Lurker > Squall28

I'm jaded by all the office politics, and the decisions passed down by management are just plain stupid sometimes. I do enjoy my work, and I live a comfortable life so the concerns are really more about the human factor in corporate America than compensation.

Never had a paid lunch. All my jobs were more 8-5s instead of 9-5s because lunch was unpaid.

Would love to work an hour less though lol

Still remember people giving me shit for saying the inflation won't be transitory

Esrac posted...

Its just tribalism

This. People generalize too much about people from their political opinions

https://imgflip.com/i/64c1l5

What did she do here that was racist?

ThePrinceFish posted...

The Titans are mysterious for two seasons before it's revealed that they are transformed humans. At the end of the third season it's revealed that there are even humans outside of the walls at all, until that point it is ambiguous that the people living inside the walls are perhaps the last people on a Titan infested planet.

It is instead revealed that the outside world consists of a world much like ours that has recently recovered from 2000 years of torment by the Eldian empire. The final king of the Eldian empire felt sympathy for the outsiders and decided that his people do not deserve to live anymore, but he does not personally want to die. So he takes as many of his people as possible and confines them to the walls, altering their memories and (falsely, he's bluffing since he's a pacifist) promising the outside world that if they are attacked, he will turn the walls into Titans and exterminate the world (like the protagonist planned).

The Eldians left outside of the walls are enslaved and kept in ghettos by the people who they used to rule over. The mindless Titans that attack the walls in the early seasons are created from political dissidents from the ghettos who are Eldians. It serves as an execution and a means to subtly attack the Eldians living inside the walls.

As an example, the main character psychotically hates Titans for eating his mother when he was a child. Once the reveal that Titans are Eldians is made, he instead feels sympathy for the mindless Titans as "fellow Patriots".

Yeah that twist doesn't sound like a good time. Glad I didn't commit time to this series

ThePrinceFish posted...

The main character's entire drive for the entire story has been about pushing forward towards freedom, violently if necessary. Throughout the story, there are explicit themes that in a cruel world, difficult inhuman choices need to be made for the greater good. The characters in the story belong to an oppressed race of people feared and hated throughout the entire world due to their ability to be transformed into giant mindless killing machines called Titans. Pretty much everyone in the world wants them wiped out because of a mixture of fear and vengeance for two thousand years of oppression carried out by the Titans.

At the climax of the story, the main character achieves godlike power over all of the people of his race. He gains control over millions of 150 foot tall monsters with the alleged intent of crushing every square foot of land outside his peoples' home island, exterminating all life on the planet except for his home.

His friends fight against him because genocide bad. In the end it is revealed that the main character intended for his friends to stop him after he exterminates 80% of the human population. He wants the remaining 20% to look at his friends as heroes who were willing to kill their own countrymen to save the outside world. In doing so he sets up the story by using his timey wimey powers to control things in the past to set up his mother to be killed, triggering the events of the story. He also has his adoptive sister who is obsessively protective kill him in order to show the little girl progenitor of their race that love isn't slavery and free her from her 2000 years of turning her people into Titans. Also she kisses his decapitated head after she kills him.

Finally it is revealed that the MC cries like a bitch over how he doesn't want to die and how he doesn't want his sister waifu to find another man for at least ten years past his death which is pointed out in the manga to be pathetic.

The main character dies and the defense and diplomacy of their home is left to his remaining friends. They live their lives and time goes on.

Once people were sufficiently pissed about the ending, extra pages came out: The world then does not forgive the island, and a few generations later the island is bombed into dust. A young boy finds a similar tree to the one that created the Titan curse to begin with. END.

Thanks for that. One more question because I did watch the first ep at some point. I thought the Titans were just eating the humans. How are they the oppressed ones?

Can someone give me a summary of why the ending is bad for someone who hasn't watched the series?

WingsOfGood posted...

You want to be clear, you need to actually be clear.

Man this is why I didn't bother posting before you @me. You're obsessed with wordplay gotchas. It's clear there are a lot of other things at play if companies could've raised prices before now, they would have.

Don't @me again.

WingsOfGood posted...

funny how all the sudden this is a given and everyone knows this is what was happening.

yet when I made those threads the majority of posters refused to see this and were against it and saying the same tired things like "all those stimulus packages made everything go up!!!" blah blah

Let's be clear. Just because this is a big factor, doesn't mean it's the only factor.

WingsOfGood posted...

How will you defend this?

I won't. It's pretty obvious that companies are taking advantage of this time to increase prices.

I work in one of those open offices. Honestly prefer a cube tbh

Devil May Cry 3 is the definitive Devil may cry game, and it's a prequel so it's a good pick.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

OR you can not have kids, be frugal much of your life and retire at a reasonable age

It's crazy how much building a family cost. Not even kids, but getting a spouse just skyrockets your spending.

