Hazel

I slept with both of them. I’ve been on a lot of dates.

Doesn’t sound like she’s doing all that bad with men 🤔

I tag them with “AI Weirdo” lol

That guy is a real historical weapons connaisseur.

Go watch Jaadugar right now!

That’s not a small washing machine 😅

The water theory is absolutely improbable.

No no, the secret is being so pessimistic you don’t care about dying.

River of Gods by Ian McDonald.

And probably his other books also, but I haven’t read them yet.

True. I do wonder if there’s not some element to it which works the other way round. Many rich people spend their excessive wealth in order to distance themselves from communities. Private mansions outside the city, yachts, private islands…

Now there’s also plenty of reasons for them to obscure their activities. Not only because some of them are morally abject but mostly because they can’t let anyone notice that they’re entirely unremarkable. But there must be something that makes isolation appealing to them and being an unremarkable part of a community seem horrible. Though maybe that’s just a learned trait under capitalism.

In order to get rich you have to dislike people in general it seems.

Sounds like he screwed himself trying to make even more money.

Wasps are the one exception.

Commonplace wonders are no longer wonders though, they should be wonderful relative to contemporaneous creations.

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I don’t think it should be like that across Canada, but nobody bothers making different packagings.

(Disclaimer: not Canadian.)

Yeah probably, though more opportunistic than most people probably imagine. They’d likely only hunt when convenient, during migrations or such, and switch to different food sources the rest of the year. That’s how I imagine it at least.

The Starch Runner Hypothesis seems more plausible to me.

If that’s something you want, nobody can stop you.

the additional workforce would come from other segments - which finally means reduction in standard of living for the average citizen.

This is a great point, one also addressed by Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread. However, you’re assuming all labor meaningfully contributes to our standard of living and produces “societal achievements”. I’m not so sure about that, I have yet to see any benefit from e.g. the advertising industry.

As Kropotkin and Graeber both argue, capitalism breeds many bullshit jobs that help capital accumulation but don’t actually contribute to a better society. Transferring those workers to necessary jobs alone would allow us to work less without a meaningful loss in standard of living.

Will that get us to 4/10/10? Probably not, but I like to be a little aspirational. If you only demand a workable 40h workweek that’s all you’re getting, if that. Any further demand will simply be met with “but we already gave you what you wanted you ungrateful peasant!” :)