Seth Taylor

Your taxes paid for this

Everybody has a bad time in Romanian prison. That’s a given

https://www.coe.int/bg/web/cpt/-/council-of-europe-anti-torture-committee-cpt-publishes-its-report-on-romania-focusing-on-police-prisons-and-children-in-detention

I put off getting a smartphone until like 2015. I was 21 and was one of the last of my friends not to have one. My argument against it was precisely that: “I don’t want to be online all day and I know that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”

I didn’t even buy my first smartphone. My sister gave it to me. It stayed in the box for six months. I so so did not fucking want it.

Now you can choose between a platform owned by the far-right and a platform owned by the far-left.

EDIT: Lemmy being Lemmy. Gonna say it again. FUUUUUCK COMMUNISM. FUCK IT ALL THE WAY UP ITS ASS. FUCK ALL COMMUNISTS. DEMOCRACY FOR THE FUCKING WIN. Move to China and see how much they actually love you. I’ll read your story in an article like this: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/american-family-moved-russia-seeking-better-life-got-drawn-war-ukraine-rcna220463

Every time one of you “Mamdani is right-wing” communist cunts downvotes me and presumably has their blood pressure spike to dangerous levels I reward myself with a cookie.

I’ve been struggling for years, living in poverty since I was 18 despite having just about the best education you can have in my field. I’ve made desperate decisions and risky moves to keep a roof over my head all while being spat on by all sorts of people and weathering wave after wave of politically motivated anti-intellectualism and it’s 2AM and I’m exhausted from digging a fucking trench to install pipes for the shitty house in the middle of buttfuck nowhere that I’ve had to move to in order to be able to work from home…

And this piece of news made me cry a little. Even though I don’t live in Ireland.

Cause I know how it is to feel like there’s no way out and to watch how everyone consumes art daily like addicts all while saying artists don’t matter and we should be grateful for the “privilege” we have and yelling “get a real job” anytime you complain.

And that’s my piece. Bring on the logical arguments. I’ve laid out my feelings.

Also, UBI for everyone would be fucking amazing. Why we’re not doing that is beyond me. It’s like “they” think that without a “carrot on a stick” everyone will stop working. If I had a penny for everyone who practically can’t think straight because of how worried they are about basic needs I’d probably save those pennies for my own basic needs. Fear is not a good motivator for workers.