Summer Rainstorm

Started using the phrase “that’s cilantro to me” to refer to the presence of a story element that completely ruins a piece of media for me, disproportionate to its actual badness.

Do it scared but please don't do it hungry. Please don't do it dehydrated. It's gonna make it so much scarier. Please.

Writing is just opening a document and hoping past-you left something usable behind

apparently the community backlash to the proposed data center that was gonna go in just outside my town was so severe that while the city kept pushing back hearing dates for their special exceptions permit, the original owner is now refusing to sell the property to them :') we love a proactive queen

Oh that property owner is gonna become a local hero, because following that announcement one of the city planners was quoted saying she had been encouraging everyone to move forward with that data center because she wanted us to "set an example for how to do a data center right." my ass was looking at 30 pages of scathing public comments on the county commissioner's website but they wanted the data center they wanted itttt

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this post makes me snort every single time

Even in a post-capitalist, post-consumerist world, you still need to produce goods, as a result of this, you need factories because it is more effective to have a few people making a lot of clothes in a factory than every woman being forced to sit down and spin wool all day.

The issue with factories is poor wages, unsafe working conditions and environmental impact, all of which can be fixed through things like regulatory bodies and unions, the issue is not the fact that goods are no longer all made at home

Not that you directly have to be an actual Marxist to want a post-capitalistic world, but I feel like there's relevant historical context within Marxism. The simple answer to why Tolstoyism is NOT a legitimate form of Marxism is that, in Marx's original theory, industrialization that is efficient and well-established BEFORE the revolution is absolutely imperative to a successful communistic society. Marx aptly predicted things like mass starvation if a society tried to skip the industrialization step and go straight from agrarianism to communism. In the developed world right now, the excess might be drowning us, but the means for excess are the only thing that would stop us from dying en masse in the event of a completely equitable economic structure.