From Another Place

"It all makes sense, We're capable of Beauty Through sounds that make one cringe. The dogs only hear us now."

[thriftstoreoddities]

[yikesglenn]

[tracobuttons]

I now see why I struggled with showing my interests to my parents when I was a kid.

I’m listening to my cousin going on about Fortnite. The kid adores the game and is talking about the battle pass and he how hopes to get it later on today.

My mum just flatly says she doesn’t know what that means and has told him to hurry up as they go through the door, not giving my cousin any wiggle room to explain what it means. Fortnite is special to him, he wants to talk about it, he wants to engage but how can he when at that moment, the adult he’s talking to shuts him down?

Why can’t some people just take a damn minute to listen, REALLY listen to what kids are saying? He’ll now sit in the car in complete silence because his aunt isn’t interested in what he likes.

I’m not saying everyone has to be a fountain of knowledge for things like that. Hell, you don’t have to like what another person’s into but for the love of god, at least TRY and give it a go in understanding why it’s so important to that person.

[lynati]

“Oooh, that sounds neat! Tell me about it?” Is one of the best things you can say to a kid. (Or an author.) It matters less that you understand it than it does that they are allowed- are *encouraged*- to explain it

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

My favorite hobby is describing socialism without using the word “socialism” and watching everyone in the room agree with me.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Guy at work: *bitches about work*

Me: “Yeah, well, that’s the way it goes. See, the company can only make money off of the work we do, so they’re never gonna pay us what we’re worth; you don’t get paid for eight hours’ work, you get paid for working eight hours. That’s how they make bank. So the relationship between us and management is always gonna be adversarial. Why you think [boss] is such a dickhead? He’s incentivized to be a dickhead.”

Guy: “That….that actually makes a lot of sense.”

Me: *stares into the camera like on The Office while ‘The Internationale’ plays in the background*

[fuckingsushi]

[left-reminders]

Capitalism kills art

[squiddlybop]

When ya girl bisexual

[heaven-nor-hell]

Alright this is my definite favorite version of this, ever.

[orbitalmane]

Yesssssss

[orbitalmane]

“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”

— Unknown (via quotemadness)

[orbitalmane]

Happy Sept 1!

[everets]

*talks about demons loudly in local diner*

[left-reminders]

My roommate loves capitalism and we kinda got into a debate on the flaws of capitalism and I was wondering how you would've dealt with it. I told her that Slavery was facilitated by capitalism but she laughed and said that it was on the government, not capitalism. Sorry to bother you but I just really needed help with this. Thanks.

She’s right that it was the government enforcing slavery, but it was on behalf of capital accumulation. This thing right-wingers do, where they try to draw a clear line in the sand dividing capitalism and government – it’s bullshit. The state does what it does at the behest of property-owners and the rich; it’s primary purpose under capitalism is to prolong capitalism, the economic engine that keeps it going daily. Really the only time the government seems to deviate from that plan is when it institutes temporary compromises to tide over the population for the long-term interests of capital accumulation – that’s what demand-side Keynesianism, worker benefits, safety regulations, and government intervention in general are all about. The society and economy are allowed to fluctuate to the extent that accumulation and the profit motive are maintained. If the 13th Amendment abolished formal slavery, it was written to allow capitalists to exploit free labor in the form of prison inmates, and the wide-scale criminalization of people of color was instituted as a means of making up for the end of formal slavery. The same principle can be applied to other movements for liberation over the past century and a half – capitalism and the state find ways to absorb the surface features whilst retaining the fundamental inequities and brutalities. And “small government” right-wingers are completely oblivious to all of this.

[zwischenstadt]

Also the idea that “it’s the government, not capitalism!” is pretty much a non-sequitur.  Capitalism required the establishment of export markets, expansion of labor markets (both of which are euphemisms for colonialism and imperialism for much of capital’s history), enforcement of property rights (including under slavery!), norms for lending, infrastructure investment/land reclamation.  I.e., it requires capitalist states, and absent a countervailing force, there’s no reason for a capitalist state not to endorse slavery, and if markets are then safely extended into slavery, there’s no reason they wouldn’t solidify or even expand slavery.

[kaziusklasterzoroaster]

I really can’t reblog this enough

[socialistspacebird]

Fucking exactly. Sorry libertarians, but you can’t defend capitalism by scapegoating the capitalist government.

[atern-deactivated20180505]

I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism

[mikkeneko]

It is.

i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults

ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis

or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation

but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep

i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love  sleep, i just love overwatch more

[curlicuecal]

this this this this this

our society places almost zero value on sleep

on enough sleep

on uninterrupted sleep

on regular, predictable, cycling sleep

all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?

[paddysnuffles]

Reminder that 

- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep. 

By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for. 

Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.

- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.

If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.

- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)

- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.

After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.

- According to research “starting work before 10 a.m. is tantamount to torture and is making staff sick and stressed”

- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.

Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch. 

Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.

[assdownloader]

“don’t support nestle!” shouts the liberal on the computer made from parts manufactured at foxconn

consumer activism is a lie, see you in hell or in communism

[marxvx-deactivated20170329]

lmao try boycotting a brand in monopoly capitalism

[toloveviceforitself]

This. This is a large part of what “there’s no ethical consumption under late capitalism” means. On top of everything else, when the same company owns both the product you’re boycotting *and* the “organic, free range, fair trade, no prison labor” version of that product, your choice is literally meaningless. Even before you factor in the strong possibility that those labels are lies, you’re still just choosing one prong of a two prong marketing strategy meant to capture 100% of the market. Your objections to their cheaper, less ethical brand are being used to wring more money out of you, money that all goes to the same place. Your morality is being used to exploit you, and they still win.

[ommanyte]

yo what are you always so stressed about?

me:

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

reblog if you’ve ever been horrified by your own Customer Service voice

[c-bassmeow]

she is so FAKE 

[recoveringhipster-deactivated20]

The writing of a dictionary… is not a task of setting up authoritative statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one’s ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer of a dictionary is a historian, not a lawgiver… To regard the dictionary as an “authority,” therefore, is to credit the dictionary writer with gifts of prophecy which neither he nor anyone else possesses.

S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action (via recoveringhipster)

[quotemadness]

Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.

Unknown (via quotemadness)

[totalmentaloverflow]

[heteroglossia]

Imagine that every time you wanted to get an apple from someone you had to go through the entire physical story–a shared memory of going to pick an apple from a tree. Imagine that you couldn’t sign or say “apple,” or gesture “want.” Painful enough, but what if you had no shared history on which the mime the actions? How would you communicate this need to a stranger? This is what generalizable signs make possible. This is the power of language. I can talk to people I don’t know. To then refuse the Other because of fear, how utterly ridiculous.

Ars Cogitanda, Footnote to Silence (via heteroglossia)