The bubbles aren’t even popped! That’ll go for top dollar.

Where do you think we are?

A Christmas Carol is basically about class conflict.

All of Charles Dickens’ works are, actually…

Maybe that was a time when most people were paid an actual thriving wage?

In the 19th century?

No man, that’s the last sacred space left to us in this world. Don’t let them intrude on that too.

If you won’t do it for yourself, do it for the future generations. Postpone the calls.

I’da let one rip

Death is a rough thing to contemplate. I always zone out for a minute when I hear about someone dying, especially if it was untimely, avoidable, or otherwise tragic.

The history of human thought is full of ways to try to rationalize it or cope with it or even pretend it isn’t final. They all seem to carry hints of at least one stage of grief. Contemplating death is like grieving your own mortality in advance, because you know you won’t be able to do so after.

To me the most helpful thing (not helpful particularly, but more helpful than the rest) is to let it move you to appreciate life that much more while you still can. Maybe even that’s tinged with “Acceptance,” but ultimately that’s the best possible outcome of grief. There’s no better option.

This might not be helpful, but then again nothing is. It’s all I can say on the topic though.

A video of a plane is somewhat abstract. We know what it means consciously, but there’s nothing deep-rooted in our psyches from tens of thousands of years of evolution telling us what it means and speaking directly to the deep, lizard part of the brain. So it’s easier to feel desensitized to, especially if you were a kid in the early 2000s.

A human voice hits different. We know what it means. The emotional register hits our lizard brains even if it’s in a language we don’t understand. There’s nothing abstract about it, so it has a much stronger affect.

Yes because economic metrics were never intended to show how the economy is doing for the average person. The entire field needs to be reworked from first principles before it has any value to us

Unless there’s a “pseudo” immediately before the “science”…

Everyone here knows who makes funhole. Plus, in the post where the neverslop memes debuted he basically said “post these in response to any slop that you see.”

So making an issue about the attributions is kind of hilarious in this context, seeing as we are doing the creator’s bidding.

Thanks for the engagement!

That’s funny

Holy shit, is this real?

They should do more ska playlists. Still punk philosophically, especially third-wave and later. But if anyone is repelled by ska music then I don’t know what to say to that because it’s like if honey was a sound

Really, because it seems society is constructed around mitigating liability for the people at the helm while passing blame down the cargo nets to the poop deck.

Maybe a literal ship captain is responsible for his ship, but what about the owners of the shipping company? I’ll pop the champagne the day they’re held accountable for their reckless profit-gouging policies.

To be clear, that applies to shareholders and executives of any major corporation, not just maritime shipping.

On the smaller scope, I’d agree in theory that accountability should be about responsibility rather than mere fault, but we live in a backwards world. Our entire justice system is designed around assigning fault and administering retributive punishments.

A more just system would find who is at fault only as a means to identify who is culpable and to what degree, and the corrective actions would be assigned proportionally, with the primary aim being restorative or reparative justice. Sometimes punishment and/or confinement may be necessary, but it shouldn’t be the modus operandi of the entire justice system, nor the default course of action.

Especially when you consider how blame is doled out in society; it tends to roll down the social hierarchy until it lands on the lowest possible candidate who can’t manage to shift it onto a subordinate.

They say the leadership assumes the risk/responsibility. They also say wealth trickles down. They say a lot of stuff that’s utter bullshit, just to justify their own positions.

It’s better than 5!

“Is it true, Maurice?”

“I seen it myself, Dorlene. Those eyes were as dead as they were when he was alive. When I saw the smile on his wife’s face, I knew the bastard was gone.”

Just wait till they have a 2-for-1 deal on 25lbs boxes! (Jk)

Username checks out.

Also, this was literally the next comment down:

It’s not?

washes dick

Yeah I knew that.