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This isn’t a fucking meme. It’s a great quote, but doesn’t belong here.
Almost no modern “memes” are actually memes anymore.
What do you think a meme is?
How isn’t it a meme? It’s an idea that’s been repeated and passed through many people, surviving in its distilled but still exploitable form.
So, I looked up the term on Wikipedia. It sais: “An Internet meme, or meme ([/miːm/], [MEEM]), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through social media platforms]. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs], and other viral content. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution. The term meme was originally introduced by Richard Dawkins in 1972 to describe the concept of cultural transmission.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
I’ll let you be the judge of whether this fits that definition or not. (And whether it’s worth your time arguing about something being a meme).
mods, MOOODS! take’m otta here 🏃♂️🚨👮♀️👮♂️
Sometimes people will only see things through certain avenues. In this case, a not-so-accurate category.
“I know, but I wanted people to see it”
This type of behaviour is bannable on platforms with functioning moderation
Thank god this place doesnt have functioning “moderation”. The fediverse is literally the last place on earth where billinaires dont tell you what to do.
Moderation is not bad in itself, it is curating of content to keep topics on track and quality above a certain limit. It has absolutely nothing to do with billionaires or their desires. A lot of subs on different instances are really shitty because of lacking moderation. Leaving subs completely unmoderated is a recipe for a disaster shitpile.
The good old forum days also had a lot of moderation to keep them from turning to shit.
Nuance. As you can see in my comment, i wrote it “moderation” which is supposed to mean the form of moderation that antisocial media is up to.
Nothing in the other persons comment suggests that type of moderation though
That one is called context. The commenter rants about in their eyes unfitting content would be removed if this place had functioning moderation. This is figuratively the exact opposite what lemmy is about.
(User was born after the last BB forum was shut down)
Guess what? This user has been avidly online since the BBS days and really … posters such as yourself were very annoying back then, too.
Language changes. “Meme” used to mean an idea that has taken hold and become part of culture. Now it’s any composition of images and/or words posted online.
Yeah, maybe. It certainly is a tragedy. I miss it when memes were just dumb shit which a person with an inane, absurdist sense of humor could appreciate. Politics are everywhere now.
poltiical memes are the original memes lol
For a time I lived awakened by the birds and a purring kittty and the golden dawn.
I would evacuate and then make a pot of French press and sit and and enjoy a cigarette and caffeine while my kitty and I watched hummingbirds flit among them flowers.
I would sleep when my work was done and I was tired. I’d bathe before bed and curl up with the kitty purring at my feet.
Minutes are a human construct. Rebel against them.
Cool. How’d you monetize this, exactly, and how well did it pay?
Magic and pushing buttons in the right order.
The order is the fiddly bit
Sounds absolutely lovely, alas unsustainable in the current world and at least my current region.
Yes, people are the worst.
I have never been more motivated by the complete absence of a social safety-net, than each day I have spent unemployed.
As Americans, perhaps we behave this way largely to do normalization and indoctrination. And maybe some are tacitly aware of the fragility of this arrangement. But for those of us that have stared into the financial and classist chasm that sits beneath us all, it vastly exceeds any unease you might feel from not keeping up with your peers.
My state has stripped unemployment down to 12 weeks, after that went by after my layoff at Christmas, I got so desperate and depressed and a little bit crazy. As the day is ticked closer to my first missed mortgage payment and car payment, And the thought of homelessness for me and my animals became a sobering reality, I started taking every interview I could possibly find, no preparation, just winging it until something worked.
During that whole process, I saw what the endgame is, we are slaves, but there is no slave master anymore, we do that part ourselves to avoid dying on the street.
So I am very motivated to start my own niche company and get the fuck away from this whole system at this point. Especially since I will have to work until I die, 401ks have all been cashed out during crises.
My endgame is to pull the rug on the whole thing by offering, in a capricious way, something better
My condolences on both the awful realizations and the exhaustion of your retirement funds. I feel you on the self-incorporation front. That one keeps coming up for me, especially when times are tough.
Yeah turns out usa didn’t reinvent the wheel super good or something. You have all been scammed under the pretense of liberty.
Now go fix it.
6:30 am? In my city, the streets are already packed with working class people at 6:00 am.
Starting work at 6am? Luxury! In my day we started our day’s work the day before, and didn’t finish until two days after!
Sarcasm is kind of offensive in some situations. My point is there are people who start their working hours at 7:00 am, but there are cities so big and chaotic that is not rare people need over an hour to get to their workplaces. Millions of people can’t wake up as late as 6:30 am. It’s a privilege.
Ah, thank you. Wasn’t quite clear it was a quote from the Month Pythons, no less.
In my burb, workers have to race to the bus, in order to get their bikes into one of two racks.
Hmmmm. Sounds like something UBI could solve.
Except there are a lot of people who believe that the homelessness and suffering is natural, correct, and deserved.
Maybe in America, but in most other places homelessness isn’t demonised nearly as much (also America is probably the only place that will make you homeless if you get seriously ill).
I think somewhere in the Nordic states, they’ve trialled UBI in an area and I think with success.
