Happy world hamster day, conrads! Today may we all celebrate the tiny rodents! Have some hamster facts!

  • Biggs is currently inside your walls currently taking notes of your liberalism

  • Hamsters have an extremely high alcohol tolerance and can drink Everclear 190 while only getting a little buzzed

  • The domestic hamster can run over 5 miles in a single night, keeping you up all night with frantic wheel squeaking noises

  • Hamsters have extremely flexible spines that allow them to turn around in any tunnel they can fit in

  • Hamsters' cheek pouches extend all the way to their hips and can carry up to a quarter of their body weight in them

  • It is believed that almost, if not all domesticated Syrian hamsters, the most common species of pet hamster, can trace their lineage back to a single pregnant female caught in the wild in 1930

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  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    My mother in law, who worked all her life in poorly paid care work, is angry at my partner for seeking the help of her union to correct wrongly calculated wages that she is entitled to by the union contract. Apparently my partner is being "misbehaved" and "greedy" for trying to get money she worked for. She "makes enough money" and she "should be thankful just to have a job".

    The same mother in law was also offended that my partner doesn't volunteer to do extra unpaid work to do something for the children she works with.

    Sometimes the false consciousness really hits you over the head with a hammer.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      was also offended that my partner doesn’t volunteer to do extra unpaid work

      Why are some people like this? I know people who run themselves ragged doing this and then complain about how tired and broke they are????

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My theory is they internalize the idea of being selfless as a defense mechanism. They think there isn't another way - that life is hard, unfair, and poorly paid regardless - so the suffering becomes selfless, even noble as a defence. People did it for centuries with religion and now capitalism is the dominant religion.

        I think people underestimate what people will rationalise in order to try and protect themselves from hopelessness.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's not even the employer pressuring them to do extra work, my mother-in-law is kind of expecting my partner to come up with and organise it herself.