#not a structural problem

[smute]

whenever i see "poor people shouldn't have [thing]" discourse i always think back to about ten years ago when i had just been fired from my shitty airport job and i was waiting for my unemployment benefits to be processed and couldn't pay the rent.

because i was desperate, proud, and stuck in that same "if you're poor you cant have nice things" mind prison, i made the very difficult decision to give up my favorite hobby and sold my dslr and camera gear for i believe 700 or 800€ (under value of course since i was in a bad position to negotiate). my camera was the most (the only) valuable item in my possession, so in that moment of crisis it was a no-brainer to get rid of it. could i have asked my friends and family for help? of course. not that any one of them would have been able to pay my full rent, but with combined efforts im sure i could have made it through that month somehow. but because i was desperate and proud and needlessly judgmental of myself, i sold my stuff to a very nice guy (im sure he was ecstatic about having made the deal of a lifetime).

now. 800€ is a lot of money. of course it was a big help. i could finally pay my rent and i was able to get my bank account out of the red. but the thing is... in the end, it was just barely enough. the following month my unemployment money came in and i found a new job soon after that, but ultimately, the sacrifice of giving up something that had been such a big part of my life, something that had brought me so much joy, was out of all proportion to the financial relief it brought me. it literally bought me another month with a roof over my head, and i guess the comfort of being able to tell myself that i'd "tried everything" before asking anyone for help. and thats it. just one month later i was back to square one – job, apartment, just enough money to make ends meet – only with one less thing to do in my free time.

#so when people judge others for idk #spending money on seemingly frivolous things #this is what they really want #sacrifice #they want you to suffer #not because they're evil #but because they want to believe that #were they ever in the same position #they would do everything in their power to get out of their misery #they want to believe that poverty is a n individual failing #not a structural problem #it's much easier to pretend that poor people are bad at budgeting #than to acknowledge that it's impossible to budget your way out of poverty #&

[werewolf-transgenderism]

keep seeing undergrads on social media saying “oh if a prof has a strict no-AI academic integrity policy that’s a red flag for me because that means they don’t know how to design assignments” like sorry girl but that just sounds like you’ve got a case of sour grapes about not being allowed to cheat with the plagiarism machine that doesn’t know how to evaluate sources and kills the environment! I have a strict no-AI policy because if you use AI to write your essays for a writing course it’s literally plagiarism because you didn’t write it and you’re not learning any of the things the course teaches if you just plug a prompt into the plagiarism generator that kills the environment, hope this helps!

#so many people on the internet like ‘why do I have to write my work myself why can’t I just plug it into the cheating machine’ #‘why is it plagiarism to not write my own work and instead use the plagiarism machine built from scraping others’ work without consent?’ #like. it is because you are not learning anything if you do not actually do the work assigned to you. hope this helps #I personally have not had AI issues because of how I structure my assignments #but it was a HUGE problem in my department last year. so we all have no-AI to write your classwork policies

[july-19th-club]

seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you're done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything

#i personally like to not be doing things constantly at all times. it stresses me out #i know there are ppl who thrive on cosntant activity #but me i like to chill out. #and the problem then becomes that i only ACTIVELY remember to do work and Find More Work To Do when im stressed #at the thought that others might want to see me working #if im ever relaxed i just dont look for stuff to do #catch 22 of modern work culture which permeates even ostensibly noncapitalist structures like public libraries #for instance: will it really kill anybody if the books get shelved by me now after a very busy day? #or shelved tomorrow morning by. well probably me since i'll be the one at the desk #not in the slightest #but it was work that wasnt being immediately done by me. therefore it was incorrect behavior #that i failed to identify because my instinct is to relax when not immediately presented with a Situation #this got me labeled as 'having no initiative' by my dad from a very early age #and even as an adult i still feel like im a child with no initiative

