#miso asks

[shrimpathizer]

peacefully skipping n hopping merrily back to a time when i was blissfully unaware of the horror called 3doku

nonono because hold on. look me in the eye and tell me this doesnt look enticing

im not even advertising or anything like. imagine sudoku. right. with all its greatness. now imagine more sudoku per sudoku. imagine it was a cube. my beautiful wife sudoku in three dimensions.

[noodlecankilljod]

thoughts on paul (i am a Mess after rereading nona)

beautifully tragic. i don’t want to believe that its real. but i want them to exist alongside cam and pal.

[shrimpathizer]

11 and 14

11.what kind of music is stuck in your head a lot lately?

hm. well SOMEBODY got me hooked on choremania by florence + the machine, but bc of the song i dont remember what it sounds like until i listen to it. but last week i was listening to latin music so i had like, baile inolvidable and gasolina stuck in my head.

14. if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

oh this is hard. idk i dont feel super qualified to just talk about anything, but i was explaining some of the nuances of figure skating scoring to my friend earlier today. i can also explain silks pretty well? probably? thats harder to explain verbally without showing. if i was able to be coherent enough potentially an analysis of like. the metamorphoses or smth.

[shrimpathizer]

Okay hi, sorry, but I have to ask someone about this- SINCE WHEN IS THERE A POST LIMIT HERE????

hi every! i think there has always been one (and if not, at least for a long time) i personally have never hit it so the only reason i know it exists is because mia (mutual) has hit it often. i assume it is fairly high. it shouldn’t last too long i assume (i can ask and will let u know)

[shrimpathizer]

hi! if you're into figure skating for lesbian reasons I recommend looking into Lara Naki Gutmann (she does some non-traditional programs that are really cool), or Kaori Sakomoto (veteran skater, very iconic, she's retiring after this year and is a serious contender for olympic gold medal). Also Ami Nakai, an up and coming skater. There are lots of skaters from other disciplines that are amazing. If you can, I suggest watching the Four Continents Championships if you want to follow another competition before the Olympics get started. For more info on figure skating, how programs work and how to watch competitions, I recommend the website soyouwanttowatchfs.com, it has a great overview and is a good place to start, especially for learning more about the individual disciplines (as opposed to pairs and ice dance).

Apologies if you know all or some of this already, I don't aim to be redundant or condescending, I just saw your post about starting to get into figure skating. I'm assuming you watched some of the US Nationals and that's how you're familiar with Amber, Alysa, and Isabeau?

:)

oh my goodness thank you so much! this is perfect! i will say i did not actually watch the US nationals, but at this point have watched several people’s skates (im unclear about which is from when though).

[shrimpathizer]

💭?? if i sent this twice sorry dont worry abt it

hii! u r purple, locked tombtual, and 2048 (sudoku!)

[shrimpathizer]

HI MISO !!

question: is miso soup actually your favorite kind of soup or did you just call yourself that to be silly. if no what is your favorite soup? <3

HI OLIVER!!

i do like miso soup. however. the name miso came because a couple years ago (i guess when i joined tumblr?) i typed miso soup a bunch of times on my cousin’s tablet and it kept autocorrecting to misogyny soup and i thought that was funny.

my favorite soup might be chicken noodle soup. but one time i had chicken soup with rice and that was really good.

[shrimpathizer]

hello there friend what pray tell do you find so interesting about laissez faire economics? /genuine

hi!

okay this might be long. also im realizing that i am accidentally sort of writing this essay style.

so first of all: laissez faire economics is basically when the government goes hands off on the economy.

the u.s. has taken this approach (whether under this name or not) multiple times over the past 250 ish years of its existence.

(notably, this is happening now. some people say that we are living in a second gilded age. while the conditions we work in are on average slightly better — more people are unionized, less children work in factories, hours are shorter, pay is slightly better — we do still have an incredible disparity between the extremely wealthy minuscule elite and the large swaths of poverty).

personally, i dont think laissez faire economics is a good idea. however, every few presidential terms, someone comes along and sees that there is some amount of prosperity. but you know what would bring more prosperity? if we let the companies have full rein. decrease regulations. decrease taxes for the rich. don't meddle in labor disputes. and you know what? they were right. there was prosperity. for the rich. the rich were allowed to gain an insane amount of wealth and treat their workers badly.

side note: i am primarily thinking/talking about the gilded age (1870s-1900 approx) and reaganomics (1980s).

in the gilded age, monopolists were able to become monopolists because they could pay their workers terribly, make the workers work incredibly long days (one of the demands of the homestead strike and the haymarket riot (both in 1880s) was an eight hour work day. according to this digital history article unskilled workers at the carnegie steel mill made about $1.70 for a 12 hour day).

also another fun fact about carnegie steel company: in 1892 there as the homestead strike at the homestead mill (for the reasons i just outlined). and carnegie called up the pinkerton guards. the pinkerton guards are a union busting agency. carnegie also called in the national guard to break up the strike. but what is interesting about this is that in 2011 Jeff Bezos hired pinkerton guards to union bust amazon.

okay so i strayed a bit from the original question. basically, i find the gilded age (and the fact that we are living in a second gilded age) very interesting. it is simultaneously uplifting and depressing. that we fall into these patterns and cannot help but forget our past mistakes. but we have recovered from them in the past so we can do it again.

other links about this i find interesting:

robert reich on living in the second gilded age

graph of the share of income going to the top 10% vs union membership

anyways thanks for asking!