Yeah i think $20/h with a 30h work week and free housing would be minimum liveable. Realistically, $30/h and free housing should be a comfortable, modest life.

No, not even if it’s a 32h work week and the job is meaningful.

My rent is notably below market rates for my area at $1200/month. At a 32h work week free rent is worth ~$8.5/h, for a total of ~$23.5/h.

I currently work a meaningful job with a 32h week @ $21.5, which will go up to $25/h when i complete certification in ~6 months. Plus i can live with my wife.

I think if you’re gaming out some socialist system in your head you could easily double it to $30/h with fewer rich parasites hording wealth.

AP should not be printing the regime’s lies - the US does not believe the ICC has become politicized.

The republican regime wants to continue committing and supporting crimes against humanity and they don’t want to be treated like the criminals they are.

I’m a huge fan of cyberpunk! I can’t wait to pirate this movie, as any true fan will.

Arrrgh! Real monsters was incredible. You may notice the art style is similar to Rug Rats, both were made by a studio influenced by the genius estonian animator Priit Pärn.

If you like animation, you owe it to yourself to see Triangle (15mins) and Hotel E (30 mins) and my favourite ever public service announcement (2 mins).

The state was made aware well in advance of this that she had a medical condition that was going to prevent the lethal injection from working.

They knew that this was the only possible outcome but went ahead anyway because performative cruelty is the core conservative value.

It’s not clear from the article if she’s angry at what happened (rightly) or angry and confused as a state of conciousness.

When my dad regained conciousness from a stroke he was angry and confused for days. He’s an absolute sweetie and had to be tied down.

10gb downloaded from a coffee machine is absolutely bonkers, surely that would be a story by itself if it werent for the two orders of magnitude greater uploads.

My partner has been in some child free communities and i saw a lot of people hating on kids. Most of the stories she’d relay were about kids being annoying with minimal mention of their parents.

My old boss was super into those groups and would post just vile, hateful stuff about kids.

I do think that child free groups are mostly about hating kids, in practice.

Her lawyers have said she suffers from bipolar disorder

I was waiting for it, and there it is, very last line of the article.

This is clearly the behaviour of someone havinga mental health crisis

Modern phones have notoriously poor thrust.

Back in my day a nokia could achieve escape velocity and act as a heatshield for re-entry. But alas it had no way to tell you to make pizza with glue.

On Aug. 3, 2022, one officer sent a memo to the acting police captain requesting the couple’s home be marked as a “swatter house.” The captain declined, saying it could cause a "complacency issue for responding officers.”

In bodycam footage from one incident, shared with CBC by Tomlinson’s lawyers, an officer can be heard saying: “This guy keeps getting swatted.”

Nevertheless, Tomlinson says, the police kept showing up, sometimes multiple times per day. … The city has made no changes to policy and no officers have been disciplined for violating Niki and Patrick’s constitutional rights. That’s hard to believe after the taxpayers settled for over a half million dollars.

Cool! Yeah the depictions there look more realistic than this unbound guy just chilling as he is executed.

It’s probably a funny depiction of trepination, right?

The drilling, sawing or scraping of holes in the skull is one of the earliest medical procedures we have evidence for. It relieves pressure and brain swelling. As gruesome as it sounds, it was quite survivable and people survived multiple trepinations deep into prehistory.

Once you get hospitals in the medieval period the survival rate drops - don’t be in a room of sick people when your skull has a hole in it.

Belief that heirarchies are natural and desirable because some people are better than others is the worldview required to be vulnerable to the lie of fascism, it’s the precursor to all supremacist thinking.

If you look at opinion polling across countries, die-hard support for supremacist candidates hovers around 25-40%. Die hard as in will support those candidates no matter how poorly they’re doing. Support levels wax and wane as anxiety goes up and down, or as supremacist candidates tend to be winning or losing, but the core support base for authoritarian ideals routinely comes out around 25-40% across most western countries.

We’re not asleep we’re just depressed!

hierarchy and order

I don’t believe these two go together, heirarchies tend to be characterised by tension and discord.

highly authoritarian individual will be the first to volunteer when someone needs to run into a burning building to save someone … to volunteer … to organize

It’s actually the exact opposite! The phenomenon of Elite Panic is well established and included in disaster planning.

During an emergency, most people exhibit “spontaneous self organisation” - bucket lines, food distribution, search parties, etc. Whereas people with authority are much more likely to freak out, to fail to understand that the situation is different, to enforce detrimental rules, to feel threatened, to generally act badly.

Slut means end in swedish, i bet that’s what it is.

A friend of mine told me that when a store is going out of business they always have a “slutsale”

For sure it’s more effective with entreched heirarchies, bit i think it’s possible to use that organisational structure without it metastisizing into a perminant heirarchy. Anarchist federations do this, sortition is useful, turn-taking etc.

societies that did not have hierarchy

I don’t believe such a thing ever existed. Other mammals display heirarchies so it was probably present in a distant ancestor, predating humans and our societies.

It’s the nature, duration and intensity of heirarchy that has changed so remarkably in the last 15k odd years.

I don’t think it’s ingrained and then rejected, i think it’s present in some % of humans because heirarchic organisation is useful in limited, temporary contexts.

Pirate ships were feircely egalitarian until a target was sighted, then the captain is a dictator until the loot was secure. Some hunter-gatherers had a season of authoritarianism (say, hunting season) in between seasons of different social organisation.

So like how sickle cell anemia is debilitating but grants near immunity to malaria, heirarchophilia has just enough limited benefits that it remains as a variant within the population.

Or that’s how i think about it.