Sounds like Altered Carbon

That's sad. Hope you don't abandon it.

Raikuro posted...

I avoid those at all costs, horrific injuries gross me out

Same.

You never helped anyone move Pinkie?

Lulz

SSD baby

Is there context for this?

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Socialism isn't just when the government does stuff, dude. It simply means most industries are worker-controlled. It's meant to democratize the economy so the economic power of a few obscenely wealthy people doesn't override that of the majority (the workers). The only purpose the government has under this economic model is to facilitate it.

You can still start your own business. The only caveat is that you don't get to make billions of dollars just for owning the business, because a system like that is inherently rigged for the obscenely wealthy.

You know what, I'm just going to drop out here because at least we're on a civil note. It's an agree to disagree.

I don't have faith that on things of large scale, you can manage without some central governing body making the decisions, and you guys believe you can.

I can see maybe a group of ten workers, but these large companies with thousands of employees doesn't seem feasible to me.

foreverzero212 posted...

And jfc socialism is not govt run pizza parlors. Socialism is when people that work earn the profit of their labor and have a say in the workplace. Capitalism is when some kid inherits a business from his parents and takes all the profit that was made from those who work for himself.

Your definitions are completely based on feeling and not reality. Socialism means the means of production are owned by the "community." What this "community" ends up being is the government due to how many people we have.

The pizza parlor is either owned by the government (socialism) or a citizen (capitalism).

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

C'mon man, this is a weird take.

Since when does socialism involve creating literally everything for yourself?

The division of labor we have now and the efficiencies that came with it are in large part due to companies being created to capture certain markets.

I'm sure a completely socialist system won't be completely devoid of it, but a huge government just won't churn out these companies as fast as hundreds of thousands of random Joe's being able to start and manage stuff themselves.

In response to Wings, things to help new poorer folks to start small businesses and scholarships are all things I'm in favor of.

When you envision a country with a basis in socialism, how do you see all these companies and jobs being replaced? Will every factory, store, etc be an act of Congress? Some guy wants to sell pizza. What would he have to do to sell it? Can he even do it? Would we have to wait for the government to decide and vote on, hey the people want pizza. Let's put a pizza shop there. It's a lot of responsibility on our politicians that are historically slow, self-serving, and not good at their jobs.

Look at how much debt the country is in. How are these guys going to run our entire economy too? And what if the country gets really poor and need extra money? How are they going to get it? Will they force us to work? If they don't force us, how will they get the labor needed?

WingsOfGood posted...

Squall28 hates social programs but attributes his success to one, scholarship....wow the irony is palpable.

It ia almost like, taxing people and having social programs ia a good thing.
Oh wait, better not say elon should pay taxes...

Never said I hate social programs or taxes. I've said countless times I lean left. Just because you support something, doesn't mean you blindly go along with any idiotic thing they say.

Like after all this time, none of you will acknowledge that you benefit from being able to buy things at a reduced cost than what it would take for you to make yourself. Instead we got pages of you guys making up stories about me. And you think I'm the bad faith one? Give me a break.

zammox posted...

LOL

It's almost as if you can have good social programs under capitalism and pretty much all well off countries are capitalistic with social programs

foreverzero212 posted...

It wasn't merit based if you got one. Your parents probably got that for you too.

Oh look, making up stories again.

And it's funny how you're trying to frame my parents hard earned literal mom and pop business as a slight against me. They worked hard for it. I worked for minimum wage to help keep them up. It's easily a much harder job than my internships and engineering jobs. It's not cushy at all, and it's obvious you don't understand the challenges of starting your own business.

It's no wonder you couldn't get a scholarship.

foreverzero212 posted...

A scholarship too? This guy has been coasting on handouts at every step.

I had to save up for college by earning a job that wasn't given to me under the shelter of my parents business.

Lol. Scholarships are good for the country, especially merit based ones like the one I got. I'm not surprised someone like you couldn't get one though.

I'm an engineer who paid for college with a scholarship you goobers. You guys just make up whatever story you want to try to make a point

Why is it not accepted? We had two choices, and picked the less worse one.

If I didn't know who she was ,I would think this was a parody.

Lol all these assumptions just from changing my statement about my parents to be about my grandparents.

My parents came in the late 80s. We were poor most of my childhood. Things didn't really turn around until the 2000s when they were able to save enough money to start their own business.

As for me, I worked much harder during my school years than I do now. Doing both restaurant work and being top of my classes. First generation to graduate anything 40 hours is a joke to me after I graduated college. I couldn't believe the amount of free time I had

Also love that you decided to craft false stories about me instead of addressing discussion about your video. You were begging so hard for people to talk about your video, but when they do, you can't even understand basic questions.

