#and the higher in hierarchy you are the more interest you have in maintaining them

[mlembug]

On one hand: you don't really need a reason to not watch a movie/show or play a game, and people going "how come you haven't watched <insert show name here>?" just make me not want to talk about movies at all.

On the other hand: as someone who regularly plays video games which are as old as I am, I find this remark bizarre, as it's not like movies, shows or video games have an expiration date.

I'm not gonna watch utena bro that shit old as hell

[banditbabes]

i have this theological thesis with my mom how masc energy is the animalistic honest primitive and open one and feminine is the mysterious intelligent cunning and humane one, the closer you're to femininity the more evolutionally advanced you are but there's also the noble savage archetype which says humans were happier stupider basically men are evolving to be women without even knowing, i use this alchemical hermaphrodite rebis and how hermaphrodite was the ideal state of humanity before the gods ripped it into two halves and now they're looking for each other all over the world aka the explanation of heteronormativity and in ancient egyptian religion the father holds both ka the masc energy and hemsut the feminine energy and has to provide his family those both energies in order to maintain life and it further works in a city state where the people of the city are responsible to a particular god the city is dedicated to with maintaining ka and hemsut and it works even further to the king who's responsible for giving both ka and hemsut to all his people of egypt as the son of god and god on earth and it works further even to cosmos where the god the creator is responsible for maintaining ka and hemsut in the entire world and this principle of masculine and feminine energy is in all ancient religions before the abrahamic religions showed up and still shows that feminine energy is the advanced one but it has to be balanced out with the less advanced masculine energy so humans don't overthrow the divine which is the lucifer case ive had this thought about how men might have been spiritually as valuable as women or maybe even more since all the old religions talk about male prophets which gained them the higher position in society which results in patriarchy but over those years men are no longer as high as women are women simply overpowered them and now the social hierarchy needs a rebuilt because men fell so far behind women that they no longer deserve such high positions but there's this interesting phenomenon (that might be maybe just created for the sake of abrahamic religions) that femininity is the primitive one and masculine is the humane one and humans need to make men take charge over women because according to many usually 19th century evolution theories the human society's default system was matriarchy and it turned into matriarchy as humans humanized themselves which doesn't quite correspond with the original idea of feminity as something less direct and spontaneous and more thoughtful

[inposterumcumgaudio]

penelope snug!

So officially, it seems Penelope Snug is supervisor of motilene infrastructure while Jim Watt is in charge of motilene acquisition. However, we have communications between Jim and the boys in the Barrow Holm hatch, who would seem to fall under Penelope's purview if that were true. (See my theory about early motilene distribution and why Barrow Holm has motilene at all). Jubilator operation and maintenance also seems to be run out of the Motilene Control HQ, even though you would think that would fall more under the Doctors' oversight since Jubilators were invented to relieve them of corpse collection duties. Very tangled system of duties and obligations.

Penelope also maintains an office in the Parade District Document Control, oddly enough. Perhaps this means her position is higher than implied, that she oversees broader civil engineering and not just motilene.

In her office, she has three bowler hats.

Imagine! A lady in a council worker's uniform topped off with a bowler hat. That's a look! I eagerly await the fanart concepts.

I think this is one of those things that evolved and got muddy over time, that Penelope might have been meant to be in charge of one thing and kept getting subbed in to others. Penelope also makes me think a lot of BioShock 2's "Big Kate" O'Malley, who is also a supervisor of civic works in Rapture and the first person you find an audio diary from in that game. Parallels are often drawn between We Happy Few and BioShock but I would almost think Penelope could have been an homage.

A thing I think is interesting in comparing the two though is that Rapture did not set out with a specific intent of gender equality but ended up with it by selectively choosing the best people in every field regardless of it. In Wellington Wells, however, that women are able to achieve such high positions in the town is due to its inability to choose from only men. The town suffers shortages in nearly every way, but this also presents opportunity for those who would otherwise be overlooked.

Her correspondence with Verloc shows that the two of them are on a first name basis (Anton, though, not Tony). He even invites her and her husband Richard (whose name he knows and remembers) to dinner, which tells us he can cook. I rather would have liked to think that anyway, since cooking is just chemistry in another room, but he wouldn't be inviting people over if he couldn't.

Funnily enough, the one note we have from Penelope to Victoria lacks both a greeting and a signature, but Penelope does know specifically that Prudence Holmes is on holiday. So it means either Penelope and Victoria are so friendly as to dispense with formalities in their coorespondance... or Penelope considers this to be an interdepartmental memo... to a subordinate. Which, if she's in charge of document control as well might make sense.

The government hierarchy tree in How to be Happy is actually more of an inbred circle so make what you want of that.

Lastly, Penelope's note to Thomas Horner gives us a bit of nuance as to how she runs her crew.

So Thomas is running Jubilator Jousting tournaments on the off hours, which is a misuse of city property that perhaps Penelope was overlooking (and participating in) because it's good for morale. There's a lot of other morale initiatives happening in the Motilene Control HQ so this would seemingly fall under her interests and as long as it's not hurting anyone or getting out and making her look bad...

The problem occurs when Peter Thump loses during the Grand Derby and won't settle his unpaid debts. And this is interesting because in this scene, you're supposed to sympathize with Peter, right? He's being chased by a maniac in a Jubilator, of course he's in the right. But with the knowledge that he's ratted Thomas out not because he owes him money, but because he's not being allowed to bet further until he pays up... It's such a small side story, but it's very indicative of my larger point I'm always trying to make here, that what you're told is never exactly as one side presents it.

Anyway, so Peter rats Thomas out to Penelope and now that there's notes about it, it has become a problem. So Penelope does the only face-saving thing to be done, which is promote Peter to shut him up and tell Thomas to quit with the tournaments.

So Peter has not only fucked Thomas out the money he already owed, but also out of further profits from the tournaments, and presumably a pay raise that would have come along with his missed promotion.

He is a rotten swot, honestly.

And this puts Penelope in an unfortunate situation too because she knows what the actual haps is probably, but this is the bind they are in now. Whether she wants to side with Thomas on this or not, her hands are tied. And what's funny too is, Peter is lying about not being involved with the jousting at all - it's "Other people's money, I mean. I never bet myself." - so Thomas can only lie about being completely innocent of hosting the tournaments in the first place. To which Penelope replies that "If you persist in proclaiming your innocence, then I suppose I don't owe you 10 quid for the Grand Derby, do I?"

