upower -d can provide some useful info on-demand. I think there’s a daemon component to it too, which may have variable log levels.
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It was an autocomplete from co-warlock.
Before they got close enough to see what it was, the navigator was transcribing the flickering of the porch light as morse code…
No, not really. I didn’t downvote you btw.
Edited my original comment to avoid suggesting that.
toxic men
Kinda sad and ironic, that the term “toxic masculinity” began as a way to describe how culture manufactures a harmful concept of what it means to be a man, and it seeps into men and damages them like a toxin… but now we use it to mean that the man himself is toxic, undermining the whole notion of thinking of the problem as systemic rather than one of individuals.
Anyway, patriarchy is absolutely demolishing men right now, and the political right is saying “women’s fault” while the left is saying “lmao skill issue”. If we don’t get our shit together and start treating this seriously, we’re gonna have big problems.
Lots of companies handle the domestic importing into distribution centers, so they pay the tax and sell in domestic currency. Otherwise the consumer has to pay in foreign currency and pay out the ass for shipping individual items.
Idk if that’s the case for this company.
But the point is: whoever does the importing, there’s a pressure for the manufacturer to drop prices in order to compete. And they’re saying they’re not gonna budge.
It is obvious if you’ve been paying attention, but it’s still counter to what Trump has been saying will happen.
Patriarchy.
Persecuting trans folks keeps men and women in their “appropriate” boxes. And — crucially — keeps them seeing each other as opponents.
The vast majority of men are worse off under patriarchy than they would be if we had real gender equity.
But as long as those in power are constantly threatening your masculine privileges in case you question the regime, most men will fall in line — and most women will understandably be skeptical of men who claim to advocate for men’s liberation.
Meanwhile, trans panic keeps attention on whether women are being sufficiently feminine and therefore fulfilling their “duty” as sex maids.
Honestly, if you wanna disguise your love of patriarchy as something else, trans issues are a great way to do it.
in other words, voting is necessary but not sufficient in changing things.
It’s funny, I was about to reply to another comment with “it’s insufficient, but it is not irrelevant.”
vote or don’t vote
You should really vote.
If you believe politicians are on your side, you’re picking your champion.
If you believe politicians are against you, you’re picking your opponent.
Either way, the person sitting in the chair matters.
Zero explanation of what the ACI would look like in practice.
But if your mom is also half woman…
I just can’t imagine being so uncurious.
“This storage tech is still in use after 70 years!”
- “Wow, what’s so useful about it that we still haven’t replaced it?” vs
- “Wtf, get that old shit out of my sight!”
If anyone’s interested in a comprehensive overview of Gamergate, Ian Danskin has a fantastic video: A Case Study in Digital Radicalism
I like organizing my hobby graveyards and imagining what it would be like to do them again.
Researcher: “So how are you, uhh… likin that rock?”
Lichen: “…”
We are once again alone in the universe
I mean, it’s a joke. The question is just: is it a good joke?
In some ways, it punches up, and — ugh, I’m about to do the “explain the joke” thing — shows something interesting by putting a harmful effect of patriarchy on men (loneliness) next to a harmful effect of patriarchy on women and suggesting they’re connected. It’s a solid premise.
But in other ways, it’s not really punching up. Most men don’t quite benefit from patriarchy enough to make up for the ways they suffer due to patriarchy, so taking a jab at them by connecting the two is kinda shitty from that perspective.
Also, I think most men don’t really think about it, and just accept a toxic concept of superiority over women (and right to affection from women) as a fact of being a man rather than a flimsy consolation prize for playing along with a system that hurts them.
So it’s kinda bleak, leaving that part unexamined and just leaving it as a “you problem” while taking a more systemic view when it comes to the pervasiveness of men hating women.
They’re “protecting” the women.
What if I told you…
A horde of aimless, depressed, isolated, self-destructive young men is the inevitable outcome of a political regime clinging to patriarchy and capitalism far beyond the point where anyone below the top 10% really got a good deal from either of those grifts.