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@ShadowJonathan In fact, there are guys who will go around obsessively fixing every clogged heating pipe in a 10-mile radius out of spite against the system that tries to stop them.
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@ShadowJonathan 100% this.
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@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan This reminds me of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs theory. Jobs which are useful (shit jobs) don't get paid because the people doing them are supposed to live on the warm glow of doing actually useful things with their lives. Meanwhile the jobs with pay don't help anyone and don't need to exist (i.e. are bullshit jobs)
@AnachronistJohn @ShadowJonathan @sitcom_nemesis
My favorite job ever: driving for Jefferson Lines - scheduled motorcoach service.Getting mostly poor people where they needed to go. Actually helping people.
What job was I doing when we went almost bankrupt? Yup. Same job.
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@ShadowJonathan i still randomly get favs on a comment i posted on bsky forever ago:
"who's going to make the trains run on time:
- someone who's in it for the money
- an autistic train guy"
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@occurrent @ShadowJonathan and I'd invite you in
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@occurrent @ShadowJonathan and I'd invite you in
brb making a beeline for your most neglected closet or garage corner.
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@ShadowJonathan This is rather like those code libraries or repositories I hear about sometimes, where half the internet is built on this thing, and it's just one person in obscurity, obsessively keeping it updated, in their own time, with no compensation or recognition.
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@ShadowJonathan I had one friend who bought a headlight polishing kit and he honestly went around and cleaned up all of his neighbors' old headlights. I believe this is absolutely true.
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@ShadowJonathan I feel this in my soul. If I didn't need to work for a living every computer in a 30 block radius would be fixed and kids would have free coding lessons.
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@ShadowJonathan this is so fucking true. Source: am one of those freaks
@ArcMother me 2!!!
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Walking out of the bathroom at a house party and going up to the host to say "you know how the handle on your toilet jiggled a bit and needed to be held in just the right way to flush? It's fixed now." is one of my favorite things.
@gbargoud @ShadowJonathan I've found my people!!!
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@ShadowJonathan We don’t have such system yet because for each million of freaks there’s a billion of normies who will abuse & scam the shit out of it
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Walking out of the bathroom at a house party and going up to the host to say "you know how the handle on your toilet jiggled a bit and needed to be held in just the right way to flush? It's fixed now." is one of my favorite things.
@gbargoud @ShadowJonathan I would replace so many flappers!
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@ShadowJonathan I 100% would go door to door updating OpenStreetMap fulltime if I could afford to, socioeconomically.
This obsession spawned out of maps not updating fast enough in Portland 20 years ago to reliably run a courier service and kinda getting screwed by that, ultimately leading me to learn about and start contributing to OpenStreetMap just to have accurate navigation in a city that was changing the street grid daily.
@BalooUriza @ShadowJonathan Thank you for your service! :3
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@ShadowJonathan Not only that, but a lot of what people have to do to pay the bills is actively harmful. Imagine if all the people doing cold calls all day could just stay home and play PlayStation. Everybody wins!
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@ShadowJonathan I love Post 10!
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I would voluntarily organize, sort, alphabetize anything and everything.
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@ShadowJonathan we need #ubi
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@ShadowJonathan We don’t have such system yet because for each million of freaks there’s a billion of normies who will abuse & scam the shit out of it
@d_olex @ShadowJonathan booooooo you're the reason we have a billion slaves and a million unhappy workers rather than a million fully realized people and a billion moochers. BOOOOOO
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