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People say they hate cabbage all the time, but cabbage is really great. You can make slaw with it, you can ferment it into sauerkraut or kimchi, you can steam it for a side or to put in a sandwich, you can add it to any kind of filling or stuffing, or you can roll other stuff inside it, you can boil it in a soup, it gives a great flavor to vegetable broth, it's really nutritious and it keeps for much longer than other leafy greens.

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What are you referring to when you say "capitalism"?

Are you talking about the dominant economic paradigm of the Enlightenment through to the present day, characterized by companies with private and fully transferrable ownership, named after the concept of "capital gains", embodying the distinction between land and labor and capital and entrepreneurship, and originally pioneered by the Dutch East India Company (and also the British one)?

Or are you talking about a more vague pattern of human relations that merely involves exchange between two private parties that is mediated by some sort of ruleset?

  • The prevailing morality is to follow an arbitrary set of rules, mostly made by and for a class of people who have dominated the political sphere for most of human history. E.g. "If this will violate Ownership™ of a thing as defined by law, you shouldn't do it."

  • Another kind of morality is to consider the effects of an action. E.g. "If this makes someone's life noticeably harder or more miserable, you shouldn't do it."

  • Another kind is to look at the social relations. E.g. "If this enriches yourself at the cost of someone who is already worse off than you, you shouldn't do it."

What source of moral code do you subscribe to?

The first line is the start of a sick beat.

Kitty Kitty Cat Kitty Kitty Cat Cat

If you like doing your job and going home

You enjoy your employment and you even enjoy your commute. Then what's the problem? Are your coworkers having an even better time at work than you are? I don't understand.

But will it be 18:9 or more compact?

What does Microsoft Word give you that OpenOffice Writer or LibreOffice Writer don't?

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I've started to realize that temporary tab containers do almost everything that I used to use incognito mode for, and more.

You had a journey, a struggle, to get where you are. You don't need to impress everyone or check all the conventional boxes in order to have a compelling life story.

One of the long lingering effects of mental and socioeconomic afflictions is that we don't ever believe we are worthy.

What if we based our concerns off statistically significant realities? 🤔

I just realized that "racer" with an Australian accent is "ricer" with an American accent. That makes it sound less mean.

Never had that problem, maybe because I have the thigh-gap body type.

The Ur-Scam.

some high school composition notebook doodle shit

Kindergarten shit. "I want everything to be X."

He would have named the car company teXla if he could.

60-65% of households in the USA are homeowners, either outright or through a mortgage. 80-90% of households in Eastern Europe are homeowners. It's pretty clear that people who are perennial renters are mostly people who cannot clear the financial hurdle of a down payment. I don't think the "some people don't want to" line is a solid argument. It's the exception thata proves the rule.

The repairs and property taxes and mortgage all add up to a total that is less than the rent, on average. Otherwise, landlords would have a disincentive, and every landlord would be operating at a loss.

The points you made are points that landlords use as justification for their occupation/position. Are you a landlord?

They are absolutely huge hairy brawny angular posting units.