https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's

from The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure, by Juliet B. Schor

See also: Productivity and the Workweek
        and: Eight centuries of annual hours

The labouring man will take his rest long in the morning; a good piece of the day is spent afore he come at his work; then he must have his breakfast, though he have not earned it at his accustomed hour, or else there is grudging and murmuring; when the clock smiteth, he will cast down his burden in the midway, and whatsoever he is in hand with, he will leave it as it is, though many times it is marred afore he come again; he may not lose his meat, what danger soever the work is in. At noon he must have his sleeping time, then his bever in the afternoon, which spendeth a great part of the day; and when his hour cometh at night, at the first stroke of the clock he casteth down his tools, leaveth his work, in what need or case soever the work standeth.
        -James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham, ca. 1570

One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries. The comparison conjures up the dreary life of medieval peasants, toiling steadily from dawn to dusk. We are asked to imagine the journeyman artisan in a cold, damp garret, rising even before the sun, laboring by candlelight late into the night.

These images are backward projections of modern work patterns. And they are false. Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their incomes, it also took away their time. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that working hours in the mid-nineteenth century constitute the most prodigious work effort in the entire history of humankind.

Therefore, we must take a longer

Context: after finally making it to Terra after escaping the massacre at Istvaan III, Nathaniel Garro, a loyalist Death Guard captain, faces off against the Lord of Flies, a daemon who has possessed the body of his friend Solun Decius. The fight takes place on the surface of Luna. Keeler is a remembrancer turned saint, and Kaleb was a serf who sacrificed himself in order to save Garro.

>He took a blow that knocked the breath from him, ignoring the new alert runes that haloed his vision. Streams of white vapour – precious air – issued out from points of damage beneath the eagle cuirass. Eventually suffocation would come, even to an Astartes. ‘You must die, abomination,’ Garro said aloud, ‘even if it be my last victory!’

>The Lord of Flies pressed upon him, and Garro’s back slammed into the wall of the crater, into the inky shadows cast by the rock formation. The ruined insect face leered over him, and the great claw tore the cuirass from him, tossing it away. He fought back, but the Decius-thing was faster. Burning pain lanced into him as the warped Astartes bored the serrated talons through layers of ceramite and flexsteel. The thing was going to rip his armour open and expose the meat inside to the killing vacuum.

>‘Is this my duty?’ Garro asked. ‘I am Death Guard…I am dead…’ A sudden sorrow engulfed him, the weight of all his darkest, most morose moments returning as one. Perhaps it was fitting that he perished here, in this lifeless stone arena. His Legion was already destroyed. What was he now? No more than a relic, an embarrassment, his warning delivered, and his purpose ended. The cold was filling him leeching out the life from his bones. Perhaps it was for the best, to accept death. What else was there for him? What did he have left? His vision blurred, the pressure pushing him down.

>Faith.

>The word exploded inside him. ‘Who?’ he gasped. ‘Keeler?’

>Have faith, Nathaniel. You are of purpose.

>‘I…I am…’ Garro choked, blood in his mouth stifling his voice, ‘I am…’ His fingers touched loose rock and closed around a fist sized stone. ‘I am!’

>With a bellow of exertion, he swung the piece of moon rock and slammed it hard into the Lord of Flies. The impact echoed up his arm and the mutant fell back, a great curl of dead skin flapping back to reveal a distorted jawbone and a forest of teeth. Garro threw himself forward and clasped at his fallen sword. The chain of Kaleb’s icon was snagged around the hi

THIS IS ABOUT: Late Capitalism, Corporate Tool to Surplus Labor, Voting For What? The Billionaires Who Read Barron's, Artificial Intelligence Human Resources, No More Drug Tests and Background Checks and Why Keep Living?

Welcome to life in the United States during it's dog days and years of god-awful Late Capitalism.

This substack is going to document my life while I live daily and against my will under a degraded, falling apart and destructive economic with it’s accompanied political system while I refuse to comply and try to not participate within it.

I won’t comply any longer because I can’t. Frankly, I’ve been in compliance with this dog shit, disgusting, failing Capitalist system for many years. I too, as many of us do who have to work for a living, have blood on my hands from the work I did under Capitalism. In some instances I destroy the lives of others as I did my job I as outlined.

I hated myself back then. In some ways I still do now.

I did my part within the collapsing U.S. economy and its social systems to prevent myself from being financially and reputationally destroyed because I feared the repercussions of non-compliance: homelessness, embarrassment, shame, sickness, and marginal living with no chance of a decent life and reintegration into our society.

