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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • The thing everyone forgets is that there is practically nothing that will move the working class. There is this idea that if everyone just banded together and fought for better rights, everything would be better. But that’s about as feasible as all cows banding together for better rights. It’s just not something that is going to happen. There is nothing that will mobilize the working class. Nothing.

    Individual humans can be intelligent, insightful, and can be convinced to take up a cause and work towards something greater than themselves. Humans as a large group though? Idiots. Fucking idiots. Literally no better than crabs in a bucket.

    That’s the problem. Any plan for change that involves the working class rising up and seizing control is a plan that is doomed to failure. Because the working class will never rise up and seize control. Ever. People have to be dragged kicking and screaming toward change, or tricked into accepting it. Those that think mobilization of the working class is a possibility have a fundamental failure in the understanding of human sociology.





  • Seems like a straightforward solution to a simple problem. Pretty direct correlation with kids having access to smartphones vs declining grades and attention spans.

    In schools that have started simply not allowing phones in class, grades have improved. This seems like the next logical step. Its basically just returning to pre-smartphone days. Schools used to confiscate phones if you had them out at all during school hours.

    People will disagree with simple solutions, but those are often the ones that works. Phones cause problems, get rid of phones. Simple and direct.


  • Yes, and for centuries, leaving your house while drunk to go get food was a viable option because walking or riding a horse while drunk is a lot safer than driving a car.

    Then we got cars, and the roads became dangerous. And yes, there was a brief period where there were no delivery services from restaurants. But very quickly, restaurants realized they could get more sales if they offered to deliver food to people for reasons like the many I listed above.

    So to be clear, are you pining for that brief period of time a handful of decades long, between the time of cars being widely adopted and restaurants offering delivery and using that as an example for something you believe everyone should return to?




  • Because if your car has broken down, or you’re exhausted from a long day of work and your family is hungry, or you’re too drunk to safely drive but still want food, or if you straight up don’t have a car and don’t want to cook that night, or you are on vacation at a hotel or airbnb and don’t have other access to food, or you have a baby that you can’t just leave alone for a few minutes to go pick the food up, or you are in the middle of a study session and it would be more convenient to have the food come to you rather than going to get it.

    Looks like there’s lots of reasons people might take advantage of the service that can deliver food to them, and it’s not unreasonable for them to expect that service to not completely fuck it up.