Oceans Yet to Burn

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[hamnox]

3 kinds of health insurance

“Hey there’s some low-probability, high-cost health problem that it’s crazy to try to prevent/prepare for on an individual basis, let’s contribute to a communal pool to deal with it when it comes up, maybe with some incentives to keep controllable risk factors down”

“Hey negotiating per product/service on every health maintenance transaction is kinda crazy making, how about I (or my patron) pay a flat monthly fee that cover all my basic needs and you handle the details?”

“I am foreseeably going to need more care as I get older or my disease progresses. Let’s make some sort of social / financial arrangement that leverages this, like I raise kids who will care for me or I give you investment money now and you pay my medical bills later.”

[cptsdcarlosdevil]

“most people don’t like the policy where we just let disabled people die, but disabled people can often cost tens of thousands of dollars a month or more to keep alive, and they rarely have the high incomes that would enable them to keep themselves alive”

[chroniclesofrettek]

Ozy, that’s not insurance, that’s charity.

[poipoipoi-2016]

However unfortunately… This.

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[theopjones]

I actually wonder how much of the uptick in political extremism (between the alt-right and the antifa types) is the internet tough guy ethos and troll culture leaking into the real world. 

People wanting to LARP WW2 (and the U.S civil war) to look badass, while seeming to forget the part where millions died. 

[sadoeconomist]

There’s some of that but I think it’s more about European politics leaking into the US through the Internet

Democratic socialist politics and antifa specifically is from Europe

Ethno-nationalist politics and Nazi street fighting specifically is from Europe

It’s shocking because it doesn’t belong here and it doesn’t make sense in America where there’s no chance of either movement gaining enough political traction to achieve their goals and just about everybody involved in serious street violence gets arrested and has their life ruined, or gets shot

And I’ve seen a lot of Europeans get bizarrely invested in extremely America-centric issues as well, it’s not just one-sided

[mutant-aesthetic]

It’s worth noting that Richard Spencer almost exclusively gets his ideas from European thinkers like Benoist and Dugin. He more or less shuns Moldbug, the only major contemporary American unorthodox right-wing intellectual around. So I think that theory of europeanization may hold some merit.

[mitigatedchaos]

America is under attack by Europeanized Bees.

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[argumate]

You see, a suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their friends have ulterior motives for defending them. But a really suspicious bastard lies awake at night wondering if their enemies have ulterior motives for attacking them.

[mitigatedchaos]

I’m just trying to bring about World Revolution!  Why doesn’t anyone believe me?!

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the three adhd moods

[rage-quitter]

• can’t do it because im bored and nothing is interesting
  
• can’t do it because im overwhelmed and im one slightly dissapointed glance away from crying for the next week
  
• can’t do it because this one thing has had my full entire attention for the past three days and i think ive gotten two hours of sleep in that time and my blood has been replaced with coffee

[thebookwormbakery]

sometimes it’s all 3

the grand slam

[rage-quitter]

forbidden fourth adhd mood:
-can’t do it because AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[roseverdict]

the fifth adhd mood, only accessible through a glitch

+ can’t do it because you told me to and now i’ll be so busy beating myself up for being so stupid you had to tell me to do it that i won’t be able to actually do the thing

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

Can someone please give Bannon a magical shield to protect Trump from the NeoCons

Clearly he isn’t powerful enough to turn Trump into the Fuhrer, so technically this will count as your good deed for the next 100 years or so for lowering the probability of WW3.

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[sonatagreen]

There’s lots of stories about women succeeding at traditionally male things (e.g. Mulan, Legally Blonde) but almost none about men succeeding at traditionally female things. When a woman does male things, it’s “she’s a woman but she’s awesome enough to live up to male standards”, but when a man does female things, it’s treated as a joke at his expense.

We need more stories about “he’s a man but he’s awesome enough to live up to female standards”.

[zerofarad]

I imagine you don’t count, like, Mrs. Doubtfire?

[sonatagreen]

While I can see how Mrs. Doubtfire is sort of about a man learning to succeed at femininity, I find it deeply unsatisfying for two reasons. First, Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams’s character) only attempts to learn feminine skills in order to pass as a woman. This reinforces the idea that femininity is a female thing. Second, at the end of the movie, I feel that he’s presenting as a more-well-rounded masculine, rather than simply feminine. The message seems to be “it’s okay to cook and clean and spend time with your kids, because it doesn’t compromise your masculinity”. I want a message of “it’s okay to not be masculine”. I’m vaguely reminded of countersignaling; I get the feeling that Daniel Hillard is allowed to have feminine traits because he manages to not let them overshadow his masculinity.

By contrast, consider Kanahe Tomohisa, from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. He’s a stay-at-home husband who wears an apron and takes care of the housework, his build is slim and his demeanor submissive, and this is (at least in the episodes I’ve seen so far) not remarked upon at all or treated as a source of either drama or humor. It’s treated as perfectly normal, natural, ordinary, healthy, unremarkable that he should tend the home and the children while his wife earns the family income as a career businesswoman. The show isn’t really about him, he’s only a supporting character; but he’s the sort of character that would be a natural consequence of the shows I want to see.

[hybridzizi]

I feel like the fact that Elle didn’t compromise her femininity was a big part of Legally Blonde, though. Do the two movies do this differently or am I just completely misunderstanding what you’re saying? (I haven’t actually seen Mrs. Doubtfire. I’m just going off what you say)

[sonatagreen]

I’ve actually only seen a couple of scenes from Legally Blonde, but I got the impression that, while she’s femme in a shoes-and-lipstick kind of way, she’s also characterized as having qualities that are necessary to success specifically in classically male endeavors: proactive, academically gifted, a take-no-shit attitude, etc. She’s undeniably girly, but I don’t think she could be characterized as soft and vulnerable. What I know of Legally Blonde gives me a “women can be strong too” vibe, as opposed to the “it’s okay not to be strong” that I’m looking for.

[argumate]

popular culture cannot bear the sight of a weak man.

[mitigatedchaos]

Can the median neurotypical cishet woman?

I think that’s a lot of where this really comes from.  That kind of man isn’t really seen as desirable, and that isn’t going to change soon outside of atypical women, which in some ways is fine because we can’t demand they change their preferences, but on the other hand there are a lot of side effects and it isn’t just evil masculinity that’s the cause of them.