#<- I'm talking about capital W Work here for the record

[royalarchivist]

God gives his toughest battles (captioning a video that gives me terrible second-hand embarrassment) to his strongest soldiers (me, unfortunately).

[fatliberation]

Did u have a post abt how ozempic doesnt work somewhere on here? Tryna find it rn.

I don't post a whole lot about o/zempic or w/egovy in depth because it's a (somewhat) triggering topic for me. my dad is a lobbyist for n/ovo n/ordisk and he has continued to try to get me to take his drug because I have a "disease" that needs to be "treated." we've gotten into countless fights over it. I'm not in a place where I have the emotional energy to post about it, but here are some podcasts on the subject I have listened to and trust:

but yes, in short: it doesn't work, not for weight loss at least. it's prescribed with a diet and exercise (when their marketing relies on the fact that diets don't work. funny.) it doesn't make fat people thin, but it does make you lose a small percentage of your body weight (about 5 percent) because it's an appetite supressant. supposedly you would have to be on the drug for the rest of your life to keep that 5% off, and it's only been tested for a few years so we really have no clue of the long-term effects, and capitalism loves dependance! the side effects are horrible and are often too unbearable for folks to continue the drug. complete loss of interest and joy in eating, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, stomach pain, headache, dizziness, fatigue, even gallbladder and pancreas problems, gastroparesis, and blocked intestines. and there could be a risk of thyroid cancer.

[runephoenix6769]

I was listening to the radio. The discussion was the housing/cost of living crisis, as it often is. They had callers ringing in. One lady called in and she had something v interesting to say, which might help put some things into perspective. (I'll preface this by saying, I understand that cost of living and minimum wages are different in every country. I live in western europe.) She was saying how she and her husband were well educated, they live in the capital of my country. She and her husband have moved up the ladder career wise, constantly moving companies every few years in order to gain raises and maximise their earning capacity. They have both gone as far as their professions will allow, meaning they are at the top. They get paid the highest for their profession. They have done everything they can to max out their earning capacity. There is no getting higher unless they leave the country and even then its a gamble. She is earning 45k a year, her husband 36k meaning collectively as a two income house hold they are clearing 81k before taxes, so they their take is probably around the 70k mark (I don't know this lady's financials but we can imagine of that 70k, the cost of food, rent, utilities, dental, medical, clothes for work, the potential of a car... see how quickly that 70k is disappearing. She did not disclose how much savings they had but they app had more than enough for a downpayment.) The bank is obviously factoring this in... They were looking at maybe a 3 bedroom semi detached or even terraced house. Here's what new builds are costing in the surrounding areas of the capital.

this picture below is the 4bed 3 bath new build semi detached. 475k. thats nearly half a million euros. Its interesting to note that this is what the new council houses look like

The above are much older houses. They are mostly in okay aeras. None of them are in trendy or super affluent areas, those houses are well beyond a million, sometimes multiple millions. None of these examples are mansions, but they are all hitting the half million and up to a million mark. Sure, I hear you say, why dont they just move outside the capital? Well, 1) the commute is even longer 2) Nearly all our major jobs are based in the capital, and our second biggest city/hub is just as expensive. 3) the houses outside the capital are not much cheaper 4) car insurance in my country is insanely expensive. We're talking in the thousands. But I digress... The bank told them that they need to clearing over 110k to get a mortgage. (Though, they are paying astronomical rent on a one bedroom apartment in the capital. w/o obv the bank aren't considering that if they weren't paying insane rent, this would be freed up for the mortgage.)) There is no where else from which to squeeze another 40 grand, unless one of them gets a second full time job! They already put over 40 hours into work, w/o factoring commute back and forth, extra time in the morning getting ready etc, so realistically they are both putting in an extra 15 to 20 hours putting them at 60 hour weeks. They have put having kids on hold due to this and finances. What I'm trying to say is.... the two highly educated professionals pulling 70k a year is not your enemy. The cards have been stacked against us all by vulture funds, its constant price hikes by corporations responsible for our food and every day living necessities bragging about record profits for 5 years running, governments taking back hand payouts, ceos taking eye watering bonuses whilst their workers struggle to eat or live out of their cars. Its greedy landlords hoarding properties for short term lets, and companies like airbnb demanding to be brought to government conversations about housing with only their self interest in mind.

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[hospitalterrorizer]

diary205

4/7-8/2024

sunday -monday

gotta work early tomorrow..

but it's not too bad. today i read something interesting about political ecology and that is in truth a way of managing people/ideas/meaning so as to keep capital/its methods, a redirection of capital, rather than a negation of it. by this nature, or i suppose, by approaching nature as a system, at least bringing tiqqun in here, the cybernetic models of nature as systems, a multiplicity of systems to either manage and enable, to live 'with' and use, rather than to exploit, to maintain a smooth process of accumulation over what could end. the essay at a point brings up that capital can no longer be understood as the dominion of death over life, but a living domination of life. i am quite taken by this, not as a positive but it i suppose makes us point our gaze towards ends, time, slow down and what could end accumulation. in many ways the essay also brought to mind foucault, when it at points brings up the constant evaluation of all, evaluation of us, us in nature, our cooperation/failure, evaluation of technique and so on, this is very much an extension of the disciplinary.

here it is:

i am quite taken with it overall, i like that there is some attack on current trends within the academy that one may notice, and that these perspective are carried out and enabled by institutions in talks and things, reproduced, evaluated as useful and shown around, guiding ideas/methods. methods is maybe the best word here, the author at a point notes that these experts who guide us now appear first in laboratories, or this is where they discover the possibilities.

anyway, i am tired which is why this is so short.

there is an article preceding this one mentioned in the notes section that i want to read tomorrow, as well as some other things.

