If you wrote a book about it, I'd definitely read it.
But book writing is a waste of time. People font read... Talking to real people, like I think you said you're doing, is way more effective
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I'm really impressed with the turnout so far, and also I'm getting more and more excited like, about myself if that makes sense? I know I do good work but I've always had an image of myself as like, a weirdo you keep in the closet and bring out to do a task but no one wanted me to be near the public or the board presentations. I thought I was bad at that but I think I'm actually quite good at it and I just am lacking political filters so I was dangerous.
I'm trying to start my own thing now and so far it's been really cool and fingers crossed it works out well and I can continue to make rent and eat these expensive ass groceries 😅
What kind of expensive groceries?
All the groceries are expensive these days 😭🤣
I am a weirdo so I eat the same thing constantly and stores catch on super quickly and the increase the price on that item to match demand. Only there's not a large social demand, just me and my weird brain saying I can only eat this brand of this specific potato or whatever the safe food du jour is.
The routine is the price escalates until I have a temper tantrum in the store and cannot justify paying that much for the safe food and then I just go without eating for a few days until my body's like... Maybe go get this specific type of cheese or whatever and it all starts over again. I wish I wasn't like this but idk how to stop 😅🤣😭
But it's ok at the moment I have eggy in a basket and bacon enough for a few more days at least 🤣
I just wanted to see if you would say “ass groceries”. ;)
I just had eggs in a basket for the first time a few days ago and I’m hooked!
Can't destroy a government on an empty stomach! 🥰😅
Look at that pan.
You ever seen a photo of a pan shaped like a globe?
No, of course not.
You wanna know why?
It’s because that pan is FLAT.
If you’re a globe pan believer, you’ve been lied to be the globe pan conspiracy buyers.
I looked into it and found out myself.
I did the research and it proves what I knew all along!
Is that pan made of metal? It's from the melted down magic bells, that's why there are no more bells in England.
Oh nooooooo the bells and the mud theory 😂
The earth is just a flat circle of mud and lies 🤣
mmmhm. And we should all be concerned about that instead of the real problems. Convenient, divided attention.
What are the real problem besides muck and lies? I have come to the conclusion that the allegory of the cave tells us the fundamental problem about everything we run into.
Yeah, that's the most fundamental, I think. That's also sin, in a nutshell, and ironically its the Christians who are too sinful to understand how. Lol. The other thing I rant about..
Subscribe to my rumble, zap more for such quality content. You're lucky I dominate the trending pages of the most centralized forms of decentralized social media 🤣🤣🤣
That’s what she said
If I was only a shirtless male I could have such a following 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm afraid you might be telling the truth 😂
Sometimes 🤣
Use your powers
When I meet the Nostr CEO last year, he started a bonfire with his telekinetic superpower, just like that graphic!
What’s “eggs in a basket”? Is that a euphemism for something?
Super easy way to have an egg & toast (plus bacon, etc if you want to add it)
Cut a circle out of a piece of bread
Crack an egg into the hole
Cook in a pan at medium-low
Test with a spatula - if the entire egg/toast lifts up easily, it’s ready to be flipped
Flip and cook for same amount of time
Done!
You know… you could trade your pets in for some egg laying hens.
1) I could never trade Princess Aurora for anything I would literally go insane I am emotionally dependent on her 🤣
2) when I had an apartment I was regularly trying to organize and arrange things to acquire birds. Chickens are too big and messy for an apartment but there was an account on TikTok that kept apartment quail and I thought that would be a genius addition to my tiny-apartment homestead.
3) I did keep apartment rabbits too. Those were pets but the idea was eventually to pivot to breeding pairs for meat or angora for fiber harvesting.
One day I'll be steady enough to keep a garden and more animals again. It makes me happy and is the best way to live IMO 🥰
I tasted rabbit for the first time this year… I don’t think I’d order it again.
I’ve lived much of my life trying to remove as much emotional dependency as possible, because it has been a focused source of suffering. But it’s probably no way to live at all 🙃.
Hmm. Eggs are usually a win - verrrry nutricious, all the amino acids and enough cholesterol to build a new animal. An egg a day keeps the doctor away. That thing about apples is a blatant lie...
Beef beats bacon in every category. They pump the bacon full of water to make it appear like more. I'd say if you're craving bacon, that probably means you need to eat more fat, and I don't think it matters which animal produced the fat.
