#if any actual experts see this

[marmot-bee-person]

How exactly does Della control her robot leg? Cause she definitely has some control but like… the calf is hollow, even though she clearly has control of the foot to some extent.

Idk i have no knowledge of this subject, it just struck me while i was rewatching nothing can

#full disclosure #i am by no means an expert #idk just a thought #ducktales della #della duck #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #dt17 #take this with a grain of salt #if any actual experts see this #please tell me #if I’m off #i could be totally wrong #Ducktales nothing can stop Della duck! #nothing can stop della duck

[sonknuxadow]

i think this might be one of if not The only time shadow and cream have ever interacted in the games. which is wild considering how popular a duo they are in fan content

#for context one of the hero missions is to help amy rescue cream #but cream doesnt actually have any dialogue and you dont see her until you find her and then the level ends #so her appearance in shth is more of a cameo than anything #so it was very surprising to see that one of the expert mode messages was from her #i wish shadow and cream would interact more often. i can remember some times theyve interacted in archie sonic #but idk if they have in any other media #ok wait immediately after i posted this i watched a little more of the video and there was also a message from cheese #with cream translating for them at the end which was very cute

[chiropteracupola]

so I keep thinking 'if I put off painting my tray and plate set I will suddenly be granted an Idea of what to paint on them' and that keeps Not Happening.

anyway, anyone got any particular favorite widely distributed birds?

#em's adventures in the ceramic bowl mines #widely distributed as in 'could potentially be taken for a traditional motif whilst also being interesting birds of other locations' #if that makes Sense. ...local bird expert regshoe have you got any suggestions? #this class has made me able to do things like point at ceramics I see in the wild and Shout what they are glazed with #it's 'SHINO SAKE CUP SPOTTED' and 'CATEGORY 5 PETE'S CRANBERRY INCIDENT' and 'COBALT UNDERGLAZE ATTACK' #but it's still not actually having ideas for my own ceramic work unfortunately... #it's not that I dislike abstract and non-figural art when it's made by someone else it's just Viciously Boring for me to do it myself

[icewindandboringhorror]

I’m always paranoid of my tumblr being deleted or malfunctioning or something like that someday, so here’s other places to find me/follow me, just in case lol

~ instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lucalicatte/

~ main youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/LucaLiCatte

~ games/sims youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@cloudycatte

~ facebook page (I rarely use this because I hate facebook but.. it at least allows text posts better than instagram does, so idk maybe I’d use it more if tumblr went away? lol) - https://www.facebook.com/cloudycatteart/

~ Other Links (stuff I don’t use often/isn’t Main enough to list here, like twitter, neopets, other tumblr sideblogs, youtube channels, etc.) are here - http://icewindandboringhorror.tumblr.com/otherlinks )