[trans-axolotl]

saw a post the other day that said that psych survivors were overexaggerating and fearmongering for saying that people should be aware that having diagnoses on your record can be a danger + impede your life. and the more i think about it the more annoyed i am. because i think people need to know that there are exceptions to health privacy laws that can make having psych diagnoses and psych hospitalization history on your record risky depending on your circumstances. diagnoses follow you through your health interactions-you do not have to consent to have your information shared between providers. judicial proceedings are also an exception to the HIPAA privacy rule, so for things like custody battles, guardianship, getting orders of protection--the court can petition for medical records. there's so many other situations where even if they can't legally access your information without your authorization, people will require you to disclose diagnoses, records, previous hospitalizations and refuse to give you services/hire you/whatever unless you share that information with them. for example in many states anyone (a provider, a cop, friends and family) can disclose that you have certain psych diagnoses like bipolar to the DMV which then might require that you undergo drivers license review as frequently as every 3 months. my university is actively trying to kick me out right now because i had to disclose my medical record, psych diagnoses, and hospitalization history to them as a requirement to stay enrolled.

and i don't want to scare people or make people think that having a diagnosis on their records is automatically going to mean that it is weaponized against us. because i do know plenty of people who have never faced issues with their records. but i do expect that the community supports the people speaking out about the ways that we have been harmed by diagnoses creating barriers to accessing necessary parts of our life. instead of attacking us or saying that we're lying about things we are currently experiencing.

#personal #antipsych #antipsychiatry #mad pride #mad liberation #saneism #it's just like. i think we need to be realistic! and not deny people who are literally talking about things happening to them #and also allow people who have the option. to make informed choices about seeking diagnosis #bc for many of us that isn't up to us. but if you are considering seeking formal diagnosis. there can absolutley be some good and helpful #things that come from that! im not denying that at all! but there's also some negatives #and i think also like. if people refuse to acknowlege the ways this is structurally a problem #how are we going to make it better so that we don't have to deal with thsi stuff

[buggachat]

not to say that ml is uncritcizable/perfect media or anything like that, but i think it's worth acknowledging that romantic media targeting a female audience as a genre is always waayyy disproportionately mocked. I'm just saying that if you've never even seen a single episode of the show and you confidently say that the show is "objectively bad", maybe you should ask yourself why you so confidently think that. and if your answer is the genre itself (mostly-episodic romance) or the target audience (young girls), then maybe. i dunno. take a step back and ask yourself why that's so inherently terrible to you

#also: if your answer is ''it's a cartoon that is popular with adults'' maybe you should stop being such a killjoy #again if youve seen the show and just don't like it or have problems with its structure or characters or whatever: this post isnt about you #but also i think people need to get more comfortable w the idea of describing media as ''not for me'' instead of ''objectively bad''

[thekinglemingle]

I was 12 when I first read the last Animorphs. At this point I didn't have the slightest idea what a war crime was let alone that there was a process for judging them.

The decision to spend most of the last book not in a life and death final battle, but arguing over who got tribunals at the Hague and whether they were the same people who deserved them, baffled me as a kid, but 20 years later I'm so grateful it did. Being introduced to those ideas so young played a huge part in turning me into the man I am today

#the book is still absolutely riddled with structural and pacing problems though #animorphs

[spookietrex]

#traumatic childhood #child abuse #my childhood #complex post traumatic stress disorder #emotionally abused #narcissistic abuse #narcissistic parents #borderline personality disorder #actually bpd #borderline problems #bpd problems #being borderline #actually borderline #bpd #bpdprobs #actuallymentallyill #bpd feels #c ptsd #complex ptsd #ptsd #living with ptsd #actually ptsd #post traumatic stress disorder #complex dissociative disorder #dissociative identity disorder #it's probably structural dissociation not psychosis.... #structural dissociation #actually dissociative #dissociation #physical abuse

[bluastro-yellow]

if you paint "FUCK THE POLICE" on the wall Kim is dismayed but you don't lose good cop points. is that an oversight or

