ReadFanon

Awesome, thanks for your response I really appreciate it!

The thing that gets me is that he could make himself last on the list if he reduced the operations of his orphan-crushing machine by like 90%. Not even 100%, just 90%.

He could hold onto more wealth than he could spend in a lifetime. He could still live in a ridiculous mansion and shit. But if he gave away 7 of that $7.5bn on actually good causes that he wasn't profiteering from which directly benefitted the world then he would almost certainly be considered one of the rare "good ones" and his chances of getting cleaned up in a wave of uprisings would be very, very low.

But no. He's going to have panic attacks due to a latent guilty conscience but he isn't going to actually do anything about it. This headline has the same energy as an oil executive who publicly complains about a heatwave imo.

I'd consider repurposing an old phone and making that your podcast/music player-only device. That way you have separation and you aren't getting sucked into endless scrolling and perpetual notifications. You could go one step further and buy a cheap brick phone. Use that for calls and texts.

If you separate out your media device from your mainstream communication device from your algo-entertainment device you'll probably manage things better, especially if you keep your entertainment device powered down when you aren't using it. You could go a step further and use tablet for your entertainment device, locking down your current phone to only specific functions and apps.

What is the most underrated facet of each these fields (geology, geography, and climatology)?

Like, what's the big thing that gets overlooked or which doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves because it gets dwarfed by other things? (Basically "I don't care about your tyrannosaurus, give me your ankylosauruses!")

Thoughts on Neil Smith?

Sounds like Devin has never heard the phrase "Devaround and Devout" before 😏

but I can appreciate how that is similar to a white person telling you that they don't see colour.

I think that this is a misapprehension tbh, and I mean this in a kind way so it's not intended to be a call out.

To say "I don't see colour, I see people" to a POC is to say "I am separating a fundamental part of what makes you who you are and which has been your experience in society from before you were old eenough to understand what was going on around you" which is inherently dehumanising and it's a denial and a whitewash of systems of racial oppression as well as your own position in those systems, whatever position that happens to be.

This applies similarly to saying that you don't see gender, you just see people to someone (especially if they are trans) as it denies a fundamental part of who they are as people.

But to say "I don't understand gender (on a personal level, for how I relate to and understand myself)" is not to attempt to erase others' identities but it's just an affirmation of how you yourself feel; if I said "I'm gay, I don't feel attracted to the opposite gender and so I don't understand what that's like and what it means" isn't an attack on heterosexuality or on aspects of sexualities that are attracted to the opposite gender (e.g. bi/pansexuality). It's only when you start projecting that experience onto other people's identities that it is a problem.

I'm still very much hashing things out with myself and I've spent a lot of time listening to trans experiences of gender and it doesn't resonate with my own internal experience of gender so, on a fundamental level I don't get it—and I don't think I ever will—but that's okay and I have a genuine respect for those experiences and I "understand" it, insofar as I "understand" something such as history; I understand it as an outsider who is learning about it via external, secondary means but it's not the same thing as truly understanding what it's like by living it. It's gonna sound very selfish, and on one level it really is, but I'm super grateful for the self-advocacy of trans people because it's really been the only thing that has helped me to understand my own experience of gender, or the lack thereof.

(All of this comes with a massive caveat - I'm not cis and I've never felt cis as far as I can recall. By definition that makes me trans and I'm cool with that fact however I understand that my experience of gender is not representative of a large proportion of the trans community's experience and I feel like it would be really harmful and reckless of me to openly identify to others that I am trans when I haven't figured it all out internally with myself. And the most scary thing for me would be that openly identifying as trans to others, especially irl except when I'm around people who get it, might give the false impression that simply because I don't give a damn about what pronouns you use for me or how you perceive my gender therefore it means that all trans people can be expected to feel this way. The prospect of my own experience of gender potentially being used as a rhetorical or ideological justification to harm other trans people or to be used to erase the validity of their gender[s] is what scares me. I don't want to be the one that they point to in order to argue why misgendering trans people is fine, actually, because that would destroy me to know that my internal experience was misappropriated in service of harming others.