#An updated version of this since some of the links on the old one are no longer the same lol #I might make a website website one day (not with a custom domain since I'm not paying for that/dont have the money lol #but like a 'my name.weebly.com type thing lol) but I haven't had the time recently. If I ever get around to it I'll update the post and #reblog that version. ANYWAY.. I just like to have one of these written out to reblog every once in a while. During the once ever few months #when poeple are like 'tumblr is failing again! it wont survive!' which has happened like 80 times but I'm still always like :0c what if! #also love the ms paint art done with a mouse ghhj #ANYWAY.. also if you want to see the stinky game I made that's not actually related to my own worldbuilding really (why I have never #posted anything about it publilcy because it's like.. how do I talk about it lol) I have my itch.io linked in the 'other links' page #as well as my General Projects blog. which talks about all the ongoing and upcoming projects I want to do that are #actually set in my world and can give you previews of some of the things I'm working on. Currently resuming my Game after abandoning it #basically for the entire pandemic and a little before that - as mentioned before - so that's OUgh.. in terms of A Lot Of Work #Especially since while kind of 'revamping and updating' I want to add a few features which are mostly easy but every once in a while #I don't understand something and it's like....... hGGhh...... Ironically despite Blogging I just hate talking to people in public open foru #.. I love privacy and security lol.. and I always feel that ONE day I am going to have a question that has not already been asked on a foru #somewhere and I am going to have to post myself and.. no.. I shan't even imagine it.. It's not even really social anxiety it's just like.. #efficiency.. instead of wating like days to get an accurate response and resolve the problem with the general public I would rather just ha #e a one time 30min conversation with an expert and resolve it quickly. PLUS then I also only interact with One stranger instead of Many Of #Them lol.. any 6+ yrs of experience Ren'py experts hmu so I can pay you like $50 to have a single 45min conversation #with me over an insanely simple question and then never talk to you again until a year later when I have a second question. hhjb #ANYWAY.. I still really don't like instagram or it's layout and I never understood how it works like.. if I should be tagging photos or wha #or how you really use it and I just... euGH... stimky.. but it is one of the most popular so I feel obligated to link it. I wish facebook w #sn't such a nasty poo poo because I do actually like the variety of posts you can make and how Pages on facebook operate. In the scense of #it being similar to tumblr that you can make a VARIETy of styles of post. not just Only Post Photos or Only Short Text or Only Video which #is still like.. how the funk does sutff like that even get popular lol.. the Limited nature.. hewwo.. but alas.. and NO way I'm touching #fucking Threads please do not make an account on there and don't let your friends do it and don't let that shit catch on lol. #BUT YEahg... links...... just in case.. i hope tumblr stays aroundin it's current format forever though lol.. #I'm pretty sure even facebook doesn't have audio posts. or tags the way this does. or CHRONOLOGICAL FEED. custom html for pages.. aaaaa

[percabeth4life]

Question, I’ve seen references to this in a few fics but I haven’t seen any sources and I haven’t done a deep dive yet, but do you know if Poseidon used to rule prophecy?

So, I talked about this with someone not too long ago (was an interesting conversation but-) anyways!

The oracle that most use to claim Poseidon was a true God of prophecy is the Oracle of Delphi, but it's an understandable mix up.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 5. 5 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : In it the poet states that the oracle belonged to Poseidon and Ge (Earth) in common; that Ge (Earth) gave her oracles herself, but Poseidon used Pyrkon (Pyrcon) as his mouthpiece in giving responses. The verses are these:--‘Forthwith the voice of Khthonie (Chthonia) uttered a wise word, And with her Pyrkon, servant of the renown Earthshaker.’

So, first off, this is literally all that we have regarding Poseidon being oracular in any way. And even there, he is said to use his oracle as a literal mouthpiece, less of giving prophecies and more literal answers through a mouthpiece. He had claim to the territory/land from what we can understand but there is little showing he ruled prophecy there, simply had an oracle of his own.

Additionally, all of what Pausanias writes is written years after the actual events and writings. He had no first hand reports, he was working off of second, third, and even fourth hand reports. So while it's helpful what he wrote, it isn't something I consider reliable. And as he is the only source of this information and the information itself is vague and brief... I do not consider Poseidon in any way a Prophetic deity, simply one who had a figure that he spoke through at a prophetic site.

So no, he was not a God of Prophecy. Despite this, the sea does have many deities associated with prophecy or oracular abilities. So in this manner I do associate the sea with oracular abilities.

#mind you this is very much a situation where it can be argued it's my interpretation vs others #but having analyzed the quote and researched his sources and the simple fact we have NO information about this from literally ANYWHERE else #Not even HINTED #I don't consider it a good source of Poseidon being a prophetic God #But I do consider the ocean as a whole connected to prophecy #Pontos and Thalassa being more of a source of it than Poseidon #hope this helps! #I'm still not an actual expert but I do my best to provide sources and proper analysis when I answer! #So if any experts do have any further info and see this please lmk! I would love to hear more about this subject #anon asks #life answers #hellenic chat #poseidon

[whilomm]

i think it would be funny for a game to have like bosses or summons or side chars named after gods and make them have Absolutely Fucking Nothing to do w the gods theyre named after. as in like, not just "oh this is a revision of the myth of hades and persephone and we switched up some personality stuff and-" no just straight up have a summon named Hades and the descriptions like "ancient people believed him to be the god of the Sun, beckoning the morning in by playing a song" just fucking make up a backstory wholesale. it would annoy people a lot probably and itd be funny.

