idk what to call this

a summary court in perpetual session

[lescarnetsdehaku]

Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨

[filmbroandy]

conclave is so good it's like. what if you were catholic and suicidal and suddenly you became important at work but all your coworkers suck and hate you and then a beautiful angel shows up and there's also a guy there vaping all the time. cardinal lawrence should have started biting people.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

“power corrupts” does NOT mean “oppression purifies”

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Every time I see a post making some unhinged claim about which workers are too privileged (Baristas aren’t workers because Starbucks is bourgeois! Artists are petite bourgeoisie landlords!) or which average people aren’t suffering enough (a family member sending you home with leftovers or lending you grocery money means you benefit from intergenerational wealth!) it floors me, not only because it’s stupid, but also because the underlying message is that nearly everyone has been corrupted except for the most abjectly destitute amongst us, which inherently means that the people in the latter group must continue to suffer in order to maintain their purity so that they will still be deserving when the revolution/rapture/whatever finally comes. It just makes me fucking insane, because suffering is not purifying! It does not make people worthy! And nobody should have to maintain suffering to “earn” a just reward!

[walking-enjoyer]

“Suffering = purifying one self” is protestantism at work.

Like. Im not joking. Not even a little bit. The idea that suffering is purifying is LITERALLY protestantism. Catholics get a lot of very just mockery for being self denying and whatnot, but this SPECIFIC idea is all Protestantism’s fault babey. This is not a catholic guilt moment. This is a protestant guilt moment.

This is Quite Literally Puritanical thinking. As in…this is what the puritans believed. They believed that living a hard life was the only way to do things virtuously and such. There is a reason so much leftist discourse is like this (and its mostly americas fault bc no one does Protestantism like the americans, and no one dominates the online world like the americans, but the rest of the west is not exempt from this scolding). We Live In A Society (usually protestant. Like the majority of the west is protestant compared to catholic) and this attitude festers in ALL levels of social strata. (Even fucking grindset hustle bro rich alpha male types believe this bullshit as much as Glass Bones Paper Skin I Make -$1000/hr And Therefore Im The Only Person Who Should Get To Speak On Workers Rights type leftist thinkers do)

This attitude has been festering since the early modern period like we cannot claim it is extricated from our culture. Our culture is literally built on this thinking.

Dont let the puritans win. Kill the preacher in your head. you CAN escape the protestantism but ONLY if you make a constant effort to. Bc this shit… It is everywhere.

It does not matter that our cultures are now mostly secular, and the people who lead leftist discussions are atheistic, blah, blah… Okay. So tell me whyfore then thou art thinking like a fucking Protestant. STOPPITT.

If youre going to call yourself an atheist. You need to stop doing religious thinking. Suffering is not pure. Oppression is not pure. Its just suffering and oppression. Stop trying to rank who is most to least virtuous. Stop trying to turn your ideology into religion by making a scale of good to evil capitalism or whatever the fuck todays discourse is about. Dude. Like. Oh my god. Not constantly having to struggle doesnt mean that you are a worse person than Someone Who Is Always Struggling. I thought we agreed oppression olympics doesnt work. Everyone loses and participating in it makes you look like an arsehole.

[hungwy]

no one had “real names“ in ancient times if you wanted to be called broadback or servant-of-god or whatever everyone was chill about it

[hotvampireadjacent]

[taragrimface]

post the universal friend

[youhavethewrong]

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[papercook1e]

Whoever wrote this, slayed so hard with all these statements, truer words have never been spoken

[lesbinewren]

[beesmygod]

ursula k le guin: if confronted directly with the knowledge that society requires suffering to be maintained, would you be capable or willing to abandon the structure and safety for uncertainty, strife, deprivation?

strange and inscrutable people who claim to know how to read: i would simply solve the problem

[onyxnoon]

maybe I'm a fuckin moron but like, every time i read the story my thought is. isn't walking away just like. giving yourself a sense of moral superiority while ignoring the actual problem?

this is like when cops quit their jobs. the problem hasn't gone away, they can just feel less directly culpable.

[onyxnoon]

sure, it's a metaphor for modern society and how it relies on an underclass. and... dying in the woods from dysentery isn't going to help anyone either, right?

[philippesaner]

Walking away is also a metaphor, and exactly what it's a metaphor for is open to interpretation. By my reading, someone who becomes an anti-child-sacrifice activist should be understood as having walked away.

And for what it's worth, I think there's something to be said for the people who say "I would simply solve the problem". Because often the dilemma is just plain fake.

There are people who will tell you that our civilization depends upon the strict enforcement of heterosexuality, that queer people have to be oppressed for the sake of our stability and prosperity. And that's bunk. We don't need to ask whether it's worth it, because the tradeoff is entirely imaginary.

On many of the issues that the story can be used to represent, the "narrator" who tells you about how society depends on the child's suffering is flat-out lying to you.

