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[alby]

i want to buy a house

[fun_yunchables]

ok boomer

[INNIT]

have you guys been able to experience cyberspace anarcho-syndicalism on any websites other than care-tags

i want to buy a house

the dialectical synthesis of these two statements results in the formation of every customer shopping at the organic market near my place

[bels]

Cyberpsace anarcho syndicalism is pretty close to my heart, but really, its a losing fight unless we rejig the website to start sending "rep notifications" to your phone.

I would say early tumblr was a somewhat anarchic space, but that would be showing my age, which people would use to work out that I have a house.

[fun_yunchables]

how do i safely tell my boomer technical lead he’s wrong

this is why i hate working for other people

[alby]

happy holidays to yall hope all is well during this stressful time of year!

[ramdomthought]

this thread needs more posts

[ramdomthought]

have spent a bit of time being uncle joey in full house irl

highly recommend, it's better irl than as a sitcom

don't get the puppets though those do not go over well

[ramdomthought]

2019 was a great year for movies

gotta be good when Us was a mediocre movie in contrast to what else was out there

[bels]

give up watching movies for 2020.

Just sit home in the dark, not looking at your phone for an hour and a half - two hours. Has exactly the same effect and you don't have to worry about whether the "film" is "good" or "bad"

[griffin]

Imagine buying some geobasket a off graild blissfully unaware some fucker from England drank beer out of them’!

[rjbman]

welp we're WFH for a while....

[rjbman]

all teh WFH folks come nice comment on the mastodon

[bels]

is nice comment the opposite of nice comment

[wrong]

just found out about begpackers....damn that shit sucks...

[JewTurk]

man this is fucked

(things are actually alright I hope everyone is well)

[fun_yunchables]

covid just a big jizz check for capitalism

edit: wibes bro why u gotta filter out the wibes

[maj]

can we get a medal for the person who uploaded the best parts of lil peeps discography to spotify as podcasts

truly a real one

[maj]

can you imagine being there the first time the play button was hit on "drive by"

[INNIT]

I always told myself that if capitalism were to end I'd spend all of my time reading and writing. Yet here I am, getting flamed by teens on dota.....

[YoungCanoeist]

hello

[alby]

couldn't find the cooking thread but wanted to post my bread. started a starter a week ago and once he was fully mature he became bread. honestly really impressed with how it turned out first time ignore my messy kitchen

[JewTurk]

How do y'all feel about all this talk about wage adjustment based on where you live re: remote workers? It seems popular response is that it's bad. But I feel like bringing silicon valley "bucks" into rural areas like montana/idaho/wyoming is way more problematic than someone getting a 5-10k salary cut because they work remotely from some of these more rural areas.

Am I missing something? I'd be happy to take a pay cut if it meant I got to telecommute from wherever I want.

[Imfake]

How do y'all feel about all this talk about wage adjustment based on where you live re: remote workers? It seems popular response is that it's bad. But I feel like bringing silicon valley "bucks" into rural areas like montana/idaho/wyoming is way more problematic than someone getting a 5-10k salary cut because they work remotely from some of these more rural areas.

Am I missing something? I'd be happy to take a pay cut if it meant I got to telecommute from wherever I want.

Huh, haven't really followed this topic at all but just my surface levels thoughts are that this seems pretty hard to implement. Assuming if somehow companies to figure out after-tax salary in my current state and have that exactly the same elsewhere, I would be all for it. However, due to a stupid amount of moving parts associated with taxes this seems unlikely.

[bels]

I think its probably a problem because you produce the same amount of value for the company regardless of where you are, so why should you be being paid less? I don't consider "remote work" to be much of a perk, maybe you do, but it isn't universally so. It just seems like a further alienation from labour, that you can guarantee will be exploited by le bosses.

I'm not an economist and don't understand marx so maybe someone with 300iq can weigh in, but in general, welcoming being paid less for doing the same work seems bad to me.

[titkitten]

@JewTurk why do you think it's bad to bring in Silicon Valley money into rural areas? because of gentrification + pushing out the people who currently live there?

[Benson]

@JewTurk why do you think it's bad to bring in Silicon Valley money into rural areas? because of gentrification + pushing out the people who currently live there?

I remembering reading this article a while back and thought I'd share. It gets into this exact thing:

Educated tech workers are able to telecommute and earn big city salaries while living in a less expensive smaller town. One of the side effects of this migration of money and people is a decoupling of local wages relative to property values and rents. Locals are increasingly out bid.

It's pretty pro-development, doesn't really address gentrification, and mostly focuses on NIMBYISM so take it with a grain of salt, but I felt like the pictures were pretty good in terms of capturing the situation.

To go back to the original comment though, I think you'd still have gentrification even if people took a paycut since you'd see demand outpacing supply. IMO there's not really an easy solution though and it all goes back to the commodification of housing.

[bels]

But there are poor people in big cities too, so I don't really get it.

Other than...of course...the obvious..........RACIAL implications.....of country poor vs city poor.

[Benson]

But there are poor people in big cities too, so I don't really get it.

Other than...of course...the obvious..........RACIAL implications.....of country poor vs city poor.

Yeah pretty much - a lot of the dialogue gets reduced to tech gentrifier vs locals when the people moving in could be lower/middle income and were priced out of their own city.

[fun_yunchables]

if u support ur local small biz i dont see why it necessarily bad bc thats actively injecting money into ur community. i mean if u spend all ur techbro monie on online purchases from outta town n big chain conglomerate ur not rly helping ur community at all n like ur monie basically get siphoned outta the locality

id rather have ppl with their og salary come thru 2 smaller towns n drop a 20 in tip for the mom n pop diner more than some big tech company pocketing the extra 20. u wanna see some jeff brozos type beat getting even richer nah