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Major disrespect towards the working class. Any company which makes the applicant worker do these fucking obnoxious mini games is a no go for me. As if i need to demonstrate superhuman skills to flip burgers!
did a ton of yard-work today for a lady; planted three beds, filled 5 more, did some work on a chicken-coop and each one of those beds needed a good 50/50 mix so it was a removed turning them after weeding all of them.
made good cash, I’m happy about it.
Hey everyone, I’m recovered from muscular pain. It was horrible to walk with that pain.
I am happy that you are doing better!
Congrats on your recovery! I had a knee surgery in January, and I can sort of relate to your pain.
what kind of pain? I’ve been having some pain in my left butt bone when i walk or stand for long periods, and now when i sleep on my left side. it has been going on for about a year or so but seems to be getting much worse lately.
i asked my dr about it last year when i did my physical and he shrugged it off.
i just had an appointment with him again last Friday specifically for this pain and again he shrugged it off and said I’m just getting old and need to do stretches.
I’m getting a new doctor. but also this sucks
could be an issue with the piriformis muscle.
but what to do about it? my dr said just take ibuprofen for the next 6 weeks and see if that helps and that just sounds stupid to me.
Depends if you have short or long piriformis syndrome. Likely, your hip flexors are too weak/overworked, and your glutes are too weak.
I have the same issue.
I was watching the Eurovision final in the bar and me and some other people were booing Israel whenever they came on. Some people had scorecards and I could see that some of them had scribbled out Israel. Right before the final result was revealed me and another girl who was booing Israel in the bar were holding hands in suspence and when finally Bulgaria won the bar went wild. Great to see.
I am a bit miffed they got second place but being denied first and still effectively hated by the audience will have to do.
started a new job a month ago. In the AI generated onboarding documents it says i better get really comfortable with AI because it will be an extensive part of every job in the company.
fast forward to last weekend when CEO writes an angry teams message saying people are relying too much on AI to do their jobs and aren’t putting any thought into anything.
lol lmfao even
lamine yamal you goated son of a gun
Is it weird that I mostly call refer to trump as Donald or Donny instead of president trump?
No that’s pretty normal. I like to call the king of britain King Chuckles or if he is the topic of the conversation I like to call him Chuckles the Clown.
Hello peeps! I know that SlayGuevara said that I could link the mutual aid post in the mutual aid community, but I asked Moderator GrainEater and they said that it is ok (content warning for abuse towards children): https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11615234?scrollToComments=true
I need a place to vent again. But It’s bullshit that I need a referral to see a place where I live that offers HRT, but they want a referral that I can’t give because the doctor I use to see for this, left, and his place refused to give a referral and just told me to get a referral from a primary care doctor, which I don’t have.
and im trying not get overwhelmed at the same time with dealing with my dad’s affairs either since he died.
I am sorry to hear that. Every person that needs HRT should get it (it should be a fundamental right for those who want it).
HRT should just be sold off the counter or free without any gatekeeping. It just very frustrating especially since I like, I did have access to it before the doctor I saw left last year. And it was sudden to since I schedule an appointment late fall, and they just tell me that the doctor left and sent me a letter saying that they would give a referral! and when I finally get around to it this month, they don’t. like…
im genuinely getting angry and want to yell at this place. Actually I am going to raise a mess with this place
True, people should get free HRT if they want, and I wish you the best in getting HRT.
Do you still have the letter? Maybe if you show them their own letter that will convince them.
I do, I just emailed their patient representative contacts with a copy of the letter attached and even mentioned of willing to file a complaint. and if they ignore that I’ll just show up to the clinic or call that patient rep line. Like, this is all extremely ridiculous all to get a referral just to see another doctor. It’s not as if I’m asking for them to do surgery or something. All this reminds me of my mom who hated doctors, and legitimately. how can someone be a doctor and not end up being like Che Guevara and wanting and fighting for change? How do these doctors just for lack of better terms, not give a shit about the people they claim to care for.
and erg. I’m reminded when I had a very bad tooth infection a decade ago and got turned way from a dentist since I couldn’t pay a few grand up front. and the tooth infection was really bad.
