"EXPLAIN THIS JOKE BECAUSE THE JOKE IS ACTUALLY VERY IMMORAL I AM VERY SERIOUS AND POLITICALLY INCLINED"
Please stop. The stick is so far up in you that I can see it in your mouth when you talk and it's making me cringe.
You also didn't read the thread. Read the thread. bsky.app/profile/emex...
Meanwhile, the correct answer should be 42.
...and THAT'S what makes the diagnosis one or the other. There was also something about electrical therapies nobody can get private or state insurance to cover and something about how people try acupuncture because it maybe(?) helps.
But yeah, damn, I feel for your sister. Hope I find my "fix".
...CFS/ME and Fibro are kind of used as the wastebasket taxa of chronic illness. Really the "difference" isn't a thorough grasp on the underlying causes, nor difference in treatments, it's just "okay so you're tired and in pain, but which is worse, the being tired, or the being in pain?"...
I had typed up some long-winded thoughts on my experiences with that but then my cat came and stomped across the keys despite my protestations and reloaded the page, and now I'm so mad at her adorable stinky butt that I can't remember what I'd all typed (thanks, cat). I think it was about how...
Mood.
Ah, the persecution complex
I respect the refusal to do the math to get the average, this is a rebellion my chronic headache can get behind.
Fuck you for making me do math, Ken.
71 for WA
Quoting the post where I said "Impoverished people are already shoplifting specifically because they feel this way", the one that made this dumfuck reply "first, No stealing is bad. It would be a much worse world if people decided to just steal things because they think they are entitled to them"
And yet, you started by replying "stealing is bad" after I said, and I quote "I don't see what's wrong with this title. Impoverished people are already shoplifting specifically because they feel this way."
Maybe you're just full of shit? Have you weighed the possibility you're the one full of shit?
Depends on the museum/library, but yeah. There's smaller museums a lot more like a public library, and libraries that are more like museums, oft with good reason because the books are old and delicate, but most museums, the Louvre especially, are not like your friendly neighborhood public library.
Children also grasp the notion that if you're hungry and there's lots of food, but a bigger person making a scary face at you won't let you have any or else they'll hurt you, that person is a big dumb poopy-head, which is more or less the dynamic with most shoplifting. The hungry gleaning abundance.
...is not an intrinsically good system, and a child will not innately agree with you. The proverbial child would disagree, and your only recourse would be what society already does to shoplifters, surveil and punish the child for the "crime" of taking according to their need from communal abundance.
...but such children "steal" anyway because they grasp that hunger, including their own, is a basic human need. A social order where one person or group gets to dictate that another hungry person that they can't have any of the abundant food because taking the food would "harm the social order"...
...that even a child would agree with me that if you've excess food and someone is hungry and you withhold the food, you are the "bad" person, not the one who takes a little excess to ease hunger. In fact, many horribly abusive parents punish children for "stealing" food when the child is hungry...
...after a date on a label, perhaps the "social order" deserves to grow a little "worse" as a result of those "bad" people stealing the uneaten food to ease the tangible human suffering of going hungry long enough that it's painful.
That's a position I've been in, actually, and I promise you...
You aren't taking this seriously enough that you think through and reread what you've written to ensure it's coherent.
To your point, though, if the "social order" continuously creates a class of people so impoverished that they resort to stealing food supermarkets will throw away anyway...
If the law is written to funnel money away from the laborer to the leisure class, the law itself is not moral, and thus the redress cannot, by simple necessity, be lawful.
Define "stealing". I promise you you're unable to without running into social norms about who deserves to have what, which makes a moral condemnation of it far more complex than your childish "stealing is bad" paradigm.
If corporations "steal" human labor value view tax law, what is the redress?
...often strikes in people with high estrogen and stress, so often, trans people (both AGABs), and I wonder what we could have if we didn't have to rely on a system of research and funding undergirded with inequality. Maybe we'd have cures for things like fibro we thought we just had to live with.
I also often wonder about all the treatments that we maybe might have if medicine took everyone's needs more seriously. I have fibromyalgia, a disease that disproportionately hits a young woman-and-AFAB demographic less likely to have achieved status helpful in advocating for a need for cures...
Oop. Just realised it's Earth Day. Had a lot on my mind.
Anyway, as always, Sagan said it better than I ever could:
Post from headquarters news.bsky.social with video from Tucker Carlson and the text “Tucker Carlson: I'll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We're implicated in this. I misled people.”
if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women.
tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy
9. The public comment period is open now through May 22, 2026. Anyone can submit comments opposing this effort through the FCC's Comment Filing System under MB Docket No. 19-41. LGBTQ+ organizations, parents, animators, and allies are encouraged to make their voices heard.
Exactly! Like, it was bad, don't get me wrong. I don't actually think it was a good thing that it happened, but I don't get mad over viral videos of people falling spectacularly, because they're are horribly injurious accidents, but also, horribly *funny*, and that's what Louvre robbery is like.
Is it particularly well-informed podcast banter? No. But the panicky, pearl-clutching replies are not very intelligent reactions, either.
This is a low stakes topic. We can joke about robbing the Louvre, jokes about stealing from the Louvre are funny because the Louvre is full of stolen works.
...ones that are important to have, they just don't have an impact on flippant podcast banter about stealing from the Louvre, and what Piker and company said is *clearly* meant to be tongue-in-cheek, no matter how dumb they are or how a theft wouldn't be especially "proletarian".
Also, before anyone rambles at me about the current state of Egyptian, Napoleonic-looted, or Nazi-stolen works in the Louvre's collection, the finer details, while interesting and important generally, are not the point. There's long conversations about what to do about those legacies of theft...
...that was built with slave labor.
Museums are incredible places, the fact they're open to the public is truly wonderful, but let's not pretend they don't have long, tainted histories of power and exploitation to content with.
The Turkish streamer can joke about robbing the Louvre, it's fine.
...a country ravaged by European colonization that France participated greedily in, is still requesting returned. The Louvre holds many works stolen from Jewish victims of the Holocaust by Nazis that the French seized during WWI. The Louvre currently has a sister site in Abu Dhabi, a museum...