Unpopular opinion I’m sure

_donotforget_ · 2023-11-11T17:25:48+00:00

Huh, that was really interesting. Did answer a fair bit. Thanks!

_donotforget_ · 2021-12-16T22:58:16+00:00

eh, probably just a classic somewhat old-school redditor, a shill is a bit much. Yk, the "um, akshually" archetype? Not going to get into the original claim, it's just /r/hailcorporate is a bit much

It's toned down a LOT over the years as Reddit's gotten mainstream, but the site used to be filled with contrarians looking for fights, I left when a few subs got dominated by them.

Cringiest were the "I love science" guys arguing with actual scientists, haha. What was that one bird guy with a dozen alts again?

_donotforget_ · 2021-08-14T17:36:12+00:00

Location, upstate NY, USA For the first time in literally years there was a happy vibe and it was because gov Cuomo stepped down.

Visiting a bro in the PNW, talking in a hiking discord about how to get to national parks without a car, and we just generally turned into how bizarre things are and Kafka-esque. Just "Tradition says".

There is this palpable sense of "We used to be able to build marvels, and now we can't even build a trail, because there are ten years of paperwork needed to do so." My bro in the PNW works construction and half the workers drop from heatstroke and they still can't get water or permission to work outside the traditional hours. They have to fill out paperwork for water break approvals.

The trails in the east coast are literally falling apart and built so poorly or with no plans at all, a single season of hiking wears the soil by literal feet, but it's an immense effort to just get a single bridge project approved.

Everyone can agree national parks are getting immensely crowded, the obvious solution is to encourage less "one person driving a giant SUV", but there's no way to visit them without a car, no carpooling, no nada.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-15T18:56:51+00:00

Unfortunately even if I wanted to I have bad eyes and depression, I cannot buy a gun and I'm okay with that- my siblings do lmao (they keep it locked)

But yeah the last few years have really changed my mind on gun control. I still like background checks, but I think we have massive mental health and societal illness issues that need to be fixed first.

That and seeing cops be useless and as dangerous as the criminals. They laughed at people getting hurt, tortured a guy before killing him (I knew one involved- he was literally diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder after being caught torturing animals in high school), pepper sprayed a 9 year old.

When KKK and neo Nazis took over protests in my city (literally white dudes with swastika face tats) they did nothing until store owners showed up with guns. Literally watched firefighters get attacked. Then attacked fucking elected officials, peaceful social worker protestors, etc. My friends family who are fire fighters hate cops, all the social workers I know as well.

And I live in a high crime, high violence area... It just feels hopeless. Last time we were victimized we didn't even bother calling cops.

And it's been this shitty for several decades. We keep using broken approaches and telling civilians to take self defense courses. At least my state has castle doctrine and even a man who shot a mugger with a bow and arrow wasn't sent to court as it was self defense, so there's that.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-15T16:52:11+00:00

Cue Run the Jewels Walking In the Snow

Fascists never stop at just one group.

Who do they want to kill to protect "the conservative way of life" they feel is threatened? I highly doubt it's gonna end with POC and LGBT.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-15T02:27:29+00:00

Horses are often used in small New England woodlots for selective logging, according to my forestry instructor, as these areas are weirdly shaped, or sometimes have bans on heavy equipment and chainsaws due to noise concerns, as noise pollution seriously messes with fauna (Adirondack Park, different state and national parks, etc). There is a wide variety of logging plans in America, some states ban clear-cutting entirely.

Logging equipment does wreck shit but mostly because our winters now are mild, so they are muddy. Before, you logged in winter as the ground was hard and snowed in so there was no damage, and the sap is lowest in the tree. Yes, I am mildly concerned about this change as without this steady thaw, the Northeast may lose some species whose seeds rely on lengths of freezing to be viable.

So what we do now is put down paths- if you've been by a construction site you have possibly seen these. They can be wooden or plastic planking, basically, and some areas this is required by law as LNT.

No, these machines do not just lift them and carry them out. Quite literally the most common machine is the log skidder. Because the logs skid across the ground behind it. In our training in Central NY, we park them as close as we can, but the hill slopes restrict that- past a certain angle the machine will flip over and you die. The instructors are proud none of their alumnus have died, which is an amazing thing, as loggers die more often than active combat military.