I think the only purpose for veggies is to get the anti nutrients that piss off your gut biome and cause a bowel movement. The gut brain goes, "reeee! Get this stuff outta here!" Which means, in an inverted way, veggies are healthy.
Idk why I'm talking about this. No filter...
You're in good company!!!! I love beef, and it's actually recommended to me a lot at psy-gym because it's intensely grounding. So when I'm getting too in my head and off with the fairies they'll recommend taking a salt bath and eating some steak. Doctors too are usually highly recommending it as I'm anemic.
The problem for me with beef is that 98% of the time it's fantastic, but 2% of the time there's an unexpected texture that horrifies me enough that I avoid beef until people get pushy about me eating it again 🤣
Its how the bovine was treated. Happy cows = yummy. Factory cows is basically eating a concentration camp victim, and the texture is the horror of existence for them.
I think that's a correct take. It's so sad how some cows are treated.
Tangentially related when I was in grad school in Ireland we were driving through the country for a hike or something, and we passed a field that was moderately crowded with cows. Like maybe twice as much as the usual concentration of cows on an Irish pasture, but still absolute luxury conditions compared to American farms.
All these young men who were economics students (stereotypically sociopaths 🤣) absolutely freaked out! Everyone in the car was shouting about how that wasn't right, someone called the council right then and there, it was the most outrage I've ever seen on behalf of animal welfare.
It was honestly heartwarming 🥰
Wow. Yeah econ students are psychos, but rational psychos who I can talk to, so I guess its fine. Still psychos.
I think my favorite thing is when the idea of game theory was torn apart because it was largely developed by running behavioral experiments on economics undergraduate males and they were mostly sociopaths so the idea of the "perfectly rational" response to many situations is literally heartless and insanely anti-social win-lose games.
When they expanded the behavior economics experiments it all fell apart because when assholes are playing dominance games the other people will just take their chips and stop interacting with the sociopaths. The most profitable strategy in a normal community is focusing on win-win strategies not win-lose strategies.
Watching that be clearly explained was absolutely hilarious as a woman who went back to school late in life after wearing the caretaker role often. Like, yes obviously that was never a realistic model of successful behavior in society and that so many people thought it was is the main reason we're in this shitty situation now 🤣
Judge Judy looks like she’s lip syncing to Jump Around by House of Pain, yo
Caretaker role? I think that's rational. Maybe wishful thinking in the current paradigm, but this ain't gonna last. One way or another, property rights will return - either enforced by mobs, or enforced by nature, and if nature, either enforced by market reassertion or by genocide of the unpropertied. Or all of that at once. But in the end, debt will be wiped out, people will live on land, and they will keep their surplus and easily afford the care of their children. So be happy. Genocide and our own deaths will help the world return to normal. Kinda joking, but not entirely, have fun sorting it out :p
Makes me even sadder that I don't have property though 🤣
Property = family.
Not property = genocide
These are economic maxims that belong on the same page as MR=MC
Welp shit, dang. 😬 This is turning rapidly unfriendly. Some of us are the black sheep and shunned from family and also broke AF with no property.
I guess it must be nice for you to be drawing up lists that don't put yourself under "genocide". Good luck with that 👍
I don’t know what this means. Expand?
MR is marginal revenue, and MC is marginal cost. It means that over time the cost of producing additional units will become the same as the cost of producing the units, either because opening additional lines of production requires debt that has to be serviced or because competition drives down the price until there's no more delta. Both at sane time, really.
The property part means that you get to keep the fruits of your labor unencumbered. If you don't, then you're someone else's MR=MC, their marginal unit. Over time, people selling their labor will keep less and less delta. That's why it results in genocide and should be on the sane page in the textbooks.
I was a pain in the ass for my professors, and that's possibly why I've never found employment in economics. The incentive structure favors sycophants.
For some reason my autocorrect favors "sane" over "same" and I never catch it in time.
What is the antidote?
Being a weirdo is a superpower. Having no filter is, too, and people punish no-filter people because of jealousy - they know they stay silent out of fear.
Omg you're gonna make me cry, thank you so much for framing it like that. It's been a really hard year but I think it's because I'm on the right path. I hope so much that I'm being a superhero, that's exactly how I frame it to myself and how I'm framing these talks.
It's not a scary time for panic and dispair, it's an opportunity to be the superhero for our community that we always dreamed of being 🥰
