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girl help they're putting "modern people under capitalism work more than medieval peasants" posts on my dash again
your rented hovel:
indoor plumbing
windows with glass panes to keep the weather out
electricity
probably a carpet or a rug or two
building codes
medieval peasant's owned hovel:
dirt floor
cooking and heat rely on a single fireplace that you have to chop your own wood for
have to choose between keeping the cold out in winter or letting light in because windows are just holes in the wall
shit in a hole in the ground outside
medieval peasant obligations for lord: 200 days
medieval peasant obligations for own subsistence: 200 days
length of year: 365 days
somebody who is got at the economy please help me my family has rickets
How much of your time is spent spinning thread? Sewing and repairing clothes? How often are you pregnant? How long does it take you to prepare a meal? How many of your babies have you watched die before age five?
Outside of “medieval obligations to Lord” you have to actually…work for your own survival. Like oh great, only 55% of your time goes to fattening up your Lord! Now winter is here and you have zero food in your stores because you gave it away to your Lord but at least you got a nice two month vacation!
And the number of girls/women who buy into this is hilarious. Oh baby no, that 200 day thing doesn’t apply to you. You have to work from sunup to sundown, 365 days a year, or the entire household falls apart. Rise before everyone else to get the fire and breakfast started, break your back lugging water and heating it and scrubbing laundry over and over and over again.
My great grandmother lived her entire life in a rural Ukrainian homestead with zero running water, heat, or plumbing. There is NO such thing as free time. If you are not actively farming or feeding animals or cooking/cleaning, you are sewing or mending or weaving or canning or salting to prepare for winter. And it had absolutely nothing to do with the structure of the government either; she did all of this through an empire, a soviet dictatorship, and eventually a democratic capitalist nation. Turns out, when you have no nearby stores or infrastructure, it doesn’t matter a damn if you live under communism or feudalism or capitalism. Someone’s gotta do the cooking and washing and mending and it’s probably gonna be you.
Look, I have men in the family with goodwill and chainsaws and carts that connect to cars and circular saws ... and still,heating up a room and cooking on a firestove is still So Much Hassle and So Much Hard Work just carrying the Shitton of Wood it takes to just cook a lunch.
Go and keep yourself warm and fed in a house with a wood stove and a solid fuel boiler for a weekend and then come and tell me how much easier life was before the invention of powered saws.
All these modern things are great yeah none of this is actually engaging with the criticism that bringing up medieval working hours is meant to point to, other than the "hours worked for lord bit" which is frankly just talking out of one's ass. The statistics for working hours comparison do try to account for hours working for subsistence, making clothes, etc.
The point of this criticism is not that medieval peasants had it so much better than us and we should go back to that exactly. The point is there are real ways in which we are less free and more exploited than fucking medieval pesants. The point is that we're supposed to be living in some kind of futuristic society were machines and computers do tons of the work and instead of that letting us rest more or spend more time doing things we care about, it's all being used to force the average persons face to the grindstone to work god awful, Victorian sweatshop fucking hours. The point is that modern technology is not inherently freeing, that just because you shit in a toilet instead of a hole, that doesn't mean your life is better in ways that are important and we should be pissed off about.
I'm a medievalist. You're a dipshit.
There are no ways where we are "less free and more exploited than fucking medieval peasants." None. We have not been forced to maintain subsistence pescatarian diets as a class or status divider from our meat-eating overlords, nor have we been beheaded and used as grave goods.
We do not undergo torture and facial mutilation for minor property crimes.
We do not all live in obligate high carbon monoxide environments that are so toxic from wood smoke that they decrease lung capacity within days.
Jewish people are no longer the direct property of the Crown.
