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Bush: Evil fascist dictator who expanded the surveillance state, military industrial complex, and continued the war on drugs.
Obama: Based and admired president who expanded the surveillance state, military industrial complex, and continued the war on drugs.
Trump: Evil fascist dictator who expanded the surveillance state, military industrial complex, and continued the war on drugs.
if anyone ever asks me what my life goals are i’m just going to say “to negate space and time”
Anis Mojgani, from “For Those Who Can Still Ride In An Airplane For The First Time ”, Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry
Love local coffee shops. your “refugees are welcome here” sign goes really well with the one that says “bathrooms are for paying customers only”
You’ve clearly never had to deal with people doing hard drugs in the grocery store bathroom and it shows.
Bro I literally manage a coffee shop with an open restroom policy, and I prioritize enforcing that policy and making sure everyone feels comfortable. I’ve dealt with everything from the easy end of the spectrum (people quietly doing hard drugs) to a lady ripping all her hair out and setting it on fire in the sink. I clean up after this stuff day after day and I still feel VERY strongly about the fact that human beings should be allowed the basic decency of a place to poop. Yes, I very frequently end up having to kick someone out of the bathroom for doing drugs, and when I do I always offer them a cup of water on their way out. Because they’re a person and I give a shit…
It’s safer for people to do drugs in (clean) public restrooms than it is for them to do it on the street. It’s also ableist to deny someone the use of a bathroom. There are countless gastrointestinal disorders that cause bathroom urgency and potential incontinence. There are other conditions, like pregnancy, that necessitate quick and easy access to restrooms.
also what makes you think a paying customer wouldnt misuse the toilets in some way, and a person using it without buying something would?
contrary to popular beliefs people with money do drugs, and homeless people need the toilet just like the rest of us
Having a sharps container “for medication injection” in our bathrooms has dropped the amount of needles I find in the bushes and planters down to a whole 2 in the past 4 years since we rolled them out. I used to find them so often I got in the habit of wearing cut resistance gloves in 90 degree weather in case I had to pluck napkins out of the landscaping.
I read a lot of the notes and I really can’t say enough how the “you couldn’t pay me to clean up other people’s shit” comments kinda piss me off. It is not that serious, it’s really not. You dump a bunch of Triade III on it, let it sit for 10 minutes, wipe it up.
If it’s watery you throw absorbent on it like you do throw up, we use a kitty-litter type clay based absorbent. You put a trash bag in the dust pan and sweep it all into the bag.
Takes me 15 minutes to clean an absolutely destroyed bathroom stall in a place that sees THOUSANDS of people daily. It’s a shopping and restaurant area that opens up into a nightlife location after 5pm, with some bars opening at 3pm and several restaurants becoming full nightclubs after 9pm. You pay for parking, but anyone can walk in off the sidewalk and not pay a dime and just hang out until 2am.
On a busy night I cover 3 location’s restrooms (2 venues have multiple rr) but on slow days I’m covering around 7. 7 buildings, thousands of drunks, I get a LOT of bio spills.
Our sharps containers are toolbox-looking things that hang on the wall with a flap that allows things to go in but not come out, ever (rip to like 5 phones that I know of), when full it gets closed, locked, and sent to be incinerated. I literally never touch a needle anymore. If I find one on the ground outside we have sharps shuttles which are long plastic tubes that look like giant tampons with a flip top, you put it on the ground, step on it to hold in place, and sweep the sharp into it. Takes like 20 seconds.
The answer to this entire issue is to TREAT SANITATION WORKERS BETTER not make going to the bathroom a fucking ordeal. Pay me I will clean your bathrooms, let homeless people piss with dignity!!!
I *knew* that companies have been trying to shift blame for damage to the environment onto regular people's buying habits, but it has still somehow been a shock to research a topic and find the internet totally dominated by the narrative that "consumerism" and the desire to buy more stuff is entirely responsible for pollution and landfill waste, instead of factors such as planned obsolescence.
