I have to rethink my priorities I guess.

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[–] -5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (29 children)

The problem isn't work. It's the fact that we made up units of time and expect everyone to believe in them.

Hours and minutes aren't real. We should stop using them. They're a capitalist creation that only serve to exploit our labor and steal actual time. Real humans don't need clocks or watches; employees do.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, the anti-measurement bloc. The extreme minority ridiculed by both imperial and metric proponents.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

    What the fuck even is a kilometer? Something pushed on us by nations and companies that is pulled straight from someone’s ass.

    It’s so made up they can’t even make it a real number. It’s one over 299,792.458 light seconds.

    Why can’t it be an even 300,000? Because the idiots who made it up fucking measured wrong using something they made up

    Measurements are bullshit.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

    Real humans don't need clocks or watches

    So you're the guy that shows up 2 hours late to the party.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (6 children)

    A wizard shows up precisely when he intends.

    Also I’m bringing a dozen tacos and burritos.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

    We already ate because the plan was to order pizza at the beginning

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  • [+] -7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

    Sounds like a lame party if showing up with snacks for the drunkards isn’t welcome

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    So the teetotalers are supposed to just get fucked then?

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  • [–] -4 points 7 hours ago* (2 children)

    I mean if the chemistry is right then get to fuckin

    It’s supposed to be a party after all

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  • [–] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    idk, I find being able to split time into chunks I can assign stuff to pretty handy. Not to mention being able to know things like when a train is going to arrive/depart...

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  • [–] -3 points 9 hours ago

    You can just do things. You don’t need to wait for a clock to tell you it’s time.

    And, yes, trains and their schedules are part of the exploitation. Especially because the train doesn’t mind being late, but will never wait for you.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

    Minutes are a useful concept when I'm measuring my heartrate. Otherwise, I wouldn't know how many beats per ... something ... I was hitting.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    Put sand in a glass

    Wait for it to drain

    Congratulations you can now monitor your heart rate without arbitrary notions like “minutes”

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    yes, but how do I compare my resting heartrate to someone else's without someone borrowing someone else's sandglass? Is 130 beats per glass high or low?

    A basis for comparison is very useful.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 hours ago* (3 children)

    I need to know the time when I'm by myself in the woods or swamp. So, uh, I'm a capitalist pig?

    Or did the joke go over my head? Hard to tell around here sometimes.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    You don’t need to know the time with hour precision in a swamp.

    I’ve lived in a swamp and the best part is the lack of clocks.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    I mainly want to know when sundown is so I use the palm trick (one hour per palm width, sun to horizon). I can stick it within 15 minutes even when the sun's behind the trees.

    Maybe I have a slight obsession with time? I always wear a watch when I'm out the house and collect old Casios. Had a watch since first grade.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    Tell me about it. Like don't get me started on days of the week. What do we need to name them for? Like "Oh this is 'Tuesday'" Whatever that's supposed to mean. Real humans just need today, yesterday, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, etc. Everyones always waiting for Friday. Why? Because the boss says you have to work until then. I say we just make every day a weekend.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    LOL time existed looong before capitalism. We need them for bunch of other things, likeb planning meeting with friends and family, done cultures use that to determine when to pray. To go to school etc etc.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    People never coordinated time before the invention of clocks? Guess nobody had parties in antiquity.

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