janisf

janisf, 6 days ago

@qurlyjoe OK, wait, what? The helicopter? Was that planned ambiguity? Wait again. Of course it was. That's how the right-wing operates.

To be fair, the Iranian response to Raisi's death was also fairly ambiguous.

OK, so we get a woman into the White House, and then we get a woman into the Iranian prime minister slot. At which point we push for pacifism. 2180, here we come!

janisf, 6 days ago

@samhainnight @shoq @lorakolodny Sometimes. Sometimes it can be wiggling around on the pot so that damn thing gets out.

janisf, 8 days ago

@stux I was gonna ask, but I'm just gonna go ahead and dl this to send to my kiddo. HshtagSoryNotSorry

janisf, 12 days ago

@maddad Have you seen this, yet? https://thebulletin.org/#navbar-brand

janisf, 12 days ago

@maddad RIght? I like it because I know it's studied, and because it's a container for my existential terror. I don't touch news on the subject(s) outside of hitting that. I can be ready for it when I go there, and leave it behind. Sanity simply isn't possible of you carry that around with you all the time.

TBH, I'm not really sure sanity is possible, but I keep chasing it....

janisf, 12 days ago

@maddad

Ego is the matter with us. We are burning it down in the attempt to be the power that can implement solutions.

As far as "our" side goes, more capital isn't a solution, but we think it is. It does solve several problems, just not the big ones.

janisf, 12 days ago

@StillIRise1963 True, but we need to define "elite" quite specifically to make sure we're hitting someone, and not just putting ourselves in a general "anti-elite" bucket, which gives those elites a welcome mat to defend themselves rather absolutely.

Also, I'm pretty convinced this isn't as deliberate, either that or as populated, as most of us think. (Tossing this around in my head, tho.) People who inherit can be quite dumb about it.

IMO, capitalist propaganda. Yup.

janisf, 12 days ago

@StillIRise1963

Lots of people went to school. It doesn't prove shit except that you know how to fill out fancy forms, most of which have instructions in seemingly random places, sometimes only coming from one individual, and you usually have to use your own blank sheets.

There aren't two economists who agree on everything, either.

No, multiple PhDs probably means you know best that you don't know what you're doing. MBA's just want to pay their student loans back.

janisf, 12 days ago

@MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

Well, then, try this. https://www.capitalisnt.com/

In the mean time, try to be specific about who you're pegging.

janisf, 13 days ago

@luckytran I'm sure they calculated the numbers and probabilities of spread. It's hard to believe, but most Americans have medical coverage.

"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a fee schedule for the two-dose vaccines, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, that gives providers $16.94 for the first dose and $28.39 for the second. If any single-dose vaccines are authorized, Medicare will pay providers $28.39 for that shot." https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/covid-vaccine-costs.html

janisf, 13 days ago

@artemesia @luckytran the Medicare/Medicaid payouts for the vaccines haven't changed since the article was published, but using my mom's Medicare Statement of Benefits for proof somehow didn't seem appropriate.

janisf, 13 days ago

@artemesia @luckytran She got her last at the end of Feb. It says $28.39, all Medicare.

That's not to say the sticker price is the same as what CMS approves, but I'm thinkin' we need to be talking medical prices at least as much as we've needed to be talking about paychecks.

janisf, 13 days ago

@btaroli @actuallyautistic I'm not sure our society encourages that, specifically, so much as it's been propagated that hard work is how you move up the hierarchy (earn money, be competitive), while not tuning into the gratis labor that parents have to do.

Back in the day, the economic model of traditional family labelled parenting a FT job, and good jobs paid for a whole family, or so the story went. It's now an antiquated model, but you can still see it on your tax forms.

janisf, 13 days ago

@btaroli @actuallyautistic Set your boundaries ahead of time if at all possible. There are also some really great tips and stories on r/SingleParents.

It's hard. Take care of your health, though, because this moment of life will pass more quickly than you can imagine, and one notable thing you'll have to show for it is the state of your body.

janisf, 13 days ago

@KatM @VirginiaMurr @StillIRise1963 I'm not sure people understand that boycotting voting isn't like boycotting a business. The political machine won't shrink for lack of participation. Quite the opposite.

janisf, 14 days ago

@maddad It could be, but it's between having some rights removed and a potential sale of your data to and actual enemy nation. I mean, yeah, a forced pregnancy et al (which can be equivalent to 18+ years of prison, with disfiguring scarring, and more) might actually be worse than dying instantly in a well-targeted nuclear explosion, but there are probably people that would argue with you on your absolute equivalence.

janisf, 15 days ago

@Ilovechai @actuallyautistic @actuallyaudhd z

There are a couple of autism-supportive groups who get table/tent spaces at our local pride. Although there are some church booths there, too, it's not exactly what you'd call a sacred space. The whole religion thing is rendered irrelevant. Super friendly, and the people are there to do nothing but connect people to other people, and organizations.

If you want to get really friendly, and have the chutzpa to be pro-active, volunteer at one.

janisf, 17 days ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad

Well, not entirely. You can't just own a gun and make the rules. You have to be more organized and have more better guns.

Let it be said, it's better to be on the side of the people with the more better guns and the organization to back it. There are ways. I encourage people to run for City Council.

janisf, 17 days ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad I just had a conversation with a guy who had a deep understanding of what happened with India, and it sounds like Ghandi had "help."

That's not to say there aren't cleverer ways to push progress. For starters, nearly nobody's sleeping with cops, and I'm party convinced it's part of why they're so touchy.

Now we work on the Private Equity market?

janisf, 17 days ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad We can keep spiraling, or we can improve the systems people put in place to join the fight against violence, en masse. There really isn't a middle ground.

I'm committed to non-violence, and thinking of smarter ways to leave a better, safer world for my kid, and all the other kids.

janisf, 17 days ago

@B_Whitewind @maddad @Jon_Kramer It didn't do anything to mitigate violence, though. The fight I'm fighting is bigger than just letting men keep shooting men and leaving kids in the crossfire.

janisf, 17 days ago

@Jon_Kramer @maddad Yeah, seek out WHY that peace is happening. Emulate that.

janisf, 17 days ago

@Jon_Kramer @B_Whitewind @maddad Do you know what I say to people who say, "That's just the way it is?"

Yeah, don't make me say that.

janisf, 17 days ago

@B_Whitewind @Jon_Kramer @maddad

You make it harder to be a piece of shit, and you make it easier for mothers to raise sons who aren't pieces of shit, and you make it so women don't have to fuck those pieces of shit so more shit doesn't come out the chute.