#literally nothing matches any of the classic myths EXCEPT FOR like. oh their weapon actually is this obscure ass reference #buzzy #thought of this while seeing what Odin Final Fantasy looked like and while theres definitely connections w myth odin #i just thought it was funny bc the design is very non-typical #like slephnir is there and everything but the design as a whole just doesnt say Odin to me and i thought that was funny #tho disclaimer im not an Odin Expert so there could be deep cuts in his design and everything im missing #he wouldnt be an example of this at all like ff odin has enough Odin that im like okay yeah sure thats odin his appearance simply inspired

[grimark]

not that anybody asked but i do think terms like "cis+" or "cisn't", which i've seen thrown around in relation to the prev post, are a bit unnecessary. to me, it just seems like excessively atomising a fairly common experience, which is the desire to not be subject to the more uncomfortable and restrictive aspects of socially constructed gender roles. and sure, it might never even occur to a lot of cis people to do this kind of introspective analysis of their gender identities, and they might therefore be lacking some of the additional perspective of someone who has, but i don't think we necessarily need need a special new category for it. when you get down to it, "cis person who has previously questioned their gender" and "cis person who has never felt the need to question their gender" are both still cis, which in theory is a value-neutral description and a perfectly fine thing to be.

#this isn't meant as a criticism of people who like those terms or find them valuable or validating #it's more just. i don't get it and i don't really see the point of them but that's fine because they're not aimed at me anyway. #if you're cis but you want to add a modifier to encapsulate your gender journey then you do you. #to me just seems a bit patronising to tell cis people they're actually cis+ or whatever #like. aww you did such a good job thinking about your gender! here is a star sticker for you that says 'more evolved than other cis people' #instead maybe we can just trust that 1. people are the experts on their own identities and experiences #if someone says they're happy to continue identifying as the gender they were assigned at birth we can probably take their word for it! #and 2. accept that we all probably have a lot more in common than we might assume #it seems like a mistake to think 'this experience (gender discomfort and introspection) is exclusively a trait of x category of person' #'so if someone from y category has experienced it they must not actually be y‚ they must be something else instead' #which allows you to comfortably continue to paint people from y group as a wholly separate other with fundamentally alien experiences #and no possible point of overlap or common ground. #i see this a lot with the eternal thorn in my side which is posts about how The Neurotypicals Do This Thing #and also with a certain flavour of ace discourse #which presumes that 1. anyone who doesn't choose to identify under the asexual identity umbrella must necessarily be allosexual #2. there is a single unifying allosexual experience which can be equally applied to the rest of the human population #and 3. no allosexual person could possibly have a complicated or fraught relationship with sex and sexuality. #or if they did have any experiences in common with asexual people they'd naturally choose to identify as ace instead. #therefore these two identities must be wholly separate groups with no experiential overlap. #like idkkkkk clearly these hyperspecific labels are useful to some people! #but to me they often just seem to generate feelings of division and othering #or they're used as a way to claim a particular experience as exceptional to one group #when it's actually a pretty common feature of the human condition.

[v-tired-queer]

Okay the amount of people I see on the internet who don't know the number of openings the typical afab body has is concerning me. So I'm gonna ask tumblr:

No cheating, honest answers/guesses only!

Vocabulary

AFAB: Assigned Female at Birth. The body and reproductive organs usually associated with women

AMAB: Assigned Male at Birth. The body and reproductive organs usually associated with men

#fun faxt about me is that afab reproductive health is actually a special interest of mine #i've been faccinated with it and studying it since i first learned about puberty #while i'm not a medical expert by any means i do consider myself well educated on the subject #so when i keep seeing people not know this i get very concerned #not because it's bad not to know! it's completly okay if you don't know something #but it makes me worried about what else about the human body people might not know or haven't been taught that's also important #low key thinking about making a sex education post on here that would go over the afab body and reproductive system #complete with sorces cited and links to helpful videos and websites too #we'll see #afab anatomy #afab reproductive health #basic human anatomy #human anatomy #anatomy #human systems #body systems #health #wellness #poll #tumblr polls #curiosity #*fact not faxt

