The Dispossessed hit me like a truck, but I wouldn’t call it theory. It’s political fiction that’s subtle about it by using sci fi, but I think calling it anything but a novel/fiction does a disservice to such literature. It does that which all message based fiction aspires to: lies to you in a way that makes you think about the world and see everything differently. I love all of LeGuinn’s books that I’ve read, though I felt Omelas was overrated. I’ll also plug Graeber for easily accessible theory written in modern language for modern life. Bullshit jobs hit hard.

And yeah, theory matters, but only if you do praxis. Do the hungry care more about who you feed them, or that you feed them? Do your coworkers dream of a dictatorship of the proletariat or do they just want their voice heard in the workplace? If all you do is read theory, you’re a book club. The least you could do is mail some dictionaries and whatever other books to prisoners while you discuss the theory. Offer them some zines while you’re at it. What is in your heart and your mind are irrelevant until your actions reveal them.

Hell yeah, lets get a federal one too

There’s plenty, and they can help, but you ain’t gotta read em. They’re guides and ideas. Nobody ever told me I needed to read Proudhon to think the state’s bad, and usually older texts become more of historical interest than theory interests. When I wanted to understand anarchism I was told to go out and engage in praxis.

That got to me. I’d pay extra for a union made electric subcompact.

Listen I’m more of a freak than a lot of y’all, and I’m a millennial syndicalist, but ass eating just sounds uncomfortable to me. Like if some lady I’m with wants to do it I’m ok to try, but I don’t have an interest in doing so myself, and generally just going down on each other’s fronts sounds better.

This is the weak version. The real good shit is the scoops you need a camera or a doctor for

The homeowner?

I don’t want them firebombed, but yeah the backlash against Waco is how the Zion Ranch was able to exist as long as it did. In the aftermath of Waco as long as your cult claims to be Christian and is armed the feds will let you get away with so much bs for so long.

Also giant buildings are designed to withstand a huge amount of torque/moment. They act like sails in the wind and it’s a catastrophe if they fall over. But additionally you really want to minimize sway so people at the top don’t get seasick in their office/apartment. But then there’s the destruction element of it. You want to do everything in your power to make sure that if a building you design to go in Manhattan of all places has to go down it goes directly down and not across the street into another building like a tragic line of dominoes.

Yeah I think there’s been a string push against the personhood of minors in recent decades. I don’t love all the decisions minors would make with more autonomy, but I’ve seen the consequences of full parental control over the lives of teenagers in trans teens, and while some have had good results, for others it’s the sort of thing that makes you just kinda stare at a wall for a bit. Over a decade ago, when I was freshly out a teenager stepped in front of a truck because of her parents’ response to her being trans, they sent her to conversion camps, they punished her self expression, and they guaranteed she had no hope for the future, then when their daughter died they didn’t even believe her words that they had killed her.

Children’s rights are complicated. No reasonable person thinks a 5 year old should have the ability to tell their parents that they want to live alone and have the state defend that right or to take the child without cause. But I think it’s equally ludicrous to say that a 16 year old should be blocked from getting a vaccine they want because their parents oppose it (when I was a teen this was a hot issue for the HPV vaccine). In fact I think any child old enough for abstract thought should have plenty of protections as a human including from their parents.

Hell even beyond rights to privacy from parents and the right to bodily autonomy, teenagers are often currently being aggressively hand held to the point they don’t know how to function outside their parents’ guidance at early adulthood. Adolescence is supposed to be a period of gaining rights, freedoms, and responsibilities, of learning how to be an adult but before the training wheels are off.

And yeah my experience as a trans millennial had me strongly relating to cis gay people my parents age. Lots of broken families and too many dead acquaintances, but with strong community and cultural bonds. The community meant I always had people and even in a new place I could find family pretty quick, I just had to be family to those who found me.

Also seconding the person saying that your mom is awful, like wtf, just because I’ve seen worse doesn’t mean I’ll ever get over the petty shittiness of some parents.

I’ve made this mistake before, I’m going to stick with personality and tits, with the latter being far more optional.

In America it’s gotten cheap too. You can buy panels at harbor freight these days

Well yeah if you can avoid it you shouldn’t buy a car, but if you have to buy a car you should buy electric

I’ll also say that for people who experience that intentionally building up distress tolerance is super valuable

It’s the internet and you’re having fun. Everyone on here is a dog pretending to be a person, but sometimes you’re gonna get random accusations of whatever. Hell sometimes they’re gonna be right

It’s genuinely a useful skill to learn to brush stuff like this off.

It’s a trap in the same way drugs can be. When a lot of your friends have had a bit of work done here and there and it looks great on them so you try, and the first few bits look good. But from there it’s really easy to go right off the deep end if you’re the wrong type of unwell. Just like how in a friend group where everyone smokes a bit of pot from time to time and some people enjoy a line or two at a party, one person who joins the group may find themselves absolutely hooked.

Actors and media personalities are at high risk for body image issues, and cosmetic surgery is a really dangerous thing for people with such issues. I’ve known people who got a few cosmetic surgeries and were happy, some are much safer than others for it, but it’s so easy for some people to fall into the trap of thinking that every perceived flaw should and can be fixed. Once you’re there it’s just body dysmorphia, no different from a stereotypical anorexic person, including inability to have a realistic view of one’s body.

I fucking hate the future… Bullshit panopticon

No, and my only readers are on the old workstations I use as servers. Bigass thumb drives just do more better and have since 16 gigs made a thumb drive bigass

I’m sorry, wtf why does a car know where your eyes are‽

Exactly, they’d always counted on them serving as that.