Any quibbling about the exact numbers of the lord/personal workday misses the fucking point, which is that subsistence agricultural labor is backbreaking 12-14 hour workdays during the warm seasons and starvation during the cold, and the slightest fuckup in subsistence productivity - such as needing to dedicate more hours working the lord's fields - could kill. The yield of medieval livestock and farmland was greatly truncated compared to today, the grain-based medieval European diet was so abnormally high in fiber that it caused chronic diarrhea, and none of the annals from the sixth to the eleventh century mention more than one year of "great bounty."
Women do objectively have more rights nowadays than the average peasant of the Middle Ages and to act like this is not the case is so stupid that it's not even worth entertaining. Hey, did you know that one of the theories for the start of the Viking Age is that there was so much female infanticide among the elite that aristocratic young men had to raid in then-untouched areas to acquire enough of a bride-price to pay for the increasingly scarce resource that was wives?
And I'm not a Victorianist, but it is easy to find evidence that the typical Victorian sweatshop workday length was 9-16 hours and included the labor of children as young as four. It's almost like the 8 hour day was the culmination of decades of protest and campaigning, or something
And ah, the bucket. Have you heard of this thing called cholera? Dysentery? Norovirus? Typhus? Did you know that access to toilets is a key concern of every developing country? Lack of toilets is a major public health issue and poor sanitation kills 1.4 million people a year.
If you truly think that modern technology isn't freeing, then maybe the problem is that you don't see things like washing machines or space heaters or IV saline or synthetic insulin as technological innovations.
You are 30. At this age, you are choosing to be ignorant. Maybe work on that and don't do this stupid, fascist-friendly nostalgia wishcasting. You can point out that aspects of modern life are bad and advocate for change without cheapening your argument by insisting they're the Exact Same as being a peasant in 1092. If you are having problems with time management or depression, perhaps see a mental health professional instead of wallowing fruitlessly in the idea that you are a serf. You're not. I can tell you're not, because you're not riddled with parasites
Even the people who are peasant farmers in the modern world- and they do still exist and have many or most of the same problems- even the people in those dire fucking circumstances have better lives than their/our ancestors, because modern medicine works.
For most of human history, the child mortality rate was somewhere around 40%. Rich or poor, didn't matter, 40% of all babies born wouldn't make it.
... Today, in the most war-torn exploited shitholes on Planet Earth, that number's somewhere around 14%. In countries that look after their citizens? That number's less than 1 percent. (And afaict, those are mostly "genetic defects incompatible with life".)
Smallpox is *gone*. Malaria is going. We will always have pandemics, but they are so much less deadly and destructive than they used to be.
Point is: we can make, and *have made*, the world a better place, in concrete, measurable ways. If you think your life is worse than a medieval peasant... a) you're measurable wrong, and b) you owe it to yourself and the people around you to try to fix it.
i don’t give a fuck if i “sound like chatgpt,” you will pry—my em dash—from my cold—dead—hands—fuck you fuck you fuck you
in all seriousness, i find it concerning how we’ve begun to denigrate rigid/formal english in favor of what feels “real” (i.e. informal, social). harrowing implications for neurodivergent and ESL communities. i was a child who “sounded like a computer”—i can’t imagine what my education would have felt like under AI-driven scrutiny. as an adult, i’m far more equipped to construct my thoughts using informal language, but i consider that skill a privilege
many people experience this in reverse, learning english as a native language through peer-driven social experiences. in that world, “formal” english signifies privilege and education rather than neurodivergence and/or multilingualism, so i understand the impulse to attack it, but there’s nothing wrong with relying on structure to be understood, and—for the record—you cannot always identify generative AI with a cursory glance. it is an exercise in hubris to believe otherwise
Guy who regularly uses the chatbot that plagiarized every published book, but has not actually read a real book himself in over a decade, watching an educated person communicate: Getting a lot of chatgpt vibes from this.
Not to mention non-native speakers who tend to use more "sophisticated" words simply because they usually have cognates in their native language, instead of the more "natural" colloquialisms. And a more formal style, because that's how they learned English at school. I've gotten enough "you usin some big woooawrds tryna soooaaaund smaaaoort" no bitch, I'm trying to speak your language the way I know.
