If I get my Adderall through mail service instead of the local pharmacy it saves me $25 per month. BUT they won't fill it until I run out & processing & shipping is slow unless you pay extra (even then it is not next day) so I end up being out of it for a week+. Because it is a controlled substance it also requires a signature so unless I happen to be home when the no tracking package comes I have to drive further than my pharmacy to pick it up. American healthcare can just fuck right off. #adhd
I'm behind on work. I'm behind on house stuff. I haven't had the motivation to cook healthy meals or work out (also its been hot). I haven't had motivation to do most of my hobbies. I am trying to save and trying to pay down debt. I am trying to do all the things that make me a good responsible adult just to fail again because the War on Drugs criminalizes my medication and Big Pharma needs more profit for shareholders. If I didn't have cats I would probably just give up. #adhd#capitalismsucks
The modern predatory capitalist society completely ignores normal and natural cycles of nature and human biology. This expectation that people work like machines, this plantation mentality, is destructive and must be eliminated. We have to learn to live WITH nature, not in spite of it.
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I am currently on vacation. Yesterday my coworkers all told me "Schönen Urlaub". They opened car doors as I passed by to say "Schönen Urlaub". My Serbian coworker that speaks very limited German did his best to pronounce the well wishes as well. My boss. Everyone. And it made me very mad.
Schönen Urlaub means basically "Enjoy your vacation" but it's in the same vein as "Frohes Weihnachten" (En: Merry Christmas ) or "Alles gute zum Geburstag" (EN: Happy Birthday ). This is not a statement. It's a saying. It's a culturally engrained way to tell someone to celebrate a culturally engrained thing. That is "Vacation".
It made me really think. When I tell people what state I am from I generally have to describe it as "One of the square ones in the middle". Because nobody knows where Colorado is. I don't tell them I worked in Fort Collins and Boulder. I say near Denver. Nobody knows the names of the restaurants I sacrificed my time to, even if they were often locally famous.
I sacrificed my life, my time, my health, for a career that means absolutely nothing. I have "Tennis Elbow" in my right elbow from how often I use a chef's knife for chrissakes. I sacrificed holidays, friends, birthdays for double overtime that is and was meaningless. My longest work "week" was over 28 days. For what? An empty house? Depression? I'd stay at work until the sun was rising because why exactly?
The rage I felt in that moment was palpable. Not at my coworkers or at Germany but at myself and at my homeland. America tells you it's praiseworthy to sacrifice everything for nothing. For peanuts. For accolades your children, family and friends won't remember. In a town nobody knows for a company that will likely die and nobody will ever remember.
Now I live in a country where people will ask you "Wann machst du Urlaub?" ( En: When do you take vacation ) if you haven't taken one recently. And it makes me unreasonably angry that I sacrificed all of that, all of me for nothing.
I believe it should make you angry too. Enought to push for change. You're family and friends will only remember your absence. Believe me, I know. I raised myself and it comes with it's own problems of "feelings of abandonment", "people pleasing" and "trust issues". A company doesn't deserve your indentured servitude to increase quarterly profits.
So I've been a cook in two countries now. I've never been at a job that poured bleach on food to prevent homeless people from eating but I have had to work at places where it's a termination worthy offense to eat food. So you throw it away because it's better to be starving with a roof than without. Health Code and industry practice in the US leads to massive food waste.
Here in Germany the health codes are more stringent but also more logical. For further example, my boss told me once "We have a responsibility not just to save and environmental protection but also an obligation to Morality. People are starving. How can we be good and destroy food? Do NOT throw away food.". Except in German because she speaks basically no English.
It's really and truly terrifying to me. Germany has very very strict rules about food, health and quality. Much stricter than the States. But Germany's laws are more built on reason whereas the US makes codes on capitalism. That wastes food and freezes people to death in their homes. Don't forget to bleach the trash. We can't have poor people not suffering \sarcasm. All completely up to code.
Capitalism isn't reality and it isn't just. It doesn't take being a cook or anticapitalist theory to understand that. I always get weirded out by capitalism stans that truly think it is.
Under the category of the ridiculous… I am not sure if this is one of “the” green belt properties but it strikes me as highly insulting that they are building these monstrosities and advertising the rolling farmlands around them as a selling feature. These are NOT FARMSTEADS. They are DESTROYING FARMSTEADS. Who the r needs a 5000 sq ft house to heat and cool?
