u/CursedTaint

His original name has been lost to history. We know him today as Curtis Jackson or 50 Cen, he was born in Egypt as Alaa El din and he is immortal.

He has witnessed the construction of the pyramids, the rise and fall of Rome, the spread of christianity, the industrial revolution all of it and so much more. He has changed his identity so often its pretty much impossible atp to trace his entire bloodline but I have discovered he was born in or near Egypt and raised in Egypt as a child. His given name might have been Alaa El din but I can't be certain as it's so long ago, although I do have reason to believe Alaa El-Din El-Sayed Abdel Rahma is in fact a descendant of his.

What I can with 100% certainty is the invention of cosmetic surgery has vastly improved his ability to shed his former identities.

His earliest appearance in official public records that I could find was in 1915 as a Mexican revolutionary named Wenceslao Moguel Herrera. And I'm about 60% certain he was part of Frank Abagnale Seniors crew in the 50s.

He's clearly wanting to get caught atp. I'm guessing life gets boring after a few hundred or thousand years of constantly having to drop everything you know and change up identities. He's intentionally leaving breadcrumbs.

1. 50 Cent is not some random stage name. The 5 represents the five fingers of the human hand. The 0 represents the eternal cycle of life. Five fingers grasping eternity. A reference to the symbol of the ankh in ancient Egypt.

2. His first major hit? In da Club What does he repeatedly tell people in the song? "Go shorty! its your birthday." Birthdays. Again and again. Almost as if he's fascinated by the concept of human ageing.

3. G-Unit. What does the G stand for? It stands for Giza. G-Unit was never a rap collective. It was an organisation dedicated to recovering the ancient Egyptian technology that made him immortal.

4. the most damning evidence of all, his former identity Wenceslao Moguel Herrera aka El Fusilado survived an identical "assassination attempt" that 50 Cent had, shot 9 times specifically. Both were botched attempts at faking his death to begin a new identity. He's recycling old tricks.

I'm open to questions and collaborative investigative work for those interested.

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Lets say the government introduced a UBI that was enough to cover your rent, utilities and a couple of nutritious meals per day. In other words you could survive reasonably comfortably without having to work.

Anything beyond the basics would still be on you. Things like a better phone, streaming subscriptions, a car, eating out/takeaways, hobbies, nicer clothes, etc would require you to earn additional money through work.

Assuming you were genuinely free to choose your hours, how many hours per week would you choose to work?

And for comparison how many hours do you work at the moment?

To clarify I mean drugs along the lines of weed or cocaine nd such, not caffeine etc.

I started smoking weed in my late 20s (currently pushing 40), after I started it was like a secret layer of society became visible to me idk how to explain it. Way more people take drugs than I realised. I work in the NHS in a staff of 56 I know at least 20 who smoke weed and about a dozen more who don't smoke weed but do indulge in coke and molly/x etc plus a couple of people who like shrooms and dmt and such. In total I'd say more than 50% of the staff take some sort of drug on a semi-regular basis.

I recently moved to a new department at a different site, a staff of just 20. So far I've already established 6 of them smoke weed and at least a couple of them do coke "on occasion" at big gatherings etc.

I feel like growing up I thought people taking drugs were in a tiny minority until I started smoking then suddenly people would open up around me about their own habits.

Even seems more common among people who seem very "normal" than I would expect (by normal I mean the type who are married with kids, spend their weekends at IKEA and worry about the new season of strictly etc)

I'm curious if others have had a similar experience?

What do you think of this quote? It was first published in a pamphlet in 1891 (Kropotkin).

I think it's still relevant when read as a way of challenging the modern idea of working hard/long hours equating to moral virtue.

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I'm legal guardian to my three nephews (13, 10 & 8). Background is a long story but essentially their mother died in a sudden, violent and tragic way ~3.5 years ago. All the kids have had therapy and they're all doing fine now for the most part.

But recently and rather suddenly, the eldest one has become very attentive of his younger brothers, which is a drastic change as he was always fighting with them usually. He's been so thoughtful, kind and protective recently it's been really nice to see. But he's also become very affectionate with me. He wasn't much of a hugger prior to this and I figured at 13 he'd be even less so.

But frequently he will be sitting next to me and just bury his head into my chest or turn his back to me and lean against me. He hugs me before going to bed and I've found him to be somewhat clingy (no judgement just observation), he will stand behind me a lot when I'm talking with other adults, right up against so half his body is behind me and the other half is sort of peeking out from behind me to watch what's going on. He grabs onto my jeans sometimes like the younger one used to when I first became guardian (but he was 5-6 at that time). When messing around and playfighting with them he often ends up with his arms around my neck and his legs around my torso holding onto me real tight like he's trying to sneak a hug during the play fight or something. He's also specifically asked why I don't "tuck him in" anymore but I haven't done that for about a year now because one night he rolled his eyes and said he was too old for that. Now a year later he seems to miss it.

I asked him if he's feeling okay or if there's anything he wants to talk about and he seems sincere when he says he's fine. In fact he almost looks a little puzzled as to why I would be asking.

It's not necessarily a bad thing (the affection), it's nice in a way but I'm concerned about how different it is from how he was before, the suddeness of it all and it being somewhat unusual for his age (I assume?), concerns about regression I guess?

Any advice would be welcomed. I'm still somewhat new to this, sure it's been 3 years but there's a big difference going from the single uncle who babysits once every couple months to the defacto father figure of 3 kids.