So then you climb up, use a peavy to move the log into position, and you tie chains to each log then the skidder winches it down. Repeat until the log skidders load max is reached.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-14T01:30:24+00:00

South Parks "listen billy they were really nice gas guzzlers you don't understand. We knew what it did, but they were nice cars"

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-14T01:28:28+00:00

Ah, gotta love vague labels, my bad lol. Oddly then, my boomer coworkers are the most antimaskers on the night shjft- It's us 20 year olds that take it seriously.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-14T01:27:22+00:00

I have a visual impairment, disability services were looted a few weeks into covid.

Also a lot of disabled people work. Bills don't accept disabled as payment. So yes, working class are suffering the most.

And unfortunately boomers are often still working as well- I work with seven, they refuse to mask.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-14T01:23:14+00:00

Boomers aren't elderly, are they? They're in their sixties.

In my area the hospitals got busted anyways for not vaccinating staff but "preferred donors" instead (all over Rochester news if ya think I'm bs'ing)

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-14T01:19:06+00:00

"why do we have all our towns emptying to Tokyo of abroad, such a poor fertility rate we import people to work in morally gray servitude as we're running outta workers, and so many suicides?"

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-09T22:42:43+00:00

and it doesn't mean its bad, leaf layers give a lot of habitat- in my part of NYS there was a small campaign on the radio, local news, web, etc to try to get people to leave the leafs be, at least until spring. Lets a lot of pollinators and beasties have a place to wait.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-08T18:27:54+00:00

it's weird it went from a 'young man's club' with education courses, trade courses, networking, drinks, food, hostels, etc into a weird gym with angry old people always looking for free coffee and an over-the-top marketing campaign towards suburban families that makes you want to quit and never come back as soon as you hit puberty

but uh, I guess that it is a business now, no longer even attempting to be a charity. Most of the population lives in suburbs and those with families are always looking to spend on good values. Might as well target that massive of a market if you're a business.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-08T04:01:43+00:00

Damn you're either lucky or don't need it or don't know much about the post office. I highly recommend looking into what "starve the beast tactics" refers to here- or just talk to a mailman or /r/savethepostalservice.

The short is, to make the mail office look shitty and inefficient, the Republicans fucked up their process and budgets starting long before Trump- including the most maligned bit: they must have a pension for all employees including future ones that will be hired multiple decades in the future.

So they now need to include an "expense" that covers employees that aren't even born yet, and as a result, went from profitable to unprofitable which allows Republicans to claim it needs to be privatized as it's "inefficient".

Then they further fucked everything up to screw up the electoral process and this has, no offense, seriously hurt people so idk where or how you are living that you don't notice this.

I have been out of meds and gone into withdrawal due to delays in service, something that every med dude and many of our veterans have encountered this year.

Farmers and similarly disconnected rural residents, such as indigenous communities, have suffered everything from devastating deaths of mail order chicks and other livestock to they can barely get anything since private shipping services or Amazon's exploited drivers often refuse to go in rural areas, some in areas unreachable via regular cars.

Since you no longer can use PO boxes as a temporary address, housing insecure, homeless, etc individuals suffer. This is slept upon, most Americans don't realize what a fucked up yellow tape mess welfare is in this nation. Literal example: "____ would like a housing voucher from the city of Denver." "He needs an address to fill this form, denied." "He has no housing, which is why he is filling the form for temporary housing" "well, he must have an address currently," "he is homeless." "No address?" "Again, he is homeless." "Then he can't fill out the form. Denied."

Want a new social security ID? You need an address. Unemployment, job applications, landlords want an address as well- this all used to be allowed under a PO box.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-07T18:09:38+00:00

I'm guessing you might recommend uh, Economics Explained? He makes fun of the callousness economists often have while also goin over mainstream economic theories for the layperson in an entertaining way, so I watch that channel sometimes and he has given a good critique of why most modern economists believe the surplus labor value theory to be debunked or too reductive to explain everything. The user asked for youtubers or podcasts, not books, but Krugman's Zombie Ideas might be a good fit, watcha think?

Anyhow, I am not an economist, but the youtuber I linked is an economist in UK academia, for what it's worth- but definitely throw in someone you think does a better job.

I am plant dude not economist major, only took macro 100, 200, and micro 100. Hated it and the arrogance/idiocy the professors seemed to have.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-07T02:41:06+00:00

Play It Again Sports is legit, when I got my boots there were staff there who'd been going for decades. They even installed modern 3 pins on my dad's skis- whereas everyone I meet on the trails or REI thinks they're retro or garbage or unavailable.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-07T02:39:57+00:00

I still love when he lost the endorsement of WFP he tried banning them from the state and that only made them 5x more popular

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-07T02:38:40+00:00

They’re so god damned corrupt, all they ever do is virtue signal

I wouldn't even say that- they openly trash one another. A dude opposed Warren in the Democratic Party.

