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    Posts made by Aria

    • RE: RL Anger

      My family is full of born-again Christians and a not-insignificant number of Trump supporters.

      Then my mother gets super offended by the fact that I get along better with my in-laws.

      I dunno, Mom. Maybe it's because my in-laws have never literally told me that they don't have to take my feelings into consideration when it comes to how they treat me or show my husband any respect in our own house?

      So mysterious. What could it possibly be that makes me like them better? Clearly my mother-in-law is a rude bitch despite never having done anything to you literally ever.

      stare

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Random funny

      I literally laughed until I couldn't breathe.

      alt text

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @mietze said in RL things I love:

      I'm fully vaxed. I wear a mask to put other people at ease and because I still do not want to potentially get it even if I've got some protection against the worst illness and also for the comfort of others. I don't really care about wearing one.

      ^ This. I've been fully vaccinated since the end of March, since health reasons put me in Group 1B. I also still wear a mask for the sake of other people and not freaking them out/encouraging unvaccinated anti-maskers in their bullshit.

      It's proven quite effective in chiming in to support employees in public places who ask people to put one on or wear it properly.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • Kickstarter: Broken Tales

      AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

      How fucking cool does this look?!

      Broken Tales - Inverted fairy tales in an 18th century setting.

      posted in Other Games
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @ganymede said in RL things I love:

      @aria

      You just holla bout dem macros.

      References:

      Lawyer-Catbot, G. (2021, June). Online political theory argument-slash-screed. MU Soapbox. https://musoapbox.net/category/19/politics

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      My final exam is submitted. I no longer have to deal with the group project from hell.

      dobby is free

      ....At least until May 18th, when I have to take Macroeconomics. <headdesk>

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @ortallus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      @aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      @greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      @ortallus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      I honestly don't know much about anarcho-syndacalist, but wouldn't anarchy, technically, be the extreme far far far FAR right? Absolutely no governmental regulation?

      No, anarchy isn't about no government regulation. It's about power structures being arranged horizontally rather than vertically because vertical power creates hierarchies that are inherently exploitative. Most anarchists I've been exposed to want a democratic government, but a directly democratic one instead of a representative one and one in which any official can be removed from power at any moment by a simple vote.

      ^ This. Anarchism is not The Purge: Now in 24/7 Mode! despite a bunch of fearmongers trying to make everyone think it is. It's essentially "direct power over others turns people into assholes" made into political theory.

      Also:

      PS - If you're pro-choice on the basis of "it's not my business what people do with their own bodies" or pro-gay marriage on the basis "the government shouldn't get a say in who you love, as long as everyone is consenting freely".....

      SURPRISE!

      You have some left-wing libertarian social values. It's just that no one told you that because we usually associate the word libertarian with survivalist crazies who are like "Imma storm and squat on federal park land as a stand against the gubbament, because that sounds like a good idea. Send snicky-snacks, please."

      Also, a lot of right-wing libertarians are anti-taxation and believe everything should be privately owned, including police, schools, roads, and etc, despite the example of privately owned prisons being utter shit-shows.

      I know a decent number of those folks and sincerely hope they all move off to some entirely private island to indulge in their Atlas Shrugged wank fantasies and see how long they last after having opted out of modern society.

      See: Above post about "Please send snicky-snacks."

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      @ortallus said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      I honestly don't know much about anarcho-syndacalist, but wouldn't anarchy, technically, be the extreme far far far FAR right? Absolutely no governmental regulation?

      No, anarchy isn't about no government regulation. It's about power structures being arranged horizontally rather than vertically because vertical power creates hierarchies that are inherently exploitative. Most anarchists I've been exposed to want a democratic government, but a directly democratic one instead of a representative one and one in which any official can be removed from power at any moment by a simple vote.

      ^ This. Anarchism is not The Purge: Now in 24/7 Mode! despite a bunch of fearmongers trying to make everyone think it is. It's essentially "direct power over others turns people into assholes" made into political theory.

      Also:

      PS - If you're pro-choice on the basis of "it's not my business what people do with their own bodies" or pro-gay marriage on the basis "the government shouldn't get a say in who you love, as long as everyone is consenting freely".....

      SURPRISE!

      You have some left-wing libertarian social values. It's just that no one told you that because we usually associate the word libertarian with survivalist crazies who are like "Imma storm and squat on federal park land as a stand against the gubbament, because that sounds like a good idea. Send snicky-snacks, please."

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      This should probably be moved to the Politics forum more than anything else, but there's several pages of posts here that I can't do that with.

      But to strip it down to it's very core:

      No. It would not be far far far far right, because as I said above, we don't really have left-wing parties in the United States, and so almost every bit of familiarity we have with any sort of libertarian politics is with what are generally extreme right views.

      In a very, very general sense, anarcho-syndicalism posits that the state as it exists now serves only one purpose -- the protection of private property, to the privilege of the very, very few. This focuses particularly on capital goods, aka "the means of production" for goods and services. The other two kinds of producer goods are land and labor. The latter is especially important in anarcho-syndicalism because it essentially and fundamentally connects economic activity with political activity and as much direct action on behalf of labor (aka, workers) wherever possible.

      The classic example of this is the worker's union. Anarcho-syndicalism is very, very, very pro-union and sees the ideal economic state as one where a series of union-managed workplaces send delegates up the chain in increasingly high-level structures until you reach the federation level. Here's a handy-dandy chart I stole from Wikipedia.

      alt text

      Long story short, it posits that the people closest to an issue are the ones that know it best and should have the greatest say over how it's managed and how resources are allocated.

