Worker cooperatives prove the important but limited point that while capitalists need workers, workers don’t need capitalists. Most ‘employee-owned’ companies in the US and UK are mainly owned by the highest levels of management with some more buy-in for middle management. It’s typically done with some kind of vesting scheme that keeps junior employees on the hook for years.

These firms still exist firmly within a capitalist context and require workers to become their own exploiters.

Definitely not climate change you reactionary hog.

If you like your instance, you can keep it.

I think unfortunately you do need to have a lot of pre-emptory remarks prepared. The key things to cover are to establish your self-awareness and then discuss some of the triggers of your difficult behaviors and how you want others to feel empowered to address them.

This isn’t one-to-one with a cluster b disorder, but I struggle a lot with compulsively making mean comments. With new friends, I have a short speech explaining it, how I share my true thoughts, and encouraging them to directly speak to me if they feel upset or offended. Sadly, it doesn’t work all the time and more people bounce off sooner, but the people who do stay around it has been possible to build more secure and healthy friendships with.

It might be helpful to find a similar process for yourself.

my anxiety is too bad for video games anymore

No need to be stinky, they’re just asking for advice. If you’re annoyed don’t respond, but why be rude?

I have been using the same $20 alcatel flip phone with little degradation in quality for 2 years sounds like a skill issue.

I wanted to buy $100 of bitcoin in HS and couldn’t figure out how. Would have been like $60,000,000 :ccc

I’ve only read the two, but I remember being skeeved out when I read it and feeling very validated when I read Galatea.

I think Richard Powers is a sex weirdo who comes up with elaborate novel structures to contain his tulpa gf’s in. I was really put off by the woman in the last short story who goes from bimbo to sexy ghost. That felt prototypical for how he sees women. He also admits to stalking and creeping on one of his grad students in his autofiction Galatea 2.2. The short stories were beautiful but the novel itself felt poorly executed with a lot of cut plot threads.

sounds nice. very fragrant

such an awful thing doesn’t need to be made to high standrads.

please do everything you can to sink that island into the sea. this is henois.

Ultimate B-egg-el: everything bagel, garden veggie cream cheese, slice of sharp cheddar cheese, pickled beets, sprouts, arugula, it’s friday would you like a fried egg, vinagrette.

It seems like a lot of things you want to do on your phone are unnecessary. Why not just use the banking websites in your browser at home? Why not just keep a paper calendar?

Well you see the president is elected democratically unlike in Germany where the Nazis were never…oh…

This is like the last 2008 style meme produced

Anarchism is liberalism. The fetish for ‘autonomy’ is the highest ideal of Liberal personal freedom.

It’s literally not; the link to his essay is active and it’s included in full in the article, but I’m going to embed it here in case anyone else is going to be as intellectually lazy as you.

you are a brain dead child.