I didn’t even deny anything specific about the colonially seized food; I was reflecting some very loud seething that got brought up during older dunks on jellied eels or beans on toast.

BUT THERE IS SOME REALLY GOOD CURRY IN THE UK BECAUSE SOME CONQUERED PEOPLES WERE COERCED TO THE OLD IMPERIAL CORE TO TRY TO ECONOMICALLY SURVIVE SO TAKE THAT

“Zero tolerance” policies in my district are so fucked up and easily metagamed by the actual bullies that I had to outright break the rules and feign ignorance to even let kids take a stand and fight back against the bullies. I hated it.

This is a mood, especially the bottom right panel.

No arguments here.

Work culture is being tuned to the point that everyone is miserable in it except those that find the work itself to be pleasure in a “hustlegrind sigma mindset” culty way.

“NFTs” were an attempt to rent-seek on the internet, demanding kickbacks for the dubious ownership of an entry on a ledger that is usually associated with an ugly picture.

Is this one of those “this is uncomfortably political to me and I don’t like that like that, therefore it isn’t a wholesome chungus 100 maymay” things?

It does look more fun doing that than going to work and getting another shot at long covid while rich assholes steal the surplus value of your labor.

The Jetsons had bullshit jobs for the sake of bullshit jobs. There’s got to be a better way than that.

Like so many dystopian stories, the real life version that eventually comes about is more cringe and shitty.

Compare a decades ago EvilMegaCorp as presented in fiction to the Steve Jobs-emulating ukulele-strumming hellworld corporations burning the planet down around us while trying to seem insincerely quirky about it.

Ultor in Red Faction was evil and all that, but imagine if Ultor was Le Epic X and all of its maneuvers were narrated by an aging very divorced apartheid dad.

Nerd rapture into the loving arms of the godlike but submissive holo waifu and ultimate comeuppance for the unwashed rabble is always, always just around the corner. Just you wait.

Doing excel for 9 hours straight is far better than breathing toxic gases inside a damp,badly lit coal mines tho. Juste saying…

Give it time. Those work conditions are getting gradually worse all over again as the internal contradictions intensify.

There’s a much longer use case now for “chad good” and that must make the originally intended users seethe.

I’ve taught long enough to see slang come and go almost on a yearly basis.

Some of it comes back, some of it gets remixed. If it isn’t hate speech, it’s fine.

Oh! Oh! Try “Paid maternity leave!”

but it isn’t funny

“Unless I am personally laughing it is not a meme”