Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don’t even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.

Indeed, it’s only a categorisation, though I’m certainly not the first to say if you primarily work for your money, you’re working class. What class the billionaires feel they belong to is irrelevant, I agree.

You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what’s actually an arbitrary definition, don’t forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.

I do not know what you mean by this. If you feel excluded by me then that’s not my intention at all.

The meme is literally about people are traditionally labelled different classes fighting against themselves.

The whole point of this comic is to point out the absurdity of working class people with different incomes fighting each other, when there are people extracting extreme levels of wealth.

Yes, people’s definition of working class may differ, but the message of the comic is the same regardless. It’s pointing out how silly it is to fight at the kiddie tables.

And if successful, then becomes the system, including the legal system, and then the same flaws appear.

There’s always going to be problems in society, but this type of argument is unconvincing, considering how much, and how frequently society has changed over the last 2000 years - practically in the blink of an eye in the scope of human existence. The same problems aren’t guaranteed to appear under a new system. The various forms of society throughout history have definitely had different problems.

The revolutions that have been most successful kept in mind the laws and legislation that needed to be changed or enforced

I’m just saying that the fundamental key here is mobilisation of the people, who are the ultimate arbiters of the law. The law is fundamentally democratic in origin and only exists because we collectively believe in it.

There have been numerous movements in the past that were illegal at the time, but are obviously moral in retrospect (the civil rights movement in the US comes to mind).

“Just work within the system” as a blanket statement is not a serious argument to be making when the system is massively rigged in favour of wealth. (Apologies if this isn’t exactly what you were arguing just seemed that way)

No one’s suggesting you abolish rules/laws entirely and start completely from scratch. Well, no one I take seriously anyway.

Me every day at work.

It’s even worse working in the company’s network drive.

But damn, it often takes ages for a right click to appear in the goddamned downloads folder (which is in its default C drive location…)

I feel you pain friend.

Oligarchs conduct class war by seeding division within the working class. The working class fighting amongst themselves isn’t class war, and is just self inflicted pain to distract from the oligarchs. This is the message of the comic.

Focusing on those entities that have excessive wealth and actively spend it to lobby against our interests while paying only for a fraction what we pay for our share can be handled through laws and legislation, no class warfare needed.

In theory, but the whole legal system is so weighted towards people with money it’s not even funny. So grass routes mobilisation/organisation seems required at this point, otherwise, the status quo continues on.

Especially in countries that have terribly voting systems (the US), but also in those where the voting systems are decent.

Presumably someone from a non-english speaking country made this, considering the dots used as digit grouping separators.

Having the $ at the end would be nice though. It’s nice having your units in a single fraction instead of at different sides of the number. It could then be consistent with how we write all our other units.

We don’t write m 1000/s, for example. We write 1000 m/s. We even say it this way already “4 million dollars per hour”.

4,000,000 $/h makes way more sense than $4,000,000/h to be honest.

I like it at the top of the view-port, but I agree the auto-hiding/showing feature is excruciating.

Best part is, they don’t even have to go to court, this sort of thing can be taken to your state or territory’s administrative tribunal, which costs peanuts to file with, and it’s extremely common to represent yourself. Hence why it’s an extremely effective threat when you’re obviously in the right, like in this case.

Basically Umart is fucked and Australian Consumer Law is really not shabby :)

I feel like I’m not on this sub enough to get the joke. Are we referring to the Tuvix incident?

Me too, lol

I feel mean, but at first I thought it was subtle CGI to indicate mutation over generations due to radiation living in the vaults.

Hope she never reads this comment. She is very good looking, just has comically large eyes.

British one a couple years back.

In Australia we got an extra public holiday. That was nice.

It might not be legal, but it’s already morally acceptable to shoplift from Coles and Woolworths

I just don’t because it would be a massive pain if I were to be caught

This is so fucking stupid. I’ve worked in hospitality, saying please and thank you just comes with the territory no one needs to be checking if you do it.

In a cafe that’s the whole service (in my country at least): being friendly to people, and providing a nice place to hang out and have a coffee, the actual beverage is secondary.

Saying please and thank you is such base politeness. You can easily be rude or cold even when you do use them, and conversely, be absolutely lovely without using them at all.

People don’t go to burger king for the pleasantries, the amount of politeness you should expect is the same as anyone else walking down the street.

Policing politeness with technology is stupid. People should ask each other how they’re going genuinely. Not from a place of corporate greed.

Fuck this capitalist dystopia.

Eh, it’s already fairly obvious using both systems side by side across the internet.

Though I suppose in actual work you’re correct. I use 3 decimal places for metres on drawings a lot, because I like it to be easy to read the mm.

It being 1,000 m or 1.000 m is of course a huge difference haha

A boy can dream 🥹

But commas and dots don’t form part of the metric system?

Ihr könnt gerne umwechseln wenn ihr wollt :3

My main argument for the English/Chinese/Indian system (I have no idea where this system originated), is that in many languages (including German), commas function as pauses and full stops (period, by the Americans) as a stronger separator between thoughts, so it makes more sense to seperate digits with commas (in my opinion)

It’s all ultimately arbitrary, and I don’t really care which we pick.

The American “centre” seems brain-dead to me as a foreigner (well the left is already not very left) because how the fuck can they consider calling these people fascists hysterical, when they clearly are fascists?

They have so many nukes, and we’re their vassals (Australia).

Gods help us all.

I don’t really care which, but if I’m not mistaken it’s the majority of the world population in this case not just the US.

I just hurts my soul that it’s inconsistent.

By population decimal point wins?

I don’t really care which, but my heart craves standardisation*

(*where it makes sense. I don’t think language based differences in how many digits between separators needs to be world-wide. Eg. In East Asia you separate in groups of 4 digits, not 3 because of language)

PHASE CHANGE IS LIFE

lol serves its own grammatical function now I reckon.

It’s a marker for response to irony (actual irony, Americans…), or as a way to indicate you think something is stupid to the point of humour, or as a kind of “that tracks”.

Or at least, that’s how it’s used amongst people my age in Australia.

I don’t think I use it in a positive sense at all any more