Poo sky

Coincidentally I randomly decided to listen to the original album on my walk 3 days ago so it’s fresh in my mind. I like warmer drier sounds which both remasters are, but it doesn’t always work better when the og album is meant to sound cold and desolate

I an listening to it right now and wow, the drums sound so different on the Body Electric (there’s also another 2026 remaster and it sounds equally different in its own way). Almost sounds like a whole new kit

Zoomers are delusional about what standard of living they “should” have (comparing themselves to ig influencers, etc) but are most in touch with how expensive things really are

Through every domestic and foreign conflict, culture war battle, and government fiasco, this is the one thing that stays constant. You people apparently never get tired of it

Every damn time I come on here there's some debate about blue collar vs white collar/PMC and people griping about how the former is fetishised while the latter is demonised (which doesn't even happen irl, only think tank guys and politicians do it but bsky users wouldn't know any better).

I thought you guys didn’t like class-based politics?

Unbelievably gay cucked r3tarded site this is

If you think being a “powerful and well compensated person” is not a popular aspiration you are delusional

Every time I log on here someone on my timeline is singing the praises of the virtuous and glorious Professional Managerial Class.
How do you people not get bored of talking about them (i.e. yourselves)?

Even if it was they would be wrong to sell it

democrat

How do I always get ratioed in 10 seconds on this site. The Lib brigade

The obvious difference being that the average bsky user is employed in the latter and not the former.
I'm agnostic on automation, if it works it works, I just think the productivity gains should benefit workers.

That's fair. It just seems that people on here are much more enthusiastic, even gleeful, about automating blue collar jobs and argue it's an unambiguous economic positive, but with white collar jobs, it's illogical and harmful and tech CEOs just want to intimidate the professional class or something

Do you think automating professional white-collar jobs using AI is good?

#birdbot

#birdbot

Even if your argument is more "practical" and you oppose increasing wages because it will increase prices for consumers (this also applies to sweatshop workers etc), the same thing still applies-- you are a hypocrite if you think professionals should be paid more but not e.g. factory workers.

... a group of workers the userbase doesn't like. If you make that argument, you cannot complain about professionals like corporate lawyers and software engineers being underpaid. They are also paid what they deserve.

A lot of liberals justify the low pay of manual labour by their lower productivity and oppose union action to increase their wages because "they are paid what they are deserve". This is a generic conservative anti-bargaining stance which is somehow accepted on this site when it's used against ...

I saw a post a while back calling coal miners "high status" and had to laugh.

A manifestation of this untrue class narrative is "schrodinger's manufacturing worker": overpaid, coddled by the government, and actually doing quite well despite what NYT journos say, but their jobs and lives are so bad that increasing them will immiserate and impoverish the country. Which is it?

More broadly the idea that Trumpism/the far right is mainly a movement of angry reactionary blue collar luddites (men) who resent the success of the PMC (women) and want to return to a time when they could oppress them. I don't think reflects reality

The mythologising and worship of the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) is out of hand. You are drawing conclusions about the moral character of an entire demographic based on them voting democrat by what is probably a 5 to 10 percent margin.

I have a bunch of gripes related to this, I need to make a whole thread lol
(Maybe not my place considering I barely even post here but whatever)

The narrative about class dynamics that is very popular on here does not reflect reality at all imo

and Palestine/pro-Palestine activism *

The people who hate “blue hair and pronouns” form a more or less continuous block from far right to centre left

I don’t think you know what a horseshoe looks like.