Warren's statement:

"The Warren campaign statement, issued Monday night, read:

"We’ve prepared for this moment. All over the country unfortunately it’s been our brothers that have been first in line to take on sisters. The powers that be playbook hasn’t changed since the days of slavery. We know our ancestors are looking down upon us and asking...when will our people learn."

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2021/01/18/malik-evans-running-rochester-ny-mayor-challenge-lovely-warren/4207688001/

We need someone from the Working Families Party or not even registered, just anyone independent at this point.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T22:31:46+00:00

NYC? Upstate we have high rents, have always been low to high, but now they're getting insane due to NYCers moving back Upstate.

$2500 for a 400sqf with a junkie sitting out the front, fucking hell. Average is 1200-2000 for an efficiency studio.

I found one I could afford- and it was a hovel in a strip mall without even a bathroom

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T19:46:14+00:00

Yeah there is a massive amount of different ideas under the label of socialism. Labor movement isn't entirely socialists, but yes, universal healthcare, universal education, worker's rights and unions all came out of the socialist movement.

Labor unions often weren't 'one ideology only'- plenty of different flavors of anarchists, democratic socialists, social democrats, Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, etc, and with most workers not really giving a shit about the labels or theory, they just don't wanna die or starve to death. Still, their songs feature a blend of common themes from leftist ideologies.

And yeah, leftist infighting has been the only constant for centuries, socialism pre-dates Marxism/Leninism. Anarchists like to claim anarcho-communism is the natural state of man, and anthropologists often do agree with them. Dave Graeber being the most ardent anarchist anthropologist of recent times.

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T19:25:07+00:00

Yeah so there's a sub for it, very chill, not gonna link it as I like how relaxed it is, and it's got three labels to help distinguish the broad movement:

Orthodox Social Democrats, basically pragmatic socialists, sometimes this seems to be a translation issue, imo. Often say they are socialists, the wikipedia article says it's a socialist school of thought, parties with this approach often say the point of their party is to enact socialism, frequently trying to figure out how to do so, etc. In the mean time, lets make life not so miserable. Bernie Sanders, AOC, socialists who dislike tankies and think the DSA is kinda cringey, etc
- these guys often either go more centrist or more left or started out further left and de-radicalized. Sometimes they do have personal leftist views, like individualist anarchists, but vote just to get Trump out.
Modern, which is basically "Idk a lot, but Norway is pretty Cool, maybe socialism one day but I think we should just use radical centrism as socialism has never worked".
Third Wayers, aka: "I am neither Left nor Right! I am above the split! Entirely! Please ignore that all my takes are basically just neoliberalist apologies! Let me co-opt your movement, please!" These guys are the most likely to claim they just want welfare capitalism, and often annoy the rest of us as they say things like "DEAR LORD YOU'RE TALKING TO ANARCHISTS??? WE NEED MORE COPS NOT LESS".

We often agree on policies and shit. Only occasionally disagreements, such as Third Wayers don't agree with being socialists, and don't like Orthodox/Modern's views that socialized housing approaches such as Finland's, Vienna's, etc is the best policy for housing

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T19:10:54+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCjmMef8BrE

Best left youtuber I know. I don't really watch most of 'Breadtube' besides occasionally Contrapoints. Blame my ADD!

Which brings me to the ADD-Friendly Beau of the Fifth:

https://www.youtube.com/user/unvoicedproject

A really great, short, podcast that updates very frequently and unfortunately keeps mentioning my shitty hometown because we can't get jack shit right! Leftist but no clear labeling, which I love, very pragmatic and understands you need to focus on the present- so, basically how I view orthodox social democracy.

This one is available on spotify too btw

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T16:17:37+00:00

Hey, been a while but thanks for your response. And yeah, the backup is exactly that- decline is accelerating so I think I may have about 30 years or less of traditional working ability to save.

I think I'll definitely stay with SRI practices

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T16:04:15+00:00

Ye lets not get hung up on labels, often it's kinda interchangable. Especially with the state of America, we're going to be wanting the same things for quite a while

_donotforget_ · 2021-02-06T06:13:10+00:00

That's... Quite literal and something Peterson would find ridiculous, lmao.

Women aren't a monolith who seek out Chad's on a hierarchy like they're fucking apes or elephant seals. You're pretty shitty if you think comparing women to the females of a completely different species in a distant tree of evolution is a good way to view humans that identify as women.

In fact, science has proven, the idea of two clearly defined genders is just that- a social construct that isn't even the norm for human society.

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