I mean, that's one of the downsides to home ownership. If it's not yard work, there's always some sort of maintenance that needs doing.

You can either put it off until it becomes an emergency, pay someone out the ass to do it, or you can find some way to force yourself to do it.

I say this as I'm taking a break from climbing in my attic to replace the AC condensate pump line that I've been putting off for 3 months, so I don't have to keep dumping 5 gallon buckets of water out twice a day. The quote to have a pro do it was $750

I usually let them go for me out of laziness, but I mute them for my family to spare them the exposure. I also regularly discuss the problems with the way things are advertised with my kids so that they won't get sucked in by them. Crazy world. Hard to avoid adverts in the U.S.

Your life will be much better if you avoid commercials

Yes, but far too many people don't know better, and they are the majority. They love targeted ads and especially that's why so many of them are radicalised by targeted political propaganda. That's why it's a Sysiphean task to tell people about this, tell them to dismantle capitalism because we're heading to its logical conclusion-- fascism. I didn't think that Brave New World's soma (the digital devices in our case) will directly lead to 1984's Oceania. And what a great combo!

Yeah I am still baffled that... people watch commericials.

Then I realize I'm the outlier, and the consumer/workaholic apocalpyse is what most people call "normal" or "just how it is."

Then please give sick pay to EVERY job. My options while I'm sick? Go to work, or be homeless.

But if the virus doesn’t spread the medicine company can’t continue to sell sell sell!

🎵 SOLDIER ON WITH CODRAL SOLDIER ON SOLDIER ON! 🎶

If you can’t sleep because you’re sick as fuck, please don’t come to work and pass it to the rest of us!

Someone should tell my boss

I just saw a new one from the NyQuil company last night that they're now making pain quill? So now they'll sell you what I believe is just liquid ibuprofen and liquid cold meds so you can go to work even with that awful headache from being sick

There was a story a couple of years ago about corporations trying to get people to work unpaid hours while working from home. The logic, such as it was, went like this: if you live an hour’s commute away from work and you work an 8-hour day, then you’re actually spending 10 hours of your day dedicated to work because the travel time isn’t time you get to do whatever you want in. Therefore, since you’re used to work taking up 10 hours of your time, you should also spend 10 hours working while working from home.

It’s astonishing, really.

Me: Oh, I don't have a personal driver. I need to focus on the road. I don't even put the radio on. Do you have ANY idea how many idiots are out there on the road looking at their phones, driving into oncoming traffic? You know they did a study and found that drivers who text and drive are actually 3x more dangerous than drunk drivers? It makes sense though. A drunk driver sees the road, but reacts late. A distracted driver isn't even looking. So I gotta watch the road at all times! I even carry a shotgun in the drivers seat just to shoot out their tires. Yeah! That wakes them the fuck up. Once you disable a tire, it's stupidly easy to perform a pitt manuever. Then when they spin out, you pull the driver out of their car at gunpoint, hogtie them with zipties. Load them into the back of your van, and then tickle their feet until they agree to never drive distracted again. Really hammer home the point that is why this is happening to them. Some people use a horn, I use a feather. It's so absurd that they never do it again.

Wait, I got off track. What were we talking about? Oh, right. You want me to start being a distracted driver on my way to work! You wait right here, I'll be right back with a shotgun, a few dozen zip ties, and a feather. Be right back!

No way would they want to compensate people for their commute. Externalize costs, internalize profits.

Somehow I'm not surprised that the music genre attributable to poor rural white folk is heavy on boot licking, especially considering how many voted for Trump.

I don't think it's propaganda. The music and the ads too are just trying to do a "fellow kids" move, and that's what they're seeing. Because that's what we've become.

It's like seeing a mirror and getting spooked by how disheveled the person in it looks.

As recently as the 90s you had mainstream country acts releasing songs like "Pass it on Down" and "We Shall Be Free"

And they got a ton of play on the radio. The former hit number 3 on the billboard country charts. The latter hit number 12 on the country charts.

Then again, the lackluster performance of "We Shall Be Free," particularly considering the megastardom of Garth Brooks at the time, was due to some stations boycotting it for the line "when we're free to love anyone we choose."

But even then, there wasn't a massive company that owned most of the radio dial back then, so boycotts had limited influence.

How depressing.

What!?! Where was that a thing? Who would pay for that? Who would even want to be associated with that message?

Not by me! I work my 40 and the rest goes my family. I'm lucky I can get by with 40.

Met a vet doc that disparaged a vet that leaves at 5: "8-5 and then she's gone. Nobody wants to work any more"

Their breath smells of boot

You probably can't change their mind, but you can remember that their opinion doesn't define you. And also you have just as much power over them (that which they grant you), which you can use to try to instill in them a sense of living their own life instead of working for the glory of the Corpos.

I think it's fine to work 60-80 hours a week if you're in a place in your life where you don't have anyone to go home to and you can actually make more money off it (either as a contractor with an hourly rate, or a business owner). Not for long though, because it gets lonely.

Most people shouldn't work more than 40 though. Definitely if you have a family, go home and spend time with them. There's a saying in my language that translates to "work doesn't run away from you", as in, there will always be more work to do, but your toddler won't always be a toddler.

I don't even wanna do 30 a week. That's over a full day of time i could use for myself if i didn't need fucking money so badly. Those 60-80 willingly people are fucking nutso

That isn't even the message, the message is "our workers don't have lives because they are so dedicated".

Its not something to accept, but aspire to.