Chanukah doesn’t start until next week, so here’s the obligatory chaser:

I’m sure many of these people are the same ones who think they’re too smart and make too much money to consider joining a union (because they are for poor and uneducated workers). Being shuttled to and from work, and getting free food, somehow puts you in a class above the common worker. Meanwhile, you’re still…

The amount of shit you take here, for what amounts to fairly innocuous coverage of organized labor and the systemic (and the very successful) war that has been waged upon it for the last 4 decades is ...just depressing.

Not trying to debate the practical realities of communism in Russia. I was just struck by the absurdity of this idea:

You sharecrop a lifestyle instead of a field of cabbage, serf. You rent to own it with interest, your children will just be renting it.

But no one in America is currently tied to the land in the way serfdom meant.

That’s why communism is almost solely located amongst underachieving, college educated middle class white people and the occaisional middle class minority.

Maybe in the US but in the UK it’s another matter. Back in the days of the 80s with consent at 21 and Section 28 I could understand but now we have MPs openly discussing their own use of “poppers” for Gay sex in Parliament.

Even in what you propose, one can move. One can’t do better than a shitty job, I grant you. But one can actually up and move from one state and be poor to another state and be poor. There is no law tying them to the land. There is no implicit thing doing it. Greyhound bus tickets are super cheap, for example.

The entire statement is rife with bullshit language. “the story told by Timothy” = meant to imply fiction. They both have “demons” = meant to discredit. What we “chose” to do together = meant to imply consent.

This is a truly harrowing tale of rape but I’m glad that this might lead to greater awareness of sexual harassment, assault, or worse in the LGBT+ community.

Actually, I said you misunderstand semantics, and then you went on to debate the semantics of a serf versus someone who is institutionally serf-ized.

This leads nicely into speaking about universal basic income, as well.

You fundamentally misunderstand the power of semantics.

There are no serfs? What would you call people who work full-time and can’t afford rent or three nutritious meals a day?

I am a member of a union. I have been highly motivated to participate in and increase membership of my union. To get all the workers, everyone who does something that does so at the whim of a boss that doesn’t necessarily understand what they are asking, to get on board and sign cards.

There are serfs and there are campesinos here, you just choose not to see them or refuse to recognize them.

You can make the screen bigger without making the bezel smaller. You just make the whole phone that much bigger. And guess what! More room for a bigger battery so you get more life out of a charge!

I agree. I used an S8 for a while and absolutely hated it. Save the bezel shrinkage for TVs, Phones need a bit o bezel.

If you go for the popular, well-known phones, then don’t be surprised that you’re getting phones with popular configurations. If you want unpopular configurations, China has tons of ‘em. You want a phone with a giant battery? They got ‘em. You want a ruggedized phone? They got ‘em. Small screens? Keyboards? Flip…