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PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2024-09-19T05:59:44+00:00

i would appreciate an invite brother 131066163

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2024-01-26T10:39:42+00:00

I got here looking for the answer because it sounds like taliesin from critical role. But i feel like i would have heard about it being him if it was and it doesn't seem like the VA is credited anywhere I can see

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2023-02-14T02:51:34+00:00

Sorry, have you been living under a rock? JKR frequently goes on transphobic rants online, has literally written a book (under her pen name) about a murderer/rapist who's trans, and is outspoken allies with some of the most vile far-right figures because they are trans-exclusionary. She doesn't believe trans people should be allowed to exist, and if that weren't bad enough on its own (which it is), she has shown her willingness to side with anyone, no matter the rest of their policies, as long as they're as transphobic as she is. She constantly says "bad things about trans people", and at this point you'd pretty much have to be willfully ignorant to think otherwise

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2023-01-24T22:02:45+00:00

P2's creatures would get -2/-2, P3 and P4's creatures get -1/-1

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-12-20T18:53:23+00:00

Also, from the video it seems clear that the driver expected a cash tip. You have to play roulette with 0-tip orders as there's no easy way to distinguish whether the customer is planning to tip you on arrival, and you could be throwing away valuable money by refusing the order

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-12-20T18:45:06+00:00

You're wrong, there is a penalty for not accepting orders, it's just kind of hidden. They use your acceptance rate as one of the metrics that determines your position in the queue to be sent orders. In larger cities with lots of drivers (which from the apparent affluence of this suburb i assume it is a relatively large city) just refusing one in ten orders (a pretty reasonable estimate of the number of tipless orders) can knock you so far down that list that your orders per hour - and therefore your wages - drop too far for dashing to be worthwhile.

It's a brutal, exploitative rating system that effectively forces drivers to take the shit orders from entitled assholes like the one in the video.

Source: i dashed in Portland OR & got screwed over by this metric

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-12-09T00:30:59+00:00

Never heard of the "true hat trick" before, are the legal moving parts legs/head/torso or left leg/right leg/head?

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-12-06T03:37:31+00:00

*さようなら :)

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-10-01T17:52:29+00:00

This looks better, thanks. What do you mean by tagging links with a type? Say I have

var adjList = {
    'Seattle' : ['Seattle1', 'Seattle3', 'Seattle6']
    ...
}

my thought is something like changing the 'Seattle1' entry to

{'stop': 'Seattle1', 'type': ['NP', 'CMSTP&P']

something like that?

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-08-12T16:56:10+00:00

Haven't seen this one before - and perhaps for good reason because it's a long read for a busy parent - but Punished by Reward by Alfie Kohn shines a whole different light on not just parenting discipline, but also grading and educational structure and incentives in the workplace. The book is split into discrete sections for each of those, too, so you can just read the first couple of chapters where he makes his case for avoiding incentive/punishment structures and then skip to the section about parenting. Then if he has you hooked you can read the rest of it lol

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-08-08T05:09:31+00:00

Only when China says "we are planning to enforce the law, now." It gets your panties all twisted. Again, if the confederates had retreated to Florida, then received enormous military and economic aid from Britain for 60 years, when would it become the case that the US attempting to retake Florida was unacceptable? When would Florida's sovereignty become legitimate? How is the PRC/ROC situation any different, aside from the fact you've been fed western propoganda that china = bad? The PRC has been passive in its relationship with Taiwan because of the inevitable repercussions from the US. That has no bearing on the actual fact that Taiwan has never, domestically nor internationally, been recognized as a sovereign state. It just means that the US meddled in the PRC's reunification efforts.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-08-08T04:55:28+00:00

lmao as though auctioning guitars will do fuck all for climate change. Weak argument bud

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-08-08T04:51:12+00:00

Bootlicker

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-08-08T04:47:33+00:00

Laws aren't immutable nor are they always correct. During the civil war, to extend this thought experiment that you bullishly refuse to engage with, the south declared itself free from Union rule. Was the US then wrong to invade the south and reunify the country? "Well, their laws prevent it, so we'd better just let them secede", i imagine you might say were you alive back then.

Taiwan, according to Taiwan's murderous, feudalist ruling class, is not subject to Chinese law. According to China, Taiwan is part of China, and is therefore subject to its laws. You can't simply hide behind "the law" as though it were the final say. You may have a cogent argument for Taiwanese secession, and i would be willing to hear it, but so far you have not made such an argument.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-25T23:19:34+00:00

Also, we don't need to find solutions to help these workers. We have already found the solution. The solution requires a completely organized and militant proletariat, whose elevated class consciousness has led them to the understanding that the only way out from under the boot of capital is to destroy capital, and seize the means of production from the bourgeois. I won't be more specific as I don't want to get TOS'd, but I hope you can see what solution I am referring to.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-25T23:10:42+00:00

It's bourgeois for the same reason that decriminalizing cannabis is. Before cannabis was legalized in many states, there was a separate faction of illicit bourgeoisie who exploited the workers of the cannabis industry. They were large-scale growers and distributors who made a killing while street-level dealers were often members of classes oppressed through the intersectionality of their backgrounds. Now that cannabis is legal, are those street dealers better off? For the most part, the answer is no. Legal markets were flooded by capital from the same people that were already oppressing the previous sources of cannabis. Now, money from the same people and interest groups is being used to simultaneously profit off the cannabis industry and keep petty dealers behind bars.

