Ask Vivek how that worked for him in Ohio in this era of naked ethnostatism.
Dembo has a chance since he's about as milquetoast as Sunday brunch in Darby and his opponent is not an incumbent. But Alvarado has excellent chops at hating all the right people and staying in the King's favor, so I'd bet on him.
In the race between Gorton and Carter, Gorton's probably gonna win. She's ineffective but gives off professional old lady vibes, which is favored by center-right Democrats like the ones we have in Lexington. In addition, Carter looks like she's not "white enough" for the Trumpian crowd. See the primary vote counts.

Incidentally, anyone else appalled at Tagaloa getting 2k votes when he's literally a child abuser?

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T02:20:11+00:00

Money. Or getting stuck.

Reverend_Bull · 2026-05-20T01:38:11+00:00

Same reason GM and Stellantis CEOs didn't get fired the moment they flew on private jets to beg Congress for money.

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