this is the rest of silicon valley as well. it’s not progressive. end capitalism pleasepleaseple
corporations can straight up admit to illegally putting their workers in (more) danger without proper protective equipment for dangerous chemicals with nothing more than a slap on the hand, if that. as long as profit motive exists, these abuses will always happen, regardless of what regulations you place on companies. the only way to get rid of these abuses is to get rid of the system that values shareholder dividends over peoples lives
Behind every ‘financially successful company’, there’s a long history of these events. That’s how they get to be successful- you damn well know each decision like this ‘saved them money’. That’s the calculus they’re doing every single step of the way. How superficially cushy the jobs are for the engineers culturally held in high esteem does not drive the ‘success’ of these companies- when you see the huge profit they post quarterly, it comes entirely from having cut corners & written off lives into desperation-till-death like this.
To be more specific:
The glitzy engineering offices “where the magic happens” are a sham, a marketing effort to sell the narrative of us engineers being some sort of genius savants that just spontaneously generate revolutionary new devices, implicitly selling that “this particular collection of hamsters in a fancy cage, when steered with the skilled hand of a Visionary, is the source of our boundless wealth.”
This is a myth, blatantly disproved by any list of what devices the companies actually ship & how much profit that device yields.
The soaring profits come from brutally minimizing our cost of production, while charging a premium price wholly divorced from any cost of production.
And brutally minimizing our cost of production means decisions like the above are made every single day. Over and over. In factories and warehouses. In selecting contractors or suppliers. In bidding city governments off each other to add exceptions to labor laws or safety standards. In bribing inspectors instead of fixing violations. In choosing countries or continents to build parts in. In choosing shipping orgs based purely off price. In automation (even partial) of any skilled labor in our production line.
In building nets to catch suicidal workers to prevent any interruptions in production, rather than improving worker’s quality of life, pay, hours, living conditions, or healthcare access.
Our primary role is to launder the profits that lives were sacrificed to get.
Any genuinely new devices we make are simply the cherry on top of that primary role. Most new device generation these days actually happens through acquisition anyway.
Okay but when people say that white people need to be stopped and straight people need to be stopped…. this is the shit we’re talking about.
How are you gonna put duct tape over your wife and daughters mouths and pretend like that shit is funny?
Hell, if I was the photographer I’d feel really uncomfortable with this.
I mean…I look at this couple and wonder why they would a) want to teach her daughters that it’s okay for a man to think this way and b) want to teach her son it’s okay to think this way.
There was a commercial on last night and it was a dad lecturing a teenage boy about how to treat his date to prom (get her home safe, she doesn’t owe you anything just because she agreed to be your date, etc.). Everyone assumed that it was the father of the girl…but it turned out to be the dad of the boy. The general message was “it starts at home”.
Your children need you to set strong example, for both sexes. Show your daughters that their voice matters and to never let a man speak all over her. Show your son that he is not superior to a woman and teach him how to respect them.
it’s sometimes hard to believe rasputin was real. like there’s no non-fucked up part of rasputin’s existence
did he do something problematic i thought he was just russia’s greatest love machine
basic (true) story: fanatical russian monk who has almost never shaved or washed and smells like goats shows up at the russian capital with a creepy look on his beardy face and everyone just assumes he’s a prophet or a saint because he’s got a cult following that believes he can cure illnesses. his stans are sexually obsessed with him and he gets just a fuckton of russian pussy wherever he goes cause apparently he can cure his true believers of illness with god-given dick magic. russia’s queen has him come stay at the palace and sets him up in luxury because she thinks he can cure her son’s haemophilia with the power of russian goat jesus, and they
(allegedly)
become lovers, probably, ‘cause she craves that unwashed goat-scented dick like the rest of his cult which she now
(allegedly)
belongs to.
then the worst assassins in the history of assassinations try to assassinate him, because all of russia is slutshaming the queen he has too much power over the royal family and it’s helping revolutionaries turn people against the royals. so these idiots have him round for tea and cakes which are poisoned with cyanide, but he is magically unaffected by poison they get the dose wrong and he doesn’t die, and then he drinks three glasses of wine, which are also poisoned, and he doesn’t die, so they tell him to look at a crucifix and shoot him in the chest with a revolver when he isn’t looking, and he doesn’t die, but they think he’s dead so one of them dresses in his clothes and gets driven to his apartment to make it look like he’s gone home to hide the crime, and when they come back he gets up and attacks them, so they stab him in the side with a knife, and he doesn’t die, and then he frees himself and runs outside, so they shoot him a few times more, including in the forehead, and they wrap his body up and chuck him in the icy river, and he doesn’t go into the water, so his body is found on the ice the next day. and get this…. he died…. of hypothermia.
additionally, everyone who wasnt in the party of getting rid of rasputin was pretty bummed out when they found him and his miracle dick dead the next day and there was a pretty bangin funeral of which the royal family themselves attended. however after the tsar was overthrown a few month later they exhumed his body and burned it because the new leadership was very adamant about making sure there were no ties left to honor the old monarchy. however this dudes body had never been properly prepped for a cremation which meant that under the extreme heat his tendons and ligaments began to retract and shrink causing his dead body to move and twitch around as if still animate. according to some testimony his body actually sat up straight on the pyre, and at least one spectator fired a gun at the body and another may have allegedly died of shock.
One thing I’ve learned while working with children that I didn’t previously know from studying children is that they respond better to “That makes me sad/that hurts me” as opposed to “You’re making me mad/I’m angry.” I also enjoy that they in turn use it amongst their peers. Love hearing a three year old say “Hey! That hurts my feelings” when one of their friends won’t share or messes with them.
funeral-biscuit 