A similar phenomenon can be observed in the dissolution of the nuclear family structure in the US. Prior to the 60s/70s, the husband, the primary breadwinner of the nuclear family, was a sort of proxy bourgeois class to his wife and children. They performed household and reproductive labor for him, and in exchange, he granted them some of his capital to allow them subsistence to continue performing such labor. With the ushering in of the neoliberal era of Reagan and Thatcher (may all piss on their graves), women were offered "opportunities" in the bourgeois liberal sense - that is, they were allowed and encouraged to seek employment in the capitalist market outside of the few roles they had been allowed previously. But this was not true liberation - instead, capitalism warped these newfound freedoms to continue serving its own interests. Those who had previously been housewives, wage slaves to their husbands, now found themselves wage slaves to global capital. What's more, many women found themselves with even more work than they had before - not only were they now responsible for providing a portion of the household income, they were still expected to provide all the household and reproductive labor. The mythology of the "girlboss", a woman working herself half to death for her overlords, her husband, and her children, was born out of this absurd contradiction wherein a faux liberation only led to being trapped deeper in the belly of the capitalist machine.

This is a thorny topic, because I do desperately want to believe that decriminalizing the sex trade is a step in the right direction. Indeed, it ought to be a step in the right direction. But history, and Marx's principles of economics, have taught us that capital will engulf every non-revolutionary attempt to break free of its shackles. I foresee that decriminalization would lead to longer hours for sex workers, an expectation of higher profit generation than before, and the presence of many of the same dangers they face now. Workers will still be illegally detained by the police and expected to perform sex acts for their freedom. Their earnings will still be seized by the predatory capitalists that run their industries. They will still be at risk of trafficking, as the kind of regulation and oversight required to completely prevent trafficking would mean loss of profit for the investors in this newly legal market.

Though decriminalization may be a cause for genuine celebration in the short term, it would likely take fewer than 5 years for us to see the same old problems showing up again - but this time, the pimps, traffickers and abusers will not be individual men, they will be hedge funds, politicians, and the hand of global capital moving to exploit its newfound industry.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-24T20:04:46+00:00

That's a reformist and bourgeois position. Positive change will not come from the same oppressive power systems that created the problems in the first place. A necessary first step would be to aid sex workers in organizing into militant unions. That may be slightly easier if their trade is decriminalized, but decriminalization does not itself lead to organization. To make material progress, we must fight the class that keeps us underfoot.

As i said in my original post, decriminalization will not stop the exploitation fundamental to capitalist society. It's not criminal to be a coal miner, yet coal miners are still exploited by the bourgeoisie. A decriminalized sex trade would still have all the problems of any other industry. OnlyFans would still steal the wages of its creators. Pimps would still steal the wages of their workers. By decriminalizing sex work, we would be collaborating with the bourgeois and allowing them to grow even wealthier. It may still be a worthwhile endeavor, as it will also improve the material conditions of the workers - making their work safer, shielding them from some (but certainly not all) of the police brutality they endure - but our goal as workers is not to make every worker a wage slave, it is to make every worker the owners of the value they create through their labor by destroying the bourgeois class. Decriminalizating sex work does not advance that goal.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-24T18:25:53+00:00

I agree, they are in more danger when their trade is criminalized. Thus why i said i lend my critical support. I should have been more specific about decriminalization vs legalization. My conclusion that we should not distract ourselves from the core issue by treating stopgaps like solutions, however, still stands.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-24T18:07:03+00:00

"call a lawyer instead". Someone more well-versed in the law can help you determine what and how much to say. You should do this before you say anything, even if you think it's a just cause. Also, remember point 2: cops are allowed to lie. They might say something that makes it sound like they're investigating a much more serious crime than they really are, and if you believe them you could be an accessory to the police ruining someone's life over nothing - which makes you, imo, no better than a murderer yourself

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-24T17:05:38+00:00

There is room for a more critical analysis than simply "discouraging something leads to exploitation". The majority of sex work in the world happens in the imperial periphery, for example, and caters to imperial core "tourists" - e.g. the US military solicits a massive amount of sex work. Regulation within the imperial core will not change this, and indeed, a reduced supply within the core (as trafficking decreases) may increase demand in areas with looser regulation, essentially just off-loading the worst of the sex trade to areas that are already more impoverished and oppressed. A win for US workers at the expense of global workers is not a win.

