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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 72 points 10 months ago

Spanish siesta

They're basically turning napping from something relaxing to something that is a mandated part of a productive working day.

[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago

I Have No Mouth, and I Must lmao

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

You jest, but some Americans will try to shit on Europe for having mandatory vacation days.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

They think the reason why American economy and companies dominate the world compared to European ones is because the companies can at-will fire any lazy low performers instantly lmao

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

History only teaches dates, and they usually stop at the Vietnam war.

No one tells students in the USA what other cultures are like, and when they do, they frame it like we’re better because of they way we do things.

Why do the fucking imperials always win

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 58 points 10 months ago

Did no one else have nap time in elementary school? This is literally the exact same thing.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 10 months ago

Yes but it was on the floor and you weren't supposed to be comfortable.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

using world-historic industrial capacity to build and distribute more convenient and comfortable nap-time chairs for children is fascism actually

[-] WithoutFurtherRelay@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

No it sucked this is different because it looks cool

[-] Goadstool@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

No form of relaxation was allowed in any grade school that I attended. You had to be tense as fuck and on task at all times except for the 30 minute lunch break you got, 10 minutes of which you spent walking through crowded hallways trying to get to the cafeteria.

[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

You will take a nap

You will be rested

[-] BrezhnevsEyebrows@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago

Students in America are encouraged to recess and play during school

I hate this.

They're basically turning play from something fun to something that is a mandated part of a productive working day.

Taking the joy out of all the good things in life, one by one.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago

they force the kids to play so they'll be too exhausted to learn. they probably won't even learn to start SEntences with capital letters.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 44 points 10 months ago

China is encouraging it's citizens to breathe

blue-check I hate this. China is deeply satanic making it's citizens breathe air. Real freedom lovers hold their breath for hours on end.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago

encouraged

mandated

🤔

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

There was a recent campaign by the government to reduce the amount of homework for children to allow more sleep time. This is a sinister asiatic plan to mass produce soldiers who won’t crash helicopters because they’re low on adderall

[-] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

There was a recent campaign by the government to reduce the amount of homework for children

It's nice to see Xi reaching across the aisle to find unity with the anarchists

[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago

China watchers are now literally getting grumpy about nap time zenz

[-] WithoutFurtherRelay@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

Literally worse, they are getting grumpy about being given optional free time and rest

[-] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

How do I even relax enough to fall asleep on purpose

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Warm herbal tea and a cookie, followed by some breathing exercises in a cool dark room.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Also melatonin gummies/pills and don't look at your phone for an hour before bed + a blue light filter app.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Step 1: Live in a country where the ruling class isn't trying to squeeze every possible penny out of you at any cost

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

i worked a seasonal outdoor job, intensive labor in a hot/humid climate and we did siesta hours. it was incredible. sleeping / lounging through the hot part of the day in a hot climate is brilliant. to operate otherwise is folly.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Siestas fucking rule. You wouldn't work during a blizzard. Why the fuck is working when it's 118 degrees acceptable? I mean especially when you are closer to the poles. Sun goes down at 10pm and rises at 4:30 am. We have time for a siesta. Ain't hurting nobody.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Scrolled down on his Twitter profile. Not one month ago, he posted "DAE example hair styles on the wall are authoritarian (because North Korea)"

https://twitter.com/rajitsingh/status/1702391087124586604 https://x.com/rajitsingh/status/1702397232257945749?s=20

And of course, the classic: https://x.com/rajitsingh/status/1693290392811118733?s=20

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Going to the barber and showing him my album of random North Korean citizens to show him how hinged I am

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Hindu Nationalist detected. Opinion discarded.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

I don't know anyone my age who takes naps because we're always so busy/stressed/terrified

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

And that’s good because gyna isn’t forcing your employer to let you rest

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

If you squint real hard you'll see that that girl in the front row that is smiling is actually writhing in agony of being forced to take a break. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

These people ape foucault-madness without any of the underlying analysis and come to these unreal conclusions. Memes-based philosophy understanding

[-] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Honestly Foucault's conclusions were frequently hardly less absurd, idealistic or reactionary.

[-] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

naptime is authoritarian

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

something something anticommunist ideological framework could transform something something hostile evidence parenti

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

There's a Parenti quote about this attitude.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This parenti quote?—

Edit: 😞 this went about as well as my other magic tricks go.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

"I hate napping" liberal probably buys into techbro hustlegrinding about how this drug and that drug will make sleeping obsolete and therefore no worker should sleep. galaxy-brain

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I hate how I leave my job and have to sleep before my next shift. Saps all the joy out of it knowing that I have to sleep so I don't nod off while using an angle grinder. It's extremely authoritarian. 1984 shit.

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Fr, though: so you want sleep or the chance to spend some wakeful hours as leisure time?

[-] Bart@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Rested, but at what cost?!

[-] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I used to nap all the time at school, and it wasn't allowed. That's freedom baby

[-] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

That smiling girl in the front was obviously forced to fake her happiness under threat to her Social Credit score.

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Obviously Xi himself is just out of frame pointing a gun at her

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

There's some older work, specifically Wishbone, D (1995) building off of Irving, W (1819) that looks at the disastrous societal consequences the unintended side effects that these sleep promotion policies can produce.

[-] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the Van Winkle Hypothesis.

[-] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Next thing you know a bunch of tiny dutch men are going to be playing nine pins and leading the councils of state.

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