isaacsapphire

[isaacsapphire]

Have you talked to anyone who anticipated retiring soon since the pandemic? Because I have never encountered a retirement-minded person in that situation; either they always planned on "aging in place" or they're currently moving south on the profit from selling the family house. Like, houses today cost more than people dreamed they could five years ago!

The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that there's been a sociopolitical "papering over" of a decades long economic decline. There's been a lot of borrowing again the future for decades, and eventually the piper is going to come calling. Fucking boomers.

#it's the economy stupid #the rent is too damn high #retirement

[isaacsapphire]

Are you expecting the housing market to collapse soon? Because that's what you are describing.

And that's not entirely the opposite of what I am talking about, but the housing shortage that is keeping prices up is a big part of the mortgaging of the future I am talking about.

The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that there's been a sociopolitical "papering over" of a decades long economic decline. There's been a lot of borrowing again the future for decades, and eventually the piper is going to come calling. Fucking boomers.

#it's the economy stupid #housing #the rent is too damn high #the commute is too damn long #housing market

[isaacsapphire]

Baby Beluga is from 1980.

the beatles are an infuriating band to me as a relentless contrarian. liking them is cliche, hating them is cliche, being indifferent towards them is cliche. it's impossible to have an novel or interesting take on the beatles in current year. like how am i supposed to win here?

#music #the beatles #folk songs #playground culture #yellow submarine

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do you think that in the 1800s and shit when it was all steam trains and scrooge flavored business guys in the stock market, and shit, that people went to their rich grandmas house from the 1700s french revolution times with roccoco and so on and it was like floral curtains and 1950s lamps and other grandma shit to them? i think it was

#a bigger history

[isaacsapphire]

Man, not only are they all White, they're all the exact same skin tone, even the ginger. Like, it definitely looks like the ethnic ratios still need jiggering.

Tag yourself, i'm Asheliigynne

#ai generated #race in the US

[isaacsapphire]

am i just sleep-deprived or is holy week milkshake duck for jesus?

I'm sleep deprived myself, but that checks out for me.

#the wreckage of my christianity #oh geez I can tag asks now

[isaacsapphire]

I'm fairly certain that many to all of the "big stomach/big boobs" kinks are related to the attraction to pregnant women* and arguably distortions of the evolutionarily selected for desire to bond with and care for pregnant females.

Feederism (and the damsel/housewife thing as well) has another explanation too though: the goal of making the partner unable to leave, socially and physically. The impulse of fearing abandonment is not bad, but actions taken based on that fear can be very bad. Do not ignore the dark side of your kinks, because that's the errors you need to avoid, the errors that you are vulnerable to.

The funny thing about Feedism is how it puts in stark contrast the contradictory nature of altruism

Being a Feeder is at its core, a altruistic compulsion, food is a precious resource, giving it to someone is one of the oldest and most universal courtship rituals ( not just in Humans, but present in Many other animal species, all over the tree)

But in the real world, In modern society at-least, being the Feedee is the far greater sacrifice you lose social status as you gain weight, treated worse at the doctor etc, pestered by family, theirs the potential health problems, and this is on-top of the basic core of changing some else body to suit your preferences, generally iversably in an meaningful way ( look at the poor success of weight loss attempts longterm), being a gainer is the one kink you can’t really leave in the bedroom, your stuck living the fantasy. Being someone’s Feeder is an enormous privilege.

#the erotic imagination

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#drugs by which i mean all drugs #the devil's lettuce #a bigger history #no war but drug war #islamic law

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The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that there's been a sociopolitical "papering over" of a decades long economic decline. There's been a lot of borrowing again the future for decades, and eventually the piper is going to come calling. Fucking boomers.

#it's the economy stupid #original post

[isaacsapphire]

Interesting. Appears to have a relationship with reality at first glance at least.

#vibe shift #schizoposting #self immolation #protesting #propaganda of the deed

[isaacsapphire]

Does this seem like ultimately an economic problem to anyone else? Like, it feels like a lot of people are papering over systemic economic weakness with a personal race to the bottom suckup project.

Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

#it's the economy stupid #gen z

[isaacsapphire]

If the owner isn't going to eat the cost of safety himself, he is not going to care about safety. If a company is stupid and don't realize that it will eat the cost of a fuckup, it's not going to care about the risk of a fuckup.

Those Pakistanis aren't going to get workers comp or settlements if they are injured on the job, so why would the shop owner gaf about the risk of injuries? The Japanese workers have workers comp, will get payouts if maimed or killed, and have the local equivalent to OSHA waiting to force safety compliance on the company.

I think I've mentioned the first security company I worked for was really bad. Someone died on the job at one of their sites for a major contract while I was there. The company did not give a single shit that a man was dead. They did care that it was very expensive to have a workplace death though, so we got some safety equipment and rules to use it that weren't enforced though, to better defend against the settlement if someone died again.

