No Free Will

This is the evil shit

I too have my best existential crisis while in the shower

I like my junk pile of analog human experience

I slept nearly 12 hours last night, woke up, had a panic attack, then took a nap for four hours.

Woke up, put on The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour, danced and cleaned my house happy.

It’s also been a long time since a nap like that worked so well. Sometimes ya just need to sleep.

I laughed too, until I raised a toddler with ADHD. He wasn’t diagnosed yet, but lord was it obvious he had the markers. Never leashed him, but definitely ran after him a lot, and had to keep a hyperfocused eye on him at all times.

I don’t laugh as hard now, I still giggle, but just not as hard

I’d really like to know your experience, if any, with working in manufacturing or any other labor work.

While you’re right with poor education being a factor, there are many other factors also.

I’ve pulled 12 hour days in 110°F factories, where y’all pray for the sun to go down, and management to go home, so you can finally open the back door and catch a breeze.

Even with all the education in the world, you dont want to go home and cook… a meal… after a day like that, never mind weeks or years.

I’d really just like to know what was your hardest labor job. Sometimes we think we know about something, even with education, but in practical life, it’s not what you expected.

Jesse Wells “Fat”

I love Jesse Wells, thank you for linking this song, it has an important message.

Here Here Absolutely. Also see: expensive healthcare “insurance”. Being overworked can have a person too exhausted to work out, or do much of anything outside of thier labor hours. When healthcare is too expensive and you can’t get a day off to go anyway, when your whole body hurts from repetitive exhaustion, add in poor sleeping, and yeah, poor habits form.

Night shift folks have it the worst too. Most still have families, and sleep very little so they can spend time with them.

So many factors are at play. To ignore them, is to concede to smug ignorance. I know these people in these factories. I know these men. I’ve worked for years along side so many.

I can see how its broken them, especially the men. I had to beg my position in a male dominant position, because ten years prior a woman got degloved, and for a time, they didn’t let women into that department, because it’s fucking hard. I got in and did the job very well, but damn yeah, the work was hard. Even just ten years of that shit will change your entire body and habits to cope. Something as simple as getting fast food for lunch, because you’re too tired to prepare anything outside of work, repeat that habit daily for 20 years, it adds up.

RIP to this man. He is one of but many, yet his impact is not lesser on my heart. Stay safe out there folks

The article also mentions how much they have increased each employee’s workload, on purpose, to basically punish them.

My personal health chart says I have carpal tunnel. Factory work is why I have carpal tunnel.

There is a direct correlation between working environments and employee health. There are hundreds and hundreds of environmental factors, whether working with heat, carsonogenic materials, heavy lifting, any kind of mining, risks are everywhere in the workforce.

If a company overworks employees, and maintains unsafe working environments, employee lives and health are increasingly placed at risk within sich environment.

The article is clear the company is overworking it’s employees on purpose.

An engineer asked me to run two machines over covid. We normally had three people to run two machines. I was running one, and the only operator on that day. Two machines is not safe to run with one person, nor is it possible without risking material quality on the line I was focused on. I can make good material on this line, or scrap on two lines. Fuck in my work, I could easily get degloved, 3rd degree burns, lose a finger tip, tear my rotator cuff, break a bone …all events that did happen over the years at these machines from people not paying attention to safety, something I’m not willing to risk so this engineer can “try something” on a machine he cant run himself. I told him to fuck himself in so many words. But that’s employee ownership, and my boss had my back.

Shame on the Union for not standing up for these people. Shame on you for taking the corporate side.

He may have died from heart attack from poor diet- but the environmental factors within a workplace, a place you spend most your waking hours, absolutely have a correlation to ones personal health. Your comment really seems to ignore that, and I’m sorry, definitely pissed me off.

“The canary in the coal mine” saying has a literal and tangible origin, it’s not just some saying.

I care about my fellow workers health and safety, whether I like them as people or not, I still want all fellow workers to be safe. I hope you do too.

Bro

Fine, yes. I was just throwing an idea out there. I don’t know how to pirate shit anymore, and am to an age where I can afford to support artists directly, so if one can, one should.

Where did the music to pirate come from back in the day? Was it not uploaded from a CD and then file shared?

I did learn in this thread there are numerous other streaming services I was completely unaware of, so thats cool

Yeah it was okay here too, until he hit middle school and a classmate mate told him about it …sigh…

They don’t stay little for long, I know but I was not prepared!

I wash as I go too, but there are still the after dinner dishes, and like the main pot/pan left over, the forks, the endless cups the just accumulate everywhere with having a whole family with adhd…

I tend to make everything by scratch, so I’ve only myself to blame (it’s cheaper tho). Washing as you go helps, but it’s not a full cure.

I posted cookies I made last night, and the only reason I didnt melt the butter with the lemon zest was to save pulling out and dirting my sauce pan I just cleaned from dinner.

I cook four portions, my husband has a portion, I have one too, my son then eats two portions and says he’s still hungry.

You can’t meal prep with pre-teens/teens in the house. This kid will eat leftover roast chicken for breakfast, like the whole damn thing.

I cry while grocery shopping and pray to saint peanut butter for help

A dishwasher not my hands? What is this wild technology you speak of?

Edit, I was attempting humor… gosh, not everyone has a fuckin dishwashing machine…

Connecticut will identify as grinders

In the early years of Spotify I liked that it stored the songs on your sctual device, so you didnt need an active Internet connection to listen to the songs.

No algorithm but buying physical media again is one path.

A few months ago I got a couple CDs and I’m hoping to rebuild my collection and get off Spotify. It supports artists better, and YouTube is still there to help discover new music.

Buy a CD a month instead of your service. A roll back for technology of course, but worth trying imo

Our musicians are getting fucked with streaming services and I like directly supporting them.

I dislike that you can’t block NSFW stuff. My son found NSFW stuff on Spotify… and I had to take it off our Living Room Tv and ban him from using it for now. I think you can block accounts, but there were so many… Go ahead, search tits on Spotify… fucking wild to me it’s not moderated.