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On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."
As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.
As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.
May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.
I do think part of the reason we don't have standardized clothes sizing is because clothes are. Really complicated. Most of them do actually have more than one aspect of fit. It makes sense that companies resist printing like the dozens of measurements they use to make, say, a pair of jeans. On one level, it's just a lot for a customer to think about and consider. And then on the other...
They don't want people to understand that "the problem" they have is that the jeans aren't made for them. Manufacturers prefer for them to continue buying jeans they don't like and feeling like their body is the problem.
But if you had to list all the measurements, it would quickly get really obvious suddenly how many decisions got made as "these jeans are actually only for people of one body type" and "wait, all the jeans basically are made for this same body type". Which might make more room for competitors to actually make jeans for different body types! Can't be having that!
I just get so upset! People constantly have the same problems with clothes they own and conclude that it's an inherent problem with their body, often incorrectly assuming it has to do with having more fat/muscles even when it's about a completely different measurement. Because nobody fucking knows about crotch length!!! They don't think about it!
To clarify for those who don't know, "free the nipple" isn't about going braless, it's about going topless
No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to
It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!
And the fact that not wearing a bra is so discouraged and stigmatized that people think the movement was about being able to go braless under your shirt in public rather than about being able to not wear a shirt at all says a lot about how far we've backslid in the past decade
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Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.
The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.
You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.
Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.
But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.
So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.
Wondering why grocery prices are so high? One reason is that minimal competition means maximized price gouging. And now some of the biggest egg producers in the country are getting a mere slap on the wrist after years of ripping us off.
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btw I’ve found these stretches from the WAK blog very helpful when knitting a lot:
Plus make sure to take breaks regularly - and stop if anything starts to hurt!
especially with gift knitting I know it can be tempting to push through it for a deadline, but it’s really not worth causing long term injury. (And anyone knit-worthy should be understanding of that, imho.) Stay well :)
With the Namaste movement, because I climb as well, I like to rotate my hands away from my body, so the steepled fingers are pointing outwards, rotate as far as I can until I feel a gentle stretch down the insides of my forearms. Give it a try!
people always say that internet spaces are americanised because the users are majority americans.
and i do always wonder how much of that is "there are actually a majority of usamericans" and how much is "usamerican cultural markers are a default for many online spaces, and non usamericans are often indistinguishable from usamericans unless you're actively looking".
so here's an incredibly unscientific poll reblog for reach or whatever
where do you live?
in the usa
anywhere that is not the usa
Remaining time: 4 days 17 hours
no nuance. if you live in a usa territory/colony like puerto rico or guam or american samoa, go with your heart.
The Difference Between Social Democracy and Democratic Socialism
Democratic Socialism is a term that often gets confused and misused in everyday political conversation. Countries like Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are often incorrectly called Democratic Socialist countries and praised for being a “mix of socialism and capitalism,” when actually they are Social Democracies. These two terms sound similar but their meanings are very different.
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Many Americans confuse Democratic Socialism with Social Democracy. In fact, a number of US politicians who call themselves Democratic Socialists (including Bernie Sanders and AOC) are more aptly described as Social Democrats in that they are primarily reformers.* *
Below is a chart that explains some basic distinctions between these two political movements. Under the chart are some of the reasons I DON'T agree with everything in the chart.
Chart source [reformatted to increase reading legibility]
Although I think that a lot of the above chart accurately describes some differences between Social Democrats and Democratic Socialists, I disagree with the unknown author's position that "Social Democracy is just capitalism with regulations," and that capitalism and socialism are not viewed as being able to co-exist** in either of these political-economic systems.
Social Democrats believe that essential social services (like healthcare, public education, public libraries, elderly services & income, police & fire departments, natural disaster emergency services, welfare programs, public transportation, the military, etc.) and many utilities and infrastructure (like electrical grids, dams, waste disposal, water reserves, public highways and bridges, wireless/ broadband technology, etc.) should be (and in many countries ARE) socialized, and that they can (and DO) coexist with a free market that promotes small businesses and a well-regulated capitalism that discourages monopolies and prevents excessive exploitation of labor and the environment.
The Scandinavian countries (and to a lesser extent the US) already have socialized services, utilities and infrastructure that exist in addition to a free market/ capitalist economy. However, to my knowledge, the Scandinavian countries have more socialized services, utilities and infrastructure than the US, and a more highly-regulated capitalist economy. Consequently, those countries do not have the level of income inequality and exploitation of labor and resources that one can find here in the US.
Meanwhile Trump is busy dismantling many of our labor and environmental regulations and weakening our social safety net here in the US. And it is MAGA's ignorance of what it means to have a social democracy that keeps them cheering Trump on as he destroys the very institutions that make life better for the average working American.
[Below the cut, you can see some footnotes that further explain some concepts discussed above, including Marx's definitions of socialism and communism, and why things went wrong with these systems in the 20th and early 21st centuries because some of these movements' leaders didn't let these systems evolve naturally as a mass reaction to late stage capitalism, but prematurely imposed them on populations.]
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*Granted, "Democratic Socialist" US politicians like Bernie Sanders, AOC, etc., might hope that one day society will evolve*** so that the means of production are eventually owned by "We the People," but they are NOT attempting to force that to occur artificially or prematurely anytime in the near future. Consequently, their policy proposals are essentially reform policies consistent with Social Democracy.
** One might wonder what the author of the above chart makes of the fact that Communist China now has a mixed economy where the free market/capitalism co-exist with state-owned businesses.
***Marx believed that first socialism (the workers/masses owning the means of production), and then communism (in which economic classes, private property, and eventually the state no longer exit) would naturally evolve (with some struggle) as a mass reaction to the excesses of late stage capitalism. However, the 20th century communists didn't let communism evolve naturally among the working class in states like Russia and China. Forcing communism prematurely resulted in the communist leaders having to create (rather ironically, given their "stateless" philosophy) a totalitarian state in order to keep the majority of the population (who had not yet "evolved" to want communism) in line. Also in the late 20th, early 21st centuries, socialists like Hugo Chavez prematurely imposed socialism on states like Venezuela, again resulting in authoritarianism in order to keep people in line who didn't support the socialist agenda. In short, communism as it played out in states like Russia and China, and socialism as it played out in states like Venezuela were enforced, premature messes, doomed to failure.
"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t
pretty sure I did the chrome//flags thing a while ago, but also i switched to firefox, which is not without the occasional bullshit, but is vastly less bullshitty than chrome.
This is why I treat genai "features" like the invasive blackberry bushes they are: cut, root, burn, and vigilantly watch for new shoots to uproot. I'm 54 years old and the world got by fine without genai for most of my lifetime.
tags via@KKglinka #psa#having read the article#it's not clickbait#chrome is reaching#across all chromium browsers#to link a prepatory structure#this malware packet#will therefore occur#with all chromium browsers#it has nothing to do#with the actual ai interface#instead chrome is either#using your personal computer#as part of a cloud server#the way bitcoin malware works#or it's recording your own#actions on the computer#with a continuously active#background module#either way#that's malware#a 4gig trojan virus
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Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.
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