that is amazing but now you should get padded shoes to save your joints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Y3rapvvOQ - Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time

strikes require sacrifice and effort from workers. you need to hear their grievances and bring them together over a specific issue they think is worth it

lol from zero to 6 in 6 months is amazing! these look great and im sure you’re learning a ton. don’t burn out!

Sorry I had to use my tummy as a recycling system that can turn that loaf into another, better loaf in the future.

more outreach to, and adoption by, communities that are not specifically tech- or FOSS-focused, like crafting, parenting, fashion, home repair, or brewing, for example. gotta keep chipping away at those network effects. onboarding and ux will need to be top tier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E5MegoW2pA third place vs right to the city

also https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/progressive-jewish-new-yorkers-brad-lander-primary

American racism is pervasive and there are idiosyncratic ways in which it is expressed here, but Europe and Asia, for example, have their big and small ways of expressing it too. look at how people from Africa or Turkey are treated in Europe, or groups like the Sami, Romani, Uighur, and indigenous peoples everywhere. As another example, Latin America has pervasive colorism, which can also appear in pseudoscientific ways.

none of this is to excuse or minimize American racism. it’s one of the nation’s core atrocities. I just want people in other places to admit how much of a problem it is where they are too.

no one deserves this. voting patterns aren’t simply “ignorance”, they’re complex. because you dismiss it so easily, you can’t fight it.

structural racism and overt racism exist in America and most other places too.

all Americans grow up in the racist society that exists here, some of them attempt to fight it, many others don’t like it but don’t find a way to resist. others actively build and support it.

racist Americans voted for it, but are finding out how much it sucks. the majority of America never wanted any of this

this one is an absolute banger

I’m no expert, but if we have a hierarchy of beautiful/youthful looking people above regular folks, then yeah people are going to do some wild, desperate stuff to try to get that edge. capitalism and hierarchy pressure us all to get every advantage we possibly can.

looksmaxxing itself is based on incel delusions about how women choose men, taking societal hierarchies and pressures I’ve been talking about and viewing them as biological/evolutionary (which is nonsense)

What we view as attractive is socially constructed and varies over time and place. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738081X23000251

Youth and health are probably a proxy for fertility, so that would be related to physical attraction, but why should that affect how we treat people? That’s not a reason to favor the young or to disfavor the old. Not only that, but community care of children meant everyone had a role in the greater sense of “fertility”.

The wealthy surround themselves with beautiful people, get blood transfusions from young people, get cosmetic surgery. In our stories, good characters are usually portrayed as beautiful or handsome and often young. Successful characters, whether good or evil, are often beautiful or handsome. Regular-looking folks more often appear as side characters or comedic characters instead.

this view is encouraged by the fashion, skincare and cosmetics industries (not that there’s anything wrong with fashion, skincare, or cosmetics per se).

So we are all being conditioned to worship or favor beauty and youth.

extremely fecund. a technics that can be bent in many directions. potentially part of third nature

you can’t escape the system, you have to organize to change it

social democracy’s inherent weakness is that it’s still capitalism, so capital is always trying to undermine it

actively support, volunteer for, and fund what you do believe in, to the extent possible. note that some people will still blame you for what “your” country does, as a means of expressing frustration.