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menalez · 5 months

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#third world #woc #ive thought about this myself. like the term measures #very specific things to deem a country 3rd world while overlooking other things that can #worsen a person’s life quality. its quite culturally relative in that sense

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chernobog13 · 3 months

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Balduur, another of the Old Gods from Asgaard, from Jack Kirby's GODS portfolio.

The Old Gods of the Third World were the predecessors of the New Gods in Kirby's Fourth World saga at DC Comics.

#Balduur #Asgaard #Jack Kirby's GODS #OLd Gods #Third World #Jack Kirby

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brazilspill · 1 month

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White first-worlders: Cuban food is so bland.

Me: No it's not, it tastes just like Brazilian food, fuck you. And if it were it'd be the US's fault for the illegal embargo.

#brazil #cuba #canada #united states #cuban cuisine #brazilian culture #brazilian cuisine #cuban culture #first world #third world #classism

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dom-arktos · 1 year

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Honestly, publishers rn will be like:

Here are some alternatives to 👹👺👿z-library💥👺👹 that are not PiRaCy grrrrr:

Not accessible or affordable in most communities in the Global South.

#rip zlib #zlibrary #zlib #ebook #books & libraries #library #z library #bookblr #bookworm #piracy #yar har fiddle dee dee #booklr #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #global south #third world #studyblr #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic

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mapsofinnerspace · 6 months

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So I just read this somewhere on LinkedIn, haven’t stopped crying. Why?

Because all of this is nonexistent in my country.

Because I recently lost an awesome job opportunity just because the managers were illogically clung to the idea of the position being 100% on-site, even if it wasn’t a customer facing one, and even if the office was located in an overly conflictive and dangerous area, and my working shift would end at 9 pm.

I told them my concern, and they chose to increase the base salary instead of changing their minds about switching to remote working. Even when this position was 100% remote in all other countries they have presence at.

Even when the recruiter and the director himself interviewed me from the comfort of their homes in Italy and Latvia at weird evening times.

And this is too stupid.

In all the jobs I’ve had so far, my colleagues from other countries always work remotely. My local team and I are the stupid ones who have to go to the office at least two or three times a week. It doesn’t matter which company it is, or what kind of position it is about. We always, ALWAYS have to go to an office.

This is particularly traumatic for me (yes, TRAUMATIC) in a city like this, located in the third world. One of the most chaotic cities on the planet, with the worst traffic and deficient, slow, and inadequate public transportation systems where a major disaster happens every year. Where you can spend two hours trying to cover a 10 km distance.

This is one of the dirtiest cities in the world, with the highest levels of environmental pollution, litter in the streets and broken sidewalks that, if you’re not careful enough, you can step on and fall to the ground or into an open sewer. This is one of the cities with the worst rates of violent crime on the streets, countless kidnappings, rapings and femicides, and rampant drug and people trafficking.

And natural disasters. Yes, we do have rainstorms, floods and winds for most part of the year, along with incoherent temperature changes. And.. overly strong earthquakes from time to time (7-8+ degrees of magnitude) that can happen as you’re commuting to the office in the middle of the traffic at peak hours, or as you’re packed like a sardine in the underground, or at the 15th floor in the office, or inside their elevator with 10 strangers around you. Plus, we have too many hurricanes from both ocean sides, and volcano ashes that worsen my asthma, for which is recommended to stay indoors.

Well.. for me, having to commute to an office every fucking day has turned my work life into a nightmare, into something tremendously traumatic, depressive and deteriorating. Even more so because of the need to force myself to socialize in office settings, wearing uncomfortable clothing that makes me feel like a clown, surrounded by people from a backward and poor culture where they only watch Televisa soap operas as kids. A culture of nosy and gossipy people who don’t respect personal space nor personal boundaries, people who excessively use physical contact in unnecessary ways.. who are envious, jealous, classist, racist, misogynistic, and terribly competitive. People who instead of valuing my strengths and helping me overcome my weaknesses, chooses to see me as a threat, as a rival that has to be put down and eliminated. People that come from a nepotistic culture of laziness who do everything half-heartedly and get everything in life by being either the boot-licker of the boss, or simply friends or family with someone with power and influence in the company.

So why does remote work hardly ever exist here? First, because of the local culture. People from this damn country don’t know how to exist without being surrounded by others. They don’t know how to be by themselves, nor how to work without being micromanaged and without gossiping against each other, like the telenovelas they watch. And second, because this is a petrol based country, where petrol extraction and supply is controlled by the government and therefore, they need to sell gasoline at all costs. Having a mostly remote national workforce would kill their fuel business, so they do everything they can to promote on-site work by hindering laws.

My life.. it would be totally different today if there were remote job opportunities in this shitty country. Having a remote job would have allowed me to move to a better country already, as a digital nomad.. a country that has a better infrastructure, better laws, better services, better geographical conditions, and most importantly.. a better culture.

So here it is.. the text from LinkedIn..

“Remote work does not mean Work from Home (WFH)

Remote work means Work from Anywhere (WFA)

Here are a few other things it means:

1) It means not being handcuffed to an expensive city with a high cost of living.

2) It means access to the best opportunities from where you live your best life.

3) It means flexibility to work when you are most productive, not a rigid 9-to-6 shift.

4) It means anywhere is your office: a cafe in Paris, co-working in Melbourne.

5) It means trust & responsibility, with a culture of accountability and initiative.

6) It means a greener lifestyle, reducing carbon footprint, eliminating useless commutes.

7) It means improving your health & well-being instead of 2H a day commuting.

