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Cute Russian comic. The home of the official English version is here if anyone wants to skip ahead (or support them): https://boosty.to/gabiconomics-en

The concept of Alienation of labour is simple - when the results of labour do not belong to the worker with its further usage unrelated and invisible to workers - that result quickly becomes inconsequential, leading to worker indifference.

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Painting it red will make it go faster this is true

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

ong this hit hard ow

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is maybe my favourite one so far, and I've read up to the last english translated one on boosty. I was doing some volunteer work today, mounting and re-mounting samples at the herbarium. It is work, though not particularly demanding, and as a volunteer I am of course not being paid. But I'll be damned if my little pile of correctly prepped specimens isn't more satisfying than any paycheck I've ever gotten.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

!!! cool! Did you mount anything interesting or pretty?

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing too exciting, the only specimen I mounted was a horrible weed covered in fine spines that stuck in my hand and were too small to see, so I had to use sticky tape to get them out (Cechrus macrourus). The ones I remounted were all Hibbertia spp., guinea flowers, which are lovely cheerful yellow flowers when fresh but, pressed, lose most of their colour. At least I was familiar with the natives though so I know what they look like live:)

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eep w the weed spines, that sounds painful, if they're anything like those from the itchy bomb tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagunaria_patersonia. Do they give you gloves to use when mounting species like that? Or does that impede your dexterity?

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

It wasn't as bad as it sounds, I got pricked two or three times. Probably should have worn gloves but I was more than halfway done before the first one got me. I think the spines were just so tiny that mostly they didn't do anything.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

It’s kinda fun making something for ourselves!

All the feels. gabi-mad

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My best guess is that Falke got rejected lmao

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess that cooling-off-wave might be a sign the hots aren’t quite gonerumples-thinking

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That or it's a japanese hand wavey "no" expression from anime

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Comic needs to come in gif form

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oooo it would be a really nice with little animations on it! I've seen some comics like that

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Now that one I’m pretty sure is about the still-unnamed Minotaur gabi-thinking-but-not-hearing

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure if this is about Falke gabi-angry

Or about the Minotaur falke-close-enough

(I really wanted that :falke-thinking: emoji here that I didn’t finish yetgabi-pout)

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Falke loves'em and leaves'em. She's a wild stallion, she can't be tied down. Lol.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

It’d maybe make the most sense for why they wouldn’t be willing to help this time gabi-thinking-but-not-hearing

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What kind of capital equipment does it take to start a wheel shop?

Things were a lot easier before the industrial revolution. Poor Gabby could probably never start her own textile mill.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've literally only seen them use saws, hammers and chisels. They have some machines that I think are just for bracing the wheels while spokes are put in. Gabi and Falke built those themselves by doing night shifts in Chief's shop who was nice enough to at least let them use the machines when they weren't being used for the shop.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Apparently wheelsmiths used steam to bend the wood so that must require a special setup.

[Chief] was nice enough to at least let them use the machines

Didn't he make Gabi pay coins to use them?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yeah, he might've done that...