Was walking down a dirt track through the woods in the gathering darkness last night, and I liked the solitude, so when a truck drove through I saw its headlights and as it approached stepped off the side of the path and stood behind a tree, rotating around it as he passed.
With the horrible consequence that when I got to Darwin and turned to drive it down the path, I was the only active thing in sight but couldn’t be confident I was alone.
Bumping down that path, white-knuckling the wheel, eyes scanning the trees beside the road, all “I can’t fast travel now”
sounds like you scored an ozempic scrip, good for you!
No, actually I got afflicted with a Long Covid effect that limits my ability to generate energy aerobically, from blood sugar, so instead I take creatine to buff up my ability to generate energy anaerobically, but that’s definitionally burning fat.
the one fun thing about if the PRC naval blockades Taiwan would be half of America comparing it to the Berlin Crisis and the other half comparing it to the Cuban embargo.
the one fun thing about if the PRC naval blockades Taiwan would be half of America comparing it to the Berlin Crisis and the other half comparing it to the Cuban embargo.
If you’re ever in a cave and have the opportunity to get on a boat and go down a subterranean river, do that. You’re gonna be different after
Also if your guide is real cool they’ll shut off your lights for a minute so you can experience absolute darkness. This will also make you different after
If shepherding people out of this world is anything like that I may have a fulfilling career path to consider
The wild thing about losing weight like I never did before is that every single day the sensation of inhabiting my body is unlike anything I have ever experienced in my life
As someone who would love to lose weight but lacks the willpower to knuckle down, I’m supposed to pretend “You’re perfect just the way you are!” is anywhere near as motivating as this.
losing weight by getting knocked out of the suboptimal modern equilibrium by happenstance unknown to science >>> losing weight by obsessively counting calories for six months and feeling like shit
Yeah my conscious attempts to upset my equilibrium never came anywhere close, like the most change was the first year of going to the dojo in LA, where I actually developed muscles (thru 40mins daily of intense exercises in a group I felt fellowship with, led by a VERY experienced and charismatic trainer who had a solid sense of our individual physical and psychological conditions)
I'm in the market for a new mattress a few months to a year from now and you've got me seriously considering the Burrow. How does it stack up against other cheaper mattresses in the price/comfort ratio
I haven’t had other cheaper ones I dunno. Circa like 2009 I got an “Ortho-Poise” largely off of good experiences with visiting a girl’s and it declined over time but this one both started out and progressed better
Reminder I got the hybrid one, which is half-height coil cells but the other half foam so they can still roll it up, can’t speak to the full-foam.
I’ve been to two WWE live shows: one at the Spectrum in Philly circa Yokozuna and Doink, and one a year or two earlier in some high school gym where they announced the Texas Tornado had died.
The wild thing about losing weight like I never did before is that every single day the sensation of inhabiting my body is unlike anything I have ever experienced in my life
Shoulda seen the danger before I made my bed The Most Comfortable Place I’ve Ever Experienced, Where You Need But Shift Your Weight to Discover New Dimensions of Ease
So, for real, how much of a pain in the ass is it to launder silk sheets? Also how many do you have and how often do you actually change your sheets?
Like I’m aiming at once a month and I haven’t done my one set yet, there’s a mesh bag that apparently makes “Delicate” machine settings ok with for-silk detergent and then I have a line strung in the basement to dry it
At the point of accepting that even if I frame a question to my dad as clearly and directly as possible I might still not get an answer but if there’s a hook to recalling some childhood memory sure
Shoulda seen the danger before I made my bed The Most Comfortable Place I’ve Ever Experienced, Where You Need But Shift Your Weight to Discover New Dimensions of Ease
If your “workplace democracy” is any kind of democracy at all, your “workers” are not in the least going to get to elect whoever they want for the positions of management and owner. They will not have a say in how decisions are made. Even if they could have a voice, it’s certainly not going to be equal. There will always be more of one class than the other, and that class will always be given an unearned advantage. That’s just the nature of the “majority” system – it is a system designed for the “majority.”
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“Worker control” is the phrase for “people who are members of some category saying what things they think are good for them. This is a different concept, in that it is a category about people, rather than “things” or “goals” like “worker control” is. You can’t have control over “things” or “goals,” because there are none. It’s all about people – what is good for them.
This guy is actually a “worker” (“laborer,” in his own term) in a certain sense, and he’s doing his best as a “worker,” but he does want to take charge, he wants to do things his way, he doesn’t think about how other people want to do things. He is a true believer in “worker control.”
The thing to do when people who say that are coming at you with “worker control” is to remember that it is only a phrase that we give it. That phrase is only part of what we are dealing with, because when we say it, we immediately say what it should be. This guy wants “worker control” in the sense that he wants workers to have some power, that he wants workers to have some say in decisions. We are not speaking about “worker control” in some neutral or apolitical way. We are speaking about “worker control.”
Which is an oxymoron. It cannot be. No “worker control” can be true to its name when one “worker” thinks “worker control” is about how people do things, and the other one thinks “worker control” is about people being in charge. Worker control can only be true if it is about a few people having power over many. If your system is “the worker” versus “the others,” then it is a system where “the worker” will have the power to do as they please, and it will be a system of “workers.”
So when you’re thinking about it in terms of “worker control,” remember that when you use that phrase, you’re already thinking in terms of “worker” vs “others.”
What is true is this: most people (including me) say “worker control.” That’s what you say when you say “worker control.” But when a few people really mean “worker control,” what they mean is this:
We will have no other option but to trust the judgment of our fellow “workers” when it comes to “who will do what.”
The only way this will ever work is if “we” have more “workers” than the “others,” and enough of the “others” that they are just ignored.
This is so important that I will never ever consider “I” or “myself” anything more than a means of getting things done.
I have no rights, I have no desires, I have no emotions and I have no opinion. I am an “uncoerced” subject of the “workers.” I have no thoughts or desires, or “worker control” wouldn’t mean anything at all.
So, if “workers’ control” means anything, that is all there is to it: “workers’ control.” If “worker control” means anything, then the people who advocate it (like the guy in that post) are lying and misleading, because in “worker control,” we have no “workers.”
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