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Leviathan is an entire chain. I'd also add that one unfinished, abandoned skyscraper looming over the city for as long as you remember. Despite being an urban planner's equivalent of a stillbirth, it feels like a building-sized memento mori image. It's known as the Skeletor.
LeviathanLewiatan.I posted that one before, but I think there was no caption. So now you have captioned version.
https://i.imgur.com/44PQe0s.mp4
The family cross really should have been picked up.
Man I miss K-pop being like... whatever this was.
This one is sort of like that meme gacek used to post a lot but in the 70s and before adult content colonized the internet;
Guy second from right reaaaaaaally needs to contain himself.
Also: Santa Day!
6th of December is St. Nicholas Day. While we have several different characters delivering gifts on Christmas Eve, St. Nicholas comes on the 6th. To be honest I'm not sure how much can I identify the character with Santa, there seems to have been a bit of a divergent evolution. (Not to mention, whether Santa is the same as Father Christmas and whether he lives in the North Pole or Rovaniemi in Finland.)
Kinda relatedly:
The one with the couch and the "unsuspecting" adult film actress.
and 14w special:
also I don't even get this oneoh it looks like his face and you sit on it!).This one makes me sad (for obvious reasons).
I cannot believe that is what qualifies as edgy nowadays.
clearly, the average pepe no longer gives you the kick
If that is not a real position held by some random group then the world of conspiracies is disappointing.
At first I was like, I wonder what kind of places you spend time in, then I realized you pretty much already told us. Anyways, nazi pepes don't work, will try something else next time. (edit: oh, and the most triggersome are the carefully selective statistic data, but that doesn't really count as a meme.)
Concerning Galileo: it's kinda amusing how everybody likes to compare themselves to Galileo, no matter how much of a crank or how far from whatever he could be meant to represent. And the likelier it is, the crankier they are.
Darn it you know my weakness.
Re:edginess, I consider like... what you would get away with in real life. As in what would cause the most ridiculous reaction and wave of thinkpieces from the factory.
Basically I think neonazism had it's time waaaaay too long ago. It's severely played out and the only reason there are even Pepes about it is because antisemitism is one of those pesky things that refuses to die.
This is not really 14w special (that would have to be something much better), but it just so happened I stumbled upon this image, so it was about right to post it with no delay.
*clothes are invented*
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Oh this pseudo-science explains why I run so hot during the summer.
I'm glad this assumes that the only reasons people are against the left-wing wishlist is that they're "distracted". I mean, obviously nobody would disagree if they knew "the facts".
For danged sakes somebody's got to do it for your fancy smartphones and computers so you can continue making memes.
Also thanks to this I learned something!
"Desperate" indeed. Fun fact: I only looked this up because I was pretty sure this was one of those jobs that falls under The Plumber's Rule.
This whole thing is just really dumb.
I should add; this is one of those things where it becomes really apparent that left-wing politics is becoming a bastion of badly disguised classism.
I'm disappointed that the idea of economies of scale -- in this case, the difference between having (for example) a social safety net that multiple people contribute to in small ways as opposed to insisting that everyone individually face being screwed by finances when things go wrong (along with the economic pitfalls and the vulnerability to manipulation that come from such situations) -- doesn't occur to you.
Mine safety regulations exist for a reason.
Also, automation may be able to help.
If you're going to pretend that I haven't already said;
I don't understand why you've suddenly decided Australian mines are unsafe. And, as I've pointed out, mine workers are quite well-rewarded for the risk they take on.
I have no doubt that they take pride in their work, and would like to continue doing it.
You cannot decide people think the wrong thing and that all they need to do to think the right thing (ie what you want) is a job or lifestyle like yours. That's insanity.
You cannot decide that people who are poor or unfortunate have less clear moral standing than you do.
All you can do is empathize and argue and treat them like intellectual equals.
Imagine if you were a mine-worker or even a pizza delivery guy. How would you feel having seen that image made about you? All of the ideas you care about tossed aside just because the role you occupy in society is seen as undesirable?
The notion to rid people of the jobs you think are too dangerous for them is quite a mental pretzel. There will always be dangerous jobs and you can't protect individuals from deciding to take them on.
In addition, the "may" in your statement is doing a lot of work. Automation is not magic and it's currently unavailable in this field so why argue what are essentially fairy stories?
I didn't decide it; the poster implied it. Frankly, though, one can replace that with any hazardous occupation with inadequate safety measures. Because safety measures are there to prevent/minimize the possibility of accidents, but the money is needed now, and desperate people are willing to try more things, which in turn makes them easier to take advantage of.
Also, being able to put a price tag on life and limb doesn't eliminate the ethical questions.
If they genuinely like to do it and would voluntarily continue (without pressure), that's one thing; if they're compelled by circumstance to do it, that's another.
I don't know how this statement even relates to what I've said.
Again, I'm not sure whether you're addressing me specifically or a general "you". But I'd like to remark that people who are poor or unfortunate probably have more moral standing than others who would take advantage of them when they are most vulnerable.
I've never seen the role of a miner or a pizza delivery guy as "undesirable". In fact, as a general point, I dislike how some jobs are seen as more or less inherently "better" than others based on some status thing. It's the "little guy" that does so much unappreciated and underappreciated work to make the world turn that we all take for granted while only paying attention to more charismatic occupations. Even if they're doing it just to make ends meet, the work they do has its value, both economically and in dignity.
But that doesn't mean that we ignore the circumstances, personal and occupational, in which they do that work. It's possible to seek improvement to something without demonizing it. The internet and the world of political soundbites may make that seem like a contradiction, but it's not.
Does that sound that what I intend to do with my argument?
In the same breath, programs that suck or drain more than they give back need to get cut. The government isn't just a tap of money.
I don't think a long term job in coal mining which pays more than the average wage (that is, even more than some cushy office jobs) qualifies for "desperate" on any level.
Like the ones trying to subtly bully them to voting the right way?
Then maybe align yourself with images that espouse that viewpoint.
We are not going to start requiring double-blind consent (or whatever this even suggests) to job interviews.
Everybody can do a personal risk assessment about what job they'd like or endure (yes, endure). Anybody in Australia can fly or drive or hitchhike to Tasmania and work in mining. Most people don't, even with their financial situations.
It's important to point out that not one of those soundbite factors in the image you posted was "my personal safety at work".
In addition, let's note that taxes from whatever job you have are likely going into funds to help the disabled so that entire premise wrong in two separate ways.
hey Storm