Being hit by a motor vehicle of some sort owned by a large company with deep pockets and suffering a horrific but ultimately temporary injury with absolutely no longer-term health effects that nonetheless results in a seven figure injury settlement
Rip king
The New American Dream
Damn, and here I was thinking more like just slipping on a puddle in a store.
Isn’t this just winning the lottery with extra painful steps?
Yeah but instead of the state paying you, you get to increase a big company’s insurance premiums for a while
Source. Attribution is cool.
Never expected to See the one true @rob_t_firefly on Lemmy!
Only because I See you on Mastodon all the time!
Hello! I’m always popping up in all sorts of places.
[Horror film suspense music intensifies]
Thank you! I saw it on bluesky
Chances are, they didn’t write the text.
I see no evidence they didn’t write it, I have yet to find an older source for the text, but would be interested in seeing it if you find one.
At any rate, this seems to the original uncropped version of the image posted here.
Covid time was personally great for me. Vietnam locked things down. We had food delivered. We didn’t get sick. At home with the wife and kid. Watching movies and tv. Playing games. Making the second kid. I worked from home for something like 6 to 9 months because my office is in a neighboring province and VN didn’t allow travel between provinces until a later relaxing of restrictions after vaccines became available.
I loved Covid, like not the disease or people dying. But the rise in WFH. My company finally wants to cease all WFH and it fucking sucks. I’m ready for another pandemic.
I can’t really do offices, I burn out way too fast. It’s not my kind of environment. Covid let me be a functional member of society, it gave me a taste of normalcy. Now all that is being taken away because middle-management needs to justify expensive offices. Offices that also drive up property costs so no one can afford homes.
Yay~!
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”
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I hate to admit it but I’d love to go back to Covid times where I was forced to stay in my house and never leave. I don’t want people dying but I’m so fucking tired.
It wasn’t any different for me. I was one of those so-called “essential workers”. I still had to go to work. When I wasn’t at work, I stayed home and layed in bed and played games. People talked about isolation and loneliness and I was just thinking " First time, is it?".
This is the premise of Zom100: Bucket list of the Dead, the main character’s job is so shitty, he considers the zombie apocalypse to be a massive improvement over having to go to work and just starts living his best life and doing all the things he never had time for.
It’s very relatable.
I love Haro Aso so much, dude. Alice in Borderlands is just such a beautiful metaphor, I’ll never get over it. This has been on my list for a while, I think Im gonna have to read it now.
We’ve hit the point where people find the end of the world is more likely than the end of capitalism
Capitalism only stops when it runs out of fuel.
Just getting silly here, but what if the people who are harmed by the system come together and abolish the system, because they are the majority?
There’s a word for that, but whenever I start typing it into my phone a bunch of police drones start to buzz my building.
They can’t; they’re too busy posting online daring someone else to do it.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some 90 Days of Real Housewives of Whatever to binge.
That would require a level of solidarity that doesn’t exist and a solid plan for what comes after, which no one has.
No joke this is me. I had a major surgical procedure a decade ago. It was a 3 day hospital stay to recover. It’s one of the most relaxing, peaceful times of my life, even with all the pain and nurses checking on me. I remember it very fondly.
I had major surgery last year. I was out of work for 2 months. It was the greatest decompression break from work ever, except I went back a week early and before I was really physically ready because I was only getting about 1/4 of my normal paycheck from disability and I was super broke (luckily I had managed to save up enough to pay my rent in advance). I read lots of books and stayed up all night playing video games and looking outside at the night sky.
It really sucked in other ways. I had 2 entire months where I only spoke to another human maybe 5-6 times and most of those were a coworker who knew I was lonely and would call me during downtime on their shift to check in and see how my recovery was going. It really highlighted how alone and invisible I am in this world and there’s nothing quite so sad as being like well my surgeon says I can’t lift any weight but I have to get groceries into my apartment somehow and take my trash across the complex to the cans and I have literally no one to ask to do that so I guess I’ll just pray I don’t rip open all my incisions and eviscerate myself.
Many, many people, including myself, embraced the shit out of COVID.
That was a pretty clear sign that our society and way of life sucks.
Pictured: me longing for simpler times
I was almost not at all affected day to day by COVID, I just went to work still because it’s isolated, no mask etc even needed.
But it was soooo much better with less traffic and less people at the stores. Even just, the “one way Aisles” at the stores were so much better. You go in, everything flows so much smoother.
Me in France right now.
What’s struck me is how in America, the reality is the opposite of those fantasies. What’s that? The nation’s capital is being stormed by fascists attempting to kidnap lawmakers and overthrow the electoral process? And I’m still expected to just work like it’s just a normal day??
I was literally stuck in a fucking Zoom meeting watching the insurrection in another window. Fuck this timeline.
It’s easier to imagine a convenient bad thing happening than a good thing happening, I guess?
I think it’s simply that modern life is too far removed from what our instincts evolved to handle… A shitty life or death situation is something we’re more equipped to handle (at least in our imagination) than societal problems so big that are effectively impossible for us to influence.
I guess a possible part of the solution could be breaking these problems down into manageable chunks?
“Think globally, act locally”, as they say… and “locally” doesn’t have to be a physical locale. It can be a fedi instance or a niche group of some kind.
Sure, we do all sorts of things to function in modern society, doesn’t necessarily make it easy, or make escapism less attractive
True, although I meant making steps towards making it easier for everyone.
Also because people come together during major crises.
And unfortunately, it does not look like we’ll be able to get rid of capitalism (and more importantly capitalists) without either a mass uprising or a devastating catastrophe (like total ecological collapse).
Currently we’re about to reach the latter, which I don’t think is preferable, but perhaps it’ll turn out well in the end. I sure hope so.
Also because people come together during major crises.
Since COVID I no longer believe this. Where I live, people immediately started hoarding essentials, threw low-paid retail workers under the bus, refused to follow even the most basic precautions to keep others safe (and had full-blow childish meltdowns and screamed in the faces of anyone who tried to ask them to comply), overwhelmed the healthcare system unnecessarily, burned down cell phone towers etc. Just a complete orgy of idiotic fuckery right from the start.
I agree. Since covid I lost my long held belief that humans are basically good.
Where I come from originally is kind of a remote place, that relies on tourism. We already have a huge problem with everyone buying their second holiday homes there and pricing the locals out of buying homes (which is a big part of why I moved.) Anyway, during COVID, because it’s remote and sparsely populated, it had one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. As soon as the travel restrictions lifted, everyone descended on the place. There were mayors of towns on TV begging people not to come. But they came anyway, wrecked the place and left garbage everywhere, caused a huge COVID spike (in an area that has one hospital and a lot of elderly people), and when people complained about it we were told we should be grateful that the tourists are there spending money.
Luckily my family that still lives there were okay (you get good at not being where the tourists are after a while) but still. It’s an area that’s perpetually underfunded and neglected, and when it was at it’s most vulnerable and just needed people to be just a tiny bit considerate for a moment, they trashed the place, used us as their disposable COVID bunker and then made fun of us for being unhappy about it, not to mention putting my family directly in harm’s way.
The world seems to have largely moved on from that whole time now, but I will not forget this.
I really hoped that the recent plague would bring people together/weed out the bad apples, but the terrible people only got stronger/more insane and everyone else was forced apart.
