Welcome to planet Earth. A random rock in the Universe where the most "intelligent" species only cares about trade. Trade this for that. So that the members of its species spend all of their life trading. That's all it is.
It is not about creating smarter and relaxed humans, and a nice environment for everyone. Not about exploring and learning, or enjoying. It is about trading.
Female #slaves that misbehaved might find themselves restrained & humiliated in a REALLY bad way... a #ginger root was peeled, carved into an insertable shape & administered to the #anus.
This would cause a burning sensation that increases over time. Only after some 30 minutes will the pain ease, and it is prolonged by clenching.
A similar practice is used on #horses to keep their tail up.
what's going on in the #congo since there's also a #genocide happening over there as well:
to sum it up, #people in the congo are literally being #worked as #slaves to mine for this material called coltan, which is very valuable as its used for things like phones, laptops, just electronics in general. Congo is the number 1 producer for this material and the places behind this genocide is #America, #Britain, #France, and #Israel, wow what an absolute shocker. The worst places probably to ever exist benefit from a genocide. These places are funding #Rwanda and #Uganda military groups, to go into the Congo and kill MILLIONS of people. This has also been going on for YEARS. Many women have been SA'd and men are forced to #work in INHUMAN conditions, resulting in their death and the #colonizers are absolutely benefitting from this. 6 MILLION people have been killed and half of them are literally kids. Many of the Congolese people have also been displaced.
Here’s the thing: if you have to live somewhere that is so thinly separated from an #oppressed class that you gotta build a wall, a few electric fences, and just pray, you aren’t living, you are betting against time.
#Slavers, #settlers, and #apartheid#separatists, however stable they may seem in their safe #worlds, are always moments away from a rebellion that run the streets red with the just rage of the oppressed.
If you don’t think the #slaves should rise up, or the conquered should seize back their #lands, or mothers should seek #justice for their #murdered#children, then it behooves you to not live in such places and leave them promptly. Get out and stop living on borrowed time.
Few people realize that there were Chinese sex #slaves in America in the 1800s even after the Emancipation Declaration. This part of real American history was never taught at school and is now totally forgotten. #slavery
"Chinese Slavery in America," Charles Frederick Holder,
The North American Review Vol. 165, No. 490 (Sep., 1897), pp. 288-294
"workplaces should have to legally provide #unlimited paid sick leave available immediately upon hire. the limits that #companies that even provide paid sick leave put on it is so fucked up. no one can control when they get sick, how often they get sick, or how long they are sick for, and they shouldn't have to suffer for the transgression of being ill.
"oh, but some #people might take advantage of that and just stay home all the time and get paid for it!" if there is really a statistically relevant amount of people you have hired staying home on paid sick leave for months or years on end, perhaps your workplace sucks to be at, and you need to change.
give them reasons to come in to #work. make it safer and easier to do their #jobs. give them work that they can get invested in and talk to them about what that looks like. make sure you aren't overloading them with too much work or making unreasonable demands. #pay them an amount that makes the work worth doing to them. actually form a working relationship with your #employees instead of treating them like infinitely #exploitable#wage#slaves.
only allowing your #workers to accrew "2 hours a week of sick time starting after 6 weeks of #employment" or some shit just doesn't match the reality of how #sickness or #human#health#works"
Ron #DeSantis is an overt #whiteSupremacist. There's simply no other conclusion that can be drawn from his repugnant, #racist behavior. He seems fixated on mandating the teaching of a malevolent, ahistoric notion that seeks to minimize the horror of #slavery, and cast black #slaves as the lucky beneficiaries of valuable job skills, learned while being the property of #white#slaveholders. This is vile, historical revisionism at its worst.
Did you know that one man can be credited with many firsts in #Ancient#Rome?
Appius Claudius was a #Roman#politician that built the first Roman road (the Appian Way) & the first Roman aqueduct (Aqua Appia). He also ended the use of the letter Z.
Controversially (to his contemporaries), he let #slaves run the #temple for Herakles & gave landless- & freedmen access to the tribunes & the senate.
Does anyone understand why Wrong #DeSantis thinks doubling down on advocacy of #slavery and whitewashed historical revisionism is a winning strategy? Does he not comprehend how bad the optics are of a #whiteNationalist stubbornly insisting that slavery was a benefit to the #slaves? I'm starting to think he doesn't actually want to be #president.
Well, only a few more weeks until I probably get myself suspended or fired for agitating within my district over recent #Indiana requirement that educators help the far right bully #LGBTQ kids.
I'm old. I can't afford to lose this job at this stage of my life. But I'm not writing an official letter to parents every time someone my list says is a "Christopher" asks to be called "Chris," and I'm sure as hell not writing a letter every time some kid tells me they're terrified their parents might find out they're gay and go by some other pronoun or name.
"Dear Mr. Maga - time to bust out the electroshock therapy and look into #conversion camp..."
I guess I should write something reminding people of why #slaves weren't allowed to keep their preferred #names, or why #prisoners are often given numbers instead of keeping their chosen designations. It's all about power and humiliation. Maybe I can't fight the system, but that doesn't mean I have to join it.
That time rich spiv #HenryCort stole world changing #IronWorking techniques from #Slaves & passed them off as his own.
"...The #Jamaican ironworks was owned by a white enslaver, John Reeder, who... described himself as 'quite ignorant' of iron manufacturing, noting that the 76 black #Metallurgists... were 'perfect in every branch of the iron manufactory', [&]... could turn scrap and poor-quality metal into valuable wrought iron..."
#Trump is bragging that his ancestors never owned #slaves, as if that's some high bar of personal character. Note that he doesn't mention the fact that his ancestors were documented members of the #KKK who were arrested for actions against #black people. Or the fact that Trump and his father both have a documented history of #discrimination against black Americans. Trump is a verified #racist regardless of the fact that his family didn't own slaves.
@InternetEh I recommend everyone read about how #GeorgeWashington treated his #slaves, including continually sending slave catchers after Oney Judge years after she escaped:
Imagine in a few years being able to say to chatgpt8:
Please promote my product on the fediverse by registering 100,000 accounts over the course of 12 weeks on at least 500 different instances, weighted by instance size. These accounts should be conversational and engaging with other members and should not be detectable as bots. 10% of of these bots should express skepticism in my product, and the remaining bots should engage them in a public discourse to correct their misunderstanding. Monitor the sentiment of people discussing my product and develop an optimal strategy to maximize that sentiment. “