Once you realise that #capitalism is the source of all the existential threats faced by humans... 🤷♂️
It means that almost everything is part of that threat. Every corporation, every lobbyist, every politician with very few exceptions, and everyone who hasn't recognised this yet.
Before long I expect it to be dangerous to say that, unless of course it is a futile thing to think.
We feel frustrated when someone stockpiles the latest iPhone models on release day, only to sell them off later at inflated prices. But when someone does the same with houses - buys them up and rents them out for much more than they're worth - it is just fucking business as usual. Some even go as far as calling it as good business strategy. 🥴 There's something not right and something bit disgusting when making money off someone else's need for shelter is just called business as usual. It's a system that celebrates greed and overlooks those who are getting squeezed. When the number of vacant homes surpasses the count of homeless people, it's high time we shift our perspective. It's just more apt to describe it as a "Landlord Issue". Maybe add the adjective 'greedy' to that, as well.
Every day of every year of our lives provides golden, unimpeachable, irrefutable evidence that billionaires are categorical sociopathic dumbfucks who got a good roll of the dice, likely at birth, but sure, please tell us more about the true meritocracy of capitalism and how its lordly masters efficiently distribute goods, services and resources in a non-completely-fucked way.
But conservatives told me the unions and big media were all on the same side. And it's happening while a Democrat is president? Impossible. My black and white conspiratorial brain won't stand for this.
We don't have a cancer drug shortage
We don't have an energy shortage
We don't have an insulin shortage
We don't have a housing shortage
We don't have a teacher shortage
We don't have a labor shortage
We don't have a food shortage
We have a billionaire excess who buy politicians to deny us our basic human rights.
James Hansen is NOT happy. And indeed, none of us should be happy with what is going on...
The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past one million years, prior to human existence, because “we are damned fools” for not acting upon warnings over the climate crisis, according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.
The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since mass industrialization, causing a 20% chance of having the sort of extreme summer temperatures currently seen in many parts of the northern hemisphere, up from a 1% chance 50 years ago, Hansen said.
“There’s a lot more in the pipeline, unless we reduce the greenhouse gas amounts,” he told the Guardian. “We are headed wittingly into the new reality – we knew it was coming.”
Hansen said the record heatwaves that have roiled the US, Europe, China and elsewhere in recent weeks have heightened “a sense of disappointment that we scientists did not communicate more clearly and that we did not elect leaders capable of a more intelligent response.”
“It means we are damned fools,” Hansen said of humanity’s ponderous response to the climate crisis. “We have to taste it to believe it.”
Hansen was a NASA climate scientist when he warned lawmakers of growing global heating, and has taken part in protests alongside activists to decry the lack of action to reduce planet-heating emissions in the decades since.
Should global temperatures rise by a further 1C or more, which is widely predicted to happen by the end of the century barring a drastic reduction in emissions, the world will be plunged into the sort of warmth not seen since 1-3 million years ago, a period of time called the Pliocene.
Previous shifts in the climate, spurred by greenhouse gases or changes in the Earth’s orbit, have caused changes to unfold over thousands of years. But as heat waves strafe populations unused to extreme temperatures, forests burn, and marine life struggles to cope with soaring ocean heat, the current upward spike is occurring at a pace not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
“It’s not just the magnitude of change, it’s the rate of change that’s an issue,” said Ellen Thomas, a Yale University scientist. “Almost all my colleagues have said that, in hindsight, we have underestimated the consequences. Things are moving faster than we thought, which is not good.”
Just a reminder of why this is happening, and why it is directly tied to the #wga and #sagaftra#strike
Capitalist power sees workers as slaves and doesn't want to replace cheap labour. They want to replace higher-valued creative work which they are always trying to diminish and get out of paying. That is why writers and actors are on strike, and why Capitalists push mythological ideologies like "unskilled labour". They don't care about Quality of Life. They want us doing shitty jobs for less.
Teachers can only deduct $250 in school supplies on their #taxes, but billionaire Harlon Crow can write off his whole super yacht.😐
Why? Because millionaire politicians funded by billionaires & corps write tax #law for billionaires. We need a #Congress for working people—not the .1%
It's cool, everyone, I'm sure mega-rich GOP-patron coup-supporting fascist assholes just want what's best for the Democratic Party and America by bankrolling an enfleshed-horseshoe-theory dipshit whom exactly zero people OTHER than Republicans and Naomi Wolf want to run for president and who only Naomi Wolf and the handful of people who still think Naomi Wolf is smart will vote for.