I'd grudgingly accept CCTV that's controlled and acting on behalf of the resident of the house, but not that's operated by amazon and acting on behalf of the surveillance state

had this on loop since it came out

like first this song and then the whole album

sonia sturino got that voice that sharpens truth into a knife and jams it directly in your ribcage

Our economy is such that just the economic harm from just the explicitly illegal bits of even one of the massive monopolies running our lives has done in one year dwarfs all the harm of any kind all forms of welfare fraud have done in human history. Kill the reaganite propagandist in your head

what I've learned from nearly every moral panic about cheaters is that people who have the power to make rules only seem to care about the exact subset of cheaters that don't do any meaningful harm to anyone, bending over backwards to destroy anything they might use, while letting real monsters rock

Sure I know but if we get to examining it I get all "what good's being cute ever actually done me?" and I'm way too sober for those kinda thoughts

Look I don't even actually know where you work, but

I mean

Plenty of intellectuals have opportunistically joined this fascist movement modernly referred to as 'conservatism' in order to have power. It's just that once power is your sole goal, intellectualisms, like valuing consistency for example, don't matter to your goals. The powermad are always thus

My handwriting's pretty but my writing *speed* by hand is abysmal. This factor alone was behind a vast disparity in time pressured essay grades between middle and high school, because I grew up around when using a computer for them started to be allowed

Yea, I kinda couldn't even start making progress on the problem until I started describing arguing on the internet as an addiction

The cruel joke of all this is that the whole "cancel culture" shtick draws on the hard-won cultural understanding that moralistic censorship does awful things to people and society, which we learned through example from censorious projects by the same cult now outright lying that it's happened to it

You can win, but it requires accepting that this means your opposition must lose

I read this wednesday and I've been thinking about it all week: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

thrifting is The Way

most people I know have default minor themesongs so I gotta watch out for when they get slower and have sparser instrumentation

I've been going around saying for a while that about 90% of people are in effect legit, no kidding poor right now, so I just was nodding along with this analysis