[queerstudiesnatural]

sometimes watching tv is good :) i've been watching home decor and home organising shows for the past couple of weeks, and today is my very first day of summer holiday (perks of being a teacher) and i immediately started reorganising and cleaning up my home

#i'm so excited #i'm an expert at depression rooms #my space gets cluttered there's stuff on the floors #actually you can't even see the floors you can't take a step without stepping on something #and i hate it i'm an organised person at heart i need clarity and i need designated spaces and i need a system #it's just that when life gets overwhelming i tend to let my home get that way too #i don't have the energy to clean and tidy up #and let's face it i tend to buy a lot of stuff #mostly yarn and other craft supplies #i have SO MUCH yarn #and it's taking over everything #including my bed #i barely have any room left on my bed to sleep it's becoming a problem #so i'm finding solutions #i'm buying clear drawers and coloured boxes so i can get my shit organised #but still have a cute and functioning home #utilising every bit of wall space in a way that's efficient and doesn't feel cluttered #basically i'm trying to get everything contained to the wall areas with new storage and repurposing existing storage #to free up the center of the room #i actually love cleaning up so when my space is a mess you know it means i am also a mess #the only thing i don't like is doing the dishes #oh how i wish i had a dishwasher #anyway. i'm excited to have a clean and tidy room soon #we'll tackle the dishes later lol #rain.stuff

[ne0nwithazero]

This splash screen for my neocities has been an absolute nightmare to set up 😭

Literally everything is on "display: fixed;", so adapting this to mobile screens is going to be such a headache LOL

#Jay Talks #Neocities tag #I literally only bother with mobile compatibility because of my dad lol #I have work today but hopefully tomorrow or so I can figure out how to make it work on mobile #If any experts know how to easily adapt this to mobile then please let me know hahaha #I have a vague idea of how I'll try to do it #but I have yet to see if any of it will actually work

[fowlblue]

You know, I’d love to see a horror movie/book with a Southern US setting in which the ‘bad guy’ is like… some kind of unsettling, scary monster or the like. Eldritch beasts, maybe.

Maybe I haven’t done enough digging (cannot stress enough that this is a likely possibility cause I’m not really well-versed in horror) but so many Southern ‘aesthetics’ and the like would blend well with that kind of horror, I think.

#idk. a thought. #I’m trying to actually delve into horror a little bit cause I love the concepts so much and all that’s come to the front again seeing the #hype for Nope. but I’m by no means any sort of ‘expert’ so take my words with a grain of salt. #i just think all the fields and half-finished construction and lonely highways would make for good horror beyond ‘evil people living in the #woods’.

[hippo-pot]

can Tumblr start some discourse about Naomi Klein so I can make up my mind as to whether I’m comfy with her or not

#I (now) know she's Jewish but I never got over going see her speak in person and hearing her talk about 'Jewish supremacy'... #and 'Hindu supremacy' #(in reference to Israel's leadership and India's leadership respectively) #like i am no expert but SURELY there is a better way to frame those things #i loved her book This Changes Everything which i read in 2016 (long time ago lol) #but honestly i don't remember almost any of it. didn't stick #(granted i read it as an audiobook) #(typically audiobooks don't stick with me as much) #so i don't know if it was actually good or not LOL #oh wait i remember another thing from seeing her talk in person #where she was like 'u should be concerned about bringing children into the world because they'll have to suffer so much' #(like because of climate change) #(the context was that someone asked her if they should be worried about contributing to overpopulation and she was like 'no' #to her credit #but then was like 'but HERE's a reason i think is valid!!') #girl don't say that shit!!! #why are you as a supposed leader advocating cynicism!! #so yeah i am. just not interested in hearing/reading her stuff anymore #but genuinely i wish i could see other ppl discuss this stuff so it's not just me trying to decide if i'm just being Sensitive About Words #you can def find criticism of her online but uh. usually they're not talking about the stuff i care about haha #they're like 'i think she's a little TOO concerned about climate change' like okay great criticism you couch stain

