capitalism forces us to compete with each other for the right to survive

and then we hate our fellow workers for out-competing us because capitalism is giving them table scraps instead of us

apparently I was thinking of a hostess club instead of a maid cafe. hostess clubs are more overtly sexual whereas maid cafes can be but are generally more wholesome and moe/cute

they should make a maid cafe that sells bubble tea and call it Boba & Booba

@shijikori that sounds terrible omg. it sounds like what I’ve heard about autistic burnout - although I don’t know if you’re autistic. the way that we’re expected to work is so unfair sometimes and I wish work could be more individualized so that everyone could do it. or ideally I wish that we didn’t have to work in order to justify our existence, but yeah :/

I hope that you’re able to find some solution though - that sounds exhausting and upsetting

@iamada @ShadowJonathan the anti-cheat struggle is so real. I wanted to play Paladins with my partner but she wasn’t able to for a very long time because of their stupid anti-cheat. they only allowed Linux at the very last minute as the game was actively dying :/ but I still had a lot of fun with her in that time at least

and yeah I do think that eventually I’m going to have to switch to Linux, because Windows will have become even worse than it is now and I’ll no longer be able to escape from the enshittification. but I’m putting it off because I’m also waiting for Linux to get better too. at least in my experience with Arch so far, it’s not at a point where I want to be using it every day - it frustrates me a lot

@ShadowJonathan I really like playing games and I have a very low tolerance for needing to tinker in order to make software work or to fix system problems. also I just don’t have the patience or interest to learn the things that I need to learn in order to use Linux

plus O&O ShutUp 10 automatically disables all of the enshittification for me on Windows 11 so I’m having a very good experience with it for now

There are things I like about the Persona games, but some topics I do not feel like they handle well. I bounced off of Persona 5 because I did not vibe with the overall culture around sexual assault. We have been playing through Persona 4 together, and most of it has been fun, but we didn't enjoy how they handled stuff like the beauty pagent. So my question is, should I play Persona 5 with my sister once we finish Persona 4?

Boosts are welcome.

who do I have to hold at gunpoint to get a job in this fucking country

chat I have this revolutionary idea where if a company wants to hire a worker to do labor for money, they post this thing called a “job ad” and then people apply for that job. and then people go through a process called “interviewing” where a skilled worker at that job determines if the job applicant would be skilled at doing the job too

it’s kinda like the job postings we have now but the difference is that a job posting is fake but a job ad would be real. with a job ad the goal would be to hire the most skilled worker they can find. but with a job posting obviously the goal is to stroke the ego of a middle manager who gets to “interview” people for 1 hour at a time and act smug and condescending to them while asking weird vague invasive questions about the applicant’s life and personality, which have nothing to do with their ability to perform labor

another important difference is that if you apply to enough job ads you will eventually be hired, because the goal is to hire workers. whereas if you apply to job postings you will get automated rejection emails 3-7 months later

the idea is that people who are skilled at doing labor will be allowed to eat and access medical care and have certain basic human rights in the United States

@pharmafemboy hehe for you I’d definitely make you a bnuuy girl. I think that’d be super cute 💙

*hands you a tf potion*

hey drink this