Thomas also lets us in on a bit of the discussion had about this:

"Come on! Let's have a "conversation." I'm sorry, no, a constructive, let's have a "constructive conversation." Has my work been "slipping"? Oh no? It's just that I've "failed to improve as much as we would have hoped"? Who the hell is "we" anyways? Have you got an invisible friend, or are you now the Queen of the bloody Pipes?"

Penelope is at home placing wagers on the destruction of her work equipment along with her crewman, but is also fluent in euphemistic (if a bit anachronistically modern) corporate-speak.

I do think the record-keeping is the thing here. If not for Wellington Wells' dependence on written notes, Penelope might have gotten away with firing Peter or transferring him to another department due to "poor culture fit".

[redinkquill]

You Deserve A Piece

"You deserve a piece. That's how this business is run. We go by the tenets of laborism. Commerce for the benefit of labor."

"I haven't worked at one of these businesses before. I usually work for the owner. How does this work?"

"It's a profit seeking business, but the profit is split amongst the workers. It's different from socialism and communism where the government owns the business. It's different from capitalism where people with money own the business. Here as Our Piece all you need to have a piece of this business is to work here. We are trying something new."

"So do we all get an equal share in the business?"

"There is still a hierarchy. We have found that where one does not exist, one will appear naturally. So we have structured this business to have a fair hierarchy that benefits a much larger portion of people who work here. You will be paid as a new worker and bumped up when either time has passed or you have demonstrated excellence. Even just starting out, your pay will be much higher than what you would find at a comparable job at our competitors. Think of this place as a business owned by the union."

"Oh, that cool. What's the pay like?"

"That's always hard to nail down with inflation, time of reading, nationality and currency involved. Just know, it will be enough to live well. You will be able to afford rent, food, and externalities. Your health insurance will be provided and we also offer legal retainers for any issues you will face out in the world. Work with us long enough and you will be given a stipend when you retire. Another bonus is that the hours are great. We are currently full time at 32 hours, but will be pairing that down as far as it can go while maintaining the economic sense of the business model."

"What do I have to do here?"

"Just the work we give you. There will be meetings where we discuss general directions where you can put in your input. We leave most of the decision making to the people dealing with the details. Occasionally you will make mistakes and we will correct them and try make sure they don't happen again. We know you are human and will make mistakes. We actually have beds here to catch sleep if you are lacking in it. We know the more sleep you get, the less mistakes you will make."

"How do you survive as a business if you pay better?"

"We have found that labor costs are not that high of a percentage of business costs. The real kicker are interest payments on debt and stock buy backs or dividend payments for investors. Since we don't have those, we have lower costs and are able to pay much better. If the business ever sells, a decision made by the workers here, the proceeds will be split amongst the people that work here."

"Well, sign me up. I am interested."

"That's great. Here is your card, it evidence of your piece of the business. If you lose it, you will have to pay out for another. Welcome aboard."

[jalip3006]

5 Interesting Steps to Build a Successful Website

Building a successful website involves more than just putting together a few pages and hitting publish. It requires thoughtful planning, strategic execution, and ongoing optimization. Whether you’re creating a site for your business or personal use, here are five interesting and essential steps to guide you through the process, with a special mention of how Jalip Solutions can help you achieve your goals.

1. Define Clear Objectives and Audience

Before diving into design and development, it’s crucial to define what you want to achieve with your website and understand who your target audience is.

Why It Matters:

Purposeful Design: Knowing your objectives helps you design a site that aligns with your goals, whether it’s generating leads, showcasing a portfolio, or selling products.

Tailored Content: Understanding your audience allows you to create content that resonates with them, increasing engagement and effectiveness.

How to Do It:

Set Specific Goals: Are you looking to increase sales, build brand awareness, or provide information? Clearly outline these goals.

Identify Your Audience: Create user personas representing your ideal visitors. Consider their needs, preferences, and behaviors.

Example: For a website developed by Jalip Solutions, if you’re launching an e-commerce site, you might focus on goals like enhancing user experience and increasing conversion rates.

2. Craft a User-Centric Design

Designing with the user in mind is critical for creating a site that is both visually appealing and functional.

Why It Matters:

Enhanced Usability: A well-designed site improves navigation and user experience, making it easier for visitors to find what they need.

Increased Engagement: A visually attractive site can capture users’ attention and encourage them to stay longer.

How to Do It:

Follow Design Principles: Use principles like hierarchy, contrast, and alignment to guide users’ attention.

Implement Responsive Design: Ensure your website looks great and functions well on all devices, from desktops to smartphones.

Example: At Jalip Solutions, we focus on creating responsive designs that adapt seamlessly to any device, ensuring your website delivers a consistent experience across all platforms.

3. Optimize for Performance and Speed

A slow-loading website can frustrate users and hurt your search engine rankings. Performance optimization is key to maintaining a smooth user experience.

Why It Matters:

User Retention: Fast load times help keep visitors on your site, reducing bounce rates and improving user satisfaction.

SEO Benefits: Search engines like Google factor page speed into their rankings, so faster sites have a better chance of ranking higher.

How to Do It:

Compress Images: Use tools to reduce image sizes without sacrificing quality.

Minimize Code: Optimize your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to reduce file sizes and improve load times.

Use Caching: Implement caching strategies to speed up load times for returning visitors.

Example: Jalip Solutions employs various optimization techniques to ensure your website not only looks great but performs efficiently, providing an excellent experience for your visitors.

4. Implement Effective SEO Strategies

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential for driving organic traffic to your site. Effective SEO helps improve your visibility in search engine results.

Why It Matters:

Increased Traffic: Higher search engine rankings lead to more visibility and potential visitors.

Better User Experience: SEO practices often enhance the overall user experience, such as improving site navigation and content quality.

How to Do It:

Conduct Keyword Research: Identify relevant keywords and integrate them naturally into your content.

Optimize On-Page Elements: Ensure meta titles, descriptions, headers, and alt texts are optimized for your target keywords.

Build Quality Backlinks: Earn backlinks from reputable sites to improve your domain authority.

Example: Jalip Solutions offers comprehensive SEO services to help boost your site’s ranking and attract more traffic, ensuring your site reaches the right audience.

5. Monitor and Analyze Performance

Ongoing monitoring and analysis are crucial for understanding how your website performs and making data-driven improvements.

Why It Matters:

Continuous Improvement: Regular analysis helps you identify areas for improvement and adapt to changing user needs or trends.

Informed Decisions: Data-driven insights allow you to make informed decisions about content, design, and marketing strategies.

How to Do It:

Use Analytics Tools: Implement tools like Google Analytics to track visitor behavior, traffic sources, and conversion rates.

Gather User Feedback: Collect feedback through surveys or usability tests to gain insights into user experiences.

