Posts by burgerdrome@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AiAt1H0xQ8NU3bQggC by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-05-23T04:31:20Z
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the only thing you need to do to understand how imperialism works is to understand this: anyone who does anything in support of Palestine is 'rewarding terrorism', but anyone who does anything in support of Israel is 'respecting law and order' - even though you can quite literally read a history book and see that Israel was established through unbelievable, industrial-scale, violent terrorism. every time I see this argument come up I lose my fucking mind
(DIR) Post #AiAtLqeOdUVYN8ggfQ by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-05-23T06:42:00Z
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@aral thank you!
(DIR) Post #Aj8cS4g7WLhTQj1prM by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-06-21T00:21:58Z
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ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recentlyCOMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratchCOMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champCOMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue
(DIR) Post #AjNMUH6HbyY3ffzWkK by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-06-28T03:53:49Z
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working on a theory
(DIR) Post #AjgxVMehpaUpUtiJZg by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-07-07T10:29:31Z
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lovely weekend away for our 18th anniversary :)
(DIR) Post #Alx9hIPMqdtA0bdFi4 by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-09-13T07:05:54Z
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A corporation I'm currently involved with an enterprise bargaining campaign for used a captive all-hands meeting recently to put up a slide, unprompted, which read "The facts: We have always behaved ethically and responsibly during the campaign". Struggling to think of a more astonishing unforced error tbqh
(DIR) Post #Alx9hJDLqns4Vd1AcS by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-09-13T07:07:24Z
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this, basically
(DIR) Post #AnGAhm2LTsnk2og4ci by burgerdrome@aus.social
2024-10-22T06:12:06Z
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(DIR) Post #AqpaKXwTp9qb8wtujI by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-02-06T04:48:11Z
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a significant part of my life is spent watching white collar workers speedrun the stages of grief as they run into problems at work and realise that the reason their employer doesn't want to fix the problems is because their employer simply doesn't care
(DIR) Post #Aqpb1b3s6QdJGlt0Ii by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-02-06T04:52:14Z
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many white collar workers at heart believe that they are better than blue collar workers and one of the factors they use to prop up this internal narrative is that their employer speaks softly to them and calls them "colleagues" and gives them an office chair. there comes a point inevitably when the worker realises that indifference with a nice hat on is still indifference and it's often quite confronting to have that ripped away
(DIR) Post #Aqpb1cAI03MQgxtdwW by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-02-06T04:53:49Z
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one of the main barriers to organising and collective action in white collar spaces is that white collar workers are often quite a few life experiences away from realising their employer wouldn't notice or care if they died, and you have to break through that first before you can move onto material issues
(DIR) Post #Aqpb1d3wf7sdTZw5h2 by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-02-06T04:55:13Z
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ultimately the blue/white collar distinction is materially meaningless and was just invented to do exactly what I just described: to stymie and blunt collective action through mentally reprogramming a workforce. but it's a very real distinction in the minds of workers and is something that I don't think any organiser or unionist has successfully cracked yet
(DIR) Post #AtAdrBs64iJNT2ozzM by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-04-17T03:32:39Z
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after being a union organiser for long enough it's impossible to avoid any conclusion other than this: for clear and obvious health and safety reasons, nobody should be allowed to be a manager or have power over any other employee
(DIR) Post #AvLXZXEG4siRsiXROC by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-06-21T05:22:49Z
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the banal suburban owner of the enormous 4WD feels, on a subconscious, innate level, a secret and overpowering shame at their choices, and attempts to paper over their failings with stickers reading “mumlife”, “future hogwarts graduate on board”, or a series of star wars themed stick figures. but each sticker only drives the knife deeper, piles on the ignominy, until the bestickered car draws more derision than it did before. the only way to win is not to play
(DIR) Post #AxtkA0YZ0QXAlTxv4C by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-09-05T06:26:56Z
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REDDIT POST: I (not in the USA) have a problem (to which USA laws do not apply). Please help me (a person who is not in the USA) solve this problem. Again just to be clear I am not living in the USA200 REDDITORS: that's illegal in the USA. here are some links to USA specific resources. good luck and go USA
(DIR) Post #AztG5ERe5FEu8wCZXs by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-11-04T03:37:54Z
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I have a mild cerebral event every time I hear somebody describe AI as "inevitable". The companies building it don't believe in it, the executives who are purchasing it don't understand it, the developers who are tasked with implementing it despise it, and the average worker needs to be forced at gunpoint to use it. It's probably the least "inevitable" technological advancement the planet has ever seen
(DIR) Post #B0cOS5WZ21ARdciogi by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-11-25T04:03:27Z
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Pretty great that every single business in the world is dealing with a high volume of calls and simultaneously recently changed their menu options. Don't know how they all manage it
(DIR) Post #B18pqU0sY5IcMNTZHE by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-12-07T13:13:31Z
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fuck off
(DIR) Post #B18pqVTd6ftKtpw2jI by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-12-07T13:14:14Z
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"what if everything had Spotify wrapped?" what if I pushed a gun into the mouth of every tech CEO. what then
(DIR) Post #B18pqWa30IcSK1wgN6 by burgerdrome@aus.social
2025-12-11T00:56:36Z
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what are you fucking talking about. go and fuck yourself you are a browser