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@tangleofrainbows / tangleofrainbows.tumblr.com

just an enby in new york . . . agender, 29, it/itself
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Re: Purge.

If everything was legal for like twenty-four hours I’d start a communal garden.

This is barely even hyperbole.

I would legit start a communal garden with whoever wanted to join me.

I think that would be fucking dope.

Rewrite of The Purge where, for 24 hours, people hurriedly complete all those renovations and projects that the council forbids. Helen, leader of the PTA, laughs maniacally as she tears grass from her lawn with a pitchfork, her thirteen-year-old daughter Emily’s arms red with mud as she wades through the carnage, planting thyme. Jack and Mitch have left their friendly smiles behind at the RSL; today their faces show only grim determination as they methodically shovel gravel into potholes and pour bitumen. The local biker gang, gathered on the corner, are the most rambunctious of the mischief-makers, whooping and hollering as nail guns are driven into plywood, assembling miniature by-the-road shelters for the homeless to rest on cold nights. Their noise covers the sounds of Katy and Sam moving from street to street with their trolleys, picking up unsold or unwanted food from houses and restaurants to give to the hungry without fear of taxation or food safety reprisals. They’re young, and still scared of being caught.

But there’s no one to catch them. Not tonight. 

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…You know you live in a dystopian capitalist hellscape when….

#. . . i would watch it#capitalism#actual dystopia#tumblr remakes movies#the purge#amazing
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Something I really hate about capitalism is it creates this fear of robots/machines taking over simple jobs and putting people out of work, where as such a thing should be viewed as a push closer to giving everybody a universal income and freedom from work.

#ugh#mad about it#robots#capitalism
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Tumblr’s official post about the elimination of threaded comments says it’s to improve readability. Since numerous folks have complained in the tumblr update tag that the change makes reading comments more difficult, you might find that hard to believe.

“Better readability” is the story Tumblr is telling users. To its business and advertising partners, Yahoo/Tumblr’s story is quite different. The comment change is merely a symptom. The actual changes are:

–New functionality to link the Tumblr mobile app to other mobile apps (Facebook, Twitter) and share content (x). Android only so far. With this update, users on mobile can share any content on Tumblr with just one click to any app they have running (x).

–New functionality to advertise mobile apps to Tumblr mobile app users (x). Called “In-App Sharing,” (you are what is being shared), it was announced at the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference, August 26, 2015. It works like this: when viewing a Tumblr post created with an app like Instagram, you see text saying “Made with Instagram” followed by an Install button for Instagram. (Example image, above right, features the Discover app). “Developers” are what Yahoo calls its corporate advertising partners. These “developers” are not young folks crafting open source apps to save the environment; at the conference, Yahoo senior vice president Simon Khalaf boasted that global mobile usage now “beats the [global] distribution of clean water” (x). Charming.

As many Tumblr users have complained, the change to Tumblr comments (live on Tumblr mobile apps and Tumblr for the web as of September 3, 2015) make Tumblr look like Facebook and Twitter. This is undoubtedly to support the new ability to link the Tumblr mobile app with other mobile apps, such as Facebook and Twitter, and to share content. Tumblr’s original threaded comment format (see image above on left) cannot port to Facebook or Twitter or anywhere. Therefore, while Tumblr support said it wants feedback on the comments change, rest assured all feedback of the “Comments are less readable now” type will be “lovingly” (x) dumped in the trash.

On August 17, 2015, Yahoo/Tumblr got a fantastic scare from Facebook, when Facebook announced, “We’re testing an update to Notes to make it easier for people to create and read longer-form stories on Facebook,” in order to compete with Tumblr (x). Yahoo/Tumblr, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, and Twitter are locked into a death struggle, usually clumping into Facebook versus everyone else, except when they clump into Google versus everyone else. In any case, in the trenches of the social media wars, it’s the users who always lose.

Note: want actual news about Yahoo/Tumblr? Go to finance.yahoo.com and search for “tumblr”.

bonehandledknife

Preeeeetty much this.

Follow the money.

#welp#there it is#unsurprised#but disappointed#mad about it#capitalism#tumblr#yahoo#ugh#updates
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I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

  • A forty hour work week is considered full time.
  • It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)
  • A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.
  • Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.
  • Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.
  • Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.
#yes#this#important#minimum wage#living wage#economics#labor#capitalism#exploitation#mad about it
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One legitimately weird thing about capitalism is that when you hire a worker, you have full power over the surplus value they create. Sometimes that’s exploitative, sometimes it’s really exploitative—but in any case it’s something that’s concerned a lot of you for a while now. We’re finally fixing it.

Starting today, people will be able to take arms up against the bourgeoisie, or face justice from the proletarian masses, but they won’t be able to make millions of dollars off the brutal subjugation of the working class any more. Phew.

jesus fUCKING christ

#literally the only one of these i will acknowledge#mostly b/c#anticapitalism#economics#capitalism#exploitation#cackling#(but feeling guilty abt it)#when sad
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