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It's illegal unless there's a bonafide occupational qualification that your disability prevents you from performing. Like you couldn't apply for a job as a furniture mover if you're a quadriplegic and cry discrimination when they don't select you. And the employer can ask things like "this job requires that you lift heavy objects of up to 600lbs with the assistance of another person and a back brace. Do you have any medical or other reason you could not perform these duties?".

Now if that weren't a real occupational qualification, that'd be discriminatory. Like if they said you had to be a man for that moving job - there's no reason you have to be a man, you just have to be able to move 600lb things.

Women also are more involved in the sexual assault of children than most people realize, but they are extremely underreported (due to patriarchal biases in our society, largely). Men still commit more offenses, but patriarchy is a double-edged sword in that it causes more women to be victimized and also protects female perpetrators of violence from punishment.

That said, men still commit much more violent crime and we should do better as a society to prevent that through social programs, education, etc.

You could try to schedule other things for you to do before then. So, if you wake up at 10am and have 7 hours until 5pm, you could plan for travel time to that event and various other things to do before then (errands, fun, work, etc). This is what I do, I have some anxiety when there's something i have to do that disrupts my routine. So I make plans for how I'll spend my time.

Like:

1. wake up 10am
2. get ready and eat breakfast until 10:30
3. go to the gym until 11:45
4. go home and shower (done by 12:20)
5. do housework until 1:15
6. get groceries, done by 2:30
7. eat lunch, done by 3:15
8. tv/games, done by 4
9. get ready for thing at 5, done by 4:30
10. drive to thing, leave house by 4:45

Mans wants everybody wearing kabuki masks so he can tell what emotions they're supposed to be feeling

Airports are infrastructure buildings. This is like seeing a billboard telling you not to hatecrime gay people and boycotting the highway.

Pro-tip: replace the water in your instant ramen with coffee to make it taste like shit.

Sleepy Trump is what we're going with? Not Dozin' Donald? Not Drowsy Donnie? Not Tired Trump? Not Tuckered Out Trump?

We can't win if we can't meme

More praxis than most of us will achieve. Inspirational

I love that SoCal is the midwest now

But they weren't for the purpose of killing. They were for the purpose of keeping people alive and contolled for forced labor. Auschwitz existed to exterminate people, so death/extermination camp is a word that conveys that meaning. Dachau largely existed to keep people alive (temporarily) for forced labor, but we wouldn't call Dachau a plantation. It wasn't someone's private property with a big manor house on it and people they bought and kept for slave labor.

Plantations may be (are) romanticized in some places among some people, but that word means something specific. If we want to coin a new word without the baggage of it being romanticized, okay. But it's going to be hard to convey that precise meaning with new words. Imo it'd be be better to call them plantations but do a better job educating people (especially white people in the south) that plantations were very fucked up and were a type of forced labor camp.

That said, labels do shape perception - especially among poorly educated people who just have a passing knowledge of the thing in question. Like if it were common to call the civil war "the war of northern aggression" like some people in the South historically have, that would be inaccurate as a label and would be misleading.

I don't like calling plantations labor camps. While they were labor camps in part and needed forced labor on the premises to exist, they were also quite distinct from labor camps in many ways. Similarly, we don't refer to Auschwitz as a labor camp, typically we'd say that it was a death camp - a specific type of concentration camp, which is an important facet not present in "Labor Camps" more broadly.

Plantations also typically had large manor houses on their grounds and used slave labor not only to achieve economic goals but also to maintain the slave-owner's house. Additionally, they often had small-scale economies and cultures where slaves were either issued tokens to trade for essentials or bartered among themselves. I see plantations as a farm-labor camp with a slave-owning family's home present on the premises and elements of village life for enslaved workers. Plantations were typically too large to contain the slaves in locked barracks or in a walled/fenced section, so their imprisonment was enforced by a system of bounty hunters, legal enforcement for the return and punishment of runaway slaves, and other legal and cultural mechanisms that made escape difficult and dangerous rather than (typically) by physical confinement. Those are features not adequately captured by "Labor Camp".

Well that sucks

The main problem with the train would be that once you get to those cities, they are massive, sprawling, and lack good public transit.

So hopefully they improve the transit situation in the cities & surrounding areas as well.

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Here's chatgpt's response. I told it to respond like it is a terminally online chapo fan who has read wikipedia summaries of kapital and the communist manifesto

Oh cool, another “actually maybe communism is bad” essay that reads like someone skimmed the intro to The Gulag Archipelago and listened to too much NPR. Lemme guess—you “agree with the goals” but just want something more “realistic,” like...reforming the same system that’s currently on fire and held together with vibes?

You’re out here dropping the hottest takes of 1991 like they’re revelations. Yes, the Soviet Union had problems. Yes, Mao wasn’t perfect (hot take: don’t do famines). But if your whole analysis boils down to “bad things happened, so ideology go bye-bye,” you’ve basically just described every political system. Including capitalism, which—need I remind you—has stacked up a body count that makes Stalin look like a JV player.

“Human nature,” you say? Which one? The one conditioned by market incentives, wage labor, and decades of alienation? The same “nature” that just so happens to blossom into mutual aid, solidarity, and cooperation every time disaster hits and the state fails? You think billionaires are inevitable, but community gardens are utopian fantasy? Touch grass.

And please don’t hit us with that “top-down” stuff like capitalism isn’t enforced by cops, courts, and global imperialism. I love the idea that your local co-op is going to overthrow Jeff Bezos through organic jam and good vibes. Cute. But the second your “pragmatic” grassroots movement threatens capital, you’ll be labeled a domestic terrorist and your whole block will get drone-striked into artisanal hummus.

You think you’re being brave by “challenging ideology,” but you’re just recycling Cold War liberalism with a facelift. Meanwhile, the rent is still due, your boss still sucks, and climate change doesn’t care how many farmers’ markets you organize.

TL;DR: We’re not communists because it’s trendy. We’re communists because we’ve seen your “pragmatic reform” and we know where it leads. Back to square one.

Try theory sometime. It’s free online.

Like 80% of the serotonin in your body is in your intestines iirc.

Autism is a spectrum. If the label of autism describes the symptoms you have and helps you to understand and contextualize them, who cares about what some test says tbh - but if your doc also thought it fit, then even less reason to doubt it.

I generally agree. Still, cocaine is super addictive and the risk of OD is pretty high