not to be harry potter on main but i honestly think the fantastic beasts series would have been so much more interesting if it was just about the beasts. i don’t give a fuck about grindelwald, just give me a movie about an eccentric wizard travelling the world looking for magical animals and teaching us the power of friendship
newt’s character should have been like the crocodile hunter but in a wizard hat send tweet
oh my god it’s not about that??
No it would not have been good if it was just that. The movies are good because they have an actual story, not two hours of wizard crocodile dundee. That’s why J.K. Rowling is a famous writer and you’re a nobody complaining on tumblr.
jk rowling wants what i have
“the movies are good”
the movies have johnny depp as potato man fascist, several plot holes, reduce a deity in many native tribes (the thunderbird) into little more than a pet, and make voldemort, the expy for a nazi, have a snake that’s really an asian woman forced in that state forever
I dont think you should be paying for vegetables. they should just be there
A massive amount of labor is required to grow, pick and convey produce to you, and farm workers are already grossly underpaid.
too bad there isnt a perfect solution… like growing them yourself
Have you ever tried to grow a garden, any garden? A “garden” large and varied enough to feed a family (year-round! I take it, though, given your confidence, you’ve already purchased a flash freezer and walk-in cold storage unit so you won’t need to eat canned glop all winter) while working full-time, paying for a mortgage and taxes on that amount of land, not to mention for equipment and supplies, including water and electricity? I put quotes around “garden” because that’s actually more a farm. Have you ever worked on farm? Full-time, for negative money, while also working a 2nd (and 3rd) job to pay for it in addition to all your regular, non-vegetable expenditures? When I said massive amount of labor, where did you think it would go? What did those words mean to you?
whoa there. an urban garden doesn’t need industrial level equipment or labor to produce food for a family of 4, even year round. they can handle chickens and goats and even pigs. and when projects like community gardens are put together by an entire neighborhood, with the right expertise, they can quickly generate regular supplies of food. maybe not enough to gorge everyone all the time, but definitely enough to keep folks from starving.
what are you trying to convince people of exactly? that their desires to grow their own food are pointless since they can’t do it industrially perfect? or are you just pissed about the blasé attitude young people have towards work?
Hi, I’m your farming “expertise” (apparently), as someone who’s worked on an actual farm, even if not a proper “industrial” operation like where my uncle picked vegetables as a child. I suggest you try it, not as an insinuation that you’re blasé or whatever wrt work, just so you can get a feel for farming. There are tons of seasonal employment opportunities on farms of every size.
I didn’t mention industrial agricultural equipment. A flash freezer isn’t a thresher; it’s a readily available appliance, expensive though of a value impossible to overstate if you’re trying to grow your own produce for year-round consumption and not see your standard of nutrition nosedive in winter, and it’s an example of an overlooked component of securing one’s own food supply (storage). I also didn’t mention animals. Those are entirely on you.
Good luck raising goats and pigs in your urban garden, though. If you’re in or around MA/RI I can recommend a small-scale slaughterhouse, if you aren’t planning on doing that yourself, too. My advice, though, as an expert, is that would be a terrible use of space and if you tried to raise pigs on my block I’d murk you.
Needing labor, needing to do work to maintain a food garden, or even a regular decorative garden, isn’t debatable. That’s a simple fact.
So sure, I’m pointing out that it does take work, it takes labor, to supply and run a society on any scale, and that just because you don’t see it, just because it takes place beyond your narrow field of perception, that doesn’t mean people aren’t doing it, or that it doesn’t need to be done by somebody.
Your entire existence, including your charmingly glib dismissal of “work” as some old people canard, bold of you when child laborers are making your lunch, your pants, mining hazardous substances to manufacture components of your phone and computer, etc., is made possible by exploited labor that you’re choosing to ignore, to minimize, to cast aspersions on and pretend is easy-peasy and meaningless. You aren’t a member of any proletariat. You’re who gets deposed.
i love how everyone is arguing the nuances within this construct, like, food should be fucking free? yes? “but what about the labor.” oh my gd! what about the labor! maybe we should work on developing the technology for quick, easy resource renewal that cuts out the necessity of labor! if only everyone wasnt too fucking busy masturbating over tHe LiBerAlZ
Surprise creating that technology & maintaining requires…labor. All of this requires labor. I know folks love the idea of the Jetson’s city soaring above the clouds, but you should be asking about the people who couldn’t afford to live in the clouds. What happened to them? Our tech heavy future is being designed by people who love the idea of Skynet, not of utopia.
As someone who has raised pigs, I feel like the line “if you try to raise pigs on my block I will murk you” is not getting enough love. Not nearly enough love. Pigs are Satan incarnate and nothing will ever taste as good as that one sow and her babies who would NOT stay in the fucking fence.
