dommage mais juste

in quebequois these would be “charcies” and “reveillisme”

What is an elite Muslim?

11, I think, across 4 different sectors: college/work-study jobs, agriculture, food service, small business logistics. Some of those were short-term gigs though. At least 4 gaps of longer than a month where I wasn’t employed or in school.

Been fully unemployed and living off savings for the better part of a year, but looking to boost the number, build savings back, and get some businesses going. With any luck, if the businesses take off enough, I’ll be able to employ others in a cooperative model, and never have to worry about having to work on the extremely unfavorable terms of someone else again.

I thought it was just part of these times for jobs to only last a year or two. The longest that I’ve been on any one company’s payroll is 4 years and some change.

Resale and maybe refurbishing. If you know the right places by upscale apartment complexes, you can typically find a lot of good stuff in those.

Residential dumpster diving is very different from commercial dumpster diving.

Me when all the remaining “respected” royals are losing their “benign and kindly” image

Quite a lot. And I thought I was a late ADHD diagnosis in my late teens.

It’s been less frequent after college, where there is no carousel of moderate-future requirements that “ruin your life” if you don’t meet them. In fact I’ve found that as long as tasks for work don’t extend beyond one day/shift and don’t have me getting on a PC, it’s really easy to meet them. Then I can do whatever I want (let the meandering stream/hyperfocus take me where it will) for the rest of the waking hours that I’m not working. Leaving academia meant giving up on a dream, but many radical dreams appeared and made life a lot more fulfilling and exciting than what I could have imagined.

If you don’t have kids super young, don’t have addictions to alcohol or tobacco or other substances, sidestep car ownership with carpooling and/or mass transit, and don’t live in a super expensive city, you can support yourself quite reasonably on 20 hours a week. Being able to do this, plus lending a bit of slack to local radical projects on top of that, made me feel so much better about myself.

Reactionaries are always opposed to imagination in all forms.

Someone close to me had a pretty strong case of this, also since late childhood/pre-adolescence. It wasn’t always uniform but they usually ended up wearing hats. The longest it ever subsided for was long enough for about 2 inches of hair all over their scalp, which felt like an accomplishment.

The revolution is going to operate based on resources available to it. Those resources have to be collected in the first place.

There is a misery that stretches across all the West, and it includes the rich people who are consumed by anxiety of class threats and the emptiness of their lives. While less than 1% of people are socialists, a large chunk of people harbor the wish of escaping from neoliberal capitalism through self-sufficiency that does not come at the expense of other people. Shrinking the size of the economy while building up practical supplies and holdings may be one of the biggest things we can do in our positions. Keep in mind though that these will be useless if we don’t find other like-minded people to coordinate our operations with.

Trump has said he would tap the billionare Elon Musk as the hatchet man to lead his proposed government commission on “efficiency” in government.

Remember how half of Trump’s first-term cabinet ended up falling out and becoming bitter enemies with him?

C’moooooon, cycle of fate!

compromising your work experience by getting too interpersonal is a real concern.

What kind of job do you have? Something where people are all backstabbing career-climbers?

All the jobs I’ve worked have been low-wage, where making friends with your coworkers means someone at work will have your back, at least in small ways.

I’m not sure that fitting Earthlike habitats in giant spaceships would make sense without limitless exponential growth. Wouldn’t it be more feasible to put something on the surface of a planet?

No matter how advanced our technology gets, we are not going to get around the basic constraints on energy.

Uh oh. We’re gonna have to call it The Dunk Rink now. Referring purely to dunking in basketball… roller basketball… in a roller rink.

Please tell me roller skating isn’t racist

Critical support for lady who rams a Tesla and then drives away.

Broad support to punk-rock sex workers who hate suburbs, deprioritize corporate types, and subsidize artists.

Libs will come across an influential personality and completely separate them from important context.

They’ll celebrate Yacouba Sawadogo, for instance, for being a pioneer of 20th-century agriculture by reinventing traditional methods for water retention amd soil fertility. And yet, there’s something missing…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacouba_Sawadogo

His methods started to find widespread success in the mid-80s, in his country, Burkina Faso. I wonder what was happening around that time? Oh well, that’s not important.

And then 2 decades later the land value of the area he had labored on and improved had shot up and he was struggling to afford the same plot he’d been working for over 20 years. Isn’t that just rotten luck? I guess life’s just a roller coaster of fortune.

Why don’t you just pop on down to Maputo, Mr. Chapo…

No, they should fire all their missile defense systems. Especially the expensive ones. Deplete them all! Raise the price of war!

It’s like extinguishing all the wildfires as the brush piles up.

From inside the right nostril there comes a

“For the love of God, Montresor!”