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As I said in the other post, !Chicago@midwest.social

Life was unfair long before capitalism, and will be unfair after it.

@Five@slrpnk.net is keeping !Chicago@midwest.social alive and active

I can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s

is everyone in hexbear insane?

Yes.

Have you never been to a Kriskindlemarket? There’s half a dozen in Chicago all of November and December.

But Jesus is sexier!

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He’s hung like 🫷__🙍__🫸

Thanks you so much for sharing this, it really is a great perspective on “death of the artist”, and one I haven’t seen before.

I’ve always been firmly on the side of separation, but with the caveat that I won’t give money to people that will use it for evil.

But looking at your situation, is that tenable? Do I think your barber will use his income for evil? Not significantly. But the creation of his art, your haircut, includes a toxic process. These conversations are deleterious to your well-being so of course you should avoid them for practical and aesthetic reasons. But morally, what is the best action? I’d argue that a business that would host those kind of discussions is further normalizing bigotry, a real evil. Driving business there would be a moral wrong.

In the end, it’s like vantablack paint: The resulting art doesn’t justify the toxicity, even leaving aside the moral failings of its creator.

So there’s nothing wrong with enjoying your haircut, but don’t get another one there. Like with many beautiful things, it’s the getting that’s the problem, not the having.

They’re not that green in color. Some are almost blue-black.

Collard greens are in the brassica family, and the coll / caul / cole syllable is often used for those (cauliflower, cole slaw).

Only by gov’t-licensed necromancers, otherwise there’s a risk of witness tampering.

Money isn’t taken out of the account until the cheque is cashed, for one.

I’m not even ready for December.

Found the reddit link now I’m off work. I tried to reread it but I got to the part where someone asserted that antebellum chattal slaves didn’t have human rights and got too angry / frustrated / disgusted to keep going.

r/AskALiberal question “Do you believe in natural rights?”

InB4 “that’s natural rights not human rights”: I know the terms aren’t synonyms, but the concepts overlap so heavily, and some of the replies to the question were so vehement, that they read to me as a rejection of the validity of human rights as a concept in part or in total. I’m willing to be corrected on this, but if it gets heated I will (advance warning) probably get emotionally overwhelmed and need a long time to compose a reply.

I had this experience a short while back, and it really shook me. Granted, this was on the Internet, where people are more willing to say wild things or generally go mask-off, but I was downright flabbergasted. I’ll try to summarize the various arguments without inserting my own bias:

• because they view human rights as a social or legal concept, and not inherently more important than other social or legal principles

• because we as humans haven’t historically respected them, and don’t respect them universally even now, so demanding respect for human rights is a form of privilege

• because the idea of human rights requires a belief that humans have special dignity above that of other creatures (this one I found especially irksome, because I found the arguments denigrating to animal rights)

• because various groups advocating for human rights don’t agree on what those rights are, so blanket support for human rights is not something they can do

I’ll try to find the reddit post where this took place if I can. It was… it was something. If I’ve misrepresented any of the arguments above, it was not intentional but only because I find them so alien that I cannot understand them properly.

When you get two dialog options and neither is something anyone would actually say.

Weep. Two of my children, that I love dearly, won’t have been born yet.

Sure has! Music and other art media keep getting better. I’m achieving the American Dream of land ownership, a family, and meaningful work. What I lose in health, both physical and mental, I’m making up in richness of experience. Everything has so much more context than when I was young.

It would be easier for workers who are religious to take those days off; currently they’re often “blackout” days with regards to time-off requests.

The right wing fears governments and the left wing fears corporations but really it’s ALL metahuman entities that are suspect and should be regarded as predatory until they can show otherwise.