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I think it sucks that everyone works so hard for so little while rich people and landlords take every penny you have. It sucks because I think all things and all people are, instead, property of The State. Rich people are being allowed to forget that they too are property.
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It's a weird take to think that the kind of maintenance a medieval peasant would have to do, and the social units they lived in are 1:1 comparable to modern ones. Being a peasant sucked, but in a different way to how being a single guy working retail does also suck.
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Jan 12, 2023 14:53
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Aramek posted:I think it sucks that everyone works so hard for so little while rich people and landlords take every penny you have. I hope this isn't an unpopular opinion but I know that it would make some people really mad in some parts of the internet.
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Jan 12, 2023 16:51
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Disco Pope posted:It's a weird take to think that the kind of maintenance a medieval peasant would have to do, and the social units they lived in are 1:1 comparable to modern ones. Being a peasant sucked, but in a different way to how being a single guy working retail does also suck. I work retail. I’d take it in a heartbeat over being a subsistence farmer any day of the week.
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Jan 12, 2023 17:02
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We tried people as property before.
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Jan 12, 2023 19:05
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thetoughestbean posted:I work retail. I’d take it in a heartbeat over being a subsistence farmer any day of the week. Sure, but I'm not implying it's a competition. Things can suck but differently.
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Jan 12, 2023 20:47
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Disco Pope posted:Sure, but I'm not implying it's a competition. Things can suck but differently. While I agree that they are fundamentally different experiences, I think that we know enough about what life was like for the average peasant to qualitatively call it a worse experience. I find people trying to say that the present is the worst time to be alive (the subtext of people who argue that feudalism was less exploitative than capitalism—an argument disputed by Marx) to be quite myopic. For goodness sake, this isn’t even the most exploitative period of capitalism!
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Jan 12, 2023 21:51
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They should unban Agesilaus so he can weigh in here.
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Jan 12, 2023 23:07
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docbeard posted:It's really just that people did spend half the year pursuing their hobbies, but their hobbies were also pretty much just farm work because there was nothing fun to do in Ye Olden Days.
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Jan 13, 2023 03:14
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Tiggum posted:There was cheese and beer and music. What else do you need? The music was dogshit
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Jan 13, 2023 03:52
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thetoughestbean posted:I work retail. I’d take it in a heartbeat over being a subsistence farmer any day of the week. The people who believe that life was better as a medieval peasant than today as an office worker or service worker are breathtakingly stupid. I think they need to take a break from the media sources which are feeding their persecution complex. Along the same vein, the people who have mysterious/intangible beefs with industrial agriculture and call for a return to subsistence farming are also SOOOO stupid. Many of these people also say things like 'healthcare and college education are human rights'. Well, when you greatly reduce the wealth of society by calling for a return to the Stone Age, you are obligated to kiss those concepts goodbye.
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Jan 13, 2023 11:58
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Most of those people do not realize that virtually all the meat and produce we eat today are horrifyingly deformed mutants our ancestors experimented on for millennia to grow quickly and be palatable to humans. It's hilarious to read some "paleo" diet recipe that's like, steak with brussel sprouts lmao.
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Jan 13, 2023 12:33
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silence_kit posted:The people who believe that life was better as a medieval peasant than today as an office worker or service worker are breathtakingly stupid. I think they need to take a break from the media sources which are feeding their persecution complex. They have absolutely no idea what any of the other groups in the past did or felt like, they just know they are in pain and imagine something better. Life is suffering, though. Now or before.
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I don't like Jason Sudeikis I don't have any actual reasons why, and he has worked on shows I like I just don't like the look of that guy
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hawowanlawow posted:I don't like Jason Sudeikis Related: I’ve seen the first couple of episodes of Ted Lasso and it just didn’t hook me. Am I doing something wrong?
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Blue Moonlight posted:Related: I’ve seen the first couple of episodes of Ted Lasso and it just didn’t hook me. Am I doing something wrong? Never apologize for not liking art. No art is for everyone
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Blue Moonlight posted:Related: I’ve seen the first couple of episodes of Ted Lasso and it just didn’t hook me. Am I doing something wrong? As a person who liked Ted Lasso I think it has a very specific vibe that you're on board with or you're not. I can easily see why someone might not get hooked by it.