I’m not a saint or brave. I’m just tired and disgusted.

For me, Late Capitalism is the time where the controllers of our society reveal themselves to be brutal. The Late Capitalist society is revealed to be controlled by monsters.

So, in the United States these monsters are our billionaire shareholders with their violently destructive monopoly-powered corporations that begin to openly show themselves to be in full control of THEIR government and THEIR justice system.

The monsters make it clear I have no voice or saying under their system. The pretense of a democracy, equality and justice for all are gone. It turned out we are not “All In It Together.” We workers are the ones who are left holding the economic bag full of shit and are being made to pay once again for another one of their economic collapses.

These are the monsters that own the two political parties we are allowed by them to have in the U.S. Therefore, they control the legislative, judicial and executive branches of governance. This is why to me it doesn’t matter any longer which one of the two political party is in power because the legislation, judicial and executive outcomes always in favor of t

Do your worst!

He was human. Elementary schools teach blatant lies, and that’s pretty well agreed upon. Most of society upon realizing this has done their best to drag his name through the mud. I don’t know how so many people on both sides could be so ignorant about something that they’re apparently so passionate about.

Columbus didn’t get lost on his way or make a big mistake. He could have told you his latitude and longitude with reasonable accuracy. He had thought he had found a landmass somewhere just east of Japan. Overlaying a map from the 1400’s with one from today shows that if the old map were accurate he would have been right. By his second voyage Columbus had realized and wrote that he had found somewhere completely new.

Columbus didn’t enslave all the natives on the islands he landed upon either. He established encomiendas, which were essentially New World extensions of the Spanish Old World feudal system. The people on the island were made serfs like the majority of the European population was at the time. The European concept was essentially you owned the land and all of the people who live on that land work it for you. They didn’t own the people though. I’m sure tons of abuses happened in the encomiendas, but Columbus did try to mitigate them while he was governor. It was De Las Casas and the later English propagandist who said that Columbus did that.

The final point I want to express is that Columbus did not endorse or participate in child sex trafficking while governor. I would argue that he was in part arrested and put in jail for standing against it. You hear the stories of Columbus cutting off hands and ears and noses of native peoples for not handing in enough gold, and that may have happened on occasion, but for the most part penalties like that were doled out by Columbus on Spanish settlers for some of the horrible stuff that they did. While in prison between his third and fourth voyages for “colonial mismanagement“ he wrote about the sex trafficking taking place where a girls as young as 13 or 14 were being abducted and taken to the homes of wealthier Spaniards on the islands. Whenever caught, Columbus would order these people mutilated to make them stop. I am so surprised that so many people take this letter where he is complaining about a problem and justifying his actions to stop it as an endorsement.

Again, I do not understand how people can get so riled up on something that they are so ignorant about. Columbus wasn’t a saint, I don’t t

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

They’re on standbi

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

1505 MARCH-APRIL

Finally free from Lithuanian chains, Prince Shuisky can set things right by fully separating Ruthenian people of Little Russia from the poisonous influence of Bishop of Rome and his evil lackey Grand Duke of Lithuania-Samogotia. The new Duke is likely to declare war on Kyiv for splitting away, but Prince's friend and lord Tsar Dmitry Ivanovich Rurikovich will defend the Principality from its mortal enemies. During the beginning of the independence the Principality started of as a blank state, it was liberated from hands of Grand Duke Aleksandras who in turn had conquered it from Semyon Slutsky, former Prince of Kyiv. Now with de facto independence, Prince Vasiliy can institute major reforms to turn Kyiv from blank state into a proper Russian principality the way it was meant to be!

New Reforms:

1. Adapting old Rus' law:
   As in Muscovy, Kievan Principality shall adopt an old Russian law that existed back in time of great Yaroslav the Wise, may he rest in heaven, to split away from Lithuanian way of administration. Though they did adopt lots of old Russian customs, Lithuania was moving close to Polish way of administrating its kingdom and we cannot continue to use the old system of schismatics.
2. Establishing Kyivska/Kievskaya Rada:
   The nobility of Kyiv is rather mixed, many are the magnates that lived under thumb of Grand Duke's voivodes, some are recently arrived Russian nobility who came with purpose of liberation and returning old way of life. That is why first thing is to establish a Rada, the advisory council consisting of few most important nobles and Metropolitan of Kyiv in the Principality to advice on the rule and propose new legislations, new laws and administrative reforms. As in Russia, the Rada can be overruled by the Prince and the only voices that matter are those of most prominent families in Rada.
3. New currency:
   Many Western realms under thumb of Bishop of Rome and traitorous merchants of Venice, Genoa, Florence use florins to trade, buy and sell merchandise. We, however, must not fall under economic influence of these states and instead follow example of our protector, Tsardom of Russia. It is the decision of Prince and the Rada to introduce denga and grivna as new currency in Kyiv. The foreign currency would be used to trade with outside world, but within the state Ruthenian people will use the currency of Grand Principality of Kiev and its successor Muscovy.
4. Starostas of Kyiv/Kiev:

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Bob

Just to clarify, 12345678

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

"That's what they're fighting about."