I'm legal guardian to my three nephews (13, 10 & 8). Short version of a very long story: Their mother (my sister) was killed by her husband and the boys have been in my care for 3 years. They all received therapy (once a week for about 18 months after I became guardian), their father never hit them afaik but they did witness domestic abuse. For the past year or so everything's been relatively normal. They all seem happy, still have their moments where theyre feeling down and miss her but overall they're all in a much better place than they were 3 years ago.

But recently and rather suddenly, the eldest one has become very attentive of his younger brothers, which is a drastic change as he was always fighting with them usually. He's been so thoughtful, kind and protective recently it's been really nice to see. But he's also become very affectionate with me. He wasn't much of a hugger prior to this and I figured at 13 he'd be even less so (even as a little kid he was very protective of personal space, no piggy back rides, no ruffling his hair or head pats).

But frequently he will be sitting next to me and just bury his head into my chest or turn his back to me and lean against me. He hugs me before going to bed and I've found him to be somewhat clingy (no judgement just observation), he will stand behind me a lot when I'm talking with other adults, right up against me so half his body is behind me and the other half is sort of peeking out from behind me to watch what's going on. He grabs onto my jeans sometimes like the younger one used to when I first became guardian (but he was 5-6 at that time). When messing around and playfighting with them he often ends up with his arms around my neck and his legs around my torso holding onto me real tight like he's trying to sneak a hug during the play fight or something. He's also specifically asked why I don't "tuck him in" anymore but I haven't done that for about a year now because one night he rolled his eyes and said he was too old for that. Now a year later he seems to miss it.

It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's nice in a way but I'm concerned about how different it is from how he was before, the suddeness of it all and it being somewhat unusual for his age (I assume?), concerns about regression I guess?

Any advice would be welcomed. I'm still somewhat new to this, sure it's been 3 years but there's a big difference going from the single uncle who babysits once every couple months to the defacto father figure of 3 kids.

What exactly is ethical about work? This moralisation of working regardless of what the work is contributing is so unbelievably stupid.

we've internalised this archaic protestant bullshit so thoroughly that people actually brag about how much of their lives they give away.

"I worked 60 hours this week."

"I haven't taken a sick day in five years."

"I always come in half an hour early."

"I don't even take my full lunch break."

"I stay until the job is finished. I don't care if I'm getting paid."

Congratulations? You've played yourself.

Your employer buys eight hours of your day and somehow you're the selfish one if you don't occasionally give them a ninth for free? Gtfoh. Totally bullshit.

And the most fucked up part is that management doesn't always have to enforce this anymore. Workers have been conditioned to enforce it on each other.

Leave exactly when your shift ends and somebody will joke about you being eager to get away.

Take your entire lunch break and somebody notices.

Don't answer emails on your day off and you're "not committed."

Folk have even internalised this idea of moralising work and the concept of being productive that when they finally get a chance to sit around doing nothing for an afternoon there's that little voice "I should really be doing something."

Why?

Maybe you already did everything that needed doing.

Maybe doing absolutely nothing for three hours is precisely what you want to do with three hours of the only life you're ever guaranteed to have.

If technological progress lets us produce what society needs with dramatically less human labour, the obvious reward should be dramatically more human leisure. Bertrand Russell put forth this argument over a century ago and it's still accurate.

Instead we invented machines capable of doing the work of ten people and somehow concluded that the remaining person should still be working 40 hours..

We invented computers. Still 40 hours.

The Internet. Still 40 hours.

Automation. Still 40 hours.

And we're already asking what new jobs everyone can do when AI replaces your old one.

At some point you have to wonder what exactly we're trying to achieve here, what's the fucking point?

If society can produce the same food, housing, healthcare, infrastructure etc etc all the things we actually need while everyone works 20 hours instead of 40 then that's exactly what we should do.

And every time I bring this up irl people get skittish around the idea of eliminating unnecessary work. They always ask what folk would do with the extra time.

Anything!

Raise their children. Visit their parents. Exercise. Read books. Paint terrible pictures. Learn the guitar badly. Grow tomatoes. Get drunk with their friends. Spend six hours trying to complete Dark Souls. Sit under a tree scratching themselves.

It's their life. Let them live it their way.

Wanting to work as little as possible is not unethical.

Constructing a society capable of freeing people from enormous amounts of unnecessary labour and then teaching them to feel ashamed for wanting to be free of it is unethical.

Fuck "Work Ethic", there's nothing ethical about coercing people into throwing away hours, days, weeks, months, years of their lives. I'm so tired of hearing people talk about "work ethic", makes my blood boil every time I hear the phrase.

Watching yet another generic isekai anime and the protagonist is showing off his hidden power to his mentor and it got me thinking how much it would suck to be a regular person in this world.

Walking through the forest, maybe travelling for work, whatever, and then suddenly you're just dead. In an instant. Because some teenager wanted to show off his spells and destroy an entire forest.

Not only do you have to deal with the regular struggles of being a peasant or serf or whatever but on top of that you have to worry about how anyone would be walking around with the firepower of a tank or some sort of missile.

It's the same in shonen series in general I guess. Who the hell would want to live in a naruto shinobi village when they're constantly being attacked by what essentially amounts to domestic terrorists with magical powers.

I'd love to see a show or read a manga that explores this idea . A completely powerless normal human reincarnated into one of these isekai worlds

It's in the title but I'm looking for a sub that can help me find where a piece of clothing is from/brand name/store etc YouTuber I'm watching is wearing this hoody I really like but I can't find it on Google. I was hoping here might be a fashion related sub or something that allows people to post images of clothes they're trying to find.