Mill Village posted:

Brand Twitter is out of control.

https://twitter.com/nitomatta/status/1113919191411597312?s=21

bike tory posted:

That's horrific, fortunately they can drug people now.

I worked at a nursing home for about a year. The dementia ward was depressing but not the worst part, most of the people in the dementia ward were too far gone to realise their situation. One couple mistook each other for their dead spouses and used to sit hand in hand with beautiful smiles on their faces. The slightly more aware ones used to try and trick the door code out of me every time, usually with innocuous sounding requests: "the nurse asked me to pop out to the shop for something, would you mind opening the door" etc. The worst bit was when they'd get disorientated and scared, usually because they'd had a particular lucid moment

The worst part of the nursing home though was the terminal hospital where they provided palliative care to people who were beyond saving. Most people were only there for a week or so, but there were three women who had been there for years, in pain, unable to do anything for themselves, just waiting to die. Two of them were never visited by anyone at all and used to just spend most of their time awaie wailing and crying.

Nothing has convinced me more of our need for euthanasia than my experience there

ekuNNN posted:

Mordor She Wrote posted:

fan fact, my mom works with the dad of that kid and says they can't stop him from trying to run over people or pets with it.

ekuNNN posted:

An instagram account called PreachersNSneakers is matching Megachurch pastors to the wildly expensive sneakers they're wearing:

Captain Billy Pissboy posted:

I almost wish I was in marketing just to see what kind of crazy poo poo I could get away with.

"What if uhhh... we said Subway was the victim of a hate crime?"

Rock My Socks! posted:

The only exception to this are the New Balance 9xx series, which use decent leather and are union-made in the US.

lancemantis posted:

im so glad we live in a world where we can just black hole our elderly family members now instead of taking care of them

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

it's cool that boomers came up with facilities to shuffle their parents into after kicking them out of their homes and are now going to suffer the same fate from their children that they also kicked out of their homes

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

it's cool that boomers came up with facilities to shuffle their parents into after kicking them out of their homes and are now going to suffer the same fate from their children that they also kicked out of their homes

ekuNNN posted:

imagine being this person and not even thinking about doing activism or helping out a community center or whatever because your loving capitalist brainrot prevents you from thinking of others

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

my wife once did a service rotation out in middle of nowheresville louisiana at this state asylum. they have a cemetery on the grounds with thousands of nameless graves because back then they just couldn't communicate with a lotta their patients, even to learn their names; it's one of the more famous "haunted places" in louisiana

anyway, it now operates at a fraction of the capacity of what it used to, so as a result some of the older buildings have been repurposed into dormitories for med student rotations and whatnot, one of which is where my wife was put up. she sent me pictures of the basement where they still have manacles set into the walls, because that's just how they dealt with patients back then before the advent of neuroleptics. like there are probably still people alive that remember this

Tiberius Christ posted:

The rich desperately want to be a minority group you can sympathize with.


Hahaha

E: poo poo I meant "people of means"

JudgeX posted:

abuse was still ridiculous, one orderly would wake up one patient by banging on his beadframe with a broomhandle (beating stick) during bed checks, so the patient hid a screwdriver in his bedframe and stabbed him lol

Olanphonia posted:

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1114251202450083840?s=19 this is real loving intensely dystopian

Len posted:

My work changed out attendance system and we had the official announcement today at our morning meeting. Now we have 1/4 points if you're anywhere between 1 second and 5 minutes late.

My regional manager sat in on the meeting today and said that means you can be late up to 40 times a year now without costing you your job. Which means you can afford to call off when sick. Apparently the last time he was at our facility he got sick and he just wanted us to know we had more wiggle room now for call offs. When three of us pointed out that we literally can't afford to call off because we don't have sick time and have bills he got super defensive and changed the topic.

bike tory posted:

bike tory posted:

Mill Village posted:

Brand Twitter is out of control.

https://twitter.com/nitomatta/status/1113919191411597312?s=21

Siljmonster posted:

I've never eaten a steak um

Dwaggy posted:

at the end twitter is going to become nothing but brands talking to brands, all watched over by paid-for botnet followers of loving grace

Hodgepodge posted:

it will be preserved by the future gay space communist society as a preserve, for historical interest

brands, now unable to survive in the wild, will frolic, free and woke, never knowing that there are no sales numbers to inflate

RandomPauI posted:

I was born in 1982 and distinctly remember being 18 years old (2000) and thinking I would die before 30 from a war because there was no way the current economic system was sustainable.

bike tory posted:

TheMostFrench posted:

Now they're taking authentic feelings away from us

T-man posted:

Mark Fisher was right to hang himself, as well as about most everything else. We're all hosed, thanks for showing me the light steak-ums. God is dead, and the only thing to replace it is brands.

bike tory posted:

SymmetryrtemmyS posted:

https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-internal-revenue-service-global-high-wealth-audits

This obviously isn't news to anyone here, but it's a good overview of one particular case. The Gilded Age 2.0 sure is great, where households making a joint $100k pay almost ten times the percentage of their income as households making $100m.

SymmetryrtemmyS posted:

https://www.propublica.org/article/ultrawealthy-taxes-irs-internal-revenue-service-global-high-wealth-audits

This obviously isn't news to anyone here, but it's a good overview of one particular case. The Gilded Age 2.0 sure is great, where households making a joint $100k pay almost ten times the percentage of their income as households making $100m.