[girderednerve]

it is once more schoolwork season, alas, & i am experiencing the traditional problem i have when i am meant to be working on some kind of writing project, i.e. that i do not particularly care to write but i would like to continue compiling a bibliography on this subject. i simply love annotated bibliographies :(

#this papar torments me #technically i'm a grad student #the problem you see is that any topic of sufficient interest is also large enough that there's no way to become an expert quickly #so it ultimately feels pretentious & sort of pointless to enter into the conversation (for whatever value a school paper has lol) #i'd much rather just demonstrate progress towards expertise & an annotated bibliography is useful in this regard #it's also like flexible & potentially useful to other people in a way that the rest of the paper won't be #of course the actual point of the school paper is for me to gain experience writing different kinds of documents #so i should just suck it up. however. one loves nothing better than to complain. #and if anybody would like an overlong bibliography &/or poorly organized google drive folder on book bans in FL prisons: lmk haha #sometimes it's painfully obvious that i got an undergrad degree in medieval history i think

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

A murder mystery film set in a medieval village. After an outbreak of plague, the villagers make the decision to shut their borders so as to protect the disease from spreading (see the real life case of the village of Eyam). As the disease decimates the population, however, some bodies start showing up that very obviously were not killed by plague.

Since nobody has been in or out since the outbreak began, the killer has to be somebody in the local community.

The village constable (who is essentially just Some Guy, because being a medieval constable was a bit like getting jury duty, if jury duty gave you the power to arrest people) struggles to investigate the crime without exposing himself to the disease, and to maintain order as the plague-stricken villagers begin to turn on each other.

The killer strikes repeatedly, seemingly taking advantage of the empty streets and forced isolation to strike without witnesses. As with any other murder mystery, the audience is given exactly the same information to solve the crime as the detective.

Except, that is, whenever another character is killed, at which point we cut to the present day where said character's remains are being carefully examined by a team of modern archaeologists and historians who are also trying to figure out why so many of the people in this plague-pit died from blunt force trauma.

The archaeologists and historians, btw, are real experts who haven't been allowed to read the script. The filmmakers just give them a model of the victim's remains, along with some artefacts, and they have to treat it like a real case and give their real opinion on how they think this person died.

We then cut back to the past, where the constable is trying to do the same thing. Unlike the archaeologists, he doesn't have the advantage of modern tech and medical knowledge to examine the body, but he does have a more complete crime scene (since certain clues obviously wouldn't survive to be dug up in the modern day) and personal knowledge from having probably known the victim.

The audience then gets a more complete picture than either group, and an insight into both the strengths and limits of modern archaeology, explaining what we can and can't learn from studying a person's remains.

At the end of the film, after the killer is revealed and the main plot is resolved, we then get to see the archaeologists get shown the actual scenes where their 'victims' were killed, so they can see how well their conclusions match up with what 'really' happened.

#film ideas #plotbunny #murder mystery #detective stories #period dramas #middle ages #history #archaeology

[dumb-fictionkin-sideblog]

This is meant to be informational, all of this is /info

I'm not sure if you know this but hyper-empathic people with autism aren't ableist for not liking people with narcissistic personality disorder. Yet, a lot of people who do have that type of autism (which is rare yet more common in the biologically female genome side of it), can spot people with narcissistic personality disorder very easily. This is because of common phrases which in turn make them feel unsafe. This may impact the autistic person negatively, and MAY cause long-term PTSD (C-PTSD for Complex PTSD), but that does NOT make the person with NPD an abuser. Its common for those with hyper-empathy to feel unsafe around people with NPD because they are two polar opposites of intentions on the spectrum and often get mistaken for each other by strangers. Like its common for you to immediately tell if someone is homophobic or not, its also common for people with NPD and people with HE autism to recognize each other even if those without it can't tell them apart easily. Its a common fear response and nothing more. The best thing you can do if someone seems to think that Narcissistic abuse is real and has HE autism is to tell them to talk or see a therapist, or at the very least to look up information online from credible sources. (Of course, its also good to deliver this gently as they will be defensive.) TLDR; HE autism and NPD recognize each other and don't get along well but that doesn't make it abuse or ableism. /info

