That’s never been my experience, but I’m glad it helped you in your situation.

I made a ninja edit, you might have responded before it was up:

victim blamers are all the same.

There it is, explicitly.

That wasn’t really the point being discussed, though. It was about having time to practice healthier coping mechanisms.

lol - they didn’t have to. victim blamers are all the same.

eta: not being able to relax is a mental illness, anyway - usually anxiety of some sort. The cause can still be entirely environmental… such as a lack of time to relax.

lol

Yeah, and mental illness is just people pretending to be sick, right?

I hope you get the help you need someday.

Yeah I got my wires crossed and mixed up the numbers. According to the linked actual article it comes down to missing info related to arrival time.

Lol yes, you’re absolutely right. It comes down to the serving time. My brain was a bit frazzled I guess.

The one I’ve been on was in Shanghai.

That’s really just markets, though. You can have markets with different methods of economic organization.

There isn’t always a solution.

If the working class at large were willing to choose degrowth, as individuals have, then they could do something.

With a critical mass other types of action would also become more feasible, as I touched on.

I stand by the thesis that they won’t mobilize, but that if they were to do so then they would be able to make a difference. Even if they only destroyed infrastructure in a failed rebellion.

In the end it is a moot distinction, I guess.

They can’t be honest about waging a culture war without defeating their own talking points is often why.

I was a shitty musician but I’m always jealous of the joy pros get from playing. Their seat is the best seat in the house!

Lately I approach it from a somewhat Information Theory standpoint, and consider that possibly qualia in superposition are essentially not rendered as in one position or another until an interaction occurs that requires it to be in a singular state. In a sense, perhaps the superposition isn’t multiple states, but a single ambiguity that becomes resolved only retrospectively. (I imagine this might require temporary cosmological branching for isolated systems, until the point they resolve and re-integrate.)

The customers are arriving slightly faster than they can be processed, so the queue grows. 5.8/hr < 6x10/hr. There does seem to be a missing parameter to arrive at the specific conclusion of a 5 hour wait, though, such as the length of time the queue is open to additional customers during the business day.

edit: As pointed out, I misread and was mistaken. The customers are served slightly faster, so it only comes down to the missing info of arrival time.

If you’re waiting around for someone with more power than it takes to stand in a road with a sign to do anything, you will be waiting until your dying day.

Which, to be clear, is exactly what I expect will happen. Impeding society is seen as worse than destroying society, so inaction will destroy society. Because on the other side of inaction by the working class, is the massive (and massively destructive) action that we currently facilitate. Which means we are the problem, and our only choice is whether to also be a part of the solution. The solution being the mobilization of the working class. Which naturally takes the form of small actions against system (like blocking traffic and doing PR stunts) when numbers are still small because that is exactly what the working class is capable of doing.

I’m sure I’ve already triggered enough lemmies so I’ll go ahead and add, that non-activists calling for activists to destroy infrastructure are not wrong - but they are harmful, not helpful. If they believe in the statement and if this is their true criticism of activists, then those individuals would become activists following their own ideas of what works. But people who are actually activists understand the enormous challenges in such a task while living in a modern security state, and more importantly that the culture is still too non-activist and anti-activist for these actions to catch on meaningfully. Society does not see itself as the problem here. The truth is that the people crying about traffic would be crying significantly more if their consumerism is in the slightest way impaired. They only want to be against the problem, without actually be against the problem.

I hope you all understand what this means mechanistically even if you disagree about where I place my values and judgment: Our families will all be coming to an untimely end. Those of us who are still alive when the cascades begin, will die. If you’re my age and nothing takes you out early, you will die due to climate change caused by our industrial society. If you’re rich you might live a few extra years and die in a bunker.

Oh, I misread, thanks for pointing that out. I don’t see it in the sidebar but I feel like I remember a mod or admin from somewhere stating that reactionary thought falls under the bigotry, propaganda, etc. rule. That’s what the modlog looks like too. Personally I would think it would be helpful to explicitly state it in the sidebar.

The reason it is reactionary is because it evaluates the education system from what exists now and looks at it from a reformist view, which is a process that normalizes the biases baked into the status quo, rather than evaluating from a perspective that critically addresses the goals of education. That’s certainly not the end of the world but I know some admins/mods are strict about not wanting their efforts to further platform it.

To answer your original question, you might consider asking the mods if they would describe the rules more thoroughly in the sidebar. That’s all I know of, at least.

Which community was it? Mods moderate communities, admins admin instances. Just like on reddit, communities often have their own sets of rules. If the community has an anti-reactionary rule, then the removal would make sense. I don’t think hexbear admins enforce a strict sitewide rule from what I’ve seen, but I’m not really sure.

It’s a horribly inefficient way to structure networking and learning tradecrafts, though. Many of the most capable students will miss critical opportunities through no fault of their own - some people are taking care of parents who just happened to start dying during the short time they were enrolled, for example. Others have to work before and/or after classes.

Equally importantly it was built on top of a liberal arts foundation that was never supposed to produce engineers and the sort, and while it fails to enforce a liberal arts education on applied science majors, it also sacrifices its liberal arts programs to make it palatable for tradecraft. Liberal arts are certainly of benefit to tradespeople and everyone else, but it is no longer the reason people enroll - students often bemoan being forced to take even the most introductory courses. It is extremely beneficial for people who do want to pursue these studies and develop their systemic thinking, that they should be allowed to do so, for the benefit of any and every field. But a lit class or two during 4 years of career training and extracurriculars does not provide that.

I think the current system has found itself traveling down a dead-end path, and that it is now bound to be replaced as its haphazard construction will prevent it from overcoming its growing challenges.

I’m referring to the US system in particular here as I think that was the context. Even most of the top names have turned their undergrad programs in particular into exploitative diploma mills. I think the replication crisis is properly seen as a symptom of a fundamentally misbalanced system and that it won’t resolve itself by continuing business as usual.

I’m a very big fan of education and access to education. I think we’ve gone about this all wrong, and like I said, to all of our detriment except the administrators.