Edit: So the results are a mixed bag, as you would expect, but generally people were much happier with UBI.
Right up until the point it happens to them.
Those people:
We never got rid of slavery, we just made them responsible for their own food and housing.
That’s quite disrespectful to compare what we have today to actual slavery.
That exact response prevents us from properly evaluating our situation.
Wage slavery is slavery
yes, not every slavery, even historically, has been chattel slavery
It’s slavery with gaming qualities and objectives, like kids at a summer camp. Maybe if I get a few more tokens, I can buy a tshirt.
Easy. Money. Pay me well and I’ll do it.
Best we can do is $3.50.
What do you MEAN no??? People just don’t want to work these days!!!
We need to do something about that. We’ve built this neat “factility” here where you will “live” so you stop breaking the law. Yes, you will have to work there and your windows have bars. What do you mean forced labour? You broke the law by not working!
90% of this is just good hygiene.
A lot of people skip the fighting traffic part of their hygiene routines and it shows smh
It’s not about being forced to do all that, it’s about being forced to do all that so early in the morning in such a rush when most people would rather be sleeping. I hate mornings when I am at the office, but the WFH days are infinitely better because I get a lot more sleep and get to move at my own pace and do things at my convenience. I still have breakfast and brush my teeth, I just don’t have to do everything in 30 minutes.
we live in a culture where the value of your life is measured by how much money you have
we live in a culture where the value of your life is measured by how much money you
havecan make for your ownerCalvin Candie: Your boss looks a little green around the gills.
Django: He just ain’t used to seein’ a man ripped apart by dogs is all.
Calvin Candie: But you are used to it?
Django: I’m just a little more used to Americans than he is.
Ain’t that the truth.
Imagine life as a video game where you must find the way through a maze, discover keys and find treasures in order to win.
For example, you must find a way to sustain yourself (a maze), find the key to health (power) and avoid the beasts (corporate control).
People spend thousands of hours playing all sorts of games but neglect to properly play the game of life, instead they accept what they are offered by the power players.The difference is that in video games there are rules that you have to follow and you’re actually allowed to win.
Real life the winners already won and wrote the rules
The cheat code is unionization.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
— Buckminster Fuller
Wildcat strikes. Unions can be infiltrated.
This has triggered a vague memory of a joke by someone (I think Douglas Adams?). But I can’t remember the full quote so putting this out there in case someone knows it.
Basically humanity was smarter than other animals because we didn’t adapt ourselves to the environment, but adapted the environment to suit us. So now instead of having to adapt we just have to… wake up at 6:45 am when the alarm goes off, drive to work at 7 30 am etc.
Does anyone know it or was I having some kind of fever dream?
I think this is in the movie “The gods must be crazy” : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy
That’s it! Thank you, that was really bugging me. No idea why I thought it was Douglas Adams 🤦♂️
because you also make money for yourself
which allows you to buy things
and not live off the state
you are also (given the motivation) also capable of working your way up the chain and making more money for yourself which allows you to put it towards not working at all and still not living off the state
“Spend less than you earn—invest the surplus—avoid debt. Do simply this and you’ll wind up rich.”[7]
It’s a good thing that separation of corp and state is an inherent part of wage slavery.
Could you imagine if you thought you were making an honest living parasitising some poor business owner with your wages only to find out you were actually living off the state the whole time?
Embarrassing.
I would recommend people opt out of consumerism as much as possible and focus on sustainable living.
Don’t chase the carrot needlessly.
Yeah agreed, I’ve always tried to follow minimalist living:
Q: What is minimalist living?
A: It’s simply getting rid of things you do not use or need, leaving an uncluttered, simple environment and an uncluttered, simple life. It’s living without an obsession with material things or an obsession with doing everything and doing too much. It’s using simple tools, having a simple wardrobe, carrying little and living lightly.
Agreed. Reading and learning about Indigenous / precivilization world views can also help achieve this in a more holistic way. One thing that the Western / dominant world view only sparingly concerns itself with is sustainability. If we all thought about sustainable living as much as we did keeping up with the Joneses, I’d imagine many people would be happier, healthier and more fulfilled (compared to living a life serving capital).
Complete misunderstanding and delusion of how capitalism functions
Care to elaborate on your understanding and reality of how capitalism functions?
The whole point of capitalism is voluntary monarchy. Where peasants have to waste their time doing random things to extract productivity from other peasants for the benefit of the select few. And when things go bad for the business, guess who is not getting made redundant?
who doesn’t get made redundant?
People making company driving decisions, aka CEOs
ceos lose their jobs all the time
This year has seen significant changes in CEO turnover. In the first quarter alone of 2024, outplacement and career transitioning firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that 622 chief executives announced their resignations. This represents a 50% increase compared to the first quarter of 2023, which was already a record year for CEO exits.