It's insidious—this widespread idea that average people are too greedy, and that's what fuels climate change and pollution. Not greedy companies.
"Consumers shop for clothes to stay on-trend and throw away perfectly good old clothes." "Consumers only wear clothes a few times before throwing them away." "A huge amount of landfill waste comes from clothing that consumers throw out." "Consumers replace their wardrobes arbitrarily to stay on-trend." "Consumer demand for 'fast fashion' is rising spite of the environmental impacts."
Statements like this make it sound like regular people want to buy and waste vast amounts of resources, and normal people's unchecked addiction to shopping is causing environmental devastation. It's horribly misleading when products are being deliberately designed to break or wear out within one or two years and to be impossible to repair.
Instead of "Americans are buying way more clothes than they did 20 years ago, causing lots of landfill waste!"
Where are the articles entitled "Clothing brands are selling poorly-made clothes that have to be replaced much more often than 20 years ago, causing lots of landfill waste!"
Then note that fast fashion is decoupled from the demand economy. What this means is that clothing items are generated based on algorithms determined by corporations. They’re not driven by current demand, or consumption, or consumer desire: they’re driven by prediction of how much the corporation can sell. Because the items are practically worthless, the corporation risks little by generating extra/unwanted items. So if they generate 10,000 unwanted tops, they can simply destroy them again and send them to landfill. They don’t have any motivation to recycle, donate, or give away these items. It does not matter if 15 more people swear to give up fast fashion and -15 items are purchased. The machine of fast fashion operates independently of consumer demand, because its settings are set to increasing profit, not what people claim to want or what’s good for their workers or what’s good for the earth.
If your goal is to live a better and more connected life - a life that will be resilient and joyful in the face of coming changes - you absolutely can, should and must avoid fast fashion. Do it for your soul. Do it for your ethics. Do it because an informed, caring person cannot do anything else. Do it because wearing these items would make you feel ill. That is what I, and my household, do. It is good for us, but does not liberate you. I do not call it activism, but a way of living in the world.
But if your goal is to break the machine, you cannot break a machine whose settings are “infinite profit” by pressing on levers marked “consumer demand.” Those levers aren’t even connected to the economic machine. It operates on separate principles. I’ve written about this before: there are plenty of ways to break the machine, but “declining to interact with it” is not activism and won’t kill it.
In science policy we do a lot of stakeholder mapping, which really shows where power lies, and here’s a proposed European strategy for forcing fast fashion into the circular economy. Interestingly, as with many circular economy things, the levers involved include end-of-life pressures: if you stop textile manufacturers from burning their surplus items for their own convenience, they’ll have to find other solutions. If the countries being used as dumping grounds for textile waste effectively organise and resist, it will be less economical to be wasteful. This is how you influence economies: cut down the current systems that insulate corporations and allow for infinite growth on a finite planet.
Consumers certainly have a role to play, but in my opinion, this role isn’t as easy and smug as buying/not-buying fast fashion. Instead, consumers must grapple with and influence material desire. Why is it so nice to buy new things, and how can we change that? Can you get those feelings from a community clothes swap, or would we actually be happier if our psychology just hated the whole concept of new clothes? For people who enjoy bullying: instead of bullying people for buying clothes, which is cruel and unkind, why not bully the entire concept of consumption? In the healed world, we won’t be entertained by watching a video of someone opening a large bag of new clothing; we can start living in that world today.
Further, consumer desires actually do influence investors. It’s less sexy but involves more money being moved around. Ideally the healed world won’t involve markets that float untethered on the power of random beliefs, but if you’re into it for now, you might as well look into how the complex network of investment keeps undesirable business practices afloat, how much that relies of delicate forces of confidence, and how quickly industry pivots to follow investors. Long story short, investors have more money than you do, but only because of psychology.
In conclusion, these machines are complex and don’t care much about your $5. This is neither a reason to despair, or to run out and buy Primark. It is a reason to become educated.
Alternatively, you could simply have a Revolution and break all of this down, which would be a fascinating change and would certainly be something new.
