Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the time-honored tradition of our group, grab yourself a bevrage of your choosing and relax for this weeks, weekly discussion thread. Oh and have a pleasant Vietnamese Family Day
P.S. if anyone can explain how this photo came up with the search term “Vietnamese Family Day” I would love to know
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Nerd behaviour (my own)
Yoooo, you’re now on Lemmygrad
Yooooo yes!!!
oh yeah, Hexbear is going down in a few hours lmao
Who is standing outside my house and shouting “TOUCH GRASS”? Show yourself, coward. I will never touch grass.
You should touch grass NOW!
Outside: heterosexuals, scary and unpleasant, I literally have a light allergy to grass
Inside: cool and chill, can browse lemmygrad, work on a sewing project I have
Idk…
OK yeah the grass sounds pretty bad now 😅
I also find that annoying. I mean I was just coming with a bilbord outside your bedroom window and he is really hard to work next to
The rrrrat on lemmygrad!
Literal RODENTS on GRAD!!
(Where is my rat emotes…)
RODENTS on GRAD
we had rodent users before it was cool
I miss her every day 😔
Hope she’s doing well.
Waow… (based based based)
I’m back.
I’m Makan.
Started reading wretched of the Earth, good book
As a thought:
We use money as a convenient way to describe the value of someone’s labour. But, it removes all context. It’s kind of like having a multi variable equation to describe the economic value someone has, and either using approximations, derivatives, or substitutions, to simplify the equation into a single variable.
Then, we use markets to do the same thing with the needs of people. It’s a simplified representation of what the real quantifiable needs of people and society are.
It’s sort of like instead of asking everyone what they need and want, prioritizing the needs, and figuring out how much labour time is required to meet those needs, then figuring out how much labour time is required to meet the wants. We decided it is easier(true)/better to assume that each person will only choose to trade the amount of labour time they are willing to commit to trading for their needs/wants.
If someone in this situation is able to have more money than their labour value (theft, inheritance, etc.), they are disconnected from the effort required to meet their needs/wants. Thus, they have the money required to meet their needs, plus extra that is unearned, and an imbalance of power under this arrangement. It becomes possible to offer more for resources that are either scarce, or close enough to being scarce, thus driving up the price without any additional labour from that individual.
I bet it is possible to invent a new metric (besides money, but maybe unnecessary) and/or a new distribution tool (instead of the “market”) that prioritizes needs and wants more than simply money/capital.
I’ll call this work:
Crapital volume 1
Keep in mind this is a much smaller scale than any bigger society but there are some Belgian communes for example that use time as a metric. For example: I work x amount of time doing stuff for you, like working in your garden, and you then owe me x amount of time to do something for me. Basically everyone trades their time to meet the needs of the commune.
That sounds nice and all, but the relationship between time and labour is not linear. So one might put in more effort than another in the same amount of time. Therefore, there are some limitations in using time as such a metric.
This would indicate we must find the mean of labor data time inputted…
Yeah, symbols are imperfect representations of their essences, and each layer of abstraction is ripe for ideological obfuscation. The entirety of our culture seems trapped in a semi-orchestrated signifier dance that suppresses not only class consciousness, but consciousness in general.
https://imgur.com/gallery/j1OGjoS
I posted a link bc Lemmygrad won’t let me put the picture in my comment
OH SHIT THE NEW UPDATE KEEPS “SORTED BY NEW” WHEN RELOADING THE PAGE LESS GOO
Thank fuck, so annoying when you misclick on mobile and have to reload…
… But you need to keep clicking
Have a nice week, comrades! I hope it’s nice and rainy wherever you are ^^
I hope you have a nice week aswell
I think this is becoming trend
Wow today Ive been on Lemmygrad a full year, what a year its been
Ocommie64
💀💀💀
Ocommie90
Anniversary
The best one
Happy graday
Thanks!!!
С днём рождения!
Thread on front page of r/soccer rn filled with people malding about UEFA website (correctly) listing a Ukrainian player’s birthplace as Russia cause he was born in Donetsk. good bit
They changed it to Ukraine on the official UEFA website :/
Cowards, show the truth! they cotted to join the Russian federatioin
Booooooooo
Wouldn’t the correct way be Ukraine nonetheless? Just like players in the German football team used to have their stated birthplace be the GDR.
Must be some big conspiracy and UEFA is clearly pro Putler. Or it was just a mistake, given how other Donetsk born players were just listed as Ukrainian.
are oliver stones’s documentaries worth a watch? he has several on JFK, Bush and American history etc. are the sources reliable?
not what you asked for but salvador by stone is amazing
One thing I like to do when I eat alone is to watch food tours from all over the world, especially on channels like The Food Ranger. It’s a nice way to learn about different cultures and in a weird way it makes me emotional. Like, today I watched a video about an Iranian street food tour and everyone in the video is so nice and friendly and smiling and welcoming, which is such a stark contrast with how our media portrays countries like Iran. This whole world view of dehumanizing other countries gets shoved in our faces constantly and it makes me sad that these people can’t do anything about it.
I didn’t watch the debate, but this is me reading the reactions to it
Completely out of character I will fly for my holiday soon and funny enough I am nervous that the airport will be blocked by climate activists lol. Guess it is easy supporting when you’re not the one being targeted normally.
Would that count as a picket line?
I don´t think so unfortunately
I got an A on the essay I wrote about the Vietnam war for university. I couldn’t go full commie in it but I was satisfied with how it turned out. My boyfriend helped a lot and found me really cool sources in our home library which i unfortunately couldn’t cite as they are not accepted as legitimate sources. Still, i took it as an opportunity to learn and did my best.