8) It means being a global citizen: colleagues of different cultures & time zones.

9) It means not having to choose between a fulfilling career or life: you get both.

10) It means breakfast with your spouse before work & dinner with kids at night.

11) It means being there for a family member who is dying of an illnesses.

12) It means quick adaptation to new technology, staying ahead of digital trends.

13) It means focusing on results and outcomes that matter rather than clocking hours.

14) It means removing the stress and anxiety that can come with office senseless politics.

15) It means having your ideal work environment to foster your creativity & focus.

16) It means doing the best, most meaningful, impactful work of your life.

17) It means seeing your kids walk, laugh & talk for the first time.

18) It means creating a more inclusive and diverse workforce.

Actually, remote work is the future of living!

It's about upgrading quality of life for billions of workers & their families globally.”

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asagi-asagiri · 8 months

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There's basically six types of countries. Developed ones, underdeveloped, rich third world countries(US, south korea, uk), petrostates, japan(nobody knows why it grows), Argentina(nobody knows why it won't grow or how to fix the economy)

#paraphrasing kuznets here #economics #first world #third world #rich third world countries have 1st world police state but third world welfare or inequality

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daybreaksys · 3 months

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poor Savage, he was the only reasonable person in all of Star Wars, all he wanted was a healthy family, his life was robbed by people wanting to use him to take revenge on others, he paid for their mistakes with his life.

misfortune chases the men of Dathomir, and all other second class citizens of the galaxy, Star Wars' third world

#star wars #clone wars spoilers #clone wars #star wars the clone wars #star wars spoilers #savage oppress #dathomir #dathomiri men #gëŕ coded #third world #global south

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musickickztoo · 7 months

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RIP Michael ‘Ibo’ Cooper

January 14, 1952 - October 12, 2023

#michael ibo cooper #third world #inner circle #october 12 #january 14

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orfeolookback · 9 months

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I struggle to understand why people bring up being otherwise oppressed as a first world resident whenever the idea that the imperialist core and the global North benefit from the expoliation of the global South and colonized countries is posed.

No amount of being opressed in the First World changes the fact that there is material extraction of resources from relegated regions to the Imperial core. Nobody said you're responsible for it, just that you do benefit from it. An example is that you can buy bananas, coconuts, mangos, coffee, chocolate, etc. at any point of the year and at a high cost for the sovereignty of the countries those resources come from

#latine #third world #politics #argentina #dont mind me I'm angry

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aloeverawrites · 10 months

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"81 billionaires have more wealth than 50% of the world combined

Despite this, they are taxed the least, with only 4 cents in every dollar of global tax revenue coming from wealth taxes. In fact, half of the world’s billionaires live in regions where wealth tax is not even a thing. "

#tax the rich #human rights #third world #anti work #leftism #liberal

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elfilibusterismo · 6 months

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Should we still insist in the axiomatic dualism of objective truth and subjective interpretation in accounts of fraught, emotionally charged events? Should we not consider the exigencies of the dialogic communication: who are the parties involved? In what historical moment or sequence of events should we frame this controversy? In what arena or set of circumstances can a citizen of a dominant global power question the veracity or truth-telling competence of a citizen of a subordinated country without this act being considered an imperial intrusion and imposition? Can the investigation of individual facts or events in these dependent poli-ties be considered legitimate as sources of “objective” knowledge without taking into account the hierarchical ordering of nation-state relations in the existing interstate system? What attitude should researchers from these powerful centers of learning adopt that will dispel the suspicion that “Third World” peoples are partisans of a neocolonizing program, if not unwitting instruments, of their rapacious governments?

— E. San Juan Jr., US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines

#my post #third world #imperialism

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chernobog13 · 3 months

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Honir from Jack Kirby's GODS portfolio (1972).

Kirby's story of Asgard being destroyed in Ragnarok was a concept he began working on before he left Marvel Comics. Obviously, Marvel was not going to let him kill off Thor and the other Asgardians, so he took the story with him when he moved over to DC Comics.

Kirby conceived of an earlier age, the Third World, where a planet named Asgaard was the home of a race of gods, based very much on the Æsir of Norse myth. As in the myths, Asgaard was destroyed in the final war that was Ragnarok. It's destruction ended the age of the Third World.

Asgaard's remnants became the planets New Genesis and Apokolips, populated by beings known as the New Gods, and the age of the Fourth World began. This is the saga that Kirby began in the comics New Gods, Mister Miracle, The Forever People, and to some extent Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen.

Honir is based on Hœnir, one of the Æsir of Norse myth. He is Odin's brother, and assisted with creating humans by giving mankind the ability to reason. This is ironic, because, according to some sources, while being hailed as the god of decisiveness, Hœnir himself was very indecisive.

Also ironic, given that in Kirby's grand epic Honir perishes when Asgaard is destroyed, in the Norse myths Hœnir is actually one of the few survivors of Ragnarok.

#Honir #Hœnir #Jack Kirby's GODS #Jack Kirby #Old Gods #Third World

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brazilspill · 1 year

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The racist bigoted way the first-world press talks about American school shootings

They often say that "the US has more school shootings than any first-world country" implying that third-world countries are rife with school shootings.

The US has more school shootings than ANY country.

Between January 2009 to May 2018 you know what the highest number of school shootings in a third-world country (Mexico) was?

8.

You know what the US number of school shootings in the same timeframe was?

288.

The 19 countries with the highest number of school shootings are almost evenly split between first-world countries and third-world countries, with the first-world countries actually being the higher number.