To be fair requiring people who have been convicted of a crime by a jury of their peers through a fair and just legal system to do labor isn’t itself a form of slavery

umm… yes? yes it is? it’s just that our perception of what “slavery” is has been drastically altered by the curious institution of chattel slavery, which in all of human history is a VERY recent development. before this the main forms of slavery were prisoner of war labor camps and punitive labor camps. slavery is any labor in which the laborer is coerced into unfair labor terms against their will. a jury of your peers press ganging you into labor as punishment for a crime is slavery even if it is defined as legal in societal institutions

When I was first quitting I got really into listening to baseball on the radio and talking to other baseball fans about the games. Here lately I’ve been playing some solo journaling roleplaying games since just about anything on the internet wakes up the dread

“Babe, you’re a sexy as fuck honey badger. After we bone, I was planning to go fuck up the lions”

“That’s so good. Let me help”

Oh that’s a rad mapping tool! I just quit cold turkey in 2018. I wonder how things would have been different if I’d done it this way.

Great job! You should be really proud of yourself. It takes a lot of resolve to make better decisions for yourself especially when there’s so much external pressure to participate in things that you’ve demonstrated are bad for you

how is the preview image clearer than the image you see when you click on it?

polar bears: “i just love kidding”

it’s strongman politics. once a jury has condemned a prisoner to death, the whole dynamic surrounding their case shifts. no longer are they a person whose life carries value, even if that value is complicated by their actions. they become a shibboleth upon which every strongman politician must prove that they are not soft on crime. none of these appeals have taken into consideration the real facts of the case or the woman, but have been treated as an opportunity to prove to authoritarian supporters that this lawyer, this judge, this executive, whoever is able to step in, but doesn’t, to set things right is a big strong man that you should worship as a big strong man, and that they perform the role of big authoritarian daddy with aplomb.

just everything being expensive because we pay the monetary price of the colonial wars our oligarch overlords enact abroad to enrich themselves

Basically, yes, but also not quite no. Market products offer you an initial baseline experience. Aftermarket products offer you an enhanced “better than the average” experience. Postmarket (or postconsumer) products are a de-growth mechanism by which you extend the life of your initial purchase beyond its planned obsolescence. There used to be a really great paper on creating circular economies that accounted for how in the reduce-reuse-recycle cycle our capitalist society has placed all emphasis on recycle when that’s supposed to be the third order option behind reduce (consumption) and reuse (by extending the life of the products you already own) but I can’t seem to find it anymore, but that paper was where the PostmarketOS name came from

100% yes absolutely

100%. Polyamorous people don’t fuck around with scheduling.

if a polycule invites you to play dungeons and dragons with them, be ready for whatever scheduling system they send you to to be both extremely robust and pretty intense

100%! I’ve seen so many people treat it as a travel opportunity and then go without any consideration for that you will only see what Israel wants you to see, and that it is only so cheap to go because they are paying to brainwash you.

Also the notion that a birthright trip is the defining aspect of Jewish life is INSANE! The whole thing with Jewishness is that our experiences with the experience are varied and diverse, yet there is a sense of community that ties us all together. To ignore that and focus on a state sponsored act of violence when for so many of us the point of our existence is to defy state violence is disgusting, vile, and infuriating.

The most horrifying to me has been how many former friends have come back from their trip and no longer eat unleavened bread for passover because “the exodus is over” like that was ever the fucking point

birthright trips are exactly this. they reframe the zionist occupation as:

1. fun
2. a moral obligation
3. an opportunity to meet hot singles to make soldiers for the future

israel uses sex and sexuality to both glorify a patriarchy and to pinkwash genocide both at the same time. it’s extremely gross

not anymore than any other dev stack per my understanding

yooo! while i wait for mobile linux to be realistic for my device this is a win

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Mailman/Stephen-Starring-Grant/9781668018057

yeah and i would describe the situation for the rank and file “nuanced”

well yeah. the slave catchers aren’t there to expand the economy for the people at the bottom of the ladder

ICE concentration camps are already death camps

i don’t disagree. the american civil war is the tent pole event through which all other analysis of american history needs to be analyzed. certain lefty folks will tell you it’s the great depression but i think that’s fundamentally just examining american history through the lens of when the poverty of the southern tidewater finally reached the northern cities. yes, brown and black people were hit harder by the great depression, so the great depression is still a useful tent pole, however the missing context of why brown and black people didn’t have as many protections from poverty is very important, and that reason is that by not enforcing reckoning against the wealthy elites who enacted the civil war to continue owning people, every enforcement of poverty in the tidewater was allowed to repeat