Because his Visa didn’t work.

free

https://watcherdm.com/2021/12/22/ten-lords-a-leaping-the-jump-knights-of-yuul/

By Austin Holm

The vast and ancient Kingdom of Yuul, ever shrouded in winter, is mankinds’ first line of defense against those northern nightmares, hyperborean and heat-hungry, that haunt the polar regions: the Yeti, the Wendigo, the Chattering Teeth, and the Cold King. This frozen bulwark would long ago have disappeared beneath the ice if it weren’t for the bravery of the Jump Knights.

The ten Leap Lords have ruled Yuul for centuries, passing their enchanted armor from parent to child in an unbroken line. King Pepin, the ostensible monarch of this realm, is essentially a glorified figurehead. The power of the knights comes from their magical plate mail, permanently endowed with the effects of both the Jump spell and Feather Fall. Bequeathed unto the Jump Knights by anti-gravity Dwarves during the Anachronism Wars in the second century of man, this magic armor has kept the south safe from the evil at the top of the world.

It’s also had a marked effect on the architecture of Yuul. As decreed by the leaping lords, all buildings within Yuul must come fitted with a variety of external platforms capable of supporting a well-fed fighting man in full plate. These leap-pads (as the locals call them) festoon every building and provide routes of retreat and ambush to the Jump Knights. Many Snow Golems, Werereindeers, and Ice Elves have tried to invade the warm realms, only to have their dreams crushed by 400 pounds of falling muscle and steel.

TO KILL A JUMP KNIGHT

A Jump Knight fights as a Knight, except that they have an AC of 19. Also, they are affected by Jump and Feather Fall. As landed aristocrats, they are loath to fight battles they do not think they can win. Most will flee to seek backup should they encounter anyone capable of injuring them through their armor. They are generally happy to insult, condescend, and otherwise look down upon the earth-bound lower classes until that should happen.

JUMP MAIL

Their Jump Armor is +1 Plate Mail, with no strength requirement, no Stealth disadvantage, and a weight of 0l

THIS POST IS ABOUT: Late Capitalism, Corporate Tool to Surplus Labor, Voting For What? The Billionaires Who Read Barron's, Artificial Intelligence Human Resources, No More Drug Tests and Background Checks and Why Keep Living?

Substack link https://kwilson.substack.com/p/i-refuse-to-comply-living-daily-life?r=c32w9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy

Welcome to life in the United States during it's dog days and years of god-awful Late Capitalism.

This substack is going to document my life while I live daily and against my will under a degraded, falling apart and destructive economic with it’s accompanied political system while I refuse to comply and try to not participate within it.

I won’t comply any longer because I can’t. Frankly, I’ve been in compliance with this dog shit, disgusting, failing Capitalist system for many years. I too, as many of us do who have to work for a living, have blood on my hands from the work I did under Capitalism. In some instances I destroy the lives of others as I did my job I as outlined.

I hated myself back then. In some ways I still do now.

I did my part within the collapsing U.S. economy and its social systems to prevent myself from being financially and reputationally destroyed because I feared the repercussions of non-compliance: homelessness, embarrassment, shame, sickness, and marginal living with no chance of a decent life and reintegration into our society.

I’m not a saint or brave. I’m just tired and disgusted.

For me, Late Capitalism is the time where the controllers of our society reveal themselves to be brutal. The Late Capitalist society is revealed to be controlled by monsters.

So, in the United States these monsters are our billionaire shareholders with their violently destructive monopoly-powered corporations that begin to openly show themselves to be in full control of THEIR government and THEIR justice system.

The monsters make it clear I have no voice or saying under their system. The pretense of a democracy, equality and justice for all are gone. It turned out we are not “All In It Together.” We workers are the ones who are left holding the economic bag full of shit and are being made to pay once again for another one of their economic collapses.

These are the monsters that own the two political parties we are allowed by them to have in the U.S. Therefore, they control the legislative, judicial and executive branches of governance. This is why to