#pathological hoarding

[narcprincess]

Seeing some talk in @radiomogai's (sorry if I shouldn't tag you in something that isn't a coin) asks is making me want to talk about my hoarding.

I don't feel a negative, disordered connotation towards my hoarding, but it is definitely not enordered (aka: a function that benefits the individual).

I like to hoard the stickers on fizzy drink bottles...Or "soda"s, but have been scolded about taking them off the drink bottles. So now I'm piling up drink bottles on my floor since they feel too special to get rid of.

I don't THINK I have some connection with trash, but the other day my trash - thankfully not my drink bottles - disappeared (my mum took them) out of my room which gave me a small feeling of panic.

Whatever it is doesn't feel nice on me. Can't say it's majorly bad either though.

There are DEFINITELY positive ways to hoard, and I even feel happy about the things I've gathered over time. It's just that maybe a less ambiguous word should be used...

Or the term "hoard" should be made more fantastical to disconnect it from any disordered hoarding? Something like "dragon's hoard" or "crow's hoard" depending on what someone connects to.

[hennethgalad]

ADHD?

i think not.

[hennethgalad]

Science must protect thinking time in a world of instant communication

E-mails and instant messaging are core to research — but also a distraction. Researchers should study their impact on science, and how they

"“Can you imagine the response if a scientist filled out a time sheet where it says ‘eight hours spent thinking’?”"

can you imagine anything being achieved without thinking?

this is the bottom line, the system is as full of recursive gibberish as a rogue AI.

no thinking, scientists!

we must bypass the "administration". cut out the middlemen and extortionists.

besides, it’s plateaud because there’s too much new stuff, nobody can assimilate it, we need all the real intelligences analysing and researching stuff like cancer and climate change etc etc etc.

no thinking… ffs

[hennethgalad]

Extreme wealth has a deadening effect on the super-rich – and that threatens us all | George Monbiot

In a kayak off the Devon coast I witnessed the kind of entitled mindlessness that has ravaged society, and our planet, says Guardian columni

"The satisfaction horizon can retreat before you. Place has no meaning, other than as a setting that might impress the friends you no longer trust. But anyone who is impressed by money is not worth impressing."

🎶

i can’t get nooo satisfaction

[hennethgalad]

Our landmark book revealed the cost of inequality. Fifteen years later, things have only got worse | Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Labour should be emboldened by the popularity of policies aimed at breaking down inequality, say authors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

"For example, in more unequal countries, even the better off have worse health than they would if they lived in a more equal society."

"the real truth is we can’t afford the super rich"

the bloody planet certainly cannot.

[hennethgalad]

late stage capitalism and the scroll of doom

connect the god damned dots

shit, even the electric vehicles, how big a mountain of trash will result? to the nearest mile high?

assholes like goldman sachs extort all the money, the infrastructure collapses and nobody can afford to buy anything. capitalism eats itself.

if only they weren’t destroying everything else, like the only habitable planet in the known universe.

[hennethgalad]

It’s OK to be Angry about Capitalism review: Bernie Sanders, by the book

The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate offers a clarion call against the American oligarchs

you don’t have to read the book, just register to vote

"the families of billionaires in America, who have a combined net worth of over $5tn, would owe up to $3tn in estate taxes.” He would accomplish this with a 45% tax rate on estates worth $3.5m and a 65% rate on those worth more than $1bn."

time they returned the money they’ve drained out of the economy.