#it's definitely intentional in a game like this #but like kim. are you ok kim. do you need a couple of hours to internalize this #now that I've seen the passive rhetoric check: it's def intentional lol #kim my man you're so close to doing 2+2 #disco elysium #disco elysium spoilers #pointless microblogging #it's not an individual bad cop problem kim it's its whole structure and cop culture that fucked it up!!! #it may have started as a citizen militia and as a successor of the ICM but it corrupt now #you were supposed to help and protect people but that's not your purpose! #(I'm including ''being the moralintern's dogs'' in the structure problems)

[supergraphicultramoderngirl]

(whispering into the void) you can’t be mad at a game for having battles when that is one of the whole points of the game. it’s not a tv show it’s a recording of a game where battles are one of the main components. you can’t only want roleplay just watch a tv show for that. anyway please don’t smite me

#like do i wish they could’ve developed things more? of course but that’s not the point of the game #especially since they have a time limit #if it was structured more like cr or smth we wouldn’t have this problem but a large part of the audience would be lost (myself included) #bc that’s just too fucking long #we’re here to spectate a game that has an end goal not a tv show with a writer’s room #mari is irrelevant #dimension 20 #dropout tv #fantasy high #fhjy

[why-the-heck-not]

2nd batch of sourdough! Lots better than the first, actually got some crumb structure this time (bc the starter is finally ready for bread)

#it's 70% hydration 20% starter and 16h bulk fermentation & 6h of proofing #I think I like the 70% hydration for now #it's still enough moisture to get that open structure but easy to work with #(hydration is the thing that makes the crumb structure open&tender so kind of the higher hydration dough u have the better the bread but th #problem with high-hydration dough is that it's real hard to work with so gotta build some skills before can move onto those #like some professionals even make 100% hydration doughs) #(the percentage is like how much water you have in comparison to the flour: 100% is like if u have 500g of flour you also have add 500g of #water or like 70%: 500g flour and 350g of water) #this is just a 250g of flour one tho bc I live alone and don't want waste/my freezer full of bread #idk if these interest anyone but idc it's my blog I'm going to be posting abt sourdough #should make up a tag for these #elvis bread #it's that one ^^ for now until (if) I can come up with a better one bc my starter is named Elvis #sourdough #april 2024 #2024

[roach-works]

hey roach, no answer needed, but i'd value your perspective. i was talking to a friend about gender, and we got stuck. he said that statistically men are more common in certain manual jobs due to physiological differences - differences that are important to acknowledge in the effort towards true equality. i said that men and women are more alike than not, and if we focus on the differences that's all we see. is there anything you'd add to this? i respect your opinion, is all. have a lovely day!

men are more common in certain manual jobs largely due to HISTORICAL AND PRESENT DAY DISCRIMINATION AND RAMPANT UNCHECKED SEXUAL ABUSE OF THE WOMEN THAT DO SHOW UP.

like, yes, there's certainly a lot of women's jobs that don't involve manual labor, and arguably a lot of women work jobs that don't involve manual labor. but like so do finance jobs, programming, engineering, trucking, data entry, being a fucking CEO? which are male dominated, but are mostly done sitting down.

there's a lot of jobs thought of as feminine, like nursing and waitressing, that involve hauling ass all fucking day, and this is not thought of as hard manual labor, because women do them. similarly, keeping house? cooking, cleaning, caring for children, getting groceries, running errands: these are not sedentary tasks for weak little ladies. this is exercise.

it's like the low pay. women don't take low paying jobs. women are paid less than men, regardless of the job they take. women don't take 'easy' jobs that 'aren't physical'. they're considered to have easy, non-physical jobs because they are seen as weak.

i gained a lot of weight and muscle going into welding, because HRT made it faster and easier for me to get the benefit of the strength training i was deliberately putting myself through. if i had stayed a girl, i would still have become just as strong. it would simply have taken me longer. even now, five or six years in, i don't have the skeletal build for pronounced upper body strength, but i have the ass of a dump truck, and the thighs of two more dump trucks. i can lift whatever i need as long as i can use core strength to heft it, no manly biceps necessary. there's no reason i couldn't be doing the same thing as a woman. one of my friends who is a nurse hauls people around all day and they can pick ME up without trying and they've never done T at all.

tl;dr: women are seen as weak and therefore their jobs are seen as easy. neither perception is actually true.