Reading all this and feeling even more like an old lady. 🙈
Reminded me of how sped programs in the 2000s would actively try to stop ND kids from reading books "above their age level" and force them to dumb down their vocabulary because "it's not normal to use 'big words'."
Nothing has changed. At all.
a lot of folks on this website will specifically describe people as Cis or Neurotypical to signal someone is boring/basic when I think the word they're truly looking for in their heart is "normie" but they won't say it because it makes them sound like a 4chan user
the most neurotypical friend i have is arguably the strangest and most eccentric. the cissest straightest dudes i know text like they're scene kids. the word you're looking for is normie. just call people boring if you're gonna be pretentious anyway i dunnooo. scratching my head
All my homies hate PETA.
To clarify: “exotics owners” does not refer to people who own animals completely unsuited to be pets (big cats, primates, etc). In the vet world, anything that’s not a dog, cat, or farm animal is called an exotic, even something as mundane as a guinea pig. PETA hates pet ownership in general, but they’re especially hostile toward anything non-traditional, even if it’s completely possible to house ethically, like a ball python or bearded dragon.
So if you own a corn snake, congratulations, you’re an exotics owner and PETA has written an article on how terrible you are.
Since this post is getting a ton of notes again and everyone is misunderstanding what I meant by “exotics.”
PETA kills cats and dogs without trying to adopt them out because they think being owned by a human is a fate literally worse than death. They kill thousands of animals. They've been in trouble for luring a kid's pet dog off her porch with treats and then killing it that same day. PETA is the opposite of what they claim to be
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"terminally ill people should be allowed to choose to die if they feel it is the best decision for them" and "euthanasia can easily become eugenics" and "we should provide support for depressed and suicidal people" are statements that can come into conflict but should all be respected
also “offering euthanasia to people who can’t afford actual treatment is murder”
And "be very careful about the 'burden to society' narrative in a society full of ableism".
any of yall ever notice that antis cannot look at normal ass nonsexual artwork without immediately sexualizing it?
i remember once i saw something on tiktok. it was artwork of a father kind of spinning around playfully with his toddler/baby daughter. the daughter had blush on her face, you know, for shading and to show that she's alive.
and i remember antis calling it weird, sexual, predatory, etc. and somehow WE are the creeps..?? nuh uh. that is weirdo behavior.
Does anyone remember the trend of using generative AI to make two characters kiss? This was like, 2022ish.
There was one in tiktok where it made both the ladies have brown hair and the op (an anti) aggressively changed it “so they wouldn’t look related” with a huge apology for the “incest” cut in between segments.
Like, it was unbelievable they had to view it as SIBLINGS instead of just being two anime girls with brown hair!! To jump to that conclusion absolutely requires a level of obsession with incest well beyond the average person’s.
Fellas, is it incestuous to have the same color hair as your partner?
Reminds me of one post of Tony Stark kissing his daughter good night, on the forehead mind you, and antis thought that was very predatory of him to do 🤦🏽♀️
And they call us porn addicts?
"But 22 episodes is too much to binge in one session!"
Perhaps we should not consume our entertainment like an eating disorder.
Literally everyone in the notes going 'oh, but 6-10 episodes is better' needs to just admit that their viewing habits are influenced by TikTok and not having friends.
Because longer seasons in conjunction with weekly episode releases does far more for the longevity and promotion of shows than binge-formulas.
But, of course, something something -- executives like shorter seasons to get around union rights and labor laws -- something.
Seeing people go 'why can't Japan ever adapt anything GOOD?!?!' with that upcoming "My teacher wife got transformed into a ten year-old" reminds me of back when I was a dipshit who felt entitled to another country's entertainment industry.
... Also, you know, before I had the groundbreaking realization that 'hey, I can just... Watch anime that I actually like!!!'
