Necessary degeneracy

1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That's kind of the fucking point!

2) People aren't going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it's right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won't suddenly stop because we aren't forced to sell our labor to provide corporation's profits.

I'm not surprised that what is traditionally women's work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.

Anyway. Join the IWW.

we still have engineers and

machinists haha

Wild-caught shrimp are generally caught using trawling, which involves dragging a weighted net across the bottom of the seafloor. This practice is kind of notorious for just ruining the benthic (seafloor) habitat of whatever the nets go over, because weights on nets have a tendency to stir up sediment, cause turbidity (cloudy water) that's bad for benthic primary producers such as seagrass and coral, break stony corals, and rip up sessile (stationary) organisms such as soft corals.

However, farmed shrimp is also terrible for the environment! Historically, according to my marine ecology professor (the one who has such great quotes as 'we've been talking about death and destruction, so now let's talk about sex' and 'dying is always an option. this applies to humans as well as other organisms'), shrimp farms tend to set up shop in mangrove forest areas. They clear out swathes of mangroves, put in the shrimp, let the shrimp ruin the water quality, and then...just move on when the water is too gross to put more shrimp in. Shrimp farming operations often just start over again to clear and foul more areas of mangrove swamp. (Fish farming in general tends to kind of wreck water quality, that's not unique to shrimp). So, at least according to Dr. 'this fish looks kind of dumb', shrimp is perhaps the least sustainable type of seafood there is.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.