there’s something called “I-sense” which makes us humans aware of other individuals, you sense that an other person has an “I” (not in the Freud way). like you sense that a rock doesnt

Pen&Paper maybe? yes, i know you can go out and buy DnD modules and books, dice, stuff. but the cultural part of it seems to me to be just friends sitting together telling stories

my dude, how are shoes NON-commercial??!

ah yes. and the first comment i see here is someone quoting the bible. i guess nobody understands the bible. because all I see on my feed is people cherry-picking the bible to prove how bad it is. and that’s the same BS

let me tell you. i’m 39. my 30s are taking FOREVER. depression anxiety and neurodivergence will do that.

yeah. fuck toxic masculinity. Hold strong brothers. be weak, be vulnerable, be soft, be the man you want to be.

And this person just doesn’t have an anus. That’s a thing.

What? What is this? Is it photoshopped or ai or what?

Capitalism isn’t broken, you’re right. The misery of 90-95% if society is expected under capitalism. It’s not a sign of capitalism being broken but for it working as intended.

Why? What does the one thing have to do with the other? There’s always money for war, for bailing out banks, for lobbying… Thus there’s enough money for basic human needs to be met without me working for nothing. It’s a choice whom to give the money to.

But I agree to a certain point: if I don’t need to pay rent, healthcare and education, I don’t need to slave away in jobs that I don’t want.

There’s no such thing as a free market. It’s a myth. I’d rather believe in unicorns.

can i replace “affordable” with “free” please? these are human basic needs. just give it to me.

i mean… i don’t want to sound patronizing, but please read SOMETHING. like anything at all. companies going bankrupt is literally part of the system. if someone wants to push a service or product and has enough resources, companies are set up to be bankrupt and lose money. this is how a big corporation can push competitors off the market: by selling a product under the cost of production. how often have we also seen companies going bankrupt SEVERAL times in their lifespan just to be bailed out?

yeah no. i am WILLING duckduckgo to work as a search engine, but the results are so bad, it doesn’t do phrases well. i just searched “blue sign construction”, thinking i’d find infos about blue signs in construction sites. literally the whole first site is about “bluesign”, something to do with textile production. and the picture results are 99% just construction signs in all different colours.

True to the spirit of mandalas, destroy them. It’s not about the finished object, it’s about the process.

Or wrap presents into the paper. Or make greeting cards

i’ll be philosophical here: yourself. never be done. never stop changing. bever be finished. to be alive is to be in motion.

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But just saying: I said the greed is a factor, not the only thing causing a disaster. But usually you’ll find someone has cut corners, didn’t do maintenance, didn’t follow regulations, didn’t employ enough people…

Mostly banks, oil and war machinery.

9/11 was a huge boost for the military suppliers, housing crisis got some financial institutions very rich for betting on the collapse. COVID mostly made medical suppliers rich, but also boosted weapons sales (more policing, border control…).

Usually it’s pretty easy to see, you just have to look for the interests. Also you can look at the laws and decisions that get passed after these events. Something like a plane crash or titanic sinking is more difficult. But you can usually say that people got rich before that happened and that’s usually one of the reasons it’s happening in the first place.

A fun and informative podcast for such information is “well there’s your problem” which talks about engineering disasters and the aftermath (it’s also very funny)

i have a BA in english and I used to teach esl… i wasn’t even thinking that could’ve been wrong. it felt correct to me. well…i’m gonna leave the title as is, since i appreciate the jokes about it here ^^

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