[beesmygod]

ursula k le guin: if confronted directly with the knowledge that society requires suffering to be maintained, would you be capable or willing to abandon the structure and safety for uncertainty, strife, deprivation?

strange and inscrutable people who claim to know how to read: i would simply solve the problem

[captain-solo]

I would argue this misses the point of Omelas.

ursula k le guin: if I told you a society could achieve abundance and comfort without exploitation, would you believe me, or do you believe someone MUST suffer for others to thrive? do you reject the notion that society requires cruelty and suffering to be maintained?

strange and inscrutable people who don't read as closely: yes, exploitation must underlie civilization, and there's no way to solve this, and it's immature to believe otherwise

[beesmygod]

ursula k le guin: if confronted directly with the knowledge that society requires suffering to be maintained, would you be capable or willing to abandon the structure and safety for uncertainty, strife, deprivation?

strange and inscrutable people who claim to know how to read: i would simply solve the problem

[thucydideskongquest]

guy who believes omelas is about how society requires suffering to be maintained instead of an interrogation of that belief: today I will invent a guy who is even worse at reading than me

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster… January 18, 1926 “Seven Chances,” with the title “Busters miljoner,” opens in Sweden.

[clarabowlover]

Film Made in (1925) With Rosalind Byrne

[roach-works]

absolutely magnificent Fuck You, Pay Me energy from ms byrne

[mariacallous]

Comey said he went out of his way to make an example of Martha Stewart, which explains so much about him and why he did what he did in 2016.

[forthegothicheroine]

Tumblr's "cannibalism is love and power and spirituality" crowd might want to consider reading The Indifferent Stars Above. Sure, fiction can make anything a symbol for anything, but if that fiction was grounded in real people's experiences, then cannibalism might well be misery and desperation and loss.

[forthegothicheroine]

#“cannibalism is about love and devotion” no you just read a lot of Hannibal fic where the main ship has that going on#even in Hannibal the rest of the cannibalism is expressly an act of disdain for the person being consumed

@cannot-kill-the-sun You get it!!!

[longreads]

The Romance History Forgot

Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed journey to the South Pole captivated the world. But hidden within the legend was a story that has never been told—a love affair between two of the crew who survived.

In the new issue of our sister publication, The Atavist Magazine, Allegra Rosenberg writes about a doomed expedition to Antarctica—and the untold love story of two crew members who survived the journey.

“Pennell left a trove of letters and diaries behind, but they sat largely unconsulted for a century. The romance hidden inside them was a gift waiting for the right moment to be discovered.”

Read the introduction, “The Romance History Forgot,” on Longreads.

[theweirdwideweb]

[cognitiveinequality]

[helenvaughans]

[tanadrin]

perhaps this is naive of me, but sometimes when i read florid descriptions of the coming demographic collapse all i can think is that as a species, we finally did it--somewhere between the onset of the industrial revolution and the invention of the pill, we finally broke the iron yoke of agrarian civilization that linked our ability to feed ourselves to the size of our population, the yoke that tied the pleasures of sex to the burdens of reproduction, the yoke that meant most people would have to suffer the burden of seeing roughly half their children die before age five. and yes, if this all keeps up, the world will change as a result, change in ways both already kind of sad (a lot of small towns vanishing off the map, as the remaining population continues to concentrate in big cities) and in we can barely begin to understand now (what does the world look like after 200 years of population shrinkage? i can't even imagine). and there will be new problems. i do worry (for example) about how we will care adequately for the aged. there will be significant problems we have to confront. but god almighty i am glad we broke that yoke.

[persephinae]

Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

After mulling over it for close to 14 years, it seems Microsoft is finally ready to kill off the Windows Control Panel soon. An official con

What the shit????

Microsoft truly wants a dumbed down populace that cannot control the products they buy

If they do this then my dumb ass will find a way to install Linux or something

[texasdreamer01]

So for anyone interested that doesn't already know, here's some more information on Linux and Ubuntu distributions (AKA distros for short) - arranged in no particular order:

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Linux by Linux.com

Best Linux Distributions That are Most Suitable for Beginners by It's FOSS

30 Days of Linux A Complete Guide For Beginners by Geeks For Geeks (may need to read this in reading mode, if viewing on Firefox)

Ubuntu: A Beginner's Guide by Make Use Of (MUO)

Ubuntu Manual Project by Ubuntu Wiki

The Linux command line for beginners by Canonical Ubuntu

Getting Started With Ubuntu by It's FOSS

Official websites for downloading the various Linux and Ubuntu distros:

Linux.org

Ubuntu.com

Note: Ubuntu is derived from Linux. Both are free, open source, and can be modified however you like.

There is a method to "try before you buy" on either distro by downloading them onto a dedicated USB (this will require re-formatting it, and any previous information will be wiped on the USB), and Linux/Ubuntu will load from the USB. Your mileage may vary with this approach, so please refer to documentation on recommended methods and potential pitfalls.

[grimdarkpumpkin]

Yes, this is a shitty thing of Windows to do and I appreciate the Linux introduction.

However. As of today, Aug 26, 2024, there has since been an update added to the end of the article:

Update, August 26 2024: Microsoft has revised the text seemingly hinting that Control Panel may be un-killable, at least for a while.

Then it links to this article:

Rejoice! Microsoft suggests it may never truly kill Windows Control Panel

After stating it would do it eventually, Microsoft may not really kill the Control Panel ever, after all.

I will be keeping this in my back pocket, but I wanted to chime in with the update so people aren't spreading around incomplete information.