ChicagoCommunist [none/use name]

Also every maintenance person and mechanic has kitty litter in a closet somewhere because it’s great for cleaning up oil spills

Ooohh I’m pretty sure brace mentioned this on the podcast a while ago, guess now I know he wasn’t bullshitting

Y’all easterners haven’t felt the glory of a WinCo

Aldis are better than Walmart and the various Kroger subsidiaries tho

You worked as an independent contractor doing transcription. You decided to get out of it because AI is getting too good.

Then cast a wide net using indeed or whatever site to mass apply.

I’ve worked at 12 places in the last 5 years with gaps in between, but my resume and narrative doesn’t say that. And then I apply to so many places that even if 95% found out and rejected me it doesn’t matter, cause I only need one job. 5% success rate of 200 applications is way more than necessary.

Alternatively look into seasonal jobs, a lot of them don’t care about your resume as long as you can pass a drug test and (very basic) physical.

Obfuscation of class, cultural hegemony, is necessary for capitalism to persist.

At the same time, false consciousness is not the primary thing keeping well-off workers in the imperial core and periphery from revolting. They may buy into whatever delusions to avoid feeling guilt for their position, but when it comes down to it they benefit from imperialism. If given a choice between their humanity and their privileged position, they’ll happily abandon their humanity.

For the rest of workers, developing class consciousness is important, but more important (or maybe part of the same process) is presenting an organized alternative to the bourgeois state. People may agree or disagree with whatever ideals, but they’ll support the entity materially benefiting them.

The government tried to take away our houses, failed to provide food and medicine and education, abandoned us during the increasingly devastating environmental disasters. But this party calling themselves the Workers Front came in with aid and services. I don’t know much about politics but they have my support.

The manufactured false consciousness for the lower working classes is well-funded and omnipresent, but it’s ethereal, smoke and mirrors. A video of prosperity repeated 24/7 is not equivalent to real food on a real table. If the bottom falls out on material flows, the illusion breaks (and the bourgeois state has to increasingly turn to violence to enforce its power).

Only a small percentage of people are and will ever be political and ideologically disciplined. Others will get thrust into political action by their material circumstances, and it’s the role of a party to help them organize and realize their power.

The apocalypse happened when Europe conquered the world. Hundreds of millions dead, thousands of cultures wiped out of existence and forgotten. Human misery in magnitutes never before possible. They invented a hell and dragged the whole world into it.

The apocalypse already happened, we’re just living in the aftermath.

The question is stated underneath the title in the image. But yeah I think depending on how you explain the policy the answers would be more polarized

With that timeframe you might be better off watching nextdoor, craigslist, and Facebook for local gigs like yardwork and moving boxes and the like. Or posting yourself maybe. Had a friend making an extra few hundred a week helping people after work and on weekends with their lawns and housekeeping and whatnot.

Online stuff:

Prolific.com surveys can be decent. Not good hourly rate but can fill in some cracks, maybe couple hundred bucks. Pays quickly to PayPal upon request.

Usertesting is a site I’ve never done but seen people potentially make a lot in their first couple months

Swagbucks is usually pennies but depending on offers you might be able to make a couple hundred bucks.

I’d keep checking dataannotation for approval, that’d be the highest hourly and instant payouts.

Mturk and clickworker (uhrs primarily) were my main sources of income at different times, but I haven’t used them in a while. May take a while to approve and payout.

3playmedia seems to be hiring voice writers, not sure what the work entails but the company is legit. Used to be my main source of income for years doing regular captioning.

Other names I’m seeing in online work discussions: intellizoom, verbit, respondent, cloud connect, proxypics, alignerr, outlier.

Also various online CS jobs that don’t pay great. Phone or chat. Depending on your certs some might pay better.

Focus groups can pay 200+ if you can find them.

Great answers in this thread already so I’ll talk more generally:

When we try to understand the world by fitting it into conceptual boxes, we are necessarily reducing it to simpler, more digestible models. This process is a double edged sword in that it allows us to understand and communicate ideas about something that’s otherwise infinitely complex, allows us to brush over a million other variables so we can focus on key ones of interest. But at the same time these models are not reality, variables are being ignored or de-emphasized, leading to potential inaccuracy (rather than merely imprecisions). Additionally, that human component is prone to being influenced by bias/ideology.

So in the multitude of concepts clustered around the word “materialism”, some of them may ignore or de-emphasize variables that actually have meaningful influences, resulting in models that are too reductive and that might lead one to make choices that don’t have the desired and expected outcomes.

Class reductionism is one you’ll commonly read about in Marxist circles. Mechanistic materialism (as opposed to dialectical materialism) might be another. But as with most categories, the lines are fuzzy and sometimes arbitrary. Two people who ascribe to materialism might call each other vulgar materialists because they disagree on which variables to de-emphasize or where to draw the line between idea and material. Similarly among diamats and what constitutes base versus superstructure.

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But also didn’t most sites used to have an “over 13” check? Think I remember having to lie about that for gmail and Yahoo answers and the like

Damn I’m gonna steal this

I like the way you describe it.

Better than the thesis/antithesis/synthesis model, which I think was a major roadblock in my attempts to actually understand hegel/marx.

Humans are literally primates, so he’s accidentally admitting the inhumanity of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy

Lol I figure if I have them nearby I’m more likely to read them eventually. Which is true, but “eventually” is doing a lot of work.

I’ve started most of them fwiw, but only finished like 20%.

Nice to have on-hand to reference tho, especially as search engines continue to decline.

I think it’s a good thing that someone in the fringe mainstream / manosphere knows the words dialectical materialism and vocally supports AES. Not gonna watch him tho

Ooh thanks for the share! I have his super imperialism but also haven’t read it yet. I’ll check these links out

Off the top of my head:

Eric Hobsbawm was a Marxist historian who wrote the Age of series. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848 isn’t quite pre-capitalist but might be of interest to you. I have yet to read it even though the series is on my shelf, so I can’t vouch for it.

Caliban and the Witch was already recommended and is a good read.

The Dawn of Everything isn’t strictly materialist but is a good read, mostly focusing on pre-history and non-european cultures. Also Debt by one of the same authors.

Gerald Horne is a prolific writer, known for The Counter-Revolution of 1776. Looks like most of his work is also early capitalism forward, but what I’ve read and heard from him is good.

The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815 is a good class analysis, pretty interesting.

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent might also partially fit in the timeframe you’re looking for.

I’d be very interested in anything 0 -1500 AD because it looks like my library is lacking there.

Fwiw I get my tests for 3.50 each from weshielddirect, which I found on linktr.ee/buymasks. It’s still yet another monthly expense but at least cheaper than at most brick and mortar stores.

Really sorry to hear that. Linktr.ee/buymasks has some resources that may be useful to you (mostly at the bottom after all the mask links). Looks like Walgreens might still offer free tests, if you have one nearby.

There’s good bad and bad bad, sometimes which category a movie falls into is very mood and context based. Off the top of my head, Sound of Freedom was bad in a not enjoyable way, although I enjoyed podcasts discussing it.

There’s also “incredulously bad”, which are movies/shows that are terrible but have good ratings and reviews. Like you can’t understand why they’re generally considered good. West Wing is probably a good example of a show in this category.

One problem is arguably the worst thing a film can do is be forgettable, so I probably don’t even remember the worst ones I’ve seen.