Monitor Key Metrics: Keep an eye on metrics like bounce rate, average session duration, and conversion rates to assess your site’s performance.

Example: Jalip Solutions uses advanced analytics to monitor and optimize your website’s performance, helping you make informed decisions and continuously improve your site.

By following these steps—defining clear objectives, crafting a user-centric design, optimizing for performance, implementing SEO strategies, and monitoring performance—you’ll be well on your way to building a successful and effective website. Each step plays a vital role in ensuring that your site not only attracts visitors but also meets their needs and achieves your goals. For tailored solutions and expert guidance, Jalip Solutions is here to help you every step of the way.

[digital-marketing-chronicles]

Understanding Moz PA DA Checker: Your Ultimate Tool for Website Authority Insights

Introduction: What is Moz PA DA Checker?

In the ever-competitive world of digital marketing, understanding and improving your website’s authority is crucial for better search engine rankings. Moz PA DA Checker is an essential tool that helps you measure and analyze the Page Authority (PA) and Domain Authority (DA) of your website. These metrics provide valuable insights into how well your site is likely to perform in search engine results, helping you make informed decisions about your SEO strategies.

Why Are PA and DA Important?

Page Authority (PA): PA predicts how well a specific page will rank on search engines. It is scored on a scale from 1 to 100, with higher scores indicating better chances of ranking.

Domain Authority (DA): DA reflects the overall strength of your entire domain or website. Like PA, it is scored between 1 and 100, with higher scores indicating greater potential for ranking across multiple pages.

SEO Strategy: Understanding your PA and DA helps you refine your SEO strategy, focusing on areas that need improvement to boost your website’s visibility.

Competitive Analysis: By comparing your PA and DA with competitors, you can identify where you stand in the market and develop strategies to outperform them.

How to Use Moz PA DA Checker Effectively

Access the Tool: Start by visiting the Moz website or using an integrated SEO tool that offers PA DA checking capabilities.

Enter Your URL: Input your website’s URL into the checker tool. You can also check individual pages if you’re interested in their specific PA scores.

Analyze the Results: Once you get your PA and DA scores, analyze the results to understand where your website stands. Compare these metrics with your competitors.

Identify Weak Pages: If certain pages have lower PA, consider updating content, improving on-page SEO, or acquiring more backlinks to enhance their authority.

Focus on Backlink Quality: Since DA is heavily influenced by backlinks, use the checker to assess the quality of links pointing to your site. Aim to acquire links from high-authority sites to improve your DA.

Monitor Progress: Regularly check your PA and DA to track your progress over time. This helps in adjusting your SEO strategy as needed.

Strategies to Improve PA and DA

Create High-Quality Content: Consistently publishing valuable and relevant content can naturally attract backlinks and improve both PA and DA.

Optimize On-Page SEO: Ensure that your pages are optimized with relevant keywords, meta descriptions, and header tags to enhance search engine visibility.

Build Quality Backlinks: Focus on acquiring backlinks from reputable and high-authority websites. Guest blogging, partnerships, and content marketing are effective ways to achieve this.

Enhance Site Structure: A well-organized website with a clear hierarchy can improve user experience and help search engines crawl your site more effectively.

Improve Page Load Speed: Faster-loading pages are favored by both users and search engines, which can positively impact your PA and DA.

Ensure Mobile-Friendliness: With mobile search becoming increasingly dominant, having a mobile-friendly website is essential for maintaining high PA and DA scores.

Conclusion: The Role of Moz PA DA Checker in Your SEO Toolkit

Moz PA DA Checker is an indispensable tool for anyone serious about improving their website’s search engine rankings. By regularly monitoring your PA and DA scores, you can gain insights into your website’s authority, identify areas for improvement, and refine your SEO strategy to achieve better results. Whether you’re a digital marketer, SEO professional, or business owner, incorporating this tool into your SEO efforts can make a significant difference in your online success.

[magento-seo]

What Are the Best Practices for Magento SEO to Optimize Your Store?

In the ever-evolving world of eCommerce, Magento stands out as a sturdy platform for growing and coping with online stores. However, having a nicely-designed Magento keep isn't always enough; it ought to be optimized for search engines like Google to attract capacity clients.

Implementing great practices for Magento SEO can drastically improve your save's visibility, beautify consumer enjoyment, and grow sales.

In this text, we’ll explore critical Magento search engine optimization practices that can help you gain these dreams.

1. Conduct Thorough Keyword Research

Keyword research is the foundation of any powerful SEO technique. For Magento shops, identifying applicable key terms that your capability customers are the use of to look for products is important. Start via the use of tools consisting of Google Keyword Planner, SEMrush, or Ahrefs to discover immoderate-quantity and occasional-competition key terms associated with your merchandise. Integrate those key phrases clearly into your product titles, descriptions, meta descriptions, and URLs.

If you need expert help, undergo in mind attractive a Magento SEO services representative who can help refine your key-word approach and ensure you target the maximum precious are looking for phrases in your vicinity of interest.

2. Optimize Your Product Pages

Each product web web page for your Magento save has to be optimized to rank properly in search engines like google and yahoo. Here are a few key regions to focus on:

Title Tags and Meta Descriptions: Ensure that each product page has a completely particular and descriptive call tag and meta description. Include primary key phrases and reason them to drive to encourage clients to click through from seeking consequences.

Product Descriptions: Write focused and precise product descriptions that provide precious statistics to customers. Avoid reproduction content, as engines like google may additionally penalize pages with same descriptions across super websites.

Product Images: Optimize product pics with the aid of the usage of using descriptive file names and alt attributes. This now not only lets in with search engine optimization but moreover improves accessibility for customers with visible impairments.

User Reviews: Encourage clients to depart reviews on your products. User-generated content material cloth can enhance the credibility of your save and provide additional key-word-rich content material cloth.

3. Improve Site Structure and Navigation

A nicely-prepared internet site on-line form is important for each client to revel in and search engine optimization. Magento gives functions to help you manipulate your web web page’s hierarchy successfully.

Here’s how you could optimize your Magento save’s form:

Create a Clear Hierarchical Structure: Use categories and subcategories to put together products logically. This makes it less difficult for users to find products and for search engines like google to move slowly to your website.

Implement Breadcrumbs: Breadcrumbs decorate navigation thru showing users their place in the internet site. They additionally provide additional key-word-rich hyperlinks for engines like google like google and yahoo to index.

Generate XML Sitemaps: Magento permits you to create XML sitemaps that assist search engines like google find out and index your web site’s pages more effectively. Ensure your sitemap is updated regularly and submitted to serps thru tools like Google Search Console.