anyway, today feels sort of big for the music thing, coming down to the wire more, did another listen thru while waiting for my skin to cool so i could wax my face (hair was too short, got nothing, just tweezed a lot instead (lolllll (like usual (like everyday usual)))), and the record's issues aren't very bad, mostly just on a sound basis what has to change is more present snares i'm noticing, and a bit of a shoring up of the sound, standardizing certain things a touch, you know. so yeah, as far as big changes go, or big efforts that are gonna have to be made, about 4 songs need decently sized vocal parts added, one needs to be redone, one needs parts other than choruses written and recorded, one needs half the song recorded and verses written (choruses done), and one short song needs the back half written. there's 2 songs here that need little pieces added and i have the new lyrics for those parts, and there's one that needs me to do one thing. that is where the vocal stuff is at, pretty good, imo.

currently trying to get thru the first page of master related notes, as in crossing stuff off my checklist, tonight i'll be 8 songs in, tomorrow should be as easy, and then i listen again and check where things are/how they sound.

everything is sounding better now w/ these notes in place. siccck!!

so first 8 songs of 33 looking much better, unfortunately in that 8, 3 still need vocal work, so they're kinda distant from being done, but that is okay... i'll get there.

funny thing about yesterday, going into work dressed how i normally do, they didn't really recognize me immediately.

anyway i am sleepy now, and i have to be at work by 11:15, so

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit]

She-Hulk review (even though nobody asked)

I wasn't expecting much. I never do expect much from marvel, even as a fan, and while I won't sit here and tell you how groundbreaking and mindblowing She-Hulk is, I will say that it was more than I expected.

The show is partly characterized by Jen (the main character's real first name)'s fourth wall breaks. She makes it clear to the audience that this is her show: one half legal comedy and one half reluctant superhero story - Jen coming to terms with being both herself and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (tm).

I find fourth wall breaks to be somewhat overdone, but when it comes to the marvel cinematic universe and in particular this show, I think they lent themselves well to it, and I'll tell you why. This series is not afraid to have Jen look right at the camera and say "man, isn't it silly there's a cameo every episode? this is gonna be one of those shows, isn't it?" and while you could - and I initially did - easily classify this as typical marvel "well that just happened" humor, it came into play in a way that actually affected the story and overall message (a message! from marvel!) of the show in a way that wasn't just witty one-liners.

I mentioned before that Jen insists that this is her show, and "insists" is plural for a reason, because in particular in the final two episodes she battles with the ideas of the Marvel Writers, that's capital M and W. Spoilers ahead, but as I'm the only marvel fan on tumblr I don't think there's much danger here.

One of the ongoing plots of the show is that there's a secret password protected basically-kiwifarms subreddit called Intelligencia filled with misogynistic internet trolls who hate Jen because she's a woman with superpowers, and they don't think she deserves it. They don't say it's because she's a woman, but like yeah you get the idea. At the Female Lawyer Of The Year Award Gala, the leader of Intelligencia hacks the big screen and speakers and anonymously reveals that a guy she'd briefly dated earlier in the season and then ghosted her was working for them, and played a video of them having sex on the screen, calling her a slut and humiliating her in front of the gala audience, including Jen's father. Jen is in She-Hulk form and punches the big screen, destroying it and terrifying the audience. She's become the hulk monster that she's worked so hard to not be. Jen spots a man in a mask recording this and chases him outside of the venue, but is unable to catch him because she's being arrested by heavily armed men for hulking out and acting monstrous - a massive injustice.

Jen qualifies for parole by wearing a powers-inhibitor, so she can't wreak more havoc even if she wanted to. She talks to the fourth wall briefly about how she wishes the story hadn't gone this way, that it was unfair to spring this nonsense on her when this was just supposed to be about her balancing being Jen and being She-Hulk. Jen and her best friend Nikki set up a classic red-string conspiracy board in her mother's living room to track their progress on finding the leaders of Intelligencia's real identities. Nikki, who's infiltrated the Intelligencia subreddit, posts an embarrassing college video of Jen's and receives an invite to the misogynist convention. She calls in a favor with her male coworker to infiltrate it, and surprise! It's hosted at the meditation retreat ran by the ex-villain that Jen represented in court earlier in the series (Emil Blonsky i wanna say. The Abomination). Jen walks in and is all oh shit, the Hulk comes in and its like oh shit. The surprise villain injects Jen's blood and becomes a hulk and it's like oh shit. There's a fight and it's like oh shit.

And then everything stops. They superimpose a Disney+ menu to simulate that you've just backed out of the show because the plot has become just another marvel bullshit fest, and Jen declares that a menu isn't gonna stop her. She crawls out of the She-Hulk show cover and jumps into an avengers movie set, and finds the writers.

This is where it gets kinda cool and shit (can you tell I'm tired of writing?)

The writers inform her that they're slave to a boss they never see, called Kevin. Jen storms through the studio and meets Kevin, to find that its actually K.E.V.I.N, a robot that cranks out marvel plots with mass appeal, and forces into the plot events like an assembly of previously established characters to save the day, an injection of serum or something by the villain to get powers, etc. Jen demands that the show not be bullshit, and that K.E.V.I.N let her and Daredevil date (they fucked an episode or two ago by the way). K.E.V.I.N concedes, and she gets her ending.

That all is interesting, and I feel like the She-Hulk ending signifies a possible turning point at marvel studios. The writers are obviously self-aware that the plots are bullshit and that they don't wanna do it anymore, and they've proved in the past with series like Wandavision or Loki that they're able to make good shit with Marvel IP.

It's either a turning point, or a cry for help. Anyway, now I gotta watch the new thor movie.