In a case that's probably better known, a worker died on Black Friday at Walmart when a stampede occurred. This was both expensive and very bad PR for Walmart, so the next year for Black Friday, Walmart paid a lot of money for crowd control experts and crowed control barriers and set up new policies to avoid that type of PR and liability disaster repeating.

@poipoipoi-2016 posted this, and I have thoughts that are entirely unrelated to the context it was originally reposted in.

First, I don't like the way it assumes that capability is a sort of set metric, that some workers are just good enough to do O-Ring work and some aren't, because process design and environmental factors will also play a role.

In an uncontroversial environmental design example, I think it's quite likely that even good workers make more mistakes at the end of a 100 hour work week then they do at the end of a 40 hour work week.

So who decided on those 100 hour work weeks?

Second, process design; there's an apocryphal story I heard about nurses plugging IV tubes into the wrong ports, no matter how thoroughly they were trained, until somebody gets the smart idea to redesign the shape of the ports so that you can't plug them in wrong anymore.

I also have a real life example from my brother, who works in safety. His employer was a crucial industry that had to stay open during the pandemic, and so HR came up with a very complicated worker's comp scheme for people who had COVID symptoms and needed to stay home. Part of the policy is that people who stayed home got paid 60% of their salary.

My brother told them, "Hey, a lot of the people covered by this policy are working paycheck to paycheck, and if you tell them that they have to take a 40% pay cut every time they sneeze, they are going to come in to work anyway and pretend to be healthy"

From what he's told me, HR's response was essentially that tweet where the 911 operator says, "He can't kill you, that's illegal!"

So I know a lot of you know math, and I've been thinking a lot about the psychology of certain choices, in particular choices where you have two paths:

In path A, you definitely pay a moderate cost.

In path B, one of two things happen. Most of the time, you pay no cost at all. But occasionally path B creates catastrophically high costs.

I'm curious how people think about situations like that mathematically.

I feel like there's a point at which the moderate cost of path A gets high enough that, when presented with the choice, most people will choose path B, even though the expected cost of constantly choosing path B works out to be much higher.

#clearing the drafts #Walmart #walmart veteran #workplace accidents #workplace death #osha violation #asha #workplace safety #liability

[isaacsapphire]

Most American parks close at night physically in the form of a single bar gate blocking vehicle traffic, if they have anything physically closing the park at all. The whole "closed sunset to sunrise" or whatever thing just means that the cops can run you out for partying there in the middle of the night.

Really though, like we've made our cities so uncomfortable even for housed people, just in an effort to hurt the homeless. Parks and beaches close at night so homeless can't sleep there. Loitering is illegal so homeless can't sleep there. No bench at the bus stop because someone might sleep on it. No overnight parking because someone might sleep in the car there.

These laws aren't even beneficial to housed populations of the city, and they purely exist out of a) hatred for the homeless and b) an attempt to make your city look "presentable" to tourists. And it just sucks all-around.

#american culture #public park #clearing the drafts #homelessness

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I'm pretty sure that Beatles rpf is just historical fiction now.

What happens to RPF when the real person dies? Does it become "historical fiction"? Do you suddenly get a lot more options when blessed with "death of the subject"?

#rpf #historical fiction

[isaacsapphire]

“The problem is what they consider ‘blatantly sexual’ because considering that a kindergartner is going to be raped and deserved it unless she walks with absolutely no sway and telling her that creates some problems.” Whoa, buddy. When I say “blatantly sexual,” I mean like going to school on Halloween in a fetishy French maid outfit. What you describe in evangelical circles is a whole different universe.

Yeah, that's because you are not sexually attracted to kindergartners/on a hair trigger about being horny/using it as an excuse to control people.

#the wreckage of my christianity #oh geeze I can tag asks now #i don't tag for that anymore

[isaacsapphire]

You can apply to enlist in the British army at 15 years and 7 months old! Like, however you feel about trans people, a 24 year old is more than old enough to make decisions like this, regardless of how stupid anyone else thinks it may be.

The review is so biased and embarrassing...

#trans #youth rights #british politics

[isaacsapphire]

I like how this doesn't mention abortion at all. You know, that major feminist issue that got rolled back recently, the obvious thing to point to and say, "we need a feminist movement again" rather than having a transman having the audacity to disagree with a lesbian at your local LGBT clubhouse.

Also, like, were rights for cis gay and bisexual men not part of the lGBt movement? Are trans men not part of the T?

Honestly we need a feminist movement again. I get that twerfs soured a lot of people on it but transfeminists are still developing illuminating and vital theory and I think it's time we all get behind that. It's the only antidote to the men's rights movement wave going on especially in LGBT spaces (for lack of a better term)

#lgbtq #lgbt #feminism #dreaming of a better MRA #love it when the misandry is stronger than any other interest