It feels like these kinds of idiots online dig and look for anime and manga with crappy/strange/whatever premises just to justify this rhetoric. Like if you swept through a whole catalogue of American made movies until you got to Ed Wood's filmography and started ranting about how America's culture is icky and bizarre and never makes anything good based off that. It's like some kind of strange mirror universe version of stuff like Mystery Science Theater or Let's Jab, stuff based on digging up weird and crappy b-media to watch and good-naturedly make fun of. Here, the goal is to instead weaponize the media to try and make it seem like they're totally not being racist when they can Japan a country of bigoted pedophiles.
I feel like there are two reasons for this:
1)You can almost always tell those people don't watch/read anything but mainstream stuff and only heard about the weird manga/anime tangentially of some Twitter thread. So they're just complaining about some niche ecchi anime for clout.
2) The variety of manga and anime is very deep and very wide so if you "keep" seeing weird shit, I'd assume you're in a space that commonly consumes weird shit and are trying to point fingers away from yourself :/.
To break down the "Why it's socially acceptable to eat crustaceans, but not bugs?" argument, it comes down to one thing: shit.
People do not enjoy eating feces. The removal of said feces can be accomplished on crustaceans, even at an industrial and commercial level. Eg: de-veined frozen shrimp you find at the store. It cannot be accomplished on insects, as they are too small, and unless some engineer has some fantastical device used to quickly and very, very, very cheaply disembowel crickets at industrial scale, their digestive tracts will remain part of whatever horrid dystopian bug-meal it is you choose at your San Francisco Whole Foods.
That is the primary reason why no one sane or non-Filipino would be okay with eating bugs, even if they like eating shellfish. Digestive tracts contain digested and undigested food from the animal, which can contain parasitical eggs/larvae within it, and this is a very blatant hazard.
People would stop eating ground beef, if it was industry standard to mulch the whole cow into a granular paste, and you had to deal with your kitchen smelling of cow shit every time you wanted to cook hamburgers.
ppl are so mad in the replies to this tweet but op is literally right
Make sure you say "I wonder what they're doing right now..." about your comic relief friends every now and then so the episode can cut to their B plot
YOU HATE A HARMLESS RANDOM PERSON ONLINE WHO YOU WILL NEVER INTERACT OR MEET SOLELY BECAUSE THEY EXPRESS A SINCERE UNBRIDLED PASSION TOWARDS AN INTEREST OF THEIRS WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN CONDITIONED SO HEAVILY INTO A CULTURE OF IRONY AND MOCKERY TO THE POINT WHERE A PERSON DISPLAYING SIMPLE AND UNABASHED AUTHENTICITY APPEARS AS A NAIVE FAULT AND NOT AS A BASIC COMPONENT OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE
japanese game dev in the 90s: hey dude can you make some music for our game about anime girls getting fucked sloppy style
guy who's about to push the PC-98 sound card to its absolute limit and create the most heartachingly beautiful music you've ever heard: Yeah okay
in a similar vein:
british game dev in the 90's: hey dude can you make some music for our game about a little red cartoon dude in a colorful world who can throw his body parts around
guy who's about to make shigeru miyamoto question whether this guy's music is actually coming out of the snes sound card: yeah okay
American game producer in the 90s: hey we’re making a shitty game where kids can enter to win about $100 worth of prizes, can somebody slap some music together so we can hurry up and grab a few hundred thousand kids’ allowances
Tim Follin about to make the NES sound chip sweat like a hooker in church in August: yeah okay
My friend amd I share this back and forth every couple of months, just so we don't forget it exsists.
And to continue that legend of Tim Follin
What is up with random music just being the slickest shit ever?
The moment i opened these on youtube, this popped up in the related search results and yea i think i got the message
"we need some background music for a shooting game on a niche computer. probably a couple of hundred people will ever play this game at most, so don't worry about it too much"
"okay here's a track that will make you weep tears of nostalgia for your past life in a lost realm thousands of years ago"
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