I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
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I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
@0mnishambles I agree, the first couple of books are trying to be something other than what Discworld becomes later, after Pratchett finds his own voice. It wasn't until Mort (or so) that it clicked for me, but every book gets better and better from there IMO.
Although I wasn't really a fan of Moving Pictures or Soul Music for similar reasons - trying to be too referential to Roundworld.
People who think we shouldn't ridicule our unions might want to explore why people who would otherwise support them? Do so very critically.
Like, idk. Maybe check your unions for things like:
The Big Tent Syndrome (i.e., "we need numbers to do anything") of unions often leads them to having low principles and doing very little in the way of change, focusing almost entirely on reforming shit rather than pushing for any kind of change. Also, their workerist bullshit helps them justify existing until the end of time instead of them realising that they shouldn't be forever-groups and that they should either stop existing or take new forms.
Not to mention, the unions of today don't even do nearly as much as unions used to (e.g., engaging in the outside community). Not that I'm nostalgic for shit of years I wasn't around, but it's hard not to notice that unions being engaged in their community even when a strike wasn't on helped them build the numbers they claim they can't make today.
I am so sick of the games you have to play to do capitalism "right".
Use your benefits because they don't roll over, game airline miles with credit cards, become complicit in the stock market, watch your credit score to show you're good at being in debt, get insurance you'll hopefully never use. Make sure none of your services are suddenly owned by Nazis. Buy one of 23 nearly identical items, five of which are knock offs, 10 of which support genocide.
It's exhausting to live like this.