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I would totally go around my neighborhood to help people accomplish their residential “hunny-do” lists.
Help that old lady changer her air filters, put new batteries in the smoke alarm, replace the gasket on the fridge, install a heating element in the water heater, build bookshelves, whatever they need.
Problem is I’m so exhausted from working for fatcats, I don’t have the energy to help my neighbors. Pretty sure that’s by design.
All of you are invited to my place to change my AC filters/care for my garden/fix the squealing noise on my car/etc/etc/
Yesterday I fixed a flickering light at the restaurant I work at. Not because it was my job, or because it annoyed me, and neither because it was annoying any guests, but because I overheard some of my co-workers saying that it wasn’t fixable without turning off all the other lights. At that point I said to them, “no, you can easily stop the flickering, give me a ladder and permission and I’ll fix it”. Am I on some sort of spectrum because of that? Yeah sure I fucking know it and so fucking be it lmao
Me with gardens. If I was given free reins, the entire city would turn into a lush jungle.
I will follow behind you, dispensing salt to all the soil and plants that I can find. We will be legends, of the conflict between nature and grumpiness.
Can I come by and change all of the air filters in your cars and HVAC system? For some weird ass reason I find it very satisfying.
lemme look at your car it’s making a squealing noise and I can fix it gimme gimme, don’t make me go back to retail
Ya know, while at work today I took a break from the computer stuff to sketch out some concepts for plumbing that I’m going to rework at home for one of my hobbies, a pond.
Maybe I would be the guy in the OP that goes around fixing pipes! Then once I’m in the door I’d offer to install Linux on any computers I see.
I have been rewiring a historic house as part of a major restoration (I have an electrical background and know NEC like the back of my hand, don’t @ me) and I would 100% rewire all my neighbors’ houses for free if I didn’t need my day job at the cubicle farm for healthcare and not starving to death
I would like that. My room has two light fixtures, each with two bulbs. For some reason, exactly half of each doesn’t power a light bulb anymore.
I asked an electrician who visited to replace those fixtures. I think they didn’t.
I assume we all know that there would also be broken brains doom scrolling all day…
Hilarious how even in the context of jokes people still can’t come up with criticisms of socialism that aren’t already happening lmao.
I’m a socialist, just saying…
Quite literally almost everybody is whether they realize it or not. Even most “anarchists” argue for some form of socialism. Everybody wants roads and a fire department…
Anarchy requires socialism. Monpolies empower hierarchies of violence to work against humanity. As the original post suggests, humans are unable to pursue passions and a wage to live.
Socialism is not when some state does stuff, but when humans collectively own the means of production. Humans fight fires. Humans build roads. Bosses take credit.
The ideological war is easy to win.
What socialism needs is competent people getting involved locally, creating organizations, networking.
It’s really not. 1/3 of people absolutely despise any form of socialism granted strictly to the people with no immediate benefit to an authority. The moderate 1/3 is just a constant roadblock to any form of progress, very receptive to regression and usually will side with the first 1/3 while complaining slightly about everything but only ever willing to condemn progressives and socialists. So we have, at best, 1/3 of people who are even willing to consider socialism enough to be able to define it.
That happens already, unfortunately.
Your furnace will receive preventative maintenance. This is a threat.
There are entire youtube channels about unclogging culverts and storm drains. It’s genuinely a thing someone would just do, because people just do it.
It’s been a few years but Post10 was the name of one guy doing that. I watched some of his videos a few years ago, now every time I hear about a clogged drain I think “too bad Post10 isn’t here”
A city I lived in had an “Adopt a storm drain” program, where you were supposed to check up on it and text them a photo after big storms. I took the one outside my house since it was available and did some cleanup a few times when it got clogged with branches and leaves. It was oddly satisfying.
I saw one where someone dragged a tire on a chain through a big one. Did a great job, and fast.
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my brain is broken to just absorb useless information… is there an opening for that?
Ever thought of librarianship?
Would love to split my time between physics research and hobby botany/native plant restoration efforts. Would happily do both for free if I could. Damn capitalism
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honestly that’s me and my hommies at the ses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Emergency_Service
we got a cool truck, loads of rad tools… and ocd.
you got a leak? tree fall over? ☎132500
free time is a bit lacking for me though :(
That sounds like fun!