So to me it's like - if I need to tell you I'm trans then you don't get it, and that comes with inherent risks to other trans people which I feel is the most important thing to prioritise, as someone who experiences a lot of privilege by my own internal experience of being personally gender agnostic. And if I don't need to tell you that I'm trans, that's because you already get that I am and it doesn't come with those same concerns.)

My best analogy for all of what I'm trying to get at here is that gender seems to be a lot like a shoe. Some people just have shoes that are comfy on them by default. Some people have been forced to wear shoes that are really uncomfortable for them, until they get a chance to slip into a pair that are much more comfy. And some people have always worn extremely uncomfortable shoes all their lives and they don't even realise it because they never knew that shoes could be so comfortable or, perhaps, they were taught to believe that they were unworthy of wearing shoes that fit them.

Footwear seems really cool and all, aside from when people are being forced into shoes or being made to believe that they are somehow unworthy of comfy shoes, and I can appreciate the different shoes that people have on and how they choose to wear them but, for me, I feel like being barefoot is my normal; I can put on different shoes, and I have throughout my life, and some are more uncomfortable to wear than others but I've never put on a pair of shoes and been like "Oh wow, these fit perfectly! I feel so good in this pair of shoes that I never want to take them off ever again!"

The closer I am to barefoot, the less uncomfortable I am but it's not even a positive sort of feeling to be barefoot for me; it doesn't feel like barefoot is "home" or "me", it just feels like no shoes are the least uncomfortable choice in footwear for me.

(I really need to make an alt account so I'm not figuring all this shit out for myself live on main lol)

Every true crime show coverage Rommel-ises figures like Ted Bundy to the point that they erase how incompetent the pigs were. They paint them as being suave, super-genius criminal masterminds rather than creeps and opportunists who take advantage of the many opportunities that the Chief Wiggum-esque cops hand to them on a platter.

I don't remember the details exactly but I think Bundy was apprehended and maybe cuffed and left in the second floor of a library unattended. Bruh. So he jumps out the window and runs away since the windows weren't secure and neither was the building. Couldn't have seen that coming!

From memory Bundy made it through at least one traffic stop and it was basically a matter of "His car fit the description and he matched the profile of who we were looking for but he seemed like a nice, modern gentleman who was polite and friendly so I waved him on. Alas, he got away without even an attempt at a disguise because he was just so incredibly smart that he somehow outwitted us all!"

I think it was him who was also put in some county jail cell or similar. The cell had those floating roof tiles like an in office building. So he pushed them up and tried to escape that way too. I don't know if he did or not but that's not some criminal mastermind at work, that's just incompetence handing the guy a free throw.

Likewise they need to tell us that John Wayne Gacy is some genius criminal mastermind because otherwise they might have to talk about his connections to the Delta Project and North Fox Island.

I think it's useful for people to recognise the cops as being incompetent but that's only the first step and it's only a half measure. Those fuckers are extremely good at covering up for Epstein and they are perfectly competent when it comes to assassinating Fred Hampton and stuff like the MOVE bombing; it's not about whether they are incompetent or not, it's about where they are competent and where they choose strategic incompetence that reveals their true nature, in the same way that capitalism is both ruthlessly efficient and hopelessly ineffective depending on what it's doing and it's only by looking at this holistically that it reveals the reality of how capitalism truly functions.

Arrack/arak, although technically they refer to different types of alcohol and they aren't in common usage.

Sounds romantic!

I'd like to request this song in memoriam of Brian UnitedHealth

Haha thanks!

I know there's a lib inside my head and he must be killed but some part of me always feels bad when if I think about pirating indie games. One time not so long ago I got groceries delivered like the bougie scum that I am and there was a legitimate fuckup in the delivery process, so I claimed it an ordered a replacement order. Just after the claim process was completed the delivery got dropped off and I felt bad because I was getting more than I should have and I worried that I might have gotten the delivery driver in trouble accidentally. I probably need to be more ruthless or something but I feel like I'm not really built that way. It's only when someone is an irredeemable piece of shit that I can get past this mental block in me.