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Archivist. Pirate. Vegan.
Non-binary and masculinising transly, they/he.
I'm very confident in my opinions and have a visceral distaste for moral panics and trends. Sometimes I'm a cunt about this.
Celebrity/Youtuber/brand accounts get blocked on sight; I'm not here to be advertised to.
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Most people who say they want a "village" really want socialism/a social welfare state, but they're Americans so they can't just say that.
The #1 defining characteristic of a village is that everyone's always up in each other's personal business and your ability to get your needs met depends on your interpersonal relationships and your reputation. Your ability to conform to the rules and expectations the village has set for you.
That means that if the village says you shouldn't get pregnant when you don't have a man to provide for you and you get pregnant regardless, they can refuse to support you. They can reject and stigmatize your child.
When you make a decision—any decision—from what you wear and who you associate with to who you will be romantically involved with and what that will look like, to your education and career, family planning and whether you will leave your partner if they abuse you—the village has a say in all of it.
A proper social state, however, decides which services to provide, how much to fund them etc, there are still cultural biases there, but it won't tell you how to live your life. If all university programs are free, you can go study liberal arts instead of law, your parents can't stop you, and if the state provides a stipend, free housing and free meals while you study and also takes care of your basic needs afterwards, you have the ultimate freedom to do whatever the fuck you want to do with your life.
Want to have 8 children and a trad lifestyle in the countryside? Cool, they'll have healthcare, schooling, meals, competent teachers, after-school activities, public transit, public parks and activities—all for free. And none of that will be dependent on how many people around you like you and your kids personally and what they think of your lifestyle.
You want to be aggressively transgender and live in the city with your 8 person polycule and spend your days doing art and running a café that only does matcha? You can do that too. You'll get free housing for all of you and the business space provided for you, even if everyone in your neighborhood thinks you're weird.
The bureaucrats handing out the collective resources ideally shouldn't give a shit what you do with them.
When I applied for uni and chose a liberal arts degree instead of STEM, nobody told me "yeah no sorry we don't approve of that, you'll have to do something we think is useful or pay for it yourself". I got a free education plus a stipend, subsidized housing and food and everything else.
Unless you want a community of people who get to have a say in everything you do, you don't want a village. Socialism or perhaps communism might cause less despair maybe?
"The bureaucrats handing out the collective resources ideally shouldn't give a shit what you do with them."
As someone who's personally known some of those bureaucrats, pfffffft.
That's never happening. And any system that doesn't give you adequate recourse when they do inevitably act on their biases is just subsidising the village.
Before you are two magic buttons. Button A: you will never have to clean your kitchen again (dishes are automatically done; floor swept and mopped; etc). Button B: you will never have to clean your bathroom again (toilet & sink & tub/shower cleaned and sanitized; etc) Which button do you push?
A
B
So many comments, many of them wise and all of them heartfelt, and yet nobody has thought to add ...
the fridge-freezer is in the kitchen. Not only are there dishes every day, not only are there food preparation surfaces of various kinds every day, not only are there crumbs and odds and ends that fall on the floor every day ... but the fridge-freezer is in the kitchen. The oven is in the kitchen, the food cupboards are in the kitchen, and above all THE KITCHEN BIN IS IN THE KITCHEN.
I mean, it's not like the bathroom is all sweetness and light, but seriously! Who in their right mind is choosing the bathroom?!?!?!?
Ils sont fous, ces Romains tumblrains.
The kitchen doesn't have rotten hair in it.
There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.
the "empathy fatigue" stuff is also very revealing because when you examine health professionals' self-reporting on the matter there is a specific type of person they describe losing empathy for- unsurprisingly, it's people with particularly chronic health issues and disability, drug users, people who "refuse to take care of themselves" and especially anyone with a health condition perceived to be "their own fault". very often what they describe as "empathy fatigue" is actually just the mask slipping on the seething contempt they already held
oh, during burnout you happen to feel less empathetic toward criminals, alcoholics, teens and drug users? that's really interesting and i feel so sorry for how hard your job must be that its caused these feelings in you.