The surge in departures seen earlier this year can be attributed to the evolving business landscape, retirement of Baby Boomers and increased pressure on CEOs to navigate complex issues, including inflation, supply chain disruptions, and environmental, social and governance concerns.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/08/19/ceos-facing-job-insecurity-like-workers/
Drop in the ocean, Microsoft alone is letting go of 6,000 people https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-d1f2de54ebad6f099deac8fbd3375835
CEOs packages mean they don’t need to worry about actually how to pay their rent/mortgage. What do workers get? Few months severance for decade of work. Wake up and see the numbers.
Please read actual books. It helps understanding why that is untrue.
Here’s a lengthy book presentation from a german institute (in english). Its not as harsh as i would have written it but its a start.
Hey Bukowski said great stuff when he wasn’t kicking his underage girlfriend on camera.
Innovation I tell you, gawd damn innovation… Day late, dollor short. Too much and never enough. Can you smell the stench of toxic positive optimism, the self satisfaction of those that don’t think they will be left with the bag. You know the “low level winner” of inconsequential gains… One extra bowl of slop. The vain and envious… The non factual lacking in the mathematical. Oh what grand ol world. Capitalism is as natural as a ice pick rammed up my arse.
“I am outraged by the society not supporting my lifestyle of doing nothing but scrolling TikTok all day.”
Truly, Nazism in its purest form. We must rebel against such oppression.
have you considered the possibility there’s more than those two options?
There would be if you had balls to do things instead of just posting memes about it 24/7
idk if you noticed, but i don’t post memes about anything. Are you yelling at an imaginary person, and that’d anger you if they existed?
No of course you don’t. You don’t even have it in you to create something as simple as a meme. Just mindless scrolling to extend the loop of learned helplessness… Truly sad
instead of hating on random strangers for any and all reasons you can think of - i’d suggest you went out and touched some grass, spring is a beautiful time of year
I know. I have this great green property just outside the city, the second the weather is above 20 degrees I am going there with books and all the stuffs ^^ and will be spending there days if not weeks :)
Maybe even naked wait but was this this thread or I got it fucked up? I had some other discussion going about bare tits with some lunatic
In any case I will have to soon chose which property I want to move to this summer and both have their pros and cons. One is like 500 square meters house but shitty garden and the second is like 70 square meters but the garden is marvelous and I think the second one is just sweet
Too angry. Unproductive and divisive discourse. Unnecessary. Tactless. Hateful. Ironically thinks they’re better than everyone.
I don’t make mistakes, I’m not like the rest of you, I’m stronger, I’m smarter, I’m better, I AM BETTER. I’m not some weak kneed fucking crybaby that goes around fucking apolgizing all the time and why the fuck would you want me to be? All my life people have tried to control me, rich people, powerful people, tried to muzzle me, cancel me, keep me impotent and obedient like I’m a fucking puppet. And you know what it worked, Because I allowed it to work and guess what, If they can control me they can control you, they already do you just realize it. I am done, I am done apolgizing, I am done being persecuted for my strength, You should be thanking christ that I am who I am, because you need me, you need me to save you, You Do, I am the only one who possibly can. You’re not the real heroes, I am the real hero, I am the real hero
Then why are you here hanging out with us? Being mostly aggressive and unfunny? Go find your tribe of excellence. Or be a lone wolf and let your strong smart soul shine.
Balls? Is that what is needed? I have balls. I guess you need some kind of special balls, dragon balls?
You have some kind of small peanuts, almost undetectable by any scientific apparatus
Brightest minds couldn’t tell if there is something there or is it merely an evolutionary vestigality
Oh, what a naughty boy you are. Aren’t you, kid?
Idk what kind of spectrum of gender things do I occupy but I am pretty horny yes. But only for big cock, pretty pussy and shapely, bald balls, also tiddies.
As you can see you have measly qualifications in any of these categories so you can promptly get out of my sight
Unless you can prove that I am mistaken about your qualities
3/10 rage bait
Good selection for the target audience, but too incoherent to actually be effective
Scrolling TikTok all day is a symptom not a disease.
It is a cause of everything that happened to our society. Just read the manifesto of Unabomber
Wait that part wasn’t sarcastic?
Anyone who uses TikTok should be sent to a reeducation camp and I am not even kidding
Have you ever browsed this shithole? Some happy yuppie go fricking dancing clips so embarrassing that you want to pluck your eyebrows off?
It is a zoomer central and everything that is wrong with the modern ‘humans’
Do you remember these HR girls fucking dancing clip Jesus even for this the TikTok should burn. I want to live in a timeline where shit like this is instantly penalized
And also in a place that isn’t festered with poverty and hunger like North Korea which was my destination of choice before I learned about the cons. Cons outweigh pros I think in this case
Nazism is when you… surf TikTok?
This is why Democrats lost the last election. Liberals are absolutely brain poisoned.
Liberals are the worst people to ever walk this earth. Not only they have complete contempt for tradition but also they cannot see anything outside their own egos
I even prefer god damn marxists Leninists to the liberals because even though they are grossly incompetent and wrong at least are brave enough to acknowledge the reality. Liberals are just huge pussies
And have you seen how smug they are? God, what a bunch of elitist fetishists.
they have complete contempt for tradition
Lolz. Lmao even.
The only thing Dems seem capable of fighting to protect is the filibuster.