ThePusher posted...

many ppl dont live sheltered upper middle class lives. but f*** them cause ur well off right?

Funny you mention that. I grew up poor with refugee parents. You know what opportunities they had in rural communist Vietnam? Work in a bowl factory and farm. That's it. No upward mobility. They cooked their dinner straight from the farm and washed their clothes in the river. Didn't have any electronics.

They immigrated here, worked hard, and made a good life for our family. Always made me appreciate how lucky I was to live in the US.

Meanwhile, you guys with your literal first world problems bitching about a 40 hour work week.

The wealth is shared. We have much more now than we would have without it.

I'm able to live in a nice house, eat good food, and have many things that wouldn't have been possible if it's just my solo labor.

Do you think you are able to buy a hamburger for a dollar without it? Just because the wealthy benefits more doesn't mean you don't benefit at all.

WingsOfGood posted...

Studies have shown that middle class is in a bad place, yet you continue believe a lie. Are you super rich or just got issues with comprehension?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/06/the-american-middle-class-is-stable-in-size-but-losing-ground-financially-to-upper-income-families/

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/

The richest are consolidating all the wealth and those in middle class or poor are become worse and worse.

Yet you claim that this works and there is no reason to criticize it, there are no other options.

hmm

So you don't know what it is

WingsOfGood posted...

Why would he address a fantasy? You benefit immensely from the capital owner who owns your labor giving you back a pittance? No you dont.

Look up economy of scale buddy

WingsOfGood posted...

his system doesn't sound good, but this irrelevant.

Do you have a counter to the explanation of what Capitalism is and why it is theft?

Captialism as he explains is when you as the workers provide a surplus of value, the employer takes most of it and lets you have a tiny fraction back.

e also then explains why the above surplus going to someone else than the person who produced it is akin to slavery and feudalism, but it is not called slavery, it is changed form of it. No more slave or serf, but one part of the population still lives off what another person produces.
This causes a tension and resentment between those who produce more than they get and those who live off those who produce.
The interest of the capital owner is to get as much from them as they can and give back as little as possible. The producer interest is to get as much as they can from what they produce.
This makes them at odds naturally. Enemies.

I've already addressed this. And it's funny, I actually watched the beginning and he even starts talking about the division of labor. He doesn't seem to address that the workers themselves benefit immensely from the division and that there needs to be incentives for these division of labor opportunities to be made available in the first place. Like do you think someone is going to make a clothes making company for you to work at if they can't profit off of it? And do you think you can produce anywhere near as much clothes or have anywhere near the reach without the company? In his vision, is everything just made by community? No one can just want to do something, it's decided by your "peers"?

Based on what OP is saying, I'm guessing it's just being buttmad that other people can benefit from your work.

I'd rather be able to do my easy office job, and then be able to buy stuff I couldn't make on my own. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

OP would rather go spear a gazelle on his own, then see an employer make a cent on him.

Esrac posted...

"Absolutely! You'd have to struggle a little bit for it. You'd have to talk to your fellow workers. You'd have to talk about the distribution of income. You'd have to compare your desire for playstation against all the other interests of all the other people. It wouldn't be something you worked out on your own with your particular boss in any way. It would have to be a democratic decision. You would have to come to terms with that the way you do with democratic decisions that you do now in our society to the extent that we have them."

Lmao. I knew this professor would be a looney.

An hour and a half of my time is a minute now? Why do 90% of anti-capitalist argue in bad faith? Smh

Although the exact plans, timetable and costs have not been set, Oceano and Bezos will pay to dismantle the bridge, Rijnmond reported.
Frances van Heijst, the Rotterdam municipality spokeswoman, confirmed by phone that the city would not be footing the bill.

Sounds like the city will be paid handsomely for it.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Nobody wants to watch the boring musings of an anti-vaxx marxist who thinks your peers should be allowed to vote on whether or not you deserve to own a PS5.

Pretty much. Based on what OP is saying, I'm guessing it's just being buttmad that other people can benefit from your work.

I'd rather be able to do my easy office job, and then be able to buy stuff I couldn't make on my own. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

OP would rather go spear a gazelle on his own, then see an employer make a cent on him.

yeah you not getting a 1000 matches irl lol

fan357 posted...

Lets do communism so we can all be poor!

Users on this board legit think we're better off as hunter-gatherers or peasants. They'll be completely onboard with this. It's not about bringing the poor up, it's about making sure others don't have more.

WingsOfGood posted...

So now Economists are bad?

You sound like the antivaxxers when they found Robert Malone.

Richard David Wolff (born April 1, 1942) is an American Marxian economist,

lulz