refutablewife @ refutablewife @reddthat.com

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They don't want or need all of us to live. King-shit 101, baby.

Only a few real players left on this monopoly board, how's that game usually end?

Loaf of bread, pb, J. Slap some sandos together and walk em down the road, offering them to hungry people.

Go to trivia night and tell the host you're doing a clothing donation drive and would it be OK to rock the mic between rounds tonight?

Take a large box w a sign you've taped to it over to the local brewery and ask of they'd be cool with setting it up for 2 weeks if you promise to swing by a few times to keep it from overflowing.

Ask same brewery if you are allowed to do some tabling. Hang out with a sign or banner and qr code and ask for donations/volunteers

Crock pot rice and beans, bake some tots and show up to the basketball court every Sunday at 10am and feed people hot food until it runs out. My group has gone from doing this in our apartment kitchens and feeding 15 (4 yrs ago) to having a relationship w a church (none of us are even members of said church) and using their kitchen to feed 100+

Do you know bike repair? hair trimming? Car-less foraging in urban environments? A sign and a table out on the sidewalk will get the attention of people who want to talk to you about it and this shit grows in no time once a single person just... Begins

If you use an easy password for your password manager, it's trivial to crack with a few word lists and hashcat, just as any other account.

Websites get hacked all the time, and your login details (and PII) ARE available for sale from shady people right now. It's important that, the next time one of the sites you use gets hacked, you don't have to scramble to update all your other logins.

"Not all men managers"

But yeah, it's interesting when a friend gets promoted to management. We like when they keep their working class roots top of mind, and it's great when one does. Many of us try it once or twice. But the first time that layoff convo comes down from on high, you find the fuck out they care more about their own standing in the system than putting workers first. Cops and managers - I ain't trying to be either.

It is, and that's an important conversation to have as a society. In this conversation, I was pointing out the hypocrisy of decrying something fairly innocuous, and coloring it as ridiculous when juxtaposed against something similar yet more damaging that we, not only tolerate, but actively celebrate.

How does anyone still have this take?

He got to stomp the life out of a tool that was allowing the chaffe to organize, and the published list of his outside investors for the transaction is full of states and princes ganting to strip away the ability of the low-borns to fight back in any meaningful way.

He didn't lose a fucking cent on Twitter.

Hurts nobody. Completely legal plant in half the country. Kid might as well have found a can of beer.

Our communities have more to fear from the people who use "what about the children!?1!" as their basis for what constitutes good vs bad, than we do from some plant based medicine being left around as literal easter eggs

Lol we give em sips of wine for communion and most kids have seen their parents falling down drunk by that age. You gonna hide beer cans at the grocery store also?

An 8yo can look at one marijuana and go on to live a perfectly fruitful life, I promise

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." -Karl rove

How the fuck does this article not once mention Peter Theil and the direct connection he has with musk and Vance?

progress is both encouraged and anxious to be celebrated. no one will stand in your way, but it is important to remember the distinction between "we should..." and "it would be fucking awesome if I..."

But if we could find a way to crush the euro, maybe by making them pay for their own war in Ukraine and by making them buy weapons packages from us using only dollars, we can keep the dollar propped up long enough to redraw borders and strip enough copper and regulation out of the walls that foreign investment in the form of building new factories in the usa begins to look like an attractive investment, especially when paired with a populace primed by de-funded schools to be well suited for such jobs...

Every boriken I know would very much prefer independence

A colmado on every street, please.

Ooooh, there's a short story you should check out, by Vonnegut- "Any reasonable offer"

Let's get you into a beautiful house. Options:

As a student, overseas relative is helping you buy, has set the budget and you're going around and looking at places to get a feel for what's available in the price range

Or maybe you've just taken a new job position nearby and want to stay in the area and the exterior has the charm you're after,and curious to see what you get inside for the price

Pull up a few other places being sold for same price range and note a couple of small things that one of them has, that this might not. Act like those are a bigish deal because "the one over in sint-gilles has xyz, and that was one of the things on my partner's list of deal breakers"

Look wealthy, mention offhand that financing is handled by the trust, and the board is open to investing, and you just wanted to put eyes on the place before you advise them to commit,then ask a few questions about the neighborhood after dark, so they focus on convincing you without paying too much attention to the rest

They'll likely poke a bit about your story, and wonder about your financing, but its also super normal for people to be at the end of a long day and focused on paying attention to remembering details of the house or taking pictures and not really bothering to talk, so deflect or ignore.

Check a few faucets, ask when the electricity was brought up to code, and ask if they've already gotten estimates for any repairs that would need to be made before you were to move in

Do report back!

Same thoughts over here, friend. The thing keeping me sane is that I started volunteering. Look for the helpers, an all that (Mr Rogers). Shit is fucked and food scarcity is a thing for a lot of people in our immediate vicinity. I found a weekly breakfast through a local political org, but find something that speaks to you. Mutual aid groups, or do a shoe drive with your parish, or hell - one lady just collects bags of clothes donations from offerup and shows up when we're serving bfast with a folding table and people can grab what they need.

I carry a lot of rage at "the system" and helping my neighbors goes a very long way in keeping it focused where it might make some change for the better.

There are innumerable horror stories from cottage vendors bumping up against the money and strict gatekeeping of the nationally established conglomerates. This was in the US, but I know Canada also has, new, laws on the books to specifically prevent plant based cheeses from referring to their product as "cheese," despite being the exact same process and a final product that you wouldn't know side by side to the dairy version.

I'm not a vegan, but this is the just same ole regulatory capture bullshit that we're seeing w ev cars, good imported rum, net neutrality and everything else

Sure, but that's not the only article you read on the internet that morning. Every other site you hit took a similar fingerprint of you and soon those tiny "this profile/user likes rugby" data points start to add up. Swapped across 1700 (that we know about from this article) on a constant basis makes it easy to target you, specifically, when "this profile likes rugby" and "visits these sites from this network while that phone is at a certain geolocation during these hours" and "this device pinged this website every weeknight approx 20 min after that other device on the same network closed the Instagram app and started snoring."

All pulled together into their model of you, as a digital pawn to be pushed whichever way they think will make them the most money that day.

Where's the consent?

I give my name, age and weight to whatever health app, and yeah, I think it's normal to expect a few marketing outreach attempts from them and their advertising partners down the line. But even that's pushing it for me, and once it feels like spam, we all deserve an easy way to turn it the fuck off.

There's no consent with this shit they're pulling. It's unacceptable. Fuck their feelings or considering their business model. It's certainly not being reciprocated.

What a ridiculous way to measure books, I love it.

Grabbed the last 12 inches of (physical) books I read and added em up. Mix of very recent and older books (much thinner pages and smaller type/font), and now I want to see how much difference those variations make when comparing different stacks of books, but goddammit I know I had other things I was gonna do today