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I know thereās reasons for it, but god itās frustrating how every single fandom on Tumblr for a popular IP I am interested in is justā¦ āYN x the same 1 male character from the large ensemble castā over and over again. Like, nothing against the 1 male character thatās the entire fandom, just I donāt see that 1 guy as actually being the obvious only interesting character out of 30+ characters.
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Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.
Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.
310 pages isn't even that long for a Junior Age (9-12) Novel?
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is 400 pages.
Howl's Moving Castle is 320
The first book in the Lottie Brooks series is 432 pages.
The Majority of Jacqueline Wilson books run over 360!
310 is not a big deal. Even books being published TODAY for Junior Readers all run closer to 400 and then 200. The kids are alright. They're reading and loving these books.
It's adults who don't know a single kid making these broad sweeping conclusions that have no basis in fact.
YES there are shorter books out there. But that doesn't make them more inherently appropriate for kids! I would much rather give a child the 310 page Hobbit than the 224 page Fight Club.
and like ... The Hobbit is designed as a fun book for kids.
Younger kids enjoy having it read to them, older kids enjoy reading it themselves. It's even set up to avoid explicit gory violence to be more kid-friendly (notice that Bilbo gets knocked out for the big battle scene).
And I'd also point out .... a big point of kids' books is that they're supposed to be helping kids learn new vocab, language usages, new ideas, etc. How else are they supposed to learn and grow?
On a related note - one thing that I do appreciate about JKR, transphobic bigot that she is, is that her work demonstrated very firmly that kids will read big books. Goblet of Fire, the first HP book that was really fat (630-750 pages depending on edition), almost didn't get published because it was so big. It did eventually get published as-is, and then promptly sold so well that it completely trashed the idea that kids will only read "short" books. Children's authors ever since have been able to put out longer books based on this.
The Redwall books were the big chunks of the childrenās section before GoF, running 350-400 pages, comparable page count to many adult books.
Gave me confidence to pick up thick adult books after reading a lot of the Redwall series.
tbh "religious liberty" always felt like a uniquely weak reason that you should be allowed to do something. "I know it seems bad, but have you considered that I'm doing it because it's important for no reason?"
idk like. even modern secular liberal societies display such a common penchant for using innocuous feature of religion as an excuse to harass and legally punish the other that an instinct to carve out protections for religious practices seems indisputably useful? otherwise you get situations like France's "muslim women can lose their jobs for wearing hats, even ones required to do said job," nominally coming from a place of secularism and no state religion and feminism and in fact just an excuse to harass muslim women.
so i think understanding "religious liberty" as providing a degree of presumptive (but not infinite) protection is a good instinct for society to have bc people are always trying to figure out new excuses to be dicks to members of social groups they don't like and religion is a major axis along which this dickish behavior occurs.
The other thing is, religious liberty frequently protects choices and behaviors over which people are willing to defy the state at great personal cost.
Insofar as we take "liberalism as armed truce between competing ideologies" seriously, it makes sense to be especially demilitarized on topics where people are especially willing to escalate.
There's something similar with a bunch of special rules and carve-outs for labor unions, which also organized to defy the state at great personal cost.
Stepping up a level, I have an intuition that part of the underlying complaint is that states and legal systems have these sort of truce-like historically contingent elements that are "discovered" based on what a competing power center was willing to have an uprising about. This offends the sensibilities of 1) theorizers who think the state should be total and shouldn't bend to competing power center uprisings as a matter of principle, 2) theorizers who think the state should have universal(ist) rules that can be reasoned to a priori without needing knowledge of any particular time or place like 1648 Germany.
Compare the literal treaties the United States has with multiple tribes of Native Americans and the special rights and privileges that Native Americans have (eg. superior fathersā rights in family law, exceptions to laws regulating gambling), which the keeping of impacts the trustworthiness of other treaties real and potential.
Also compare the Amish and their carve-outs, specifically around compulsory education.
Make yourself organized , enduring, and effective in both use of force and politicking enough and you get realpolitik carve-outs. One does also note that the economic contributions of a group, amount of general disturbance and bother and load on the government and their neighbors they create or lack thereof is relevant to how much being weird can be overlooked and given carve-outs.
That said, note the carve-out from a literal treaty for Native Americans to possess religious items eagle feathers, vs the refusal to create a carve-out for peyote.
It occurs to me that most folks who have āsocialist/communist/leftist/eat the richā attitudes in the United States would immediately change their tune if they had 1950s style socioeconomic prosperity and hope.