4. Enhance Site Speed and Performance

Site velocity is a critical issue for each person's experience and search engine marketing. A slow-loading internet site online can cause higher leap fees and negatively impact seek rankings.

To optimize your Magento maintain’s overall performance:

Enable Caching: Magento gives integrated caching functions which could help beautify web web page velocity. Make fantastic to permit and configure caching settings for each the frontend and backend of your keep.

Optimize Images and Files: Use image optimization tools to compress pictures without sacrificing niceness. Also, keep in mind minifying CSS, JavaScript, and HTML documents to lessen their period.

Leverage Content Delivery Networks (CDNs): CDNs distribute your website’s content material throughout a couple of servers, decreasing load instances for customers irrespective of their place.

Monitor Performance: Regularly test your internet site on-line’s overall performance the usage of tools like Google PageSpeed Insights or GTmetrix to come to be aware of and cope with any pace problems.

5 :Implement Schema Markup

Schema markup allows engines like google and yahoo to apprehend the content fabric for your net web page and can decorate the visibility of your shop in search effects. For Magento shops, enforcing schema markup can provide greater records along with product fees, availability, and opinions right now are seeking for results.

Magento permits you to integrate schema markup thru extensions or custom code. Work with a Magento seek engine advertising and marketing organization to ensure that schema markup is correctly implemented and optimized to your save.

6. Focus on Mobile Optimization

With a developing extensive type of users buying on mobile devices, ensuring that your Magento preserve is mobile-satisfactory is crucial. Google prioritizes mobile-first indexing, which means that the cell model of your web page is used to decide seek rankings.

Responsive Design: Use a responsive format that adjusts your website’s layout based totally at the device’s display screen size. Magento’s concern subjects often embody responsive layout functions, however make certain they may be nicely configured.

Mobile Usability: Test your internet web site’s cellular usability to make certain that buttons, hyperlinks, and paperwork are easy to interact with on touchscreens.

7. Build Quality Backlinks

Backlinks are a critical ranking detail in search engine marketing. High-fine lower back hyperlinks from reputable websites can improve your save’s authority and are seeking ratings. Focus on acquiring returned links thru:

Content Marketing: Create precious and shareable content material that naturally draws one-way links. This should consist of weblog posts, infographics, or courses related to your merchandise.

Guest Blogging: Contribute vacationer posts to applicable blogs or enterprise websites. Include hyperlinks again for your Magento store in your author bio or in the content.

Partnerships and Collaborations: Build relationships with distinctive businesses or influencers to your organization to earn one way links via partnerships or collaborations.

8. Regularly Monitor and Analyze SEO Performance

Continuous monitoring and analysis are essential for keeping and improving your SEO efforts. Use equipment like Google Analytics and Google Search Console to tune your maintainer's normal performance, select out problems, and modify your technique consequently.

Track Key Metrics: Monitor metrics which includes herbal site visitors, jump charges, and conversion costs to gauge the effectiveness of your search engine optimization efforts.

Identify and Fix Issues: Regularly test for damaged links, crawl errors, and other issues that could have an effect on your save’s search engine advertising and marketing common performance.

Stay Updated: search engine advertising dispositions and high-quality practices are constantly evolving. Stay informed about the modern-day tendencies and modify your techniques as needed.

Conclusion

Optimizing your Magento maintenance for search engines like google includes a combination of technical and content-centered strategies. By following those amazing practices, you may beautify your preserve’s visibility, enhance user revel in, and generate greater web page visitors on your website online.

Whether you choose to address search engine optimization in-residence or companion with a Magento SEO company or Magento search engine marketing representative, implementing these practices will assist you to achieve higher seek scores and ultimately, greater fulfillment inside the competitive eCommerce panorama.

[hireseo12]

The Complete Guide to SEO Expertise: Techniques, Resources, and Recommended Practices

The Complete Guide to SEO Expertise: Techniques, Resources, and Recommended Practices

In today's digital age, the role of an SEO expert is indispensable for businesses aiming to improve their online presence and drive organic traffic. Understanding and implementing effective search engine optimization (SEO) strategies can significantly enhance a website's visibility on search engine results pages (SERPs). This comprehensive guide explores the various facets of SEO, from technical SEO to content marketing, providing insights and tips for both novice and seasoned SEO specialists.

The Function of a Search Expert

The task of improving websites for improved SERP ranks falls to search engine optimization professionals. This calls for in-depth knowledge of search engine algorithms, research on keywords, and proficiency with a range of SEO tools for performance analysis and enhancement of websites. Maintaining the efficacy of their methods requires SEO practitioners to be up to date on the newest developments in the industry and algorithm changes.

Crucial Tools for SEO

For every SEO strategy, it is essential to use the appropriate SEO tools. These tools support site audits, performance tracking, backlink analysis, and keyword research. Well-known resources like Ahrefs, Moz, SEMrush, and Google Analytics offer insightful data that can improve and guide your SEO tactics. Marketing teams can make wise decisions by using these tools to get insights about the advantages and disadvantages of their website.

Keyword Research and Optimization

Keyword research is the cornerstone of any successful SEO strategy. Identifying the right keywords involves finding terms that your target audience is searching for and incorporating them into your content. Long-tail keywords, which are more specific and less competitive, can be particularly effective. Once you have identified your target keywords, it’s essential to use them naturally within your content, including in meta tags, headers, and throughout the body text.

On-Page SEO Techniques

On-page SEO refers to the practice of optimizing individual web pages to rank higher and earn more relevant traffic. This includes optimizing meta tags, title tags, headers, and content. Ensuring that your website's content is relevant, informative, and engaging is key to retaining visitors and reducing bounce rates.

Key Elements of On-Page SEO:

Title Tags and Meta Descriptions: Craft compelling title tags and meta descriptions that include your target keywords and provide a clear summary of the page’s content.

Header Tags: Use header tags (H1, H2, H3) to structure your content, making it easier for search engines to understand the hierarchy and relevance of your information.

Content Quality: Produce high-quality, informative content that addresses the needs and interests of your audience. This not only helps with SEO but also enhances the overall user experience.

Internal Linking: Use internal links to guide users to other relevant pages on your site, improving navigation and distributing link equity.

Technical SEO

Technical SEO focuses on optimizing the technical aspects of a website to improve its crawlability, indexability, and overall performance. A well-optimized site ensures that search engines can easily access and understand its content.

Key Elements of Technical SEO:

Site Speed: Ensure that your website loads quickly, as slow-loading sites can negatively impact user experience and rankings.

Mobile-Friendliness: Optimize your website for mobile devices, as mobile-friendliness is a crucial ranking factor.

