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@BasedLEDA The thing is by kicking out Dorothy Eden is going to be indebted to the Ark, because the tech giving could've given leverage to Eden. Also Dorothy immediately went to Eden when she heard they were under attack.

I finished the hard mode ending. It's really unfortunate to see what is happening with Dorothy. Eden was her new safe haven, and even from there she's being shunned. That had to happen because of what she was doing, but still... Where would she go? Maybe back to Ark to plot something. She's very complicated and fragile. I don't know why she’s refusing help from her friends. She closes her ears whenever they speak to her. She's just stuck in a void where, even if she tries, she just can't help herself escape from it. That's how bad the wound Ark gave her is, and I don't know when she will let herself heal from it. She's keeping that wound fresh. I will see what she truly decides for herself. Till then, no judgment, because she's not a bad person. About that last bit... I'm still skeptical about Nayuta's character. I don't know what her relationship with Mirror is, but what the hell did Mirror mean when she said "our queen" in front of Nayuta?!

@Inhumansoflate1 They do but to defend capitalism they backstabbed their own intellectuals.

@VGBC_GimR Losing teeth like horror movie losing teeth which made me waking up crying but going to the dentist where I got all 4 wisdom teeth removed & 8 cavities fixed. No teeth losing dreams after that.

In my early 20s I had a vivid dream that lasted perceptually around 30 years where I got married and had a kid. The dream was in 1st person, incredibly realistic and unlike my other dreams everything was completely intact. Usually, my brain only has enough “power” to make specific things make sense and I don’t realize how ridiculous the dream is until I wake up. But in this dream there were no glitches, backgrounds didn’t morph into each other, and time didn’t skip. Everything was incredibly linear and I was completely sober. I just lived 3 decades of life When I woke up It took me a minute to stop disassociating and realize what happened. That’s when I noticed that the memories were escaping me at lightning speed and i couldn’t even remember the names or faces of my wife and kid. I cried a bit and I think the whole thing made me more mature. Has anyone else experienced something this?

@anishmoonka Which by 1938 the 40 hr work week was already outdated, hell the Technocracy Movement advocated for a 4 day 4 hr work week.

Your 40-hour work week was invented by a car salesman who needed you to have free time so you'd buy more stuff. Henry Ford cut his factories to 40 hours in 1926. He'd figured out that mass production doesn't work if your own workers are too broke and exhausted to be customers. Before Ford, factory jobs during the Industrial Revolution ran 10 to 16 hours a day, six days a week. Kids worked those same hours. Some manufacturing workers clocked 80 to 100 hours a week. The pushback started way before Ford. In 1817, a Welsh factory owner named Robert Owen came up with "eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest." Took 121 years for that to become actual law. And Ford didn't start this fight. Unions had been organizing for the eight-hour day since the 1860s. In 1919, over 4 million American workers walked off the job across 3,000 separate strikes. Ford was a billionaire who adopted what millions of workers had already demanded. The real legal win came in 1938 when FDR signed the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law that created minimum wage, overtime pay, and a cap on work hours. His Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, was the first woman to ever hold a US cabinet job. She spent years battling courts and corporations to push it through. The law originally capped the week at 44 hours. By 1940 it dropped to 40. I went back and looked at what work was like before the Industrial Revolution, and it messed with my head. An Oxford historian named James Thorold Rogers found medieval workers averaged about eight hours a day. Economist Juliet Schor estimated English peasants after the Black Death (the plague that killed a third of Europe) worked about 150 days a year. Sundays off, plus dozens of religious holidays and festivals. Rogers wrote that workers in the 1890s pushing for the eight-hour day were "simply striving to recover what their ancestors worked four or five centuries ago." The factories didn't invent hard work. They killed the days off. The legal standard is still 40, but a 2024 Gallup survey found full-time American workers average 42.9 hours a week. Luxembourg, the most productive country per hour on earth, averages 29. In 2025, researchers at Boston College published the biggest four-day-week study ever in a top science journal. They followed 2,896 workers at 141 companies across six countries for six months, all working 32 hours at full pay. Workers slept better, felt less stressed. Over 90% of those companies kept the shorter week for good. A separate UK trial found revenue went up 1.4% and employees quitting dropped 57%. We've been doing 40 hours for 86 years based on a deal between unions and factory owners, signed by a Depression-era president, originally dreamed up by a man who sold cars. No doctor or sleep researcher ever signed off on that number. The best data we have says we could do with less.