Some want to own houses, get better jobs, have improved prospects for their children. Others want prestigious jobs at colleges and news outlets and publishing contracts. Theyād all support The Way Things Are if they thought the socioeconomic system was going to give them the lifestyle the boomers had.
This is absolutely true, but in ways points to a deeper failure.
Capitalism depends on actually giving benefits to people, and if you just ignore it and let capitalism fuck up a generation (2008) so much they demand socialism, then the decision makers chose their greed over the preservation of the system.
And if they forgot that bargain, then getting worse is going to accelerate.
Time was Big Capital would actually say this out loud:
Yes! I almost included that one theory is that through the 90's the capitalist country had to offer a better standard of living in competing ideologically with communism. This put some discipline on capitalists to not let all the resources go to the top, and when the USSR collapsed is when we started seeing ultra-capitalism take off.
I think the issue(that ironically this post is also exhibiting) is that communists have convinced a significant number of people that
We currently live under unrestricted free market capitalism.
The only alternative to what we have now is communism.
Neither of these things are true. What we have is not capitalism(or at least not what most self-described 'pro-capitalists' would call capitalism), but rather an 'expert' managed economy. One where the people at the top(government, investment class and megacorps) work together to hinder the functioning of capitalism for everybody who isnt 'one of them.'
The US hasnt had true, unrestricted capitalism since before anybody living today was born(and one could even argue we never really did). But it has gotten further and further from that over the last century. So its not a coincidence that things have gotten worse for most people.
As for the second statement the alternative to both communism and the 'expert' managed faux capitalism we have now is...real capitalism. To get rid of the managerial class and let people create and build freely. Its what built American prosperity. And moving away from it is how we got to where we are now.
I just wanna emphasize the point that OP made that virtually everyone just wants a comfortable, stable life for themselves and future generations.
We just all have very different ideas of how thatās best achieved. I think a lot of us tend to forget that.
@robin-hood-for-freedom both you and @brazenautomaton see the word ācommunistā appearing anywhere without a vehement condemnation as a trigger for ārage against the commies and blovate about how capitalism is The Best and also the best offer availableā and itās a bitā¦ neither of you is quite full piss on the poor reading comprehension and boot licking, but your mad-on against communism and your permanent boosterism for ācapitalismā make you both incapable of seeing past labels and looking at reality and the changes and real problems that people face.
My point is that āCapitalismā means something different in 2026 than it did in 1946, and 1946 Capitalism is, imho, pretty much sufficient for the desires of most people who oppose 2026 Capitalism.
Also the role that social ambition and increased competition for academic and professional thinker jobs plays into the āburn it all downā impulse.
To a degree āThe Revolutionā is similar to the MAGA deportations in that both are supposed to literally depopulate America and leave room for their own social/economic rise; both sides see society as a zero sum game they have to kill/imprison/deport others to win.
It occurs to me that most folks who have āsocialist/communist/leftist/eat the richā attitudes in the United States would immediately change their tune if they had 1950s style socioeconomic prosperity and hope.
Some want to own houses, get better jobs, have improved prospects for their children. Others want prestigious jobs at colleges and news outlets and publishing contracts. Theyād all support The Way Things Are if they thought the socioeconomic system was going to give them the lifestyle the boomers had.
This is absolutely true, but in ways points to a deeper failure.
Capitalism depends on actually giving benefits to people, and if you just ignore it and let capitalism fuck up a generation (2008) so much they demand socialism, then the decision makers chose their greed over the preservation of the system.
And if they forgot that bargain, then getting worse is going to accelerate.
Time was Big Capital would actually say this out loud:
Yes! I almost included that one theory is that through the 90's the capitalist country had to offer a better standard of living in competing ideologically with communism. This put some discipline on capitalists to not let all the resources go to the top, and when the USSR collapsed is when we started seeing ultra-capitalism take off.
I think the issue(that ironically this post is also exhibiting) is that communists have convinced a significant number of people that
We currently live under unrestricted free market capitalism.
The only alternative to what we have now is communism.
Neither of these things are true. What we have is not capitalism(or at least not what most self-described 'pro-capitalists' would call capitalism), but rather an 'expert' managed economy. One where the people at the top(government, investment class and megacorps) work together to hinder the functioning of capitalism for everybody who isnt 'one of them.'
The US hasnt had true, unrestricted capitalism since before anybody living today was born(and one could even argue we never really did). But it has gotten further and further from that over the last century. So its not a coincidence that things have gotten worse for most people.