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extra crazy to see people swinging so hard for big corporate copyright lawsuits on tumblr dot com tbh. alright girl whateverrrrr, I hope the lawyers come for your favorite fan artist next if you're so in favor of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you're all frothing at the mouth for a queer climate activist getting sued now but oooh just wait until you can't order astarion keychains and baby yoda plushies and whatever the fuck else off etsy anymore
I guess in light of all the feedback I've been receiving tonight I'm going to turn over a new leaf and become a good citizen who defends copyright law. first up is snitching out the nice lady at the local farmers market who sells crochet pokemon plushies, I want to see nintendo sue that cunt into the ground
in conclusion I've never felt this post more strongly
Bureaucracy is good and important, actually.
Except for the spelling of the word "bureaucracy"
Well that's conditional right?
Building safety regulations? Absolutely.
Having to go through 6 rounds of means and eligibility testing for each of the 5 benefits you're entitled to, probably not.
The problem is with the existence of means and eligibility testing, not the bureaucracy that manages the benefits.
To paraphrase a tumblr post: Do you think that's the paperwork's fault?
It's the bureaucrat's fault.
This is the essential problem with bureaucracy. It creates a way for people who are implementing harm to hide behind a delusion of powerlessness.
My actual take here now that it's morning is that you cannot completely systematise away self interest.
No matter how good the goals of an organisation are there's always going to be Linda in claims who prioritises getting away for her holidays early over handing over her cases properly. And because of that recipients of things like benefits and disability services need to have formal power within the system to be able to advocate for themselves, as well as basic information like knowing Linda's name and the department she works in.
And the more layers of obfuscation through paperwork that you have the harder that is.
in the early 21st-century, the “small business” was a sort of small temple run by a local warlord. Patrons could purchase small trinkets and be granted absolution for the sins of their empire. This was called “ethical consumption.”
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
Bureaucracy is good and important, actually.
Except for the spelling of the word "bureaucracy"
Well that's conditional right?
Building safety regulations? Absolutely.
Having to go through 6 rounds of means and eligibility testing for each of the 5 benefits you're entitled to, probably not.
The problem is with the existence of means and eligibility testing, not the bureaucracy that manages the benefits.
To paraphrase a tumblr post: Do you think that's the paperwork's fault?
It's the bureaucrat's fault.
This is the essential problem with bureaucracy. It creates a way for people who are implementing harm to hide behind a delusion of powerlessness.
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If you see me walking in the rain staring at my feet it's not because I'm edgy it's because I'm trying not to crush the Snail Council.
Bureaucracy is good and important, actually.
Except for the spelling of the word "bureaucracy"
Well that's conditional right?
Building safety regulations? Absolutely.
Having to go through 6 rounds of means and eligibility testing for each of the 5 benefits you're entitled to, probably not.
There's something inherently neoliberal about being a content creator.
"Farenheit tells you how hot it feels" is such a revealing take because it shows you just how pastoral America really is. It's a great system if you want to only interact with the world through bodily experience and never engage with anything even slightly theoretical.
are you able to please elaborate on the correlation between the plagiarism is bad video and how that makes it unsurprising that he underpays his workers?
It's in the nature of business owners to demand higher standards from their competitors than they hold themselves to. It makes it easier for them to make money.
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I'm studiously unopinionated on Patricia Taxxon as a person but I have to say it makes perfect sense that the guy behind the plagiarism bad video doesn't pay his contributors properly.
The entire content creation profession was built on conservative bootstrap ideology and they'll never truly escape it.
Something being individually painful for a woman does not automatically make it misogynistic. Having rights is not the same thing as being protected from every possible discomfort.
Having access to basic autonomy comes with its own unique pains and discomforts and they are all entirely worth it.
