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railroad baboon is my favorite one

basically a baboon to assist a paraplegic man in pulling signal switches for trains to stop. look it up. I think it’s the most wonderful thing.

>>741
>The standard weekly wage was between six and seven pence per-cat, which was barely enough to maintain their morale.
This is hilarious

Jack was an employee of the railroad. He belonged to James “Jumper” Wide who worked as a signalman until he lost both legs in an accident. Wide earned the nickname “Jumper” due to his habit of jumping from one railway car to another and sometimes swinging from railcar to railcar. One afternoon in 1877, near Kleinpoort in the Eastern Cape, he attempted to leap to another car and fell underneath the moving train. The massive metal wheels of the train severed both his legs.

Jumper was devastated. Not only had he lost his legs, but he would be of no use to the railroad. He took a post as signalman at Uitenhage station, where he made himself two pegged legs he carved from a piece of wood, and built himself a small trolley he used to get around. Still, he was limited on how well he could perform his job.

One afternoon he was visiting the marketplace in Uitenhage where he saw a baboon leading an ox wagon. He met the owner who demonstrated how smart the primate was. Soon, Jumper was convinced the baboon could serve him well. He pleaded with the owner to let him have the baboon. The owner didn’t really want to give up his favorite pet, but he felt sorry for the crippled man.

He gave the baboon to Jumper and thus began the most unusual friendship in the railroad’s history. The two lived in a cottage a half mile from the railroad depot. Each morning Jack would push Jumper to work on the trolley. He would push the trolley up a hill and once on top of the hill, Jack would jump on the trolley for a fun ride as it rolled quickly down the other side of the hill. Once at work, Jack operated the signals that instructed train engineers which tracks they would take.


The working relationship between Jumper and Jack worked well and the two forged a strong friendship. Many locals would go to the tracks to see if the story of a baboon working the signals was true. Most marveled at how well Jack performed his job.
He knew the difference between the “home” and “distant” signals, and also the engine whistles; and although he was always under the eye of his master, he never made a mistake or required telling twice. Jack was one of the sights of Uitenhage for many years, and his astonishing feats of intelligence was the wonder of all who witnessed them.

Then one day, a prominent lady on route to Port Elizabeth observed Jack working and was horrified at the prospects of a baboon running the signals. She notified the railroad auPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

This was how humans used to work until after the Industrial Revolution when we switched over to pure artificial pesticides.

Instead of chasing away birds from the parking lot., keep them. They help take away trash.

Cannot pay humans to clean up shit because they just half ass and make more mess.

>>851
>I really should have heard about this through Palestine Solidarity. These people are so disorganised, it's really distressing.
Trades Councils (which organise May Day events) are geriatric even places where they are vibrant, let alone outside of the metropoles. They can't use social media for shit and are very bad at publicising their own events to their own audience (trade unionists) let alone outside of it. Good tip for local anons is to look up "X District Trades Council" (if you live in a small town it will be your local government district) and they will likely have something on their facebook.

>>857
Shay is alive?

>>848
>>851
Went for ps solidarity group, It was pretty small, maybe only ~100 people. sad.

>>859
As I said anon >>856 (me) unfortunately trades councils are shit at what they are meant to do nowadays. If you have the wherewithal to sit through a dull meeting once a month and pick up the huge amount of missing load I'd suggest trying to get involved to bring things together. They usually won't offer resistance because they want someone young to do these things. Still it will mean you are own your own though.

>>296
maybe get some shit on your cv to increase credibility but i wouldn't give it too much thought

Could you try unionizing? Might help protect against getting fired for actually trying to help people.

>>188
>ITT we share our experiences with the NGO industrial complex while still deluding ourselves that entryism is a valid strategy for anyone except feds and hawks.
I don't do that. I just work here for the money and flexibility.
Also: especifismo > eNtRyIsM

>>189
>Work tips to keep this thread bumping and for me and anybody else are much welcome🙏
Actually take the time to make your work station ergonomic. It is not a meme. Your health with thank you. Also do kegels throughout the day.
>>283
>Also I use all their milk.
bassed

Will doing an internship at the imperial bureaucracy (i.e. a Western government ministry) forever tarnish my credentials as a TRU-leftist(TM)?

>>570
Silly.

tbh i think ur getting brainwormed by capital. even if it is amateur I think if you put love into it theyll understand. although a fucking short film is a lot of work. Although Id do more research to see if the pathway of classes and teachers themselves will be helpful to you specifically bc a lot of artists say its a scam but the ones saying its a scam are also the artists advertising their personalized online course to get you ready for an industry they have not been part of for 5 years bc its more lucrative being an online teacher than in the actual industry

>>752
like theres a lot of materiel you can show by doing a short film. like storyboarding, how your concept evolved from rough to final, color, etc etc. You should probably ask is it an actual short film or more like an animatic? I think they want you to show your skills of critical thinking and problem solving more than your talent bc well talent is the result of critical thinking and if you somehow show evidence of that thinking and solving in your process, no matter how shotty it looks itll gain some merit. although your complaints still do make sense since who tf has time for that. its demoralizing.

oh shit uyghur why did you decide to become an artist? you should have studied medicine like you were told

>>759
Fucking this. I love it when people who have a knack for medicine or engineering or have family connections to those fields decide to throw it away for some non essential career and get pissed about costs and "slop".

