Galli [comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • Voter registration is public information and sufficient for cold callers.

    If you live independently you will inevitably have to make privacy sacrifices for the sake of expediency. Having a bank account is probably going to be one of them. There are many essential services that you use but probably do not think of as an eighteen year old that may share information when you provide for yourself such as your phone carrier, ISP, utilities such as power, water, gas etc, insurance, health services, education or certification providers, employment or recruitment agencies, the list just goes on and you will have to thoroughly evaluate every company you interact with and in many cases there will simply be no realistic privacy respecting option.

    Keep fighting to protect your privacy but don’t put an impossible burden on yourself to be perfect. You will make mistakes, you will make compromises, you will probably get spam. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
















  • This is not just explainable with the concept of toxic masculinity but is a (admittedly trivial) example of how it negatively impacts men. They presuppose that the cause and effect is just one way ie: bad at video games -> toxic to female team mates, but they have not demonstrated this by studying the changes in the subjects attitudes and skills overtime.

    Anyone who has played games or sports knows that you develop skill through dedicated practice and from learning from others. Both of which are dramatically easier to do if you are open minded and other players like you enough to play and share knowledge with you often.

    I posit that there is a causative relationship of good sportsmanship (with all genders) leading to greater skill that is a potentially greater component of the observed effects than the masculine fragility alone.


  • Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.