As for the second statement the alternative to both communism and the 'expert' managed faux capitalism we have now is...real capitalism. To get rid of the managerial class and let people create and build freely. Its what built American prosperity. And moving away from it is how we got to where we are now.
Without getting too deep into the weeds on this, because random people arguing about the economy never changed anything: thereās an issue with this particular piece of libertarian orthodoxy. The types of regulations that prevent monopolies and encourage economic competition are also strongly opposed by libertarians.
EG, without anti-trust I donāt see how you keep the entrenched tech firms from choking everyone else out via economies of scale, but every libertarian Iāve personally discussed this with seems to think that the FTC are the front line soldiers of Bolshevism, harrying our poor job creators.
And weāve seen the consequences of limited environmental regulation first hand, the clean air and water acts of the ā70s were passed because the air in LA made you sick and rivers in the Midwest were actively flammable from chemical runoff.
I agree that thereās a lot of regulatory capture, and no perfect system, but the closest eras to unrestrained capitalism were not good times. Late 19th century food safety and workplace safety standards (specifically the lack thereof) also spring to mind.
Total freewheeling laissez faire might work in Adam Smithās world where there are 1/10th of the people and few firms bigger than a master craftsman and a few apprentices, but we havenāt lived in his world for a long time. The capital-intensity of starting up in certain industries naturally bends the situation towards monopoly conditions, for example.
Frankly, although there are many parts of their system that I dislike, the example of China suggests that managed competition with an eye towards long-term thinking wins out over the āmaximize quarterly returnsā ethos of the US system.
I wonāt even get started on Ford V. Dodge Brothers of 1919, weād be here all day haha
anyway, I hope you are having an excellent summer. At the end of the day, we all want the same stuff, just canāt agree how
Thereās also the whole issue of military and other government spending is such that it shapes the economy substantially. If government contractors have to do X to their employees across the board, big companies that want lucrative government contracts are going to do X. If the military spends taxpayer money training guys to do Y, the civilian labor market is going to operate by taking advantage of that government funded training (eg pilots, nuclear power). If the government hires a lot of workers to do Z, the labor market for people doing Z is dominated by government hiring practices and qualifications.
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it is hard to find love when you think ttrpg are incredibly boring
This is how I felt about roller derby.
If you only decide to warn people about the risks of breathplay because you think incels are into it, roaches should leave out poison for you.
Also seems like an attempt to warn teens about the dangers of breathplay/choking that assumes itās a vile right wing male impulse is not going to be as effective as it could be in the reality of many women literally asking for it.
Like, if your public health message is āgirls, stay away from right wing men because they will choke youā thatās not going to have the result you want when some young women are all, āJokeās on you, Iām into thatā and go try to get strangled by dating right wing men.
Political ideologies in general are for cucks and perverts. Ooh you're gonna do whatever the opium-brained black sheep of a French merchant family who died in 1873 tells you? Like you're a dog? You're going to roll over and beg for a dead man's approval like a dog? And you're going to think yourself my superior for doing so? Go to your kennel.
I think youāre on to something here.
If you ever find yourself annoyed by the backlash to something, just wait a little bit. The backlash to the backlash will be here before you know it. On the other hand, if you're enjoying the current backlash, just remember that the backlash to the backlash to the backlash is right around the corner
Reality is iterative and you, like everyone, were born in media res. We stand on the shoulders of giants, dwell in the physical, intellectual, political, cultural, artistic, etc world that a million generations built.
In Marxist theory, are people who (say they) are unable to work and survive off of e-begging the proletariat?
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i cant tell if my llm detection is getting too sensitive, there really is that much more generated text, or if people writing on the internet have always been bad in this way and im only noticing it now
Youāre right to be concerned ceausescue. Itās not just bad writing, itās a brutal phenomenon.
