#Rinse Dream

[videomessiah]

Dr. Caligari (1989)

[misterwhirly]

Now playing

[mondopazzo]

One of the greatest scenes in film history. <3

[henreyettah]

Foxhole 🦊🦊 🦊 🦊🦊 🦊🦊 🦊 🦊

[bvckbiter]

i love shamelessly yoinking fantasy-action ideas from other media. ethan fights with a whip like trevor belmont. silena has hot pink iron gauntlets like the zag aspect of the twin fists. kelli has claws and hair that can extend and harden like drolta tzuentes. alabaster has geralt-sized swords despite probably being half the weight and can also move it telepathically like [insert any xianxia cultivator here].

[ofmdee]

he's so happy 🥰🧶

[ethemreal]

[iamthepulta]

Making my own post because now capitalism is just revolving in my brain and I want to respond, but I've intruded more than enough. ^^"

I do think capitalism can be solved, and history actually gives me hope because it shows the fundamental need of society. Humans aren't inherently greedy or cruel. The greed and the cruelty are symptoms of a long-standing human need to make things better than they were before: to live comfortably, and without fear.

Capitalism is merely the current expression of this need that we live in.

Solving the need is absolutely possible by establishing a baseline standard of living and resource allotment. And that's comparable to an amount of 'work' that we deem acceptable in our daily lives. Because if you think about it, making coffee every morning with a Keurig gets you a similar product to making coffee every morning with a hand grinder and cold press: one just takes more resources and time than the other.

However, this needs to be flexible because humans are individuals with different needs, and the premise is also questionable because who's setting this baseline anyway?

I personally think it has more to do with government setting a cap on resource imports. (I think it should be stronger than tariffs, personally. Just a hard cap for the year.)

You can't really control demand. That's what most socialists do, and it always fails because humans fundamentally want to make their lives easier. But you can control resource management. If the government says we can only import 20 tons of cotton this year, and we produce 80 tons of cotton, so companies get 100 tons of cotton to do whatever with, and that's it. If we want more cotton, we have to axe some other import.

It 1) makes management visual. 2) gives citizens a personal reason to be invested in their government. 3) will not allocate resources fairly, but will show the true value of a product for the region it's in and prioritize local resources [i.e. if your country does not produce garnets, garnets will be more expensive than gold]. 4) increases jobs since there's far less incentive to outsource work, overall decreasing inequality. 5) encourages a circular economy.

In which case, I suppose I'm for some form of socialist autarky and I think that would solve a decent number of capitalist problems. Companies could no longer overrun workers and there's individual choice behind jobs, work, and some form of style of living.

It IS bad in like- fifty million other ways though. You can't just go from a country used to living in a capitalist society to imposing tariffs and screaming about autarky. Natural resources WILL be destroyed on your own soil and the biggest nation will have the highest quality of living. Imports have to be on a factor of population growth and this might only be possible with nations for a declining population rate. If at all. You also have to add a judicial angle for the people who will inevitably try to take over that system. And, most of all, you have to commit to not going to fucking war over state expansion for resources. Looking at you, Russia.

So I suppose we COULD solve capitalism, at the expense of a whole lot of other problems that are equally meh-to-bad.

Governments are fundamentally resource management machines though, and it's really stupid to pretend they aren't. With resource management, comes capping the fuck out of companies (specialists) that abuse the system (monopolies/oligarchies). When a government doesn't do that (whatever the method), it's failed its purpose as a government and also needs to be put down (revolution).

[lulabo]

last night I had a dream that I told Renee Elise Goldsberry that "Thinking About Myself" from Girls5Eva was probably going to be my most listened song of the year and she asked why and I said I listen it to when I need a laugh or to feel better and she was like, "that's very sad for you."

[musicsoulfairy]

Song of the Day

[the-casbah-way]

when i was a child my absolute DREAM was to be a snooker player it was like my entire personality up until the age of about eight and sometimes i look back and ask myself why i haven't committed to that yet. all the best snooker players used to just do normal everyday jobs and then play snooker on the side and even though most of them started really young they never got proper successful or famous (not that you can get famous playing snooker these days) until they were like thirty or forty. what i'm saying is watch this space

[dearansur]

how depressing is that if anyone asks how i've been or what i'm up to my only response is that i'm working. literally i have going for me.

[squarerice]

last night i dreamt that donna tartt announced her fourth book while being the guest speaker at my cousin's funeral (yes, dreams are weird lol. willie nelson was also there) the book was in the 600-700 page range and it would be about a female mc who was a cannibal. if her fourth book mentions or alludes to cannibalism in any capacity, i called it in august 2024

[victory-cookies]

well I can’t say I was incorrect about how my night was gonna be

[alectoperdita]

God I'm so fucking groggy and only getting out of bed now after a morning of repeated nightmares/stress dreams. Someone please give me the ability to make it through the day somehow.

Whelp, turns out I missed a meeting too. This is going great.

[miumiins]

god you’re playing l&ds too fuck yeah 🤌 i am a healthy amount down horrendous for zayne and they are all fuckin great and i have cried a normal amount to everyone’s stories

i only started it bc it had chara customization and next thing i know im at the bottom of the fokin ocean crying over mr ocean man over there…

but omg i want to read the stories for xavier and zayne eventually too bc im curious since i’ve heard their stories be pain and angst which is so up my alley but also all of my resources and attention end up getting spent on rafayel only dkdjslxjlsnf