This is ! a lot of great info that... does not contradict any of what I have ever said, so I'm not sure why you felt like you needed to say it (or even less why you felt like you needed to put big ol' info tone tags all around it as if it was going to be offensive)

(Guessing you're referring to that post where I said "narcissistic abuse isn't a thing and not every single person with autism is hyper-empathic")

It does sound, uh, strange to me that someone just existing would cause PTSD in another person, but I've never claimed to be an expert. Also seeing the points you're making I do think ASPD could be grouped with NPD in this as well (yknow, because of the low empathy and all) — but when I say "narcissistic abuse" doesn't exist I'm strictly talking about the term. Of course people with NPD can be abusers. People with ASD can also be abusers, but we don't call that "autistic abuse" because it'd be stupid.

I get the point with the fact that they can recognize each other more easily, but uh, no, I can't identify whether someone's homophobic or not without asking them. People have been wrong. Like, it happens a lot. You can't... say that it's a reliable way to identify someone with NPD/HE autism. Literally yesterday I had a friend at my house who has HE autism and we ended up talking about this exact topic because they called themselves a "victim of narcissistic abuse" and I nearly had a fucking stroke. When I told them I had low empathy, which happened years ago to be fair, they were surprised.

I'm very easily triggered by what you call "common NPD phrases" (if I understood that right, and if did then I'm assuming you mean something that sounds manipulative, which.... moving on) to the point that it's something I have to discuss with pretty much everyone I know because it always comes up at some point and I get triggered by something completely innocent. It's a really big problem for me. But I am far from being uncomfortable around people with NPD (or people who just have low empathy for that matter), usually because they tend to be very honest with me the moment I open up about having low empathy (usually in a "oh thank God I don't have to keep masking around you" way). I tend to feel more unsafe around hyper-empathic people, not because of "common phrases" or anything, but because I've heard them say so much shit about people like me that it's become automatic to feel wary of them (see: my best IRL friend telling me they're a "victim of narcissistic abuse" after I've already opened up to them about my own empathy issues; trying to listen to a podcast my friend is in and getting hit with a "yeah I'm a decent human being, I've got fucking empathy"; trying to explain to someone that people with ASPD aren't all serial killers and being met with "some things deserve to be demonized ❤"; etc etc.).

For these reasons I do not believe that HE autistic people feeling unsafe around people with low empathy or NPD isn't at least partially for ableist reasons, whether conscious or not. Feel free to prove me wrong, it'd be great.

#sunny #tw ableism #(for the mention. i dont think any of xhat you said was ableist in nature) #this is sad because it's generally something i like to talk about. im glad you were at least coming to me in good faith though #had an... experience a while ago talking to someone who explained that 'no no psychopathy in cognitive science is totally different- #-from the outdated term for aspd and its not linked to aspd at all! its a completely different thing!' #only for me to look it up and go on a .gov website and the first review of several studies that i see had a big intoductory disclamer #basically saying 'umm we're not sure because according to our MRIs what we have identified as psychopathy in the brain would- #-be more common than not having it with like over half of our evaluated population... but it could just be high IQ we didnt check :)' #im kind of losing faith in people who dont have low empathy just because they want 'psychopathy' to eb a thing so bad #i'd already lost faith in the field of psychiatry but. they want to separate good and bad people so bad. they want low empathy to be bad. #again im no expert but if you start your paper with 'we did this with only MRIs and the MRIs didnt have the results we want them to- #-so we're choosing to ignore it and pretend we're right anyway in this vague idea of a thing existing'... i'm not gonna believe you #just way you think people with low empathy are ~different~ and ~bad people~ but dont try to make a science paper out of it #im tired of people pretending the concept of bad people even exists and choosing that it's low/no empathy people actually. #--i do want to say that its completely valid to just feel uncomfortable around certain people for any reason at all #like we dont /have/ to all likr each other. thats not how humans work socially. some people just dont go very well together #but you cant convince me that saying ''i dont like people with this mental disorder because they make me feel unsafe'' isn't ableist at all #ask #anon

[flesh-is-the-fever]

I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

#capitalism #late stage capitalism #karl marx #socialism #communism