Sitemaps and Robots.txt: Use sitemaps and robots.txt files to guide search engines on how to crawl and index your site.

SSL Certificates: Implement SSL certificates to secure your website and boost its credibility.

Content Marketing

Content marketing is a vital component of SEO. By creating valuable and relevant content, you can attract and engage your target audience, building trust and authority in your niche. Regularly publishing blog posts, articles, and other forms of content can drive organic traffic and improve your site’s SEO performance.

Content Marketing Strategies:

Blog Posts: Regularly update your blog with informative and engaging posts that address the needs and interests of your audience.

Guest Blogging: Contribute to other reputable blogs in your industry to build backlinks and drive traffic to your site.

Social Media Integration: Share your content on social media platforms to increase its reach and engagement.

Local SEO

For businesses targeting a specific geographic area, local SEO is crucial. Optimizing your website for local searches can help attract customers from your vicinity, boosting your online visibility and driving foot traffic to your physical location.

Key Elements of Local SEO:

Google My Business: Claim and optimize your Google My Business listing to enhance your visibility in local searches.

NAP Consistency: Ensure that your business name, address, and phone number (NAP) are consistent across all online platforms.

Local Keywords: Incorporate local keywords into your content and meta tags to attract local search traffic.

Link Building

Building a strong backlink profile is essential for improving your website’s authority and rankings. Focus on acquiring high-quality backlinks from reputable websites in your industry.

Link Building Strategies:

Guest Blogging: Write guest posts for reputable blogs in your industry to earn high-quality backlinks.

Broken Link Building: Identify broken links on relevant websites and offer your content as a replacement.

Content Promotion: Promote your content through social media and email marketing to attract natural backlinks.

Measuring SEO Success

Tracking and measuring the success of your SEO efforts is crucial for continuous improvement. Use analytics tools to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and adjust your strategies accordingly.

Key KPIs to Monitor:

Organic Traffic: Track the number of visitors coming to your site from organic search results.

Conversion Rate: Measure the percentage of visitors who complete a desired action, such as making a purchase or filling out a contact form.

Bounce Rate: Monitor the percentage of visitors who leave your site after viewing only one page. A high bounce rate may indicate issues with your content or user experience.

Keyword Rankings: Regularly check your rankings for target keywords to assess the effectiveness of your SEO strategies.

The Importance of User Experience

A positive user experience (UX) is critical for SEO success. Search engines prioritize websites that provide a seamless and enjoyable experience for users. Factors such as fast loading times, mobile responsiveness, and intuitive navigation contribute to a better UX. Investing in UX design can lead to higher engagement and lower bounce rates, positively impacting your SEO efforts.

Collaborating with Marketing Teams

Effective SEO requires collaboration between marketing teams and SEO professionals. By working together, they can create cohesive strategies that align with overall marketing efforts. Content creators, designers, and developers should all be involved in the SEO process to ensure a unified approach.

Becoming an SEO expert involves a deep understanding of various SEO strategies, tools, and best practices. By mastering the elements of on-page SEO, technical SEO, content marketing, and link building, you can significantly improve your website’s online presence and achieve higher rankings on search engine results pages. Staying updated with the latest industry trends and continuously refining your strategies are key to long-term SEO success. Whether you are an SEO specialist or part of a marketing team, this guide provides the foundational knowledge and insights needed to excel in the dynamic field of SEO.

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[krishnaseoconsulting]

Why On-Page SEO is Key to Your SEO Success 8 Main Benefits You Need to Know

When it comes to boosting your website’s visibility, driving organic traffic, and ultimately achieving your online marketing goals, On-Page SEO is a fundamental strategy you can’t afford to overlook.

But what exactly is On-Page SEO, and why is it so crucial? In this blog, we’ll delve into the essence of On-Page SEO and explore eight key benefits that highlight its importance for your SEO success.

Understanding On-Page SEO

On-Page SEO refers to the practice of optimizing individual web pages to rank higher in search engine results and attract more relevant traffic. It encompasses both the content and the HTML source code of a page, unlike Off-Page SEO which involves links and other external signals. On-Page SEO includes various elements such as content quality, keyword optimization, meta tags, headers, image alt texts, internal linking, and URL structure.

Enhanced User Experience

One of the primary goals of On-Page SEO is to improve the user experience on your website. When your site is easy to navigate, informative, and aesthetically pleasing, visitors are more likely to stay longer and engage with your content. This positive interaction can lead to higher conversion rates. Google also takes user experience into account when ranking websites, so a well-optimized page can help improve your search engine rankings.

Increased Organic Traffic

By optimizing your web pages with relevant keywords, you can significantly increase your organic traffic. When your site ranks higher for specific search queries, more users will find your content through search engines. This targeted traffic is more likely to be interested in your offerings, leading to higher engagement and potential sales.

Better Crawl Rate and Indexing

Search engines use crawlers to scan web pages and index them accordingly. On-Page SEO helps ensure that your site is easily crawlable and indexable by these bots. By optimizing your site structure, using proper tags, and ensuring a clean URL structure, you can make it easier for search engines to understand and rank your content.

Improved Local SEO

For businesses targeting local markets, On-Page SEO is essential. By incorporating local keywords, optimizing for local searches, and ensuring your NAP (Name, Address, Phone number) information is consistent across your site, you can improve your local search rankings. This is crucial for attracting customers in your geographical area.

Higher Click-Through Rates (CTR)

Optimizing meta titles and descriptions is a key aspect of On-Page SEO. Well-crafted meta tags can make your listing stand out in search engine results, encouraging more users to click through to your site. A higher CTR not only drives more traffic but also signals to search engines that your page is valuable and relevant, potentially improving your rankings.

Content Optimization and Relevance

On-Page SEO ensures that your content is optimized and highly relevant to the search queries of your target audience. By performing keyword research and integrating these keywords naturally into your content, you can provide valuable information that meets user intent. This relevance is crucial for maintaining high engagement levels and achieving long-term SEO success.

Stronger Internal Linking

Internal linking is a powerful On-Page SEO strategy that helps distribute link equity across your site, improve navigation, and keep users engaged longer. By strategically linking to other relevant pages within your site, you can enhance the user experience and help search engines better understand the structure and hierarchy of your content.

Enhanced Mobile Friendliness

With the increasing number of users accessing websites via mobile devices, having a mobile-friendly site is more important than ever. On-Page SEO involves optimizing your site for mobile users by ensuring responsive design, fast load times, and easy navigation. Mobile friendliness is a crucial ranking factor for search engines, so optimizing for it can significantly boost your SEO performance.

