My particular brand of ADHD brainrot is seeing all the AI-generated home decor items — stuff that is blatantly meant to be impossible to recreate in real life, with all the people jacking off in the comments about how a human could never create something so beautiful — and going ‘bet.’
Like oooh, only a machine could dream up something so unique. Fuck you. I’ll build my own hobbitcore garden. With hookers and blackjack. And a stone archway built from repurposed patio stones and an old tire.
The high dose of benadryl I took to try and breathe might be kicking in.
for many types of hazards and inconveniences happening in your neighborhood, the fastest, least confrontational, and easiest way to make it stop is to walk to that location at 3am in anonymizing clothes from a direction that does not point towards your own house, and repair, steal, vandalize, or disable whatever the problem is. this is ethical to do as long as it does not involve endangering life or livelihood and is objectively an improvement to the area. anonymous notes are also a great tool but they need to be written with a tone of intense calm and include very feasible and easy-to-enforce consequences. your chances of getting “caught” in any way that matters while doing this kind of weird errand in the middle of the night is flat zero if you follow even basic opsec
this is also how to take down or cover up fascist stickers or graffiti or other propaganda. Know what you are going to do and how you will do it, get in and out quick, and act chill.
It’s a popular factoid on tumblr that “in the past, most people ate street food rather than preparing their meals every day.” This is supposed to reassure people that it’s true that it’s hard to cook every single goddamn day, and you shouldn’t feel bad for ordering out.
This, of course, is kind of ridiculous if you think about it for a few seconds: even if we start counting from, say, ancient Mesopotamian Uruk, usually recognized as the oldest city, it was 2007 when the world’s urban population surpassed the world’s rural population. Throughout history, most people did not live in a setting when restaurants or street food made sense.
This is because “they went out to eat fast food” is a more palatable answer than the truth: throughout history, work was done by wives, children, servants, and slaves.
Ultimately, that is the answer. The people you learn about - the Roman senators, the Renaissance artists, the Aztec emperors, the ancient philosophers, the nineteenth century scholars - had the drudge work of life being done by their wives, their children, servants, or slaves. Even grad students spending all summer in the field and then writing their doctoral dissertations in the 1970s usually had their wives doing most of the work for them - and in fact, grad students to this day have workloads calibrated to the assumption you have a live-in housewife doing all your cooking and cleaning for you! It’s not good!
(The other answer is that for a lot of people, for a lot of history, they owned maybe three outfits, and they ate the same thing every day. If you lived in The Past odds were good that 90% of your meals consisted of the staple grain of your region in a pot that could be left simmering over the fire for hours while you did other work.)
There’s no easy answer for a world that believes in equality. A world that believes that whole classes of people shouldn’t actually deserve to get relegated to maintenance work so that a few individuals can be brilliant. Because the answer in the past was wives, children, servants, and slaves. We need a better answer for the future.
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