Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalismruinseverything, aggregated by home.social.
I hope that my 40+ years of being a #TTRPG game master has brought joy and entertainment to people. From friends and acquaintances to strangers at conventions and newbies to the hobby, all were welcome to sit at my table and play.
I have never charged any money as a GM. No one has paid me to participate. I did it because it is a hobby, not a job.
He talked about something so great at the end
The medical system is over-patholgizing mental illness because capitalism.
And we knew this
"here is a pill so could still function even though quality of life is miserable"
If mentally ill beings can't be milked by having jobs, then we milk them with medical expenses
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#capitalism, #capitalismruinseverything
I'm sure I read about this whenever, but is this as fucking shitty as it seems on its face?
#firefox #donottrack #web #capitalismRuinsEverything
There are two Battletech Books I need to complete my collection before the new edition comes out. But they are impossible to find in the US. I can find them in Canada and Europe, but nobody is insane enough to ship to Tariffamerica.
I’m realizing that likely the US shortage is due to hundreds of copies collecting dust in a Diamond Warehouse somewhere.
(Anyone want to sell TO:AR or TW?)
Good news! I paid off my car loan!
But wait, my credit score dropped for no longer having a nearly paid off loan!
@JennyFluff The really sad thing is, slop like this actually grew out of an earlier valuable cultural practice: of reimplementing the Insufferable Neighbouring University's ideas on local hardware. There were hundreds of slightly differrent implementations of both Algol and Fortran compilers, for example, but these weren't slop in the same sense — that's just how porting used to be done. Language standardisation was, for a while, seen as an effort to make these slightly different variants to behave similarly enough to offer a degree of source-level portability for application programs.
But the rise of copyrighting software in the eighties converted this valuable cultural practice from porting good ideas into rewriting code for copyright avoidance's sake, and that incentivised bad-and-cheap rewrites. Another example of #CapitalismRuinsEverything .
Want free Atlas Games stuff because Amazon sucks?
https://atlas-games.com/news/post?s=2026-01-21-free-games-accessories-at-amazons-expense
#TTRPG #BoardGames #AtlasGames #AmazonSucks #CapitalismRuinsEverything
Never miss a new book by Xenophon!
#Reading #Literature #AncientHistory #History #Xenophon #CapitalismRuinsEverything
People Are OVER Rap Music… and We All Know Why - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcTNzdp2Zac
I went to the store to pick up two items. Even though they had both in stock, I only purchased one. Why? Because the second was locked in a cabinet.
I understand locking high value items like video games or electronics, and age restricted items like alcohol, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to wait around for an overworked and underpaid staff member to come unlock the cabinet for laundry detergent.
Which corporate suit thought that was a good idea?
“No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take that away from me
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.
Head like a hole.
Black as your soul.
I'd rather die than give you control.”
—Trent Reznor, Head Like a Hole
2/3
“Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
Bow down before the one you serve.
You're going to get what you deserve.
God money's not looking for the cure.
God money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure.
God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised.
God money's not one to choose
You know who you are.”
—Trent Reznor, Head Like a Hole
3/3
Been in a NIN mood.
“God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.”
—Trent Reznor, Head Like a Hole
1/3
@alcinnz @rysiek It's always been inefficient software. But greater computing power allows more progress by allowing inefficiencies to enter the human domain - either by employing less intelligent, less skilled workers, or pushing them to do it quicker or to take shortcuts. ☹️ #capitalismruinseverything
Re-watching DS9.
Got to the episode where they travel back to the dark future of 2024. In many ways they weren’t that far off in predicting the future. It’s a weird mirror. Problems we recognized in 1994 but still haven’t actually solved today.
#StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine #BlackLivesMatter #HealthcareForAll #CapitalismRuinsEverything
@verge #enshittification …you can smell it on the wind. #capitalismruinseverything
Did some searches. Yeah. I love how they totally ignore the fact that they get a crapton of amazing moderation for *free*, and still treat it like a money-making scheme.
Lol. Got blocked on Facebook because I asked if there were any article alternatives to a YouTube rant someone posted.
I rarely watch opinion pieces on YouTube. First, YouTube’s advertising policy encourages people to ramble on for ten minutes instead of being short and concise. Second, I read faster than people talk even when they aren’t trying to pad out content for monetization.
Any legitimate news or concerns get real articles somewhere anyway.
When you are a "manager" only because by giving you that title your employer can save thousands of dollars. #WageTheft #CapitalismRuinsEverything
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salary-manager-jobs-fake-titles-save-4-billion-overtime-nber/
"For some background, Hohn is worth $7.48 billion — and, according to Fortune Magazine, paid himself nearly $2 million a day in 2022, making him the best-paid man in the history of Great Britain. He is the 302nd-richest man in the entire world."
And he demanded to Alphabet CEO to lay off another 28000 workers because 12000 was not enough.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/billionaire-hohn-more-google-layoffs-17736530.php
@aral if there's an untouched potential profit niche it won't stay untouched for long. #CapitalismRuinsEverything
@Scalva i ristoratori che pagavano decentemente i dipendenti sono morti tra marzo 2020 e marzo 2022. Adesso sono rimasti gli aguzzini che si son tenuti a galla coll'abuso e coi ristori. Se tutto va bene a marzo 2024 moriranno anche loro e allora si aprirà il mercato a Mc Donald's, Starbucks e Olive Garden. #capitalismruinseverything
So apparently ArtForum got bought by a stupid billionaire's son's company and now BookForum is going away. Because if there's one thing billionaires' sons hate, it's books.
A major loss. There's really no other publication in the US like BookForum.
Ban billionaires!
(Image is from BookForum on the birdsite.)
#Bookstodon #Books #BookForum #CapitalismRuinsEverything @litstudies
Good morning #Mastodon !☕️ A friendly reminder that #corporations are not people, they should not be treated like people, and they really do not care about people either, #workers and customers alike. We should work towards relying on them less and getting their influence out of our government. #CorporateAmericaSucks #supportsmallbusiness #SupportLocalSmallBusiness #capitalismsucks #buylocal #capitalismruinseverything #corporationsarenotpeople #corporationsruineverything #corporategreed
@craigmaloney That's something I've been internally grumbling about when I see folks say "social media bad old school web good"--there is a merit to "lowering the bar" to post stuff. It allows more people to participate--aka accessibility.
This grace to social media does not extend to the rampant algorithmic abuse and anti-patterns these companies use to get rich though. Alas, if we could have one but not the other. #CapitalismRuinsEverything