Conclusion

In the competitive digital landscape, On-Page SEO is a critical component of any successful SEO strategy. By focusing on improving user experience, increasing organic traffic, ensuring better crawlability, optimizing for local searches, enhancing CTR, making your content more relevant, strengthening internal linking, and ensuring mobile friendliness, you can significantly boost your site’s visibility and rankings.

Start incorporating these On-Page SEO practices today and watch your website climb the search engine results pages, attract more visitors, and achieve your business goals. Remember, SEO is an ongoing process, and staying updated with the latest trends and best practices will keep you ahead of the competition.

Happy Optimizing!

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Benefits of Business Website for Small Businesses

When you run a business, you need to be easily accessible by those who are interested in your products and services. There’s nothing better than a website to help you get there! If you’re wondering why you should consider hiring a web design company in Adelaide, then you’re in the right place.

Benefits of Having a Business Website: Small Business Edition

A website serves many purposes, and here are a few benefits of choosing a web design agency to design your small business website:

1.    It Improves User Experience

Hiring a professional team of web designers helps find a website that is made to improve user experience. Pros are well-versed with what looks good and sounds good to your customers and they make sure you have exactly that. The team makes sure that you find the right tonality for your professional website. Additionally, here’s how they ensure that your small business website improves the user experience of users by:

Fast-loading web pages,

Easy-to-navigate pages, and

Smooth interface.

Good user experience is important because the audience is digitally aware, and they need a website that flows, meaning the page hierarchy is well-maintained. Web page hierarchy refers to a top-down funnel, which leads the visitor from the homepage to more content without confusing them.

2.    Structured Information

Apart from a good website with a well-thought-out website hierarchy, your website will need content. Actually, content is the true superstar, which is why you should not overlook its importance for your website. After the website is ready, your business’s story, ethics, offerings and more will need to be updated. Furthermore, it is not only about updating the content on your website, it is also about telling the information right.

Hiring a web design company in Adelaide will help you add content that not only fits your brand but also gets you conversions. The design team will research, write, and strategically place the content on your website. Not only this, but they also make sure that photos, videos or both are placed in areas where they attract attention while also giving your visitors the information they need. A professional team will know exactly how to place all forms of information for impact. 

3.    Business Credibility

When you have a business website, it helps you build credibility. It automatically helps you win the trust of your customers and potential customers. Not only this, you become a valuable resource for your business and customers. Apart from making communication easier with the customers, it improves the “getting in touch process” with your representatives. For example, the home page is where you spell out why you are different from everyone else, the about us page is where talk about your business, and its ethics; and the contact us page is where people can find a way to communicate with you.

A website is a way to legitimise your business, this is how your business goes from being a name on a sheet of paper to having an identity, it is proof that your business is real.

4.    Improves Your Online Presence

By not having a website you put your small business at a disadvantage by not making money. A website allows you to showcase your products or services, and use online ads to advertise your brand. Apart from this, not any website will do for you, your business will need a mobile responsive website that is viewable on mobile devices including smartphones and tablets.

Well! A mobile responsive website will elevate the scale of the Internet like never before as you can:

Boost Search Rankings:  The better your pages are optimized, the higher your content will be to show up.

Content Distribution: Produce high-quality, one-of-a-kind, practical content and distribute it through social media and blog sites. If people like the content, it means they would also like to know about you which brings people to your site.

24/7 Open:  A website is never closed, unlike a brick-and-mortar business which closes 9 to 5. This is open 24 hours; holidays, too.

Bring Business to Be Flexible:  Outsource your customer service so that you will not lose opportunities, let your agents handle issues and inquiries at your site and the fact is that you can manage via chat or e-mail support.

5.    Sales Generation and Understanding Customers

When you have a website, it becomes easy for you to have ad campaigns. You can use online methods to put your products and services on display. The web design company in Adelaide that designed your website will run your ads as well.

These endeavours will help you benefit in multiple ways, including:

You will be able to gather information on your customers.

That will lead you to have data on customer spending habits, and which offerings are best-selling and which are not.

You can also go through heatmaps, which are colour-coded visualisations of where your users click, navigate, tap and scroll on your website. Heatmaps help you understand the journey of the visitors, and help you emphasise the different elements.

The data you have or gather from your website allows you to understand where the visitors struggle or leave so that you can improve those aspects.

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The Omnivers hierarchy

Today is the day when I tell you about the Omniverse. First, hierarchy! Yes, there is a hierarchy in the Omniverse, and now I will tell you about it! At the very bottom there are simply god-like creatures, they are the weakest, they are gods from different universes, but despite the divine, they are still the weakest in the Omniverse. Usually they are born in the Omniverse from the remnants of the magic of other beings of the Omniverse (I will talk about these remnants sometime later), or they are created by beings higher in the hierarchy for their created universes so that god-like beings would guard this universe. Then there are the power absorbers (I didn’t come up with a normal name for them), they can absorb the powers of oncoming creatures, provided that they are not stronger than them, you can see very strong power absorbers, but this is very rare. Next we have robot gods, these are god-like entities that, with the help of their minds, were able to become much stronger and rise in the hierarchy, they can often be seen as scientists who create worlds and experiment with them in every possible way (other beings of the Omniverse can also be scientists besides the Knights, Ancients and The incarnation of Chaos and his children because they are not interested in this, more about them later). Next come the Light and Dark, by name everything is clear with them, but there is a rich history behind them, for example, they once coexisted peacefully until the moment when two brothers (one light, the other dark) came to the throne, they shared the darkness and light of each other from each other and made it so that light would go with good and darkness with evil, and this is just one story out of many legends and stories of these two races. Here, according to the hierarchy of beings that can control time, Temporal abilities such as time manipulation or stopping time do not work in the Omniverse. However, in the Omniverse there is such a thing called the time war. There are only a few of them and they fly around the Omniverse all the time. They represent huge invisible spheres in which time magic works, such as stopping time and so on, they are inhabited by creatures that can control time and they usually steal everything that the time magic passes through, although there are exceptions. The embodiment of light and darkness in one body, one of such creatures is DarkyLight, once such creatures were respected, but after the brothers ascended the throne of light and darkness, all light and dark creatures began to hate them, supposedly they are traitors, scum, and so on. Next come the knights, their task is to protect the Omniverse and the multiverses in it. In general, anyone can be knights, but usually they are the creations of the stars, Strong beings consisting of stars and full of justice. In the same place in the hierarchy as the Knights is the Embodiment of Chaos and all his creations, the Embodiment of Chaos is the original chaos, he is the creator of chaos, he appeared at night and then Chaos, he also has many minions who bring chaos throughout the Omniverse, the real one No one has seen the appearance of the Embodiment of Chaos, he only appears like a black cloud or smoke with a bunch of creepy eyes that look at everyone, he cannot speak, but all his children understand him, just like the Knights, he and his children maintain balance in the Omniverse, because if there is no Chaos or order, then everything that anyone has ever known will be destroyed. And finally at the very top are the Ancients, they are the oldest, wisest and strongest of all the creatures in the Omniverse, they have seen were born along with the Omniverse, they saw the birth of all multiverses and universes, they saw everything, and they will live as long as the Omniverse lives. Here is the hierarchy of all intelligent beings in the Omniverse! I hope you liked it all :)

