Day: December 3, 2019, 11:23 PM

Not Free Agent

Chill Uncategorized

This is what feminism has been moving towards, though, in the last decade or so — the idea that women do not have agency and must be treated like recalcitrant adolescents. Note that this treatment is all by feminists, not non-feminists.

The “protection from harm” canard is of late trotted out at every opportunity to justify a neo-Victorian assertion of the complete fragility of women. It’s really demeaning and insulting. At least, I would be insulted and feel demeaned and devalued were I a woman.

Shut The Fridge

Chill Regular-ass Post

Despite all the propaganda you hear, most British, Canadians, French are very happy with their health care systems and are absolutely appalled when they hear how the American health care system “works.” Like, they think you are lying about it, or at least joshing them.

Then they realize it’s all real and react about how the woman (and others) in the video does.

Compy Not 386

Chill Uncategorized

Same, but it looks like that’ll never change. Computers are strange as for a while we had a common, nearly-necessary device that more than half the population was cognitively incapable of using. We’re getting away from general purpose computers now, though that’s not the main reason. But it does mean that the droolers don’t have to deal with their complexity any longer.

Debt Is Money And Vice Versa

Chill Regular-ass Post

I will ask a question someone once asked that is still relevant: “Who the fuck does the world owe all that debt to, Jupiter?”

Debt and money are tools. We can choose how to use them — or to break them. There is no natural law here; merely what humans have created.

Pola

Chill Regular-ass Post

Many technologies are getting worse now: the internet, operating systems, browsers, even basic infrastructure tech. There is no one explanation, but a lot of it is monopoly and pretend “free” markets.