Seriously though, same. The AI is aping what it was built with, and thatās mostly clickbait, LinkedIn spam, and Redditors, so thereās not much daylight between āgenuineā clickbait spam and AI generated clickbait spam.
as an English teacher, I can attest that it is a heck of a thing to come across ["unalived"] in a studentās essay and explain, āThis isnāt social mediaā āyou can use the word ākilledāā, only for the student to express discomfort with thatĀ (!), having internalized from the censorship algorithms that writing ākilledā crosses a line.ā Iāve also seen late Zoomers be shocked to find the word āregardedā in a reading assignment, because apparently that has become a euphemism on social media for a Word That Must Not Be Written (which itself started out as a euphemism)
Hm. Meanwhile, my kid (currently in first grade) has somehow been taught in school that "stupid" is a bad word at the same level as "fuck"āthe "F-word" and the "S-word". He acts scandalized if I say it.
a lot of these feel highly contextual, but euphemisms for killed are sort of universal, aren't they? The real issue is that saying "unalived" makes you sound like a TikTok influencer, so the teacher should set aside a class to go over the grand history of killing euphemisms and what they connote
I think what's being noticed is that "kill" is being euphemized in contexts where it would not have been before and by people (or types of people) who wouldn't previously have done so
Werenāt kill, shoot, and murder censored in rap music for radio play in the 90s?
On a regular workday/schoolday your usual breakfast isā¦
Something prepackaged (eg protein bar or protein shake)
Cooked fresh at your house (eg eggs and bacon, oatmeal, toast counts)
Leftovers from a previous meal (eg cold pizza)
Cold cereal (eg Cheerios)
Nothing (eg you skip breakfast)
Something you made ahead of time (eg freezer breakfast burritos, overnight oats)
Purchased hot food (eg gas station breakfast sandwich)
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...none of the above
And despite changing dietary habits every so often, I think it might be "none of the above" for my entire professional career, it's been bread with cheese or salami or something, or just fruit.
Bread with topping / sandwich is kind of a baffling omission for breakfast tbh
The focus is the logistics more than the exact item, and I mentioned both toast and gas station breakfast sandwiches explicitly.
Btw instant miso soup is really cheap and good, and just stirring miso into a mug of hot water is very doable fast while half asleep.
On a regular workday/schoolday your usual breakfast isā¦
Something prepackaged (eg protein bar or protein shake)
Cooked fresh at your house (eg eggs and bacon, oatmeal, toast counts)
Leftovers from a previous meal (eg cold pizza)
Cold cereal (eg Cheerios)
Nothing (eg you skip breakfast)
Something you made ahead of time (eg freezer breakfast burritos, overnight oats)
Purchased hot food (eg gas station breakfast sandwich)
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On a regular workday/schoolday the location you eat your breakfast isā¦
At home
While commuting (eg driving, walking, riding transportation)
At work/school
At the place you purchased it (eg restaurant or 7/11 patio)
Somewhere else (where? Tell us!)
I dont eat breakfast
On a regular workday/schoolday your usual breakfast isā¦
Something prepackaged (eg protein bar or protein shake)
Cooked fresh at your house (eg eggs and bacon, oatmeal, toast counts)
Leftovers from a previous meal (eg cold pizza)
Cold cereal (eg Cheerios)
Nothing (eg you skip breakfast)
Something you made ahead of time (eg freezer breakfast burritos, overnight oats)
Purchased hot food (eg gas station breakfast sandwich)
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hey everyone, just curious:
what is everyone's criteria for blocking people?
I block every bot/spam account I see, and thatās 99% of my blocks. For the rest, a repeated demonstration of both hostility/intentional unpleasantness and a lack of saying anything interesting or any other positive characteristics. Being libelous to others in my notes is weighed heavily: I can choose to tolerate nastiness against myself, but nastiness against others is more offensive to me.
I have blocked maybe a half dozen real people in a decade and probably thousands of bots/spammers.
So because my day at the salon was absolute garbage 7 hour shift for exactly 2 hair cuts garbage I am halfway through the book. I have some criticism. I will list them below no spoilers
1 ) while I enjoy the subversion of the typical romantasy troupes at times it has felt forced /over the top. In the way of like dnd drow society is just a little too super opposite of the patriarchy
2 ) I desperately need writers to do some research when it comes to kink . Please because now my brain is fixated on how thatās not how nipple clamps work and clearly the author has never played with the annoying cheap decorative ones on a man let alone on themselves
3) art gripe. If your going to describe your heroine as large muscular woman why is the cover art just generic thick chick ? (I didnāt know there was cover art until I slipped off the dust jacket. )
4) at times it feels like Iām reading a gender swap fanfiction of Anne riceās Exit to Eden set in a fantasy world.
I am still enjoying it .
I decided to DNF What Fury Brings due to a lack of physical reality/research on basic things before the nipple clamps and seeing this, I feel I made the right choice.
If you like the general concept, I recommend Dara Joyās Ritual of Proof as a similar reversed gender roles sci fi/fantasy romance. Quite āspicyā as the kids say and better written imo.
