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born to be an abstract concept, forced to be a percievable entity

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

You should be able to say “don’t touch me” to anyone ever in any context and not have it be considered in the realm of surprising or insulting imho if we ever needed to normalize something it’s this

did you write this notice for the belugas or

Who else would I write it for? It’s not like orcas care about ethical wildlife photography.

So apparently they CAN automate my job 🤔

person (non-practicing)

*while sewing*: you are a fabric. you can stay a fabric. you do not yearn to return to being string.

*while spinning*: you are a thread. you can stay a thread. you do not yarn to return to being fluff.

*while embroidering*: you are a thread on a needle. you can just exist as thread on a needle. you do knot yearn to become a tangle.

*while turning wood* you are timber on a lathe. You can stay as timber on a lathe. You do not yearn to become a live hand grenade.

If you think about it too, abled people do it all the time. Deciding to drink to excess at a party knowing they'll have a hangover. Going to a theme park knowing walking all day is going to hurt their feet by the end. We have the right to make those same decisions.

I love youtube off-grid/homesteading videos because they're always like "living the simple life" and then depict a life ten times more complicated than mine

Like I'm sure it's way more rewarding to grow and can your own tomatoes and they're probably healthier or whatever but is it simpler than me giving Coles one dollar to bring a much more safely canned can of tomatoes to my house? No. No it is not.

growing your own tomatoes is a fuck load more simple than having a job and keeping a job plus paying all the fees of living in society.

I can't speak to Australia, but at least in the US there is another group of homesteaders who are trying to live self-sufficiently off-grid because they expect the imminent total collapse of civilization, and they have fantasies of themselves living happily on home-grown produce while everyone else is killing each other for the last can of tomatoes at the store.

The simplest, but also the most immature, answer is that solar panels are 'cheating.' These people base their doomsday images on Fallout and zombie apocalypse movies. But not even on them but this lone wolf stereotype of a stereotype. If you can just create electricity from the sun, then it means you can bypass the gritty survival of eating canned goods and just live like you used to. And that kills the fantasy.

I haven't seen that kind, all the ones I've seen get solar panels as soon as they can afford them because living off generator power is expensive and sucks (and, unlike solar panels, would not serve you well in an apocalypse because you need to keep buying petrol for them). I don't think I've ever seen these anti-solar-panel homesteaders that you deal with. Variety in every community I suppose.

attention acolytes! in order to maximize shareholder value, i will be turning all of you into gold statues, frozen in twisted spasms of pain for all eternity, in a great and lifeless mausoleum. we expect to eke out a marginal gain in Q3

And how does this increase shareholder value O Great and Powerful Dark One?

Obviously we can add the statues to our assets while also cutting down on employee expenses.

I see! This sounds like a sustainable business practice and I have no further questions.

Unfortunately all the other Evil Wizards has the same idea and so the value of petrified henchmen has sharply fallen overnight.

i love how everyone in this show is everyone else. aemond is quite literally daemon. daemon wants to be rhaenyra. rhaenyra wants to be daemon and is supposed to be viserys but shes actually rhaenys. aegon wants to be rhaenyra. jacerys is no one that he wants to be. rhaena wants to be baela. baela wants to be her father. alicent wants to be anyone but who she is and instead shes all of her children at once and thats why she cannot stand to look at them and thinks maybe if she saves helaena she can save herself