Trashpool's Dumpster Fire

because SURPRISE, there's no such thing as "plastic" either. every kind of wood is basically the same on a chemical level, but the only thing every plastic has in common is "some of its molecules are long" and that is NOT a quality that determines how things stick together.

I just ordered some stuff I hope will permanently stick a circuit board to a steel sheet and withstand temperatures up to 150 degrees. by the way circuit boards are made of epoxy-bound woven glass cloth which is cool as hell but what the fuck do you glue that with? can any of the 12 kinds of adhesives I currently own do that? no of course not. if I want to stick two pieces of acrylic together so hard they become watertight to a depth of 3000 metres I have some shit that does that, but it does literally nothing else.

I mean, if you start thinking creatively about what is worthwhile, you can keep a lot of people employed, and generate incredible things for the next generations of citizens!

I’ve written at length about the inventing of the term “ob*sity” (aka, simply existing in a larger body) as a way to pathologize bodies, along with subsequent attempts to turn “ob*sity” into a disease itself, based on shared size rather than shared symptomatology and cardiometabolic profile etc. that we use to define real diseases. But the weight loss industry is nothing if not malleable, and despite working hard to convince healthcare providers of this disease construct, there are still some who remain unconvinced. Facing pushback on the idea that a height/weight ratio (or other body size measurement) is all we need to diagnose a “disease,” (though there are plenty of people happy to go along with it,) the weight loss industry has made numerous attempts to more palatably pathologize higher-weight bodies based on whether or not higher-weight people have health issues (that thin people also get.) The “Edmonton Staging System” and the Lancet Commission opinion piece both attempt to diseasify the existence of higher-weight bodies in this way - such that a thin person with health issues like type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension is just a person who has T2D and hypertension, while a fat* person who has the same health issues now has T2D, hypertension, and the “disease” of “ob*sity” or “clinical ob*sity.”

The glossy uniformity of the images also serves a political purpose, Anishanslin said. “The message is clearly being sent that the founders were a united group of people and that they were united in their ideologies and politics in creating the nation,” she said. “And that narrative just isn’t true.”

PragerU and Trump are using AI to try and rewrite US history.

The only figure, man or woman, not shown wearing identical American-flag blue is the poet Phillis Wheatley, who wears a pastel shade and who also happens to be the only Black person featured in the gallery. “That light blue gown really sticks out,” said Anishanslin. “It’s meant to set her apart from the others.”

like that isn't the problem there. these people were already enslaved. everything about how society and the economy and whatever was structured was premised on them not being human. The Problem is for what propose they were being counted as 3/5ths of a person. it was for apportioning representatives and taxes. the south had millions of people enslaved. 3/5ths of those millions were considered for how many representatives the states had in congress. the more slaves, the more political power. and this had repercussions that echo down through to today. and this is reflected today in prison populations being counted for political representation but incarcerated people being disenfranchised. and in gerrymandering and in gutting the voting rights act. in the continued denial of political power to black people.

literally like everything this country does is a badge of slavery. everything is reproducing slavery while trying to forget it.

oh and the other side of the compromises: the taxes. the south could continue to benefit from slavery and accumulated political power as long as it meant the north and the federal govt could accumulate wealth and capital in tandem.