All documents - EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles
One of my points here, and in other places, has been that “when industries are no longer coupled to consumer demand, you have to use different leverage to affect them.” I’ve used examples of the American fishing industry (which is heavily subsidised by tax dollars, so that if you are American and stopped eating fish tomorrow to defund the fishing industry, the US government would simply take your tax money and give it straight to the fishing industry.) in this post I’ve continued the OP’s example of fast fashion, which is generated so cheaply and so independently of consumer demand that it cannot be destroyed by simply “clever consumers not buying it.” (Fast fashion is actually generated to CREATE ITS OWN DEMAND, which makes it impossible to fully combat by simply avoiding it; if you want it to die, you have to do active things to combat fast fashion.)
Two interesting things crossed my dash that relate to this. One was this article about what happens to items that you buy online and return.
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
Essentially, because it is not cost-effective (/hygienic/safe/easy) to examine returned items and return them to warehouses, untold numbers of pristine items sold online and then returned - for whatever reason - are simply destroyed. This is exemplified in fast fashion, where the goods themselves have almost-null value and the point is to flood the market instantly with new “trends” that sell themselves, and considerations like “how long does the clothing last” and “do people want this” are not even in the list of criteria. Given the parameters of the fast fashion machine, it makes sense to accept online returns (because it makes consumers buy more) but does not make sense to sell returned products: therefore, looking at how the Fast Fashion Machine is programmed and coded, it is MOST efficient for the “infinite profit” program to ACCEPT returns and DESTROY the items.
So you can look back with what I’ve talked about here, and look at how the “machines” work and the levers that actually change their behavior. Again, “what happens to the unbought thing” is a lever that most people don’t think about. They want their activism to begin and end with “not buying the thing” - and indeed that’s the spiritually best solution - but to actively break the machines that are killing us, we have to ask questions like “what happens when you return a laptop online? What do I WANT to happen? What damage have I caused, in all innocence, while I thought I was buying the right things? What happens to the unbought things?”
We need to be sophisticated in looking for the levers, in understanding the programming of the economic machines. Their designers are surely sophisticated in hiding them from us. It’s in the interest of the economic machines to pretend that they are innocent things that only serve what Greedy Consumers want. They want you to attack your neighbor for buying the wrong kind jeans. You cannot destroy these machines by not buying their output. But you can destroy them by removing their ability to generate infinite items, to shore up their profit by throwing away anything inconvenient, by enshrining human rights in overseas supply chains, and (on an achievable level) making the entire concept of fast fashion cringe and ushering in a new “trend” of it being much cooler to wear the same jeans for 15 years.
That’s why the “fake Eli Lilly tweet causes $20 billion losses” lever is so wonderfully appealing, hilarious, and genre-defining.
Were you expecting that lever? The one where a joke undermines investor faith so much that it crashes the insulin stock market? That’s the kind of chess-playing action that breaks machines.
Stop trying to clearly distance yourself from abusers by calling them narcissists or sociopaths or psychos. It's time to face the facts and swallow the harsh truth that literally everyone has the potential to do harm - not just a specific subset of mentally ill people.
Demographically, it simply does not make sense to look at how incredibly common and normal abuse is and blame it on rare personality disorders as opposed to our twisted social norms reducing children to parental property and treating authoritarian parenting as morally and socially good.
A minority of ill parents would not be able to create and maintain the current situation.
Human trafficking was legal until 158 years ago. The vast majority of the human traffickers were not mentally ill.
There are police officers who beat handcuffed people and still insist that they're the good guys. The vast majority of them are not mentally ill.
There are rich CEOs who profit from people's deaths by charging ridiculous prices for lifesaving medications. The vast majority of them are not mentally ill.
There are parents who genuinely believe that they're doing God's work by beating their children for talking back, even though there are countless studies proving that spanking is abuse and not a single shred of evidence of any good results. The vast majority of those parents are not mentally ill.
