• Etterra@discuss.online
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    Well given the low likelihood that any of them have intelligent life the fact that you’re able to ask means the chances are probably 100%

  • the_q@lemmy.zip
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    It’s a simulation. The nothingness of space is used as an isolation barrier to keep us feeling important. Just another guard rail to keep the experiment going.

  • AlexLost@lemmy.world
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    What if all those other galaxies are just like us? Like totally different, but also exactly the same. How terrible would that be?!

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    Go read about the whites first contact with Polynesians, they literally stumbled on utopia and HATED it. They were FURIOUS these naked people surfed and sang and danced all day and farmed for about 15 seconds and had more food then they ever needed. They literally never heard about work, they had dance crew battles and picked their leaders by if they could do any cool tricks on the waves.

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    Why is this sub committed to undoing all of the good work that was done on reddit? This should not be a screenshot.

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        Even though you gave me reddit lowbar, I’ll reply in earnest. Some of the great progress that was made on reddit was things like banning images of text, banning shower thoughts like “this water is warm”, and greatly limiting low effort garbage commenting and bot spam.

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    Just some important history, the 40 hour work week was developed as a labor concession in the automotive industry.

    Most workers rarely work only 40 hours, especially when you include the on-call time when employees are expected to respond to call messages and emails.

    Maybe we need to learn something from our grandparents and have another movement for 40-hour work weeks.

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      Men were able to work 40 hours back then because women were relegated to unpaid domestic labor and childcare.

      When women entered the workforce, these expectations were slow to change. So now, everyone gets to work 40+ hours and a few dozen more at home. And that’s the best case scenario where both partners shared the mental load. Bonus points if they have a kid which is a 24/7 job.

      In a sane world, with double the people working you would expect their hours to be halved. But that will never happen so long as corporations continue to disguise the exploitation of workers as ‘feminism’.

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      Plenty of countries where 35-40h/week, or even less, is the norm (and I mean it as no “not counted” extra hours)

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      Henry Ford implemented the 40 hour week cause it made people more productive. Not cause he was a nice guy.

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        Minimum wage too. “Wait a minute, consumers and employees are the same people. If they’re broke how are they going to buy my stuff?”

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      Lol. I had these guys beat in terms of hours, and their job was nowhere near as physical as mine was.

      Now I get to be a desk jockey, and it’s fucking sweet. Gonna milk it, because I put my hours in.

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        Milking the fuck out of mine. It’s not quite a usual “desk job” but i spend a lot of time sitting at a desk.

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        Thanks for having a sense of humour about the meme. I’m also a desk jockey. Be sure to stretch frequently and take care of your back! The tension has a way of sneaking up.

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        So how fucked are You? 40h is actually quite a lot for Europe. In Poland I work 40, in Ireland I worked 39 and in Denmark 37.

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          48 hrs a week contracted. That’s not counting the extra hours needed to keep on top of things. I try to limit myself to 1 hour overstaying at work …the amount of work piling up is getting uncontrollably out of hand since I started limiting myself to these hours. It used to be a routine of 2 hours of overstaying and 1 hour of logging in remotely before bed.

          If you want the full answer to the question of “how fucked are you”, then this work involves constant people “coming at me” (disgruntled and immature employees I’m managing and endless barrage of service user complaints) and needs to fit around 2 young children (1 has additional needs) and a wife who has a nightmare employer plus exams coming up; and a house that has an ever increasing list of maintenance tasks that have been pending. So overall, I think this describes my situation pretty accurately.