why do rich people want to replace any living being with a silicon version ?

Because then they can patent it.

So it’s no surprise that Bill “Anti-Food-Security” Gates, the world’s most famous patent racketeering parasite, has his vile little fingers in this.

places a set value on something that many see as sacred; something that shouldn’t have monetary value.

I’d say it’s the other way around - because it’s labor that is (mostly) being performed by women (or stigmatized as something “only women do”) it’s considered to be of no value whatsoever. How many women do you know that performs work such as housekeeping, child-rearing and/or marital sex essentially at own cost because this type of labor carries no monetary exchange value in our society?

I’d say sex work falls into that category - but it gets stigmatized because sex work can actually allow women to escape such labor and not be locked into literally playing housewife to the capitalist mode of production (ie, wiping a company man’s arrse so that he can concentrate on making capitalists richer).

And if people are just having sex with a fun of it then it’s not sex work either,

No, labor stays labor no matter the reason it is performed - people perform labor when they doodle or blow their noses… it doesn’t stop being labor just because they’re not doing it in exchange for something tangible.

With sex it is the same - nobody engages in it for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Probably.

It’s not there yet… but it’s making progress.

Uhhh… nope. The term “slut” has never been considered acceptable in any way or shape where I come from.

And if you are dumb enough to use the term “bukkake” to any health worker in any setting they’d either think you mad or call security on you… and rightfully so.

get away with doing less?

Why is this your problem? It’s not your company and you don’t owe the capitalists who own it the time of day - so why are you making this your problem?

This is why lions never hunt zebra from the air.

As somebody dumb enough to have ended up working in dtp, I also say “yes” will very quickly saddle you with an aspirin addiction.

I will happily settle for “barely conscious” if it means I get to have coffee every day.

Hah! Wrong!

I don’t need coffee to give me energy - at this point I need it to just manage basic consciousness.

I know colonizer-speak when I see it.

I know everyone wants to point out that she may be referring to the brutal colonialist exploitation that lithium ion battery technology rests upon - but the way the quote is placed and framed tells me instead that we are not being told everything about this “techno-miracle.”

“Global action requires working together to access critically important materials,” Meng said.

So… nope.

…or it’s just that requiring co-operative society for our survival wired us to pick up on very subtle facial and figurative signals and signs when it comes to human behavior and anything “off” about it sticks out like a sore and creepy thumb.

I would like you to explain how Captain America and Superman are reactionary.

I mean… c’mon. Captain America is low-hanging fruit - the correlation between Captain America and actual US behavior in the world essentially writes itself.

Superman is a far more sophisticated representation of US-style liberalism - but, just like liberalism itself, that doesn’t make Super Cheese any less of a reactionary.

However… we can talk about the individual politics of these characters all day long - and we’d be missing the entire point of the metaphor in it’s entirety.

The problem with the “super hero” genre is not the individual politics of the characters concerned - it’s with how they normalize and justify the concentration of power in the hands of these exalted individuals.

In other words - the problem is fundamental.

He doesn’t understand the core themes of superheroes,

I think he understand them perfectly, because…

Zack Snyder is an Objectivist

If Batman was real today, he’d be Donald Trump.

That’s what these (alleged) “super heroes” really are… idealized, ubermensch-esque metaphors for the actual power wielded by the rich and privileged.

In fact, I’d say that Batman is the ultimate Objectivist wet dream - he perfectly personifies the fascist (as Batman) and the capitalist (as Bruce Wayne) in one person. Even Ayn Rand’s creepazoid ancap sugar-daddy “heroes” didn’t manage that.

I have no idea why people think chickens look stupid when they walk… to me, the way they walk just looks like the way they walk. And the prospect of a T-Rex being that alert and agile is pretty terrifying.

$237.5 million

That’ll buy you a lot of white phosphorus.

Based cat doesn’t take orders from fascists.

What’s NSFW about this?