We need to stop putting professional arts&craft on the same level of necessity as medicine and engineering.

>>187
You need to have money to pay for daycare, and petty bourgs have class solidarity with each other. They are able to selectively choose small and local businesses for daycare.

Is keftypol really just a bunch of 14 year olds?

I think that "millions of people should unionize and strike" is not really a plan.

>>299
Are you implying you need to be petty booj to afford daycare? It's like 250/month for one kid at the cheaper ones where I live. 125 from each parent. Some self described "reserveless proles" spend that much on weed or booze each month. nearly all families get daycare these days because both mom and dad need to work during the day to make ends meet and they can't get jobs where they never see each other and take turns watching the kid. This is especially true when the kid is old enough for daycare (1 or 2 years old) but not old enough to be a "latchkey kid" (5-10 depending on how much you trust them).

>>742
don't expect anons here to actually understand how real life works for most people

Stop applying for bullshit parasite jobs. Lower wages and no contribution to social-aggregate product, the semi-proletarian retail service worker is distinct from proletariat. Assembly line wages make far higher wages because they actually produce value.

>>749
cash app me

Isn't this LabourStart?

>>732
So apparently Marx when it came to the Irish claimed that they drove wages down. He also argued that the most dire effect was in dividing (due to chauvinism, and material concerns) the working-class stifling their ability to organize together against their oppressor. He called this "the secret of the impotence of the English working class." They also dip into the literature and emphasize that being undocumented significantly depreciates wages, among other things.

https://monthlyreview.org/2017/02/01/marx-on-immigration/

Normalize kneecapping scabs again tbqhdesu

>>729
>it's expenses that are rising
When expenses rise all classes are affected, read Marx please.

>>717
Every compromise you make is just a betrayal against the self
Take me for example. I was so impressed with the takedown of 4chan i legitimately thought soyjak party could listen to reason. We'd prove mods just don't need to exist and I'd introduce beareaucratic socialism to them to ween them off the drug of transhumanist janny tyranny where like
>you just delete posts not ban
>someone oversees you before you delete the post and/or you pay crypto to permit the post deletion

Instead, i get jannied and defamed while so. Of course i do. All mods need a bat to the head. There's no reasoning with them, no bargaining, no prioritizing. That's how you have to face all challenges is a fucking bat until the thing against you stops moving

Mafia involvement in unions made them less effective, not more effective. The mafia are among the most bloodthirsty and reactionary cross-section of the petty bourgeoisie and lumpenproletariat. They take over unions in order to give their sons "no-show" jobs, spy on the labor movement for the FBI in exchange for reduced sentences for horrible crimes they did, and in general skim union dues for their coke and hooker habits. Cosa Nostra are scumbags who will kidnap and rape your daughter and then turn her out as a hooker. They're the worst of the worst. A lot of Mafia guys were pro Italian fascism. And they're in bed with the worst crooks in the film industry which constantly pumps out shitty media to make them look relatable and cool.

I wouldn't be surprised if mafia infiltration of unions was a long term goal of the intelligence apparatus in the US state in order to ruin the reputation of unions by associating them with organized crime.

Listen to these deconstructions of union depictions in Hollywood movies


https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-164-labor-union-depictions-in-hollywood-part-i-from-demonized-to-ignored-or-mafia-plot-cliche

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-165-labor-union-depictions-in-hollywood-part-ii-the-rare-pro-worker-narrative

RISE AND GRIND FUCKBOYS WE GOT MONEY TO MAKE

How do you convince yourself that the epidemic of NEETDOM is not inherent to the system itself? We ostracize youth from society by putting them in dormitory communities where they will be raised by small and often fragile communities away from any space where they can socialize properly, constantly have to see children moved around from place to place throughout their education killing off any bonds they form with their community around them, and then suddenly bombard them with an endless chore list (sometimes literal) of responsibilities they have to fill out ALONE until they die just to be considered a functioning adult, and then bombard them with even more demands for work that ask of them to take care of their employers despite having zero experience and sometimes even training about whatever career they were likely forced to pursue over their own interests?

There is never a clear point where anybody is meaningfully supported to grow into a mature adult in our society that demands more of them. People like Cyraxx and asmongold don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re created and left to grow in numbers. Barely any parenting, barely any government support, barely any reaffirmation from peers, constant competition, and an endless sludge fest of consumer garbage to infantilize people in mass and were wondering why there are so many man children these days.

>>710
>Fragile communities away from any space where they can socialize properly.
Hadn't heard such a position before.
Guess it's basically restricted to lunch, halls, and "extracurriculars".
And they obviously fade away, because they're assembled on a purely temporal basis.

>Bombard them with an endless chore list to be considered an adult.
Not sure this is really so much of an issue.
There simply are many things one needs to do.

>Zero experience and sometimes even training about whatever career […] over their own interests.
This seems to me to be the crux of the matter.
If there was something one enjoyed doing which happened to make money there wouldn't be a problem at all.
There's clearly a problem in presenting and developing these opportunities.

>>716
We don't raise kids into adults.
We just force them to do idle busywork with no worldly training.
There's no classes for financial education, home cooking, basic home repair, etc.

Society think academic skills are the ultimate replacement for common sense, social skills, and blue collar skills.