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Jan 18, 2023 06:54
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It's funny how in Ted Lasso there is almost always some kind of Apple or computer joke or reference in every episode. I suspect that Apple forces the showrunners to insert stuff like this into the show. Is this the case for other AppleTV shows?
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Jan 18, 2023 10:30
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I think Peep Show kind of sucks as a TV series. I like little bits from It's always Sunny and sometimes it can be funny but it's also not my fav.
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Jan 18, 2023 12:21
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Blue Moonlight posted:Related: I’ve seen the first couple of episodes of Ted Lasso and it just didn’t hook me. Am I doing something wrong? Didn't rope you in, huh? Couldn't resist.
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Jan 18, 2023 17:38
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Always sunny needs to end five or six years ago
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Didn't rope you in, huh? 
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yeah I stopped watching Always Sunny a few episodes into season 11 because it was absolutely terrible the first 6-7 seasons are absolute gold, 8 and 9 were starting to slip, 10 was pretty bad, and when I got to the chardee macdennis 2 episode in 11 I had to turn that poo poo off and never went back to it
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hawowanlawow posted:yeah I stopped watching Always Sunny a few episodes into season 11 because it was absolutely terrible same but season 1, not that it was AWFUL or anything but I dunno, i watched like 3 episodes and didn't need more unlike community which only took 1 episode to realize that was enough maybe american tv shows should focus on being well written and acted and good rather than just throwing in aged celebrities
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JollyBoyJohn posted:same but season 1, not that it was AWFUL or anything but I dunno, i watched like 3 episodes and didn't need more S1 doesn't even have frank bud
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Jan 18, 2023 18:00
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Sitcoms in general take a while to find their footing.
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yea s1 without Frank is very very different from the rest Frank's character and the tone of the show in general changes a lot from season 3 to 4 as well, but I'd say the show is really good through season 6, 7 is still very good but starts in with more self-referential fan service, 8 and 9 continue that trend, then 10+ it's a parody of itself (maybe on purpose, but still not funny)
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if a television show has more than 3 seasons i don't even want to know about it and thats bearing in mind a good british tv show lasts 6 episodes not the 20+ that americans need
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oh, it's jollyboyjohn lmao
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Sad to see that the British mind is so far reduced that even the idea of watching a television show of length causes considerable distress. At this point the US seriously needs to consider forceful intervention to put the island under it's stewardship and beneficent guardianship.
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IAS floundered for a few years and then completely jumped the shark when Mac got ripped
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I believe new Popes should be under 20 years old by liturgical law Im not catholic but Popes are major world figures and it would be cool to have one for more than a few years. I want popehood to define eras like in Japan (not popes there but you get the idea)
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Manager Hoyden posted:I believe new Popes should be under 20 years old by liturgical law under 20 and you're electing a kid who hasn't finished priestly training lol. 35-50 is an interesting age range to consider, a parallel to pre-modern secular monarchs who were often crowned well into adulthood but not in old age. also not catholic + the catholics will have a laundry list of reasons its gotta be the exact way it is right now
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Last time they elected a Young Pope we got Jude Law, think on that
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Popes should be executed when they turn 18, and a new Baby Pope chosen.
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Aramek posted:I think it sucks that everyone works so hard for so little while . . . landlords take every penny you have. It would be such a great use of government money to spend it on building a lot of public housing. There are a couple of practical issues with this idea however. Issue 1: The federal government, which actually has the best shot at affording a major program such as this, doesn’t have the authority to do this. Owing to our federalist system of government, that authority rests with local/state governments. Issue 2: This government program would be wildly unpopular! Even a lot of ostensibly progressively-minded people are very much against building more housing.
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Shibawanko posted:byob is a grey forum petition to get you renamed to just "wank-o" in the interests of public transparency and new-user friendliness PHUO: Any given shibawanko post can be replaced with  at no change to the signal/noise ratio of the thread
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alexandriao posted:petition to get you renamed to just "wank-o" in the interests of public transparency and new-user friendliness look out this guy's mad
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They might be mad, but they're not wrong.
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Phosphine posted:They might be mad, but they're not wrong. This guy is also mad. Lol
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