It's so funny how "ambition" for so many people just means "trying to make as much money as possible." Like guys, you only get one life, I can't imagine anything less "ambitious" than using it trying to get a promotion at work so you can afford a boat or whatever.

Don't let the diet industry fool you. Carbs are not your enemy. Your real enemy is Gannondorf, the Demon King, and his nefarious minions. Their plot to overthrow Hyrule must be stopped at all costs.

Capitalism didn't give us the internet. Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

When you think of money as "other people's labor", which it basically is, a lot of social institutions become very strange. For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.

Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.

Aristotle: the First Nerd

Aristotle: the First Nerd

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

I got laid off last week and I have to say, the best part about being unemployed is not having to work. That part is great. The worst part? I would to go with not receiving a paycheck. Not a fan of that part at all.

The Civil War is nuts man. People were actually volunteering to join the South. Imagine signing up to be shot at just so some rich white people can keep their slaves. Imagine dying for that shit. Like bro what are you doing. Do something else with your life. Get a hobby.

Fun fact, the Fellowship of the Ring is now as old the first Star Wars was when it came out, and also this just in: we all basically have one foot in the grave.

Yes, in the perfect society there will be no cringe. But Marxism is not a utopian vision, but a process for abolishing the current state of affairs. No existing revolution can achieve perfection, therefore there can be no revolution without at least some cringe, and we must accept this.