They force their religion on people on a regular basis, but when you mention that Jesus believed in helping the poor, they suddenly believe that it shouldn't be forced.
how many people could be working on actual problems in the world instead of being forced to do jobs that they are over-qualified for just because they dont want to go homeless and starve?
climate change is threatening to kill us and people with biology degrees are working at starbucks if they didn’t get lucky in the nepotism department.
capitalism is possibly the least efficient way to allocate work.
You love art–have spent your entire childhood developing a style people love and appreciate? you could possibly work to improve the lives of millions with your beautiful creations?
sorry you need to work 12 hours a day at a walmart that doesn’t need you while some billionaire who took a painting class once sells some ugly bullshit for 3.5 million.
Millions of people want to be doctors but can’t afford medical school, it is a well known fact we don’t have enough doctors for the demand. hmm wow real efficient capitalism.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould
Capitalism and wealth are bankrupt concepts.
Ivan “Bonecrusher” Khutorskoy - murdered by neo-nazis in Moscow ten years ago today. Documentary by Bonecrusher’s friends here. Never forget. Never forgive.
Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.
unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol
Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.
You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.
Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.
And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.
The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country.
Bosses: If you don’t like how we do things, don’t work here.
Workers: *Go on strike*
Bosses: Wait no not like that
Everyone needs a check on their power. Everyone has worked for a petty tyrant who thinks owning the business means they own the employees, too. Unions may be too much in bed with the politicians and heavy on the overhead, but better to have an imperfect check on the petty tyrant than no check at all.
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Μόνο η αλήθεια που βρίσκεται στην γροθιά σου θα σε κάνει αφέντη της γης
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its called a gazebo
Ok grandpa
This is actually an established sociological theory. Everybody has home (inside) and work (outside) but for mental health we need a Third Place
Third place - Wikipedia
Important aspects of the Third Place are
Informal, playful tone
Nobody is required to be here
Conversation is the main activity
Established regulars maintain the atmosphere and tone and communicate it to newcomers
Examples in the world include bars, barber shops, sewing circles, bingo parlors, game rooms, 90s malls, Elk lodges, book groups, student rec centers, D&D, and Tumblr.
I actually wrote a really long post about it one time if you want to see my hypothesis
TIL, the residents of Cheran, Mexico armed themselves and kicked out the ruling cartel as well as every politician and policeman. It now functions as a legal self-governing indigenous community with a crime rate near 0%
via reddit.com
Specifically, it was indigenous women who freed their village from oppressive forces. From loggers to kidnappers to police, all of them were run out because these women armed (and masked) themselves, took hostages, and threatened to kill them.
Since this day, five years ago, they’ve begun to repair the forest that was destroyed by loggers over the decades. They’ve successfully revived 3000 acres! And because there is no more crime, all citizens feel save roaming the streets at night, and exploring the vast forest they’ve become responsible for.
I went looking for an update since it’s now 8 years from the uprising, and it appears things are still going very well for the community. In fact, they’ve been steadily improving: https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2019-10-07/mushrooms-cheran-mexico-indigenous-revolution
“They taught their neighbors to grind onions and guajillo chiles into thick, warming stews called atapakuas and young men to make tortillas by hand, a task historically seen as women’s work. The movement represented a return to certain traditions but, led by women and young people, also meant clearing space for new voices and attitudes.“
~Michael Snyder for the LA Times Oct. 7, 2019
This is an EXCELLENT read! - go check it out. I needed a happy ending.
the feminine urge to be ominous & terrifying
Shoutout to the guy in my art class who said he’d rather be a fascist than a communist for pointing out to me how fucked up capitalist brainwashing is, I hope he becomes okay after we graduate and not some fucked up alt-righter
There’s probably a German compound word for that feeling you get at 2am when you’re single in your mid twenties and the creeping doubt that you’ve somehow missed your only chance at love because you didn’t meet someone in college and now it’s too late
The german word you are looking for is ‘Torschusspanik’
Germans got a word for fucking EVERYTHING.
German is like the dictionary of obscure sorrows
Germany is a place of obscure sorrows