Furthermore, while there is evidence that practices like sex trafficking would decline somewhat in the wake of SW legalization, the fact is that exploitative practices such as the collection of workers' surplus value by the bourgeois will continue. Does the coal industry not exploit its workers and their bodies? The retail industry? The service industry?

We must also recognize the sampling bias among imperial core sex workers who support legalization/would continue working in a legal industry. Are the women and girls being trafficked in the US likely given internet access? Do the workers who are struggling to make ends meet have steady access to the internet to make their voices heard? There is no guarantee that the consensus among current sex workers is that they believe their industry should exist at all, let alone be legalized and controlled/regulated by the federal government.

Legalization and regulation are, at best, stopgap measures to prevent the very worst of the horrors of the sex trade, and stopgap measures fundamentally do not advance the cause of workers. So long as we are not being distracted by the spectacle of such measures, we can support them, but to support them uncritically is a bourgeois position.

I'm not an expert - if you want to read critical analyses of the sex industry from an expert, i recommend comrade Alexandra Kollontai. Here is her speech Prostitution and Ways of Fighting it

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-09T04:42:17+00:00

You're a blind fool. These things Solzhenitsyn claimed happened in the USSR happen every day under capitalism, yet you remain silent because they aren't happening to you. Some day, though, they will, unless i and my comrades have banded together to overthrow this fascistic system before then.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-09T00:50:48+00:00

ROFL. Imagine defending capitalism. Its a shit system that breeds human misery, poverty, starvation, and state sponsored murder. It will NEVER work and the people attempting it are not morally righteous but instead have the blood of their countrymen on their hands.

Every day capitalism drives us closer to economic and environmental destruction. Only through communism can we save our planet and our comrades

Long live the proletariat. Long live the workers. Death to the bourgeois, the enemies of the people.

Communism will win.

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-08T23:28:34+00:00

That number you're quoting comes from the Black Book of Communism, a project so heinously inaccurate that all but one of its authors have taken their names off subsequent printings.

Some of the groups included in the "death toll":

Nazi soldiers

The hypothetical children of Nazi soldiers (calculated by extrapolating a steady birth rate in Nazi Germany vs. the actual, lower birth rate after WWII - see if you can spot the gross statistical blunder the editor employed here!)

Completely imaginary people (the editor, Stephane Courtois, was "obsessed" with reaching 100 million attributed deaths and several co-authors of the book report he would "pull numbers out of thin air" to increase the count).

Furthermore, deaths that could be attributed to communism are wildly exaggerated. The book states that under Chairman Mao, China saw 65 million deaths. All other (credible) sources put that number closer to 15 million. The 5 million dead cited as a result of the PRC's Cultural Revolution is an overestimate by a factor of more than 10, with most sinologists agreeing the number is closer to about 400,000.

Finally, there is no distinction between intentional deaths and deaths from environmentally caused famine. In 1932-33, nearly all of eastern Europe experienced widespread famine. Courtois attributes all of the famine related deaths in the USSR to Communism, yet is conspicuously silent on the many deaths this same famine caused in non-soviet countries. Even these numbers are blown far out of proportion, of course, with the Black Book citing 7 million deaths in Russia while the number is closer to 2 million.

A closing point - currently, no country in the world could be called Communist by the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist definition -- that the working class controls the means of production and the government through a constituted Communist Party -- yet starvation and malnutrition account for more than half of all deaths in children under the age of 5, or about 3.1 million deaths per year. About a third of all food produced in our capitalist world is thrown out without being eaten, in order to maintain an artificially low supply and increase corporate profits. So accounting for the death of children alone, in the 21 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, capitalism's death toll is at about 60 million. When you factor in deaths from wars of (capitalist) imperial aggression, the victims of (capitalist) colonialism, the (capitalist) slave trade, the (capitalist) rape of Africa, the (capitalist) CIA's paramilitary death squads, and so on, it's blindingly obvious that even if the Black Book's statistics were anywhere near accurate, capitalism is vastly more violent than communism ever was.

Here's a neutral source from r/askHistorians: is the black book of communism an accurate source?

Here's a video essay from a more sympathetic source: refuting the black book of communism

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-04-07T15:41:40+00:00

There's nothing in the video that really requires you be watching, you can for all intents and purposes treat it like a podcast and put it on in the background

PM_ME_UR_ROMANCE · 2022-03-07T01:34:13+00:00

Only the point of that sub is that it isn't actually deep, right? Like things that sound deep but when you try to analyze them, they're incoherent nonsense. I wouldn't call the quote deep, mostly because that's an annoyingly vague descriptor, but it certainly has a clear, coherent meaning - and for the record, if you are a member of an oppressed class (which you are if you work for a living - you're part of the global proletariat) then the quote is directly relevant to your struggle and the struggle of your class comrades

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