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Trump and Vance’s Oval Office announcement turned into a spectacle of barely contained rage
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I don't even know where to start with this. This sounds like an AI hallucination.
I'd… I'd like to be paid to unpack groceries and play mahjong in senior centers
Fr, I'd work for cheap if that were the work
I'd like to just find people to play mahjong with casually. Getting paid would be a bonus.
Don't know about mahjong specifically, although especially if you provided the tiles, I bet there's a senior center that would help set something like that up. Some older folks in those places can be a little mentally not all there, but a significant portion have physical issues, and not all of them by any means are annoying-ass "Boomers". I bet you could set up a regular (or maybe even irregular) time to go socialize, and maybe even find one or two that know the game (although I think mahjong is pretty easy to pick up casually). :)
I can hear the conservative talk radio hosts my parents worshiped when I was growing up complaining about this sort of thing, saying they ain’t real jobs.
Conservatives especially but really it’s probably a much larger portion of Americans than I want to think about, have been so thoroughly pilled by capitalist brainwashing that they think a job doesn’t count unless someone involved is making money from the job.
“Cause if it isn’t making dollars, then it isn’t making sense. If you aren’t moving units then youre not worth the expense” -David Bazan
I feel like that's probably a huge misrepresentation of something legitimate.
Like maybe the found an activities coordinator or recreational therapist or something and asked them what they were doing that day and they answered "well right now I'm unpacking these groceries for a cooking class we're doing tomorrow, and then I'm gonna go get things ready for game night, and I'm gonna be teaching them how to play mahjong"
Or maybe they just found the kitchen staff playing mahjong on their lunch break after unpacking a bunch of groceries.
Or someone working in care helping with grocery shopping and socialising with clients.
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats.
Wouldn't that come with the job of caring for the people at a senior center? Like, the ladies at the daycare I went to as a kid had to stock the kitchen and played games with us, seems like kind of the same deal depending on how much help the seniors need. Should they not be compensated for that?
Mahjong is actually pretty cool once you know what's going on.
Do I have to wait until I’m a senior?