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Content Silos: Organizing Your Website for Maximum SEO Impact

Introduction

In the realm of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), the structure and organization of your website play a pivotal role in enhancing visibility and improving user experience. Content silos are a strategic way of organizing website content to maximize SEO impact. In this article, we'll explore what content silos are, their benefits for SEO, and how to implement them effectively for better search engine rankings.

Understanding Content Silos

Content silos involve grouping related content into distinct sections or categories within your website. Each silo focuses on a specific topic or theme, creating a hierarchical structure that organizes information in a logical and user-friendly manner.

Benefits of Content Silos for SEO

Enhanced Relevance: Siloed content allows search engines to recognize the relevance of your website to specific topics, improving its visibility in search results for related queries.

Improved Indexing: Clear organization assists search engine crawlers in efficiently indexing and understanding the context of your content, potentially leading to higher rankings.

User Experience: Silos make navigation easier for visitors, offering a more intuitive experience that encourages longer stays and lower bounce rates.

Keyword Emphasis: By grouping related keywords and topics within silos, you reinforce the topical relevance of your website to search engines.

Implementing Content Silos Effectively

Keyword Research: Identify relevant keywords and themes that align with your website's content and audience interests.

Content Mapping: Categorize content based on themes or topics and map them to respective silos. Ensure each silo covers a specific aspect comprehensively.

Internal Linking: Establish strong internal linking within silos to create a network of interconnected content. This reinforces topical relevance and assists search engine crawlers in understanding the content hierarchy.

URL Structure: Optimize URL structures to reflect the content hierarchy within each silo, making it more accessible and understandable for both users and search engines.

Consistent Navigation: Ensure that navigation menus and site structure reflect the organization of content silos, making it easy for users to explore related topics seamlessly.

Case Studies and Success Stories

Highlight case studies or examples of websites that have effectively implemented content silos, showcasing the SEO benefits and improved rankings they've achieved.

Measuring and Iterating

Regularly monitor the performance of content silos using analytics tools. Assess engagement metrics, rankings, and user behavior to identify areas for improvement and iteration.

Conclusion

Content silos offer a powerful framework for organizing website content, enhancing SEO, and delivering a more structured and valuable experience for both users and search engines. By implementing and maintaining well-structured content silos, website owners can significantly improve their chances of ranking higher in search results, increasing visibility, and delivering valuable content to their target audience.

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Incentive and movtivation

To me,is not worth learning a new language just to be able to talk with people,I take languages as tools,they are means to reach goals,and i am not wealthy.so sacrificing many resources like time and energy just to talk with people doesn’t add up

I saw some YouTubers doing adventure vlogs especially one will be a white dude walking in different places talking with locals in Spanish speaking countries.that’s really impressive and motivating.i could feel my brain pumping dopamine and stuff when i binge watching them with a smile on my face.but after the passion and motivation wear off,back to facing the everyday boring and painful learning experience,that is not exciting at all,that bums me out!

I realized those cool events can’t help me stay motivated because they can not be the real incentive,we all humans know what’s cool and great but only few of us will pursuit because they are advanced needs,just like icing on the cake,they are not necessary.

And this had brought my thoughts sideway into thinking about what makes people go for things, what makes them tick.

Just like the above ,we see incentives daily,watching Videos about cool things and stuffs on internet.in daily life usually there will be people around us got promoted/new valuable goods, in human relations,incentives like fame and wealth are mostly involved,or worse,primitive desires.

So I rank them up,divide them into three sections,the higher the rank is,the weaker the incentive is(I’m not going to include those weird incentives involved crime and stuff, it’s out of the topic you can check out the stories of infamous serial killers.as I know they were mostly involved with wrong viewpoints of moral and sexual problems)

I boiled down the too-complicated-for-regular-readers”Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory”into three simple sections of rank,from bottom to top rank will be:

the basic needs,the social needs,the self needs.these are all,more or less have something to do with chemical and it motivates people to do things,without it,mostly we will be lying on ground idling

The basic needs are fundamental to all the animals: air water food, sleep safety and sex.

Those are the most simple things to understand why we need them and we are most likely will do things for them,everything,just to maintain them a long period of time.and our brain will help us by producing dopamine as an incentive to motivate us to do things that is good for survival.

This is where we build up habits(mostly bad like addictions).one of them is maintaining a sense of stabilization because we can’t live without essential needs,not even a few days.i still remember at the end of the book”Robinson Crusoe”after he got rescued by those sailors,he beg and hid piles of bread under his bunk just to make himself felt reassured.

And our fellow human designed tons of product that will hook you into consuming them just to make more capital using the characteristic of human brain chasing dopamine.

The second rank is much cooler than the first one and it’s sort of painful to some of us because it’s all about human relations——the social needs: To Love and be loved, sense of belonging.

Something wrong with this app tons of sentences disappeared I don’t want to work on it anymore but little tips from my boys Adler and Arthur: 80% of worries and annoyances come from relationships,so try to avoid them ;)

This one probably involves with serotonin,i am not a professor or a doc but kind of like dopamine,as an incentive it promote socializing.it probably kicks in when people talking or doing things,having a good time together.because team work helps us better to survive in the bad old days. Our cpu followed by primitive programs likes it

After i read books about the relations of the chemical produced by our brain with motivations,i grew interests in them.we should follow our primitive principles/rules followed by our brains——saving energy,find ways to survive and do more exercise

I’m going talk about exercise later and it also involves with chemical,endorphin.

And I’m not going to talk about the last one,the self needs,probably no one cares.

The way of Our brain and body’s function is still really old compare to the modern life style and environment.we need to find out the key to make them work better otherwise we are just bunch of smarter monkeys

And I’m curious about dopamine rushing when we are facing uncertainty in gambling because looks like it is quite the opposite of human nature

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Optimizing Website Design for Enhanced User Experience

Introduction:

In modern-day virtual landscape, consumer enjoy (UX) performs a pivotal role in the success of a internet site. A properly-designed internet site that prioritizes consumer enjoy no longer most effective engages site visitors however additionally encourages them to live longer, explore further, and convert into valuable clients. In this guest weblog, we will delve into the key strategies and fine practices for optimizing web site design to deliver a higher consumer revel in.

