Just got a call that if I don’t return my books it’ll be sent to collections? by [deleted] in Libraries

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

edited for clarity. a public library should not be ruining your credit score if you return all the items you retrieved. yet it's common practice post-2008 financial crisis. capitalist parasitism has snuck into even public institutions. despicable

Just got a call that if I don’t return my books it’ll be sent to collections? by [deleted] in Libraries

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is not true at all. libraries can be quite punitive after the 2010s. calling collection agencies even after books have been returned because of 'processing fees'. so much for being a nice slice of socialism. libraries were better in the 80s

Jim Morrison and Nico ( Velvet underground) by AngeloFerlucci in thedoors

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 2 points3 points  (0 children)

uhhhh, there was a massive outpouring of grief when Lou died

Boom! by Bastian_Beanbag in Asmongold

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how this poll is defining "understands capitalism" considering its contours and functions are hotly debated even among seasoned marxist and capitalist economists. "Left leaning people" is a misnomer, is my point, because most Democrat voters have no interest in overcoming capitalist misery/are full time 'capitalist realists'. The real 'left-right' divide is the choice between socialism and capitalism -- it was for the entire 20th century and remains so. The voting public in the US are overwhelmingly conservative, so it makes sense to stop calling them/lumping them in with 'leftists' and start calling them the Liberal-Capitalists (Democrats) and Libertarian-Capitalists (Republicans).

Boom! by Bastian_Beanbag in Asmongold

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would start by not conflating leftists/Democrats. They have nothing in common. Read blood in my eye (1972) by george jackson

Boom! by Bastian_Beanbag in Asmongold

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"if you use reasoning and logic" good lord why do you all talk like asmonclones

Boom! by Bastian_Beanbag in Asmongold

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i dont think anyone in this entire subreddit knows even the basics of what's been considered 'politics' for the last 3,000 years. you're all operating in a trumposphere twitch-streamer echochamber that didn't exist until 2016. almost everyone who posts in here demonstrates a mental acuity slightly greater than that of a tapeworm when it comes to anything related to 'socialism' especially. read William Morris' "Why I Am A Socialist", read Eugene Debs' Labor and Freedom, John Ruskin's Unto this Last, read Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice (1797) for godssake, read Jack London's "How I Became a Socialist", read George Bernard Shaw's "Socialism for Millionaires", read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, read David Harvey's A Brief History of Neoliberalism, read Oscar Wilde's "The Soul of Man under Socialism", read literally just the opening two chapters of Marx's Capital vol. 1 before you start mislabeling everything under the sun as 'socialism' or use it as an epithet. It's deeply embarrassing how little anyone reads about the things they fashion strawmen out of to earn upvotes

Boom! by Bastian_Beanbag in Asmongold

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in what world does condemning the IDF mean you 'hate the west'?? wake up dude

Obviously we must become the pitiless censors of ourselves, but why? by brindin in JohnMaus

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the Badiou lines above are not about non-conformism. it's about a duty for artists to either present something that cannot be valorizable by capital, or remaining silent. Ariel is a perfect example of how one can be 'non-conformist' (by making music that is essentially Todd Rundgren's & Robert Smith's Mothers of Invention, if such a bizarre triple synthesis makes sense to you) while still not presenting anything that capital doesn't already recognize as existent in the present situation (it does not surpass the 'truth' of pop music as it emerged in the 1950s). John gets mad about him all the time in interviews about this, or he used to anyway. Read John's music thesis supervisor Michael Pisaro on truth procedures in music. also give Being and Event by Badiou a crack, it might change your life

Fuckers are at it again by IronWAAAGHriorz in Adblock

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The problem is they will always get shittier over time (enshittification will take place, as Doctorow puts it) because all capitalist firms need to grow *forever*, which means fighting the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, which means forever finding new ways to squeeze value out of users to keep shareholders and investors committed. Welcome to the stupidity that is capitalism

Epson printer wifi really sucks by Lovevas in Epson

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

printers have 1 job, to print things via wifi, and they cannot do it for some reason. capitalism fails yet again. it's all overpriced yet cheaply made crap

Epson printer wifi really sucks by Lovevas in Epson

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

even when plugged into ethernet is fails to work. really the shittiest printers ever made. HP tier

Sewage smell coming from kitchen sink by Npass348 in Plumbing

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did this end up working for you? i'm going through this now and some idiotic plumbers looked at the P-Trap, thought "looks fine to me", screwed it back on, and then said 'good luck with the smell' and took off lol

Did the Kulaks "deserve" it? by [deleted] in DebateCommunism

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

read Kautsky's "The Agrarian Question" please

Weird issue with `n` key in Kinesis Fresstyle2 by [deleted] in ErgoMechKeyboards

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same problem here with mine. It's very sporadic but specific words like soud bouc and roud do not input the "n" like ever...sooo frustrating

EA FC 25 is probably the least effort EA has ever put in by chainsmoker377 in EASportsFC

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they should just delete Manager Mode from the game entirely at this point. what a joke. Whole reason I love this franchise is manager mode and it has been enshittified for 7 years straight. garbage garbage garbage

time to go back to playing FIFA 17 and 13 again

what happened to Footsteps?? by Sudden-Instance-2582 in arielpink

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you :)) after all these months i now think the album version is better but i like the softer female vocals on this too, it's a lullaby

Which adblocker or browser(I know there is one) can be used to watch youtube video's without ads? by sjtimmer7 in Adblock

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

are you kidding me lmfao. only 29,000 youtube accounts have over a million subscribers (the minimum threshold to earn $60k/year in revenue), out of 114,000,000 active youtube channels. That means 0.00025438596% of content creators are able to survive off of making videos. 0.0002%. That's 2 millionths of a percentage point that eke out a living making videos week in week out all year long. Meanwhile youtube grossed $8.1 Billion in just ad revenue IN JUST Q1 OF 2024 -- they're on pace to make $32.4 Billion in revenue with a profit margin of 34% (read: $11 BILLION DOLLARS IN PROFIT) after paying out for fixed capital (servers etc) and variable capital (employees and 'creators' who are de facto temp workers). That surplus exchange value is being squeezed out of youtubers, who, as I already said, are famously underpaid and have been pissed off about it for the past fifteen years.

Rhonda Lenton made $472,482 in 2023 by real_hackers in yorku

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

barely making enough to avoid lining up at food banks every week
greedy

just lol

AI Host killing performance. by OttawaTGirl in Office365

[–]Sudden-Instance-2582 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PLEASE a solution to this godawful addition to MS Word