      I should note that anarcho-syndicalism is extremely focused on labor to the exclusion of almost all else, though, so if you're interested in broader anarchic movements, you might want to consider green syndicalism (syndicalism + environmentalism) and anarcho-socialism, which quite closely related but includes other concerns like individual freedoms.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      ...I'll just be over here in a corner, waving my little anarcho-syndicalist flag and reminding everyone that America doesn't have a "left-wing" party but it's super cute when folks think we do.

      anarchy flag

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      @insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

      "Nobody wants to work anymore," I keep hearing.

      Motherfuckers of course nobody wants to work, that's what work is.

      I think people want to work. We just want our work to be fulfilling and humane; and our overlords frown on that because then we start getting uppity ideas about being people instead of numbers on spreadsheets.

      ^ I actually enjoy working and would continue working even if I were independently wealthy, because I like having a routine, feeling productive, and especially like working for companies that I feel make a positive difference for people, even if I'm not in a customer-facing role.

      I do not enjoy working for chronically toxic jackasses that underpay and underappreciate, if not outright abuse, their employees and would like to have the option of tossing up deuces as I walk backwards away from my desk.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: For anyone who might be struggling with the hallmark holiday too

      As someone who always finds this holiday profoundly uncomfortable, thank you.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition

      @betternow said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

      I think he qualifies as a celebrity. Bo, the Obama's dog, cancer. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/08/politics/bo-obama-dog-dies/index.html

      President Obama posted a lovely tribute to him on Facebook earlier today, coupled with the photo of the pair of them running down the hall together. ❤

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      I watched my baby cousin graduate from college today. Granted, it was via live webcast because Obvious Reasons (tm), but still....

      This is the same cousin who lost her mother rather suddenly and horribly last summer, her mother who tried to be a mother to me when my own mom was, well.... yeah.

      And this kid. This fucking kid.

      Not only did she manage to finish out her senior year despite the chaos of the pandemic, despite the heartbreak of her mother's awful death....

      She graduated magna cum laude. And was too modest to tell anyone before it was called by the dean.

      weeping

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Charities / Go fund me's / good places to give

      Double posting, but one more. I didn't catch this one until today, even though it was on the local NPR affiliate, until it rolled up into the national Consider This podcast yesterday afternoon.

      Oxygen for India

      This is being run by several Indian doctors in the Philadelphia and New Jersey area who are buying oxygen concentrators here and shipping them over to colleagues in India that they have personally worked with or went to school with, in order to bypass bureaucracy and red-tape wherever possible.

      Tracking updates are posted so that donors can see progress and apparently the Indian Embassy here in the US is covering freight charges and putting pressure on customs to fast-track them through the system.

      If you're inclined to donate, this seems to be the fastest way to get supplies on the ground and in hospitals that need them that I've been able to find so far.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      My husband. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I picked a good one.

      What prompted me this time?

      Me: "I donated another $100 to X."
      Him: "Good."

      He could freak out that I've blown almost half his paycheck on charities in the last two days, but no. His only response every time is just "Good." And as long as we can pay our bills, I know he'd have the same reaction to me saying I donated ten times that to anything we both support.

      He is a precious baby angel, when I don't want to choke the ever-living shit out of him. ❤

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Charities / Go fund me's / good places to give

      Yeah, yeah. This is a bit of thread necromancy here, but I had an experience today that left me pretty upset, so.....

      I've been trying to reach out to friends, coworkers, and classmates that I know have family in India right now to see what I can do to help besides the donations that I've already made and the response I've gotten is just..... raw, and pained, and terrified, and entirely human. And thick with the sort of gratitude that breaks my heart, especially when one after another has told me that for the most part, no one outside the Desi community has reached out to them directly.

      There are nearly 400,000 people in India being diagnosed with COVID a day and nearly 4,000 dying -- and that's just the official count, which many people are saying is grossly underreporting the situation from a lack of personnel, supplies, and access in remote or rural areas. One friend of mine has lost four family members in the last three weeks alone; two more of her cousins are in the hospital getting what treatment they possibly can. I just.... yeah.

      I'm going to be linking a small slew of places that you can donate to. Please do so if you can.

      And if you can't? Check on your Indian friends and colleagues. They are absolutely not okay right now and kindness costs nothing but a few minutes of your time.

      Indian Red Cross
      GiveIndia
      Pratham COVID Relief Fund
      Sewa International

      I also know of two GoFundMe campaigns that I can link to if anyone is interested, both verified as authentic through people I know who are either directly involved with them or whose family members are.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @derp He's pretty much awesome.

      (Like, 98.3% of the time. Marriage is finding that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.)

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      That moment of heart-stopping panic when you accidentally like an old picture of someone. Counts double when you don't want them to know you were checking their profile.

      Thanks a lot, random nightmare involving my ex-boyfriend that made me wonder what that asshole might be doing.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: I need a place to live

      @jennkryst said in I need a place to live:

      Delaware exists, and we have 0% sales tax!

      I love how you guys are utterly shameless about setting up major shopping centers juuuuuuuuuuuuust across the state border for all of us Pennsylvanians. Like, I'm sure there's some lovely people who live in Claymont, but as far as I'm concerned, it's for buying liquor and not paying tax on expensive electronics.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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