Good luck with that “quick easy resource renewal” for food that eliminates labor. People keep telling me robotic farming is the way of the future. Those people a) have no souls and b) have never met livestock or indeed weather. What if instead we made sure that everyone had safe working conditions and a living wage?
The system we have now is not inevitable and not unchangeable. We could have a system where you go down to the store and get food without giving anyone any money, and farm workers were not the ones paying the price. As a farmer, I would LOVE this world. I could stop worrying about profit and start worrying about doing things the best possible way for every single organism on my farm, from soil microbes to cows.
A better world is possible, y’all.
I mean, why don’t these perfect world ideas ever include barter and universal basic incomes? Or an understanding of what food supplies entail? I’m really curious. Because whenever I see these things pop up no one seems to understand things like foxes or coyotes or disease. All the romaine in America is currently unsafe, so maybe we need a system that recognizes where food is farmed, how it is transported and stored and that values that labor.
People always gloss over how mentally damaging it can be to work in retail. I fucking hate that whenever I say “I could never work in retail again” someone has to reply “You snowflake millennials can’t take a starter job because you have to INTERACT with other people” No. Fuck you. I’ve worked as a planetarium host. I’ve worked as a public speaker. I’ve worked as a tutor and as a student teacher. I can work with people. I can work with crowds. Retail was fucking different. Retail was being treated as a subhuman. Retail was being treated so poorly that you have anxiety attacks before work. Having to work retail was a factor in my last suicide attempt. If I hear you say one fucking word about retail workers playing the victim I will personally break every bone in your body. Fuck You.
The holidays are coming up. Retail workers are going to be spiraling into a nightmare beyond human comprehension. If you’ve worked retail, you know this. If you haven’t, be aware of it. Please be kind to every retail worker you come across. Please be patient and understanding. It is misery out there.
I don’t know why people have to treat retail workers so poorly. They’re human, LIKE YOU. Their boss is WORSE than yours (my retail bosses were terrible, my current boss is amazing). They don’t want to be there on the holiday but they have to because YOU insist on shopping. So dig deep, find those manners you were taught in kindergarten, and say please & thank you.
And if I am in the store and I see you being crappy to a retail worker I WILL CALL YOU OUT AND SHAME YOU. I’m so SICK of how our society seems to have forgotten basic decency and manners. It’s not hard to be polite.
Even more importantly than polite, be PATIENT. You’re the one choosing to shop at the busiest times of year, and before you get all “well they should have more people on the registers!” stop and think for a damn minute. Do you honestly believe the cashier ringing you out is responsible for the schedule? They aren’t.
Cashiers have no say in the schedule or who does and doesn’t show up. They have no say in how much stock gets ordered or how fast it sells out. They have no say in the stores policies. It is not the cashier’s fault. Don’t take it out on them.
i just saw a fb post where a man was arguing with a woman about the best way to make macarons and he kept insisting that she was wrong, and then eventually he was like “I’ve never personally made macarons, but if you think about it what I’m saying makes sense, i’m simply stating the obvious. i’m sure there are plenty of youtube tutorials that would show you the same thing.” and the woman replied by linking him to her instagram business page and she makes fuckin macaron towers for parties for a living and i’ve been laughing about it for a solid 5 minutes.
Men automatically assume they’re more of an expert on something than any woman on account of their dicks. I’ve never met such an ignorant and narcissistic creature as a male
I’ll never forget a time when a fb friend of mine posted that she’s on her way to hospital to give birth. Women commented with “good luck” and other encouraging messages. A man’s comment was advice on how to give birth.
You have got to be kidding me
So I was talking about Jekyll & Hyde (the book) at a writer’s museum while we were looking at an Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit. I was giving my take on Jekyll, and my brother tried to counter it. I countered back easily, and then he said “well I’ve never read the book”
My dude………..stop
my ex, whose baking experience was pretty much limited to frying premade biscuit dough in boy scouts to make ‘donuts’, would constantly try to correct me or give me advice on baking
i’m a fucking pastry chef
met a dude at a party who was talking about physics and asked if i’d ever listened to any online physics lectures bc he listened to all of this one series and they were so helpful and maybe i could learn some physics too
i have a degree in physics
and am a published coauthor in astrophysics
the best part is that the woman who invented the term ‘mansplaining’ (her name is Rebecca Solnit and i highly recommend her collection of essays) came up with it when she was at a party one night and a man tried to explain a book to her, and wouldn’t let her speak long enough for her to tell him that
she wrote the bloody book he was mansplaining to her
You know I have plenty examples of this but that last one takes the cake so imma just let it be.
All of you do realise that not all men are like this right?
DustAndFundamentalists 