I mean... kinda duh? By definition every corporation revolves around what will get them money. ISPs aren't giving youtube a cut of the subscription costs... we aren't paying for youtube premium or whatever they call it. Saying youtube is only interested in throwing us ads, is like saying Jiffy Lube only changes my oil because they want to get paid for it.
OnishiMyers
joined 4 years ago
Shouldn't even be a human on the other side.
Capitalist trolly problem is.
We have dozens of levers, each one we pull can save hundreds of thousands to millions of people from avoidable death and extreme harm from climate change, health care etc...
But every lever we pull, might lower the amount of yachts the wealthy can own.
Do we pull any levers?
Honestly I hate touchscreens so much lol. So many of the computers at my work place have touch screens, and it drives me crazy because, I'm often trying to explain to someone OK click here (then my fingernail grazes the screen and clicks it for them)... crap I wanted you to do that so you'd actually learn.
That and then actually using it. It's imprecise as hell, and to add to the annoyance, you can't quite tell where you are clicking because, your finger is blocking what you are touching.
Generally speaking the first thing I do is disable the thing if I get a computer with one.
It is, but it also isn't. We act on the assumption of free will. But really the assumed consequences for ones actions, is obviously one of the things that elminates the control of them. Therefore whether our thoughts are free or not. we would not remove the consequences for ours and other actions because, that would remove a force preventing them from doing things which harm us.
It's not something I would want (for me I wouldn't enjoy sex in a transaction situation) , but no assuming consent, both parties being mentally able and un-coerced enough to decide whether the transaction is worth it to both of them. I do not see anything inherently different in those transactions. Now for some having sex is a high psychological toll... for some it is less of a toll, same could be said for painting, for some the physical toll of climbing and painting would totally wreck their bodies and cause serious injury, for some they would be more than able to.
Sex is just an action the human body can do. It comes with risks, it can be enjoyable to some, it can be degrading or painful to some in different situations. I see nothing wrong with anyone chosing to take those actions. There is of course something wrong with people being co-erced, forced to do things they don't want to do, and not being compensated fairly for what they chose to do.
Can't say I disagree with you... slaves got paid... in the sense that they had their housing, food etc... covered for them. As wages are dropping to the point where they barely cover enough for, bare minimum housing, and enough food to stay alive.... the only real difference is we get to have a different master quarter us than we have making us do the work, the net result is about the same.
See but there's the point, Assuming the sex worker is, being paid fairly, and chosing to do it for the money, I can't see it as drastically different than someone doing any other task for the purposes of collecting a paycheck.
Now with both there is the exploitive nature of systems in general. IE a boss, corporation or pimp that takes 90% of the income for the product of other peoples work. Exploitive systems that force people to work in situations which they get only a fraction of the value of their work to the person, under threats of starvation, deportation, homelessness etc....
I still fail to find the killer statement on why sex work is really that different from regular work. Again asside from higher frequency of blatant abusers, and human traffickers forcing people into sex slavery.
But the general idea, cutting out possible abusive bosses, captors etc... on both scenerios.
I fail to see a difference between.
A person, accepting an offer to have sex with someone, in pre-agreed upon ways, for a pre-agreed upon price, doing what she offered to do, and recieving the agreed upon payment on completion.
A person, agreeing to an offer to paint someone's house, to an agreed upon standard, for an agreed upon price and recieving a payment on completion.
Both of these tasks carry risks, working on a house contains risks of injury from falling, toll on body due to repetitive stress injuries, possible chemical hazards from paint/thinner etc... which also can be factored into the price. As the sex worker has risks of diseases etc...
Now yes, in either situation if human trafficking is involved. If the person painting the house, or having sex is not actually free, is actually working under threat of death and the payment is going to some other person, that is a horrific situation.
But my point is the actual nature of transactionally "selling your body". In which case, both of these situations are more or less doing the exact same thing. It's effectively renting yourself, accepting the damage you are doing to your body in the process of this activity, giving up your time doing a task you probably are not enjoying in this context (though there's nothing wrong with it if you do enjoy the task even in this context), in exchange for money.
If you have to pay someone to have sex with you, they don’t actually want to have sex with you. If you’re still willing to take advantage, you’re a rapist. Simple as that.
How is that different than say... if you have to pay someone to tar your roof, they don't want to tar your roof, If you are willing to take advantage you are a slaver?
Now don't get me wrong, sex work has much worse track record of abuse than manual labor, though I would also say it's quite probable that is because of it's underground nature... criminalized things attract criminals, same way that illegal marijuana results in drug dealing groups that commit horrible crimes and shootings defending their territories etc...
I think that thousands of young, fit people collapse out of the blue all the time. It much rarer than obese sickly people, of course, but it absolutely is not rare.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17522-sudden-cardiac-death-sudden-cardiac-arrest
Half the US population has gotten the vaccine. So... it's flat out not even slightly unlikely that in this big old world there's going to be some cases of sudden cardiac deaths, that came shortly after taking the vaccine, simple statistics. What we actually want to know is trends... can we prove statistically that more people statistically had Sudden cardiac events that got the vaccine, versus people who did not.
Then of course even further, we then have to weigh the risks. If we demonstrate the increase in risk to one aspect from the vaccine, then we have to compare it to the risks of getting covid without the vaccine, and the odds of getting covid, and the fact is, those 2 things are pretty damn demonstrably significant.
So in short the plain and simple response is, for every one case you can show me that "might" be caused there's 1000 cases of people dying because they didn't get the vaccine.
well... admitted cases and deaths went way down... now of course everyone reacting, dropping their guards, holding huge gatherings to make up for lost time... usually tends to reverse the drops... but we'll see.
reflect, pretty much same rules as visible light. mirrors etc...
now if you are just looking to blind the IR light... maybe get some IR LEDs or flashlights.
Oh god no... why zip ties and not velcro ties!!! Both are terrifying. (one cable gets messed up... and it's all hell).