Okay, I think I could have done more topsoil after just one rest day if the yard was open, but it would’ve put me back to 2nd day-fatigued, not just 1st.
Listening to Rock the Casbah in a bar (which makes me appreciate that the memory jukebox audio isn’t this thick…), spinning up a story about how the “jet fighters” bit is actually part of a British processing of how WWII air warfare is what they pegged a lot of their postwar identity to but by 1982 they’re using the realization of their marginalization in that (the cutting edge is Arabs!) as a window to realize British post-imperial marginality in the world
Then realizing I’m not shitposting, that’s legitimate cultural analysis.
the British aero industry is famously kept up by making jet fighters to sell to Arabs.
Okay, I have the next two days of pitching planned and then I think I might actually rent a vibratory tamper to settle it all a bit.
Like you can get those things home in a pickup truck, right?
When Blue Bitch broke down on the pass on the way to Missoula, the guy who saved me was a motorcycle rider who was hauling a fifth-wheel trailer to take his family to where they’d drawn an out-of-state elk tag in Idaho, he pulled over and was like “we’ll just put it in the back!” and I was like “but how?” and he was like “I’m a firefighter!” and just picked it up
Listening to Rock the Casbah in a bar (which makes me appreciate that the memory jukebox audio isn’t this thick…), spinning up a story about how the “jet fighters” bit is actually part of a British processing of how WWII air warfare is what they pegged a lot of their postwar identity to but by 1982 they’re using the realization of their marginalization in that (the cutting edge is Arabs!) as a window to realize British post-imperial marginality in the world
Then realizing I’m not shitposting, that’s legitimate cultural analysis.
Imagine someone from a non-American country visiting the US and attending an NFL game and constantly being on edge and anxious about if they’re culturally appropriating things or guilty of fetishization if they get too into things. They’re told to not worry about it and that no one is offended at them buying a jersey and wearing it but they ignore that, almost as if they’re hungry to witness a scolding over this.
That’s how people with a weird complex about appropriation/fetishization come off as
Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States
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The vast majority of America’s debt collection targets $500-2,000 credit card debts. It is a filthy business, operated by lawless firms who hire unskilled workers drawn from the same economic background as their targets, who routinely and grotesquely flout the law, but only when it comes to the people with the least ability to pay.
America has fairly robust laws to protect debtors from sleazy debt-collection practices, notably the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), which has been on the books since 1978. The FDCPA puts strict limits on the conduct of debt collectors, and offers real remedies to debtors when they are abused.
But for FDPCA provisions to be honored, they must be understood. The people who collect these debts are almost entirely untrained. The people they collected the debts from are likewise in the dark. The only specialized expertise debt-collection firms concern themselves with are a series of gotcha tricks and semi-automated legal shenanigans that let them take money they don’t deserve from people who can’t afford to pay it.
There’s no better person to explain this dynamic than Patrick McKenzie, a finance and technology expert whose Bits About Money newsletter is absolutely essential reading. No one breaks down the internal operations of the finance sector like McKenzie. His latest edition, “Credit card debt collection,” is a fantastic read:
I love how the Irish rebel song Come Out, Ye Black and Tans has a part that’s like “oh and as an aside the Ottomans in WWI weren’t shit, as Arabs are uncivilized savages just like black Africans!”
“Well of course even [men composing the brutish enforcement arm of British imperialism] could beat them, they’re just a bunch of uncivilized savages!” is a weird bit in context now that you think about it.
(The song is set in the late 1920s Irish Free State, the narrator’s father is drunkenly comparing neighbors with residual British alignment to auxiliary muscle brought in for the occupying police in the 1919-1921 Irish War of Independence, the song itself is written sometime over roughly the 1960s)
I mean it’s presumably by contrast with the noble Irish civilization of the Free State who had just evicted the Brits, but “haha look at those worthless losers, put down by the British” is just a weird Irish Republican sentiment.
Oh in all the new personality stuff I’ve been talking up the kinda extra-psychiatric stuff like the anxiety zeroing and allism, but a lot of the improvement really is in the structure of personality, the stuff talk therapy can get at, the old one was totally wiped out and I had to construct this one under conditions of depersonalization.
But of the analytical, intellectual mind being intact and functional and able to guide the process usually conducted in infancy and childhood (though honestly I suspect the autism brought a degree of naive conscious construction to the old personality too) with the benefit of decades of experience and knowing what the personality needed to be suited for
Plus there’s further bonuses from how it comes together – like there’s a whole category of stuff that, having lived with an anxiety disorder for decades under the old personality, is now trivial to handle; there’s another huge category of things I no longer need to construct defenses against because without anxiety I do not feel them at all
I love how the Irish rebel song Come Out, Ye Black and Tans has a part that’s like “oh and as an aside the Ottomans in WWI weren’t shit, as Arabs are uncivilized savages just like black Africans!”
Now that changes to my body are registering clear my subconscious is pumped, it feels my body and it’s amazed how lean and powerful it is, and I’m like “watch what comes next”
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