JohnBrownsBussy [he/him]

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Cake day: October 2nd, 2020

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  • The process of churning out voice lines (long hours, poor pay, etc...) already grinds down the charm. Thinking about these sorts of big open world games, the proportion of character voices that I can recall or otherwise stood out to me feels quite low. If I'm thinking about generic townsfolk or bandits, I don't know if I could tell the difference.




  • JohnBrownsBussy [he/him]tochapotraphouseWhat was he cooking?
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    2 years ago

    Most employee ownership schemes in the US are not cooperatives or collectives, but Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Employee Stock Purchase Plans . Basically, they allows employees to either buy or earn stock in the company they work at. However, just like how buying stock on the stock market doesn't give you meaningful influence on a company (unless you get a whole lot), neither do these internal stocks. Workers have different amounts of stocks based on either tenure or how much stock they purchase from the company. I worked at a company where the stocks wouldn't even vest for 5 years.

    Thus, workers' interests are bound to the company (since their assets are bound up in the company's value), without necessarily getting any control over it. So, ESOPs can undermine worker solidarity as actions that could impact the company's bottom line (like unionization or strike action) could then directly hurt employees' retirement assets.







  • JohnBrownsBussy [he/him]topoliticsThat fetus has a lawyer.
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    2 years ago

    “The fetal personhood movement has certainly gained traction, moving from a fringe idea to codified laws across the country,” a spokesperson for Pregnancy Justice said in a statement, adding: “And while their goal is to stop abortion and control people’s bodily autonomy, they’ve given little thought to how this impacts all facets of the law beyond abortion … There’s no telling where this will end: HOV lanes, taxes, worker’s comp child custody/kidnapping cases, criminal law, and on and on.”

    Imagine when a pregnant woman is forced to remain with an abusive partner because to do otherwise would be to kidnap her own fetus.

    :amerikkka:









  • JohnBrownsBussy [he/him]tochat*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    For the genre itself, that seem to me like a modernization of the classic "fake panhandler" genre. It spreads the comforting lie that the most vulnerable in our society aren't actually that bad off, so you don't have to care about anything other than your immediate concerns