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  • I looked into to using a laptop as a router a while back and decided against it. From what I read, the chip is designed for bursts of processing and isn’t designed to be under constant load like a router would be. That means the fan will always be running an you risk overheating, fan failure, and high power draw.

    That’s my non professional recollection so take it with a grain of salt.




  • History, from the matriarchies of old to the queens of Ancient Egypt, shows that “rulers” and “patriarchy” aren’t a package deal. Patriarchy isn’t a symptom of hierarchy. It’s a distinct engine of oppression. Abolishing class doesn’t automatically liberate women from the material reality of unpaid household labor.

    We cannot treat gendered or racial division resolving as an inevitable byproduct of a classless society. Cultural superstructures lag behind economic shifts, and these autonomous divisions don’t simply resolve to match a new base.

    Praxis is the refusal to treat the domestic struggle as a secondary theater of the revolution. By naming and engaging the material roots of gender, race, and the “IQ” myth today, we forge solidarity with groups historically kept on the sidelines, unifying the masses for the broader class struggle. We don’t wait for these hierarchies to evaporate. We name them and bring the fight to them.





  • There’s always going to be issues with the terms because both any termd chosen will fail to capture both the internal and external perspectives. Toxicity, for example, only shows how a certain type of manhood effects people who come in contact with it. However, a young man searching to be an adult in the world may come across this way of being a man and doesn’t necessarily see it as a good fit. So it’s too “rigid”. I’m not sure we’d want to talk about one’s “rigid manhood” but the quality is notable. We could also use the term “The Man Box” to capture the difficulty of people who struggle to meet these impossible standards.

    I also like the term hyper-masculity, but there are worthwhile questions there too.

    It’s important that remember that no term will do a great job of capture the full range of issues facing society and men, but even a cursory investigation will show how different vantage points help show and counter balance different terms.

    For white privledge, we have to remember that in this society the baseline or default is white, male, young, affluent, etc. These people don’t get that suspicious look or assumption that they aren’t capable or criminal or dishonest like the OP noted. We could say society has minimal friction for them.

    So as to not just have some more noise, here are some of my dumb suggestions: white tailwind, white standard, white default, white baseline, presumed while white.