Fuck that. You didn’t make that mess, and they will set back any progress you make. Focus on cleaning out your own space that you control and that they can’t ruin. Sneak some trash bags into your bedroom. The day before trash day, bag as much stuff as you can, and try to sneak the bags out early in the morning before the trash comes. If you give them any opportunity to intervene, you’re going to get yelled at for throwing things out, or they’ll try to go through the stuff, or they’ll bring it back in the house. Any bit of their involvement is a no, because they’re not going to help you have a clean and healthy space.

Then do it the next week, and the next week.

Be ruthless with throwing things out. The fact that you don’t have a clear walking path means you have way too much stuff. That the stuff is sitting under piles of clothes and you haven’t touched them for months or years means they aren’t important to you.You can get a job. You can buy more things- things you actually choose for yourself and like. But you can also be intentional about it, fewer things but higher quality things that you actually can use and that make your life feel better.

our professor used the japanese internment camp case to teach us about the limits of presidential power. indiscriminately shoving people into camps was a thing the president was 100% allowed to do to us citizens. the president, the court, the congress were all like “yup sounds American to us.”

I don’t know about that. That picture pretty much sums up my Sunday today.

if these are literally just regular gloves, she may have not seen them at all.

Basically, your brain cells are dying, and they don’t grow back. You are slowly losing the ability to do all sorts of things and reason in all sorts of ways. You can see how many more dark spots there are on a brain scan- those are just a lot of mental processes your brain can’t do anymore. The other parts of the brain try to compensate, but after a certain point you’ll never be able to think as well as you did before.

So you just lose more and more of your cognitive functions until you die.

therapy is not a magic “make the trauma go away” button. nobody is designed to experience high levels of stress that frequently. all anyone can do is tolerate the traumatic role for as long as they can and then transition into a more comfortable role when they can’t deal with it anymore.

in my own life, I’ve only met Chileans and Argentinians with good enough English that I could have conversations with them. we VERY RARELY will get news written by Brazilians. with the language barrier, our understanding of the south is pretty heavily influenced by narrative and rumored stereotypes.

but also it’s like, I feel pretty confident that if you asked the average American what continent Guyana is on, there’s a 50/50 chance they’ll get it wrong.

Communism has nothing to do with resource misallocation. That’s a thing that some communist governments did, as did democratic governments and theocratic governments. Your comment is really doing exactly what the person in OP’s hypothetical did. It’s really not surprising that a populist takeover by mob rule did not instantly create an efficient system of communist government- that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to work out an effective system of communist government. That means they were too impatient to gradually work out a system that would actually improve the circumstance for everyone involved.

the same thing happened during post-colonial land redistribution in Africa, and that had nothing to do with communism. when you take land from the people who know what they’re doing and give it to people who don’t, then you disrupt supply chains, you’re going to get famine. so don’t do that. get the people who know what they’re doing on your side.

[email protected] is pretty active.

his desire to put his face on everything is so bizarre. like, why do you want your face to be associated with an agency of incompetent cronies who constantly break the law and fail to do their jobs?

Maybe a book of excerpts or an anthology might be helpful, so it’s less daunting?

They really will not be able to. He has fired 75-90% of many agencies’ employees. This is going to take decades fix, and every election we lose will extend that.

I tried those sesame ball things recently and they’re so good. happy new year.

It’s worse in real life, because it’s personal. You will experience the absolute depth of human cruelty from the people you love the most.

There are some things that are just wrong regardless of your income bracket. Eg. Let’s say your parents give your brother a vacation to Bali for his 16th birthday and they make you stay home by yourself. Even if somebody’s parents could never afford to go to Bali, they’d still empathize that the exclusion you experienced was wrong. Whereas complaining that your dream wedding gown designer was booked so you have to get your 2nd favorite is rich person problems territory.

my year is pretty up in the air at this point. I have a birthday vacation scheduled but I probably will cancel/won’t be able to afford it.

That’s been a thing since the beginning of the cards being implemented. In the US they’ve tried to make it illegal, but like, economics doesn’t work that way. The store owner needs to make a profit, so the fee is going to the customer.

Sir that is a literal child growing into an adult. Your facial feature change between adolescence and adulthood.

There’s no real reason to be optimistic about a revolution, but there is reason to be optimistic that you’ll be able to fight for your basic right to vote.