Spent a night at the Iceland Blue Lagoon Retreat hotel for a special occasion. It’s like $1800 USD per night so it was a huge splurge. We saw Rebel Wilson staying at the hotel too. It was fancy AF.
Absolutely wasted if you only spend one day, but we couldn’t afford 2.
Rosa Parks lived until 2005
(Legal) Segregation in America was until pretty damn recently. Though loophole segregation is arguably still going on.
85% neckbeards
So, I walk into the laundry room and my stepsister had her head stuck in the dryer, and then I tripped, and while I was fal… (Obvious /s)
I’m still specing it out. I was gonna get some dedicated hardware but I think I’ll just use my old gaming PC and buy a new one lol.
Planning to use Home Assistant and their support for local ollama.
Just local ones.
Depends on what you mean by “like” lol
It’s nice to generate images of settings for my d&d campaign.
It’s nice that I can replace Google/Siri with something I run and control locally, for controlling my home.
But those aren’t really important things
you are inferior for casting aspersions on me, but the aspersions I cast on you show me to be superior
Great job dude.
I can see why you are unable to connect the dots between men setting up the conditions that pressure women to turn in each other, and the women who actually turn on each other.
Great talk 👋👋👋
Sorry you’re not able to follow your own statements to their natural conclusions 👎
I have nearly zero respect for the intellectual capacity of someone who thinks that female gender roles are perpetuated mainly by women, and especially little respect for people who think they’re above social conditioning and that it should be a simple matter for others to shrug it off. It shows a shocking lack of self awareness.
I don’t think there is value in continuing this discussion with you.
If by “loses all meaning” you mean “loses significance” then there is some truth to that, but I leave it up to the general opinion of the people who are put at risk by that loss of significance to decide when it becomes a problem.
Realistically I think that it was probably meant as a half joke, as in its funny in how unserious it is, but also a real criticism in how pervasive this kind of toxic behavior is.
I think that the reply, that men aren’t involved in it, is taking an willfully ignorant stance.
But they’re related. They’re different facets of the same thing: the roles and expectations that society forces people into.
Setting aside what you do and don’t think is impactful, the point is that these are expectations that society puts on people, and where these expectations come from is complex. Have you ever heard of the Five Whys? It can be a helpful way to look at these problems; it can’t capture the complexity but it illustrates that the causes run deep.
For example, there are some pretty easily accessible YouTube videos (podcasts?) on the history of the women’s fashion and cosmetics industries, and how they pivoted their marketing to great effect to sell products to women by pressing these kinds of expectations into society, and those marketing teams contain a lot of men. This doesn’t explain all of history, but it’s an example of what I’m talking about.
And always remember; hurt people hurt people.
The people here who think that marketing doesn’t affect shit like this, or that they’re not affected by marketing, are exactly the kind of easy marks that marketing preys on.
The bar is on the floor for men, and unreasonably high for women.
Women put some of those restrictions on each other, but largely as a byproduct of the society they were raised in.
It’s a privilege in the same way that having a shoulder to cry on is a female privilege.
If you’re going to try to argue that society doesn’t push people into certain roles or to think in certain ways, or that men aren’t also involved in creating the parts of society that determine roles for women, then I don’t think we can have a meaningful exchange.
That’s simply not true. That culture didn’t form in a vacuum. It’s the result of decades of marketing and other societal forces. Everyone bears some responsibility for all subcultures.
Both can be true at the same time. Nothing exists in a vacuum.
The problem is loopholes, but I’m not a tax lawyer, which is why I provi such a vague answer.
I think that ostentatious wealth is a sign you’re not doing your share to help the society that supports you, so the disgustingly rich shouldn’t exist. But I’m not opposed to a little inequality as reward for doing important work or going above and beyond, but what we have now is crazy.
I wouldn’t really say that California’s tax is especially progressive compared to taxes in the past, like the golden age of the USA. But even then, lobbyists have opened so many loopholes that it doesn’t even really matter what the tax rate is
I don’t know because I think if people got paid fair wages the world would look very different, and the cost of living calculations we currently use to determine fair wages would change in ways I can’t predict.
I think that with aggressive progressive taxes, we’d see the range of incomes get compressed, and lift lower incomes. I’m not entirely sure how that’d affect cost of living, it’d probably go up, but wages would go up more.
But if I had to guess, if say everyone should be making between $100k and $300k, and I should probably be somewhere in the middle of that.
Any necessity of life.
Any inelastic commodity.
Edit:
Upon rereading, I totally missed the spirit in which the question was asked. Whoops lol
Work is a fuck, but you gotta eat.
And the shared suffering builds camaraderie with your coworkers and some may develop into friends, which can provide meaning and excitement.
People who glorify hustle culture are fucked up. Don’t listen to them.