#gender #roach yells about feminism #YOU KNOW WHAT GAVE OUT ON ME??? MY FUCKIN JOINTS #not the muscles #my damn tendons don't like repetitve tasks so much #it's possible i got started on manual labor too late in life #and don't have the bone structure for it #the way boys who grew up doing sports did #which is a NERD PROBLEM #not a girl problem

[cctinsleybaxter]

Artists who admit to not knowing small details about their characters and worldbuilding have inadvertently given better advice than any character design post on social media tbh. as fun as it is to come up with what your guys would order from a restaurant or the contents of their backpack or their favorite color I've run into very few people who can leave that stuff in a story (or even leave it offscreen as paratext) without it being distracting and poorly written because it's rarely in service of the narrative. a lot of that is def just down to personal taste, but it feels more like designing characters for a TTRPG

#this goes for books comics screenplays whatever #basically anything except roleplay which demands that kind of fine detail bc maybe you ARE ordering from restaurants #as always you can run into the opposite problem too where your characters are empty vessels #but being online and having tried my own hand at a story as a teenager this feels like the more common roadblock #lighthouse is actually a great example of my ideal balance- the characters are deeply human; it feels like the finer details exist somewher #but they're not text- it's clear no one was thinking about their first memory or favorite dog breed #the focus is on structure and image #you can have it all! #books #films

[canisalbus]

I was wondering . . .you said that machete has poor eyesight, right? In the modern AU would he use glasses or contact lenses?

He uses contacts, but he probably has glasses in reserve as well, just in case. He doesn't like wearing them, he thinks they make him look dumb.

#they help him noticeably but since his vision problems are caused by albinism they can't be corrected completely #surprisingly you need melanin for the structures of your eyes to develope properly #the same pigment that gives skin/fur/etc it's color and he doesn't have any #answered #anonymous #modern au

[againwiththeturtles337]

let's say that the infinite train runs on computer code, which is why it was able to be hacked by amelia and (to a lesser extent) tulip. let's also say that each car has its own unique code to some extent, because they are contained worlds with different denizens, rules, and puzzles. let's say this code is binary. considering the above, when lake was able to leave the chrome car, they broke their attachment to that code. you might say. this made them non-binary. 👍🏳️‍⚧️

#infinity train #b2 #lake infinity train #gray speaks #sorey for structuring this like a logic problem. do u still think im hot

[identitty-dickruption]

the reason it's a bad thing to only talk about a certain group of people when it benefits your argument is that it shows that you don't actually care about us as people. you can bring us up in an argument if the argument calls for it. whatever. but using an entire community as a gotcha and then attacking that same community when they ask for rights and recognition is complete bullshit. you don't get to use us as an argument if you clearly only see us as a thought experiment and nothing more

#just blocked someone because they told me to stop acting butthurt about people using intersex people as a gotcha #also. a gotcha is very different from a well-structured argument #like. there's a difference between 'there are many examples where biological sex is not two distinct classes' #and have that as a part of your argument #compared to #TERF: [says something transphobic] #trans person: well you're wrong because INTERSEX people exist [proceeds to fetishise the intersex experience] #anyway this is not just a problem for intersex people #I've also seen it happen for my Jewish friends and my fellow disabled people and all that #esp. intellectually disabled people being used as an argument against changing certain language even though it's clear the person arguing #has never spoken to an intellectually disabled person in their life #anyway

[alwaysbewoke]

side-eyeing all the anti-vaccine, anti-masks, "get back to normal," "the kids will be fine" fucktwats hella hard right now. fuck everyone one of you.

#COVID #brain health #cognitive deficits #memory problems #brain inflammation #brain aging #brain volume #brain structure #COVID-19 #SARS-CoV-2 #long COVID #brain damage #dementia #autopsies #respiratory virus