@ArtJbing I meant it in terms of how American Christianity function say Post Civil War.

@PopulareEmperor Not quite, but that's not the furthest thing from the truth 🤷‍♀️

This is infact by design, for a century now businesses have been tying Christianity to capitalism. politico.com/magazine/story…

@XiiaLiaVT To me infidelity is direct byproduct of dissatisfaction within the relationship, so I don't immediately looked down on cheaters unless I know their reasoning.

@IskanderML Which is face palm inducing because of the Soviet Gold Blockade.

When the Bolsheviks took power, they declared all foreign debt of Russia illegitimate and annulled it When the Nazis took power, they continued servicing debts (to their "enemies")via the Bank of international Settlements, by looting Eastern Europes Gold.

@brennusdamenace Makes sense why American Christianity comes off as Theologically Ignorant.

30% of Protestants now attending churches where the average pastor has never gone to a seminary explains why such bizarre heresies are arising in American churches right now

@MaruMalandra @raviollius Literally recently Mint was dismissive of MGS Glazing of Che, but is friends with Matara.

@raviollius I'm 43 and you're brasilian caping for the yanks LMAO

Fucking insane that vtubers have been pressured to not talk politics for years, unless you're right wing, or actively promote the US armed forces. Doesn't seem to cost them sponsors either. Depressing shit.

@Madame_Ennui Also how there is no Composting Infrastructure for such large food waste & how corporations would throw away good food just to keep prices up.

I’ve always believed the US’s bizarre restrictions on food donations and the subsequent mass-scale food waste are bc Americans don’t have a deep-rooted internalized anguish at the thought of food waste, bc the US has never collectively gone through a devastating famine

@browndwarf6 To me the emptiness of an open world game should be filled with how that society functions.

I hate the idea that open world needs to be filled to the brim with content to be any good, like any emptiness is already a flaw

@die_rizzen Which is why I think Freudian Marxism needs to be the Marxist Leninism of America. Also there is a lot of Radical History within America that can be synthesize into one. America can pull what China did by creating their own Socialism with American Characteristics.

It may be too far for my strict Marxist followers, but America has a metaphysical weakness. In a way, the yankees really believe their capitalism is utopian communism.

Criticize China all you want, and boy do they deserve it. But i would defend them as "socialist" in the sense that they are aware of history and dont believe the liberal capitalist ideology-poison. The American empire, on the other hand, is oblivious to the Weltgeist.

@x00ge_ii63 "Prevention is better than Cure" is literally both what Modern Medicine practice & what the Medical Philosophy of Hippocrates. Anti Communism is actually both Anti Intellectual & Western.

I can't believe people think Germany is like the pinnacle of rational and scientific thought when they have shit like this telling you that compulsory vaccination is bad

@OttokarHochman Which is why I think: 1. Socialists are Liberals who remained consistent. 2. Why many Socialists were Liberals at one point.

One thing I unironically think really helps with understanding Marx is just looking at the actual thought of the specific liberals of his own time that he complains about because, like, more often than not the accusations Marx makes against liberals are literally just things…

@intentionalisms This is the only take I hundred percent agree with from what I seen of Helmet Guy, because what haven't truly changed is Class Dynamics. There were a lot of Class Conflicts within Ancient Rome.

One strange quirk about right wingers is their insistence that the Ancients lived in the same mental world as us basically. Like this guy is 100% convinced the valence of late republican roman labor dynamics is the same as 21st century immigration politics. It’s a strange kind of presentism that seems organic to the right

@_Jyggalag_ I don't think a white peace is considered a loss for the US but for the British.

It's really interesting to me how the USA's anthem is about a war we lost

@_Jyggalag_ TES Dragons are way more interesting especially the Dragon Gods Akatosh & Ysmir.

ok so apparently they just used alduin and some dude from dragons dogma for it but it's not representative of TES and dragons dogma

lotr fan beef with TES might be even more one sided than beef with GRRM lmao what

@702ValetParker Also Patriarchy made sex more restricted, like Oral Sex is much more accepted in recent history.

I’ll bite, sex has social and economic dimensions, that’s why sociologists study it. But most people aren’t secretly running capitalism or patriarchy in their bedrooms; sometimes sex is just sex. Agency and desire still exist, even in a theory-heavy world.