Well, doctors are part of the labor aristocracy (I believe), so it is not surprising to me that there would be those more interested in making money than helping people.
I am sorry to hear about your bad tooth infection! I know from experience that the dental industry is horrible when it comes to costs.
I don’t know why but the last five days have been weird and bad.
I don’t feel like doing anything.
I don’t enjoy anything, I think.
I don’t want to really do anything.
I have no motivation, I think.
I am sorry to hear that. I have those days sometimes as well.
I hate that feeling. I get it a lot.
Things are not looking good in Bolivia, folks. The US is planning to destroy the resistance there while US puppets are rushing to the aid of the neoliberal puppet Rodrigo Paz.
Striking workers have erected barricades blocking highways in every region of the country.
i pray and pray all of these simultaneous interventions can in some way overextend them and worsen things but none of that would be happy so much as it is only a minimal reassurance. the death throes include trying to take everyone down with them, but it’s just such unfair suffering
A lot of people don’t trust certain parts of society such as the homeless and I understand why. I wouldn’t trust a mafia boss or a mobster, someone with a record for willingness to do crime against the defenseless. It’s a fascist mentality.
However I would like to add my two cents with brief experience of homelessness and just general interactions with a broad section of lumpen. Be it street musicians or prostitutes. Sadly I only have anecdotes on my side which is part of the issue, it’s very difficult to do empirical research on this subject and avoid biases.
In my brief experience of homelessness the only person who immediately approached me was another homeless person. He immediately noticed that something wasn’t right with me and came with advice, in the meanwhile I’ve likely had more than a 1000 people walk past me without a care and you might wonder why didn’t I go to an institution? Well because they dismantled them.
Marxism is based on Dialectical-Materialism, it means the body is the mind is the body and practical experience is necessary for change to happen. You cannot simply “fix” someone with a mental exercise. I think many Chauvinists dismiss the lumpen because they toss them a book and expect class consciousness to sort it out. It’s not that simple, change needs structure that supports it.
I have found this one of the major weakness of the modern day left movement. There is a lot of effort trying to pull down the petite bourgeoise, not a lot of efforts pulling up the disenfranchised. It ends up being left upon a religious institution, the Heartfelt liberal or the extraordinarily rare mutual-aid group. All of which get infiltrated by the right.
I have never encountered a communist in the presence of the “lower classes” but I have had reactionaries try to befriend me and idk if people realize how far the influences of 1 neo-fash can spread. So this guy I will call him Measurehead, because that’s what his personality was like, yeah a competitive racist. But the guy literally inserted himself anywhere and he’s been all the way to China and around. Which has really bothered me because this is the kind of people who go around to the lumpen everywhere and spread their ideology. This one guy has probably ended up influencing hundreds by now if not more. And he was so good at gathering a crowd around him it’s like scary to see. The way how he immediately could spot who to turn to in order to gather a crowd around him.
It scares me because the sort of people who get co-opted by the likes of him include people who would be willing to work tripple shifts for half of the pay. Regardless how one feels about the downtrodden, you’re going to have to deal with them. That is a fact. This is the reason why I have been trying to shine a little bit of a light on the issue. It’s not just because I’ve read Mao or Malcom or Che, although I believe their personal life experiences had influenced them to arrive to similar conclusions.
It’s a good reminder, thanks for bringing it up. It’s a strategic thing and, more importantly, a humane thing. We should be doing what we can to uplift the most downtrodden, which means empowering, educating, building ties, etc. As opposed to looking at it in a distanced charity sort of way, the way that the capitalist class does.
I think many Chauvinists dismiss the lumpen because they toss them a book and expect class consciousness to sort it out. It’s not that simple, change needs structure that supports it.
I think this is in some ways a symptom of individualism, the tendency to approach it in this way. You could have 50 people read the same book independently and draw wildly different interpretations. Education is an organized process, not a matter of pointing in a vague direction and hoping.
So I think I should figure out how to pay for a new phone service plan or whatever because having it in case I am not using Wi-Fi is important. I should also definitely find out where I am going to get a job because that is more important than other things likely are (jobs will pay for housing, but housing cannot get me a job).