Clear and Intuitive Navigation:

Navigation is the backbone of a consumer-friendly internet site. Design your navigation menu in a clear and organized manner, making sure that site visitors can without problems locate the information they're looking for. Use descriptive labels, logical grouping, and intuitive placement to guide customers seamlessly thru your website.

Responsive Design:

With the increasing use of cell devices, having a responsive web site design is important. Optimize your website to adapt and provide a constant consumer experience across various devices and screen sizes. Responsive layout guarantees that your website is effortlessly handy and navigable, irrespective of the device being used.

Fast Loading Speed:

Website loading pace has a giant impact on consumer revel in and seek engine scores. Optimize your website's performance with the aid of minimizing record sizes, leveraging caching techniques, and optimizing server response instances. Users count on a fast-loading internet site, and a postpone of even some seconds can lead to frustration and abandonment.

Visual Hierarchy and Readability:

Create a visible hierarchy on your design to manual customers' attention and emphasize crucial content. Use appropriate font sizes, contrasting colorations, and whitespace efficaciously to enhance readability. Pay interest to the typography, making sure it is legible across distinct gadgets and screen sizes.

Consistent Branding and Design Elements:

Maintain consistent branding at some point of your web site design to beautify popularity and accept as true with. Use a regular coloration palette, typography, and design elements across all pages. Consistency fosters familiarity and facilitates users navigate your internet site effectively.

Streamlined Forms and CTAs:

Simplify your forms and optimize your calls-to-motion (CTAs) to lessen friction within the user journey. Minimize the variety of required shape fields and provide clean instructions. Strategically region CTAs to guide users in the direction of desired movements, making them prominent and visually attractive.

Accessibility Considerations:

Ensure your internet site is offered to all users, inclusive of those with disabilities. Follow accessibility suggestions, which includes imparting alt text for photos, the use of right heading shape, and ensuring keyboard navigation functionality. Accessibility no longer best improves consumer experience but also demonstrates your commitment to inclusivity.

User Testing and Feedback:

Regularly conduct user trying out to gather treasured insights and identify areas for improvement. Test your website's usability, navigation flow, and universal user enjoy with real users. Incorporate user comments through surveys, remarks paperwork, or user trying out sessions to usually refine your layout.

Conclusion:

Optimizing website design for better user revel in is crucial for attracting and retaining visitors whilst achieving your enterprise dreams. By implementing the techniques referred to above, you may create a consumer-centric website that engages, delights, and converts customers into unswerving clients. Remember, consumer enjoy must continue to be at the vanguard of your layout selections, as it's far the key to driving fulfillment inside the digital realm.

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April 7, 2023

People would have supported AI more if all their proponents weren’t so terrible…

I’m almost convinced that all the tech-utopian stories I read and the reality we live in are purely differentiated by the hearts of the people who made the AI. I mean writing is done by artists after all, and while some of them might have been terrible, most are least cognizant about the heart of the human soul or something - I’m bad at expressing things.

So why techbros? Why do these people suck so much? This is a broken primer. I need to search to get more stories regarding the rise of the Silicon Valley and the libertarian counterculture, how Free Love easily turned into Free Markets. But I’ll give you the gist.

During the New Deal and WWII, the U.S. Government was starting to become more involved with the economy and the corporation were a lot miffed that government was actually making them accountable for doing bad behaviors, so they intensively lobbied to wrestle back control, but it wasn’t just bribes and favors, they noticed a different grumpy group in the wake of WWII.

As U.S. Government became more involved, there was a trend towards egalitarian in the American society - WPA broke down class barriers in pursuit of infrastructure projects that we still very much rely on, and the pursuit of full employment in the war economy meant many women and those of racial minority were given competitive jobs, which led to higher demand of political and social equality for those people. People who wanted to maintain social hierarchies were increasingly upset by these demands and they found the allies as written above.

So, this was basically the birth of modern conservatism, seeds were planted by Robert A. Taft then bloomed under Barry Goldwater and eventually championed by Nixon and Reagan. But they were the enemies of the people who they were focusing on. But we have to recognize that this coalition of interests very much stalled post-war progress that other countries had. After Truman, there were no left-leaning presidents in the United States other than Kennedy, who was killed, and Johnson, who was a personal racist and deepened the Vietnam War, until well… Biden, I guess, or Obama might barely count, but I can’t quite give in to that notion.

What I mean is that when people were protesting in the ‘60s and ‘70s, they were mostly protesting the government and there was a large anti-government sentiment from the Boomers. Of course, anti-government doesn’t necessarily indicate a shift towards the right, one could be in the far-left and still despise the state, as in one can follow anarchism, so why not?

Well, this frustration of the government was co-opted by the conservative coalition that I mentioned above, and they sold the idea of free market being opposed to the government. Who were the counterculture leading liberals in the ‘60s and ‘70s, like the Watergate babies, quickly became the Yuppies, who took the idea of free market as a solution against government corruption, as exemplified by the Vietnam War and Watergate, and many social movement in the ‘70s were fizzled out, like the failure of the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment.

This root can easily be seen in the behavior of the current Techbros - this holier-than-thou savior complex, the disregard for experts, and pursuit of disruption rather than building coalitions. These are all built on the belief that only they can manipulate the world effectively and that The Government, and implicitly The People, are not capable of being effective leaders.

The technology these people were building could been use to build a more kind and just world, it’s not hard to foresee such a world, and indeed many science fictions envision such a world, but as it stands, there is a huge roadblock in letting the technology speak for itself, as the speakers are increasingly predisposed to the decay of democracy in recent years.

I’ll talk more about solutions and such as it comes up, as we head to the end of this blog.

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I've been thinking, for the past few days, about why it's so strange to me, to hear people say that Hordak oppressed people. Or that the Etherian Horde was oppressive. Or just... insinuating that Hordak and his subordinates are somehow in a position of power on Etheria.

And I mean, I've written before about why I find Hordak far more sympathetic than I find the Princesses, but this isn't that. This is more... A disconnect. Between how people seem to view Hordak and the Horde and my personal understanding of oppression. Namely: the sort of "usual" social hierarchy of oppressed and oppressor don't seem to work here.

The patterns don't coincide.

When we look at our world, our societies, social power tends to be divided by wealth. Now, of course race and religion and gender and all of these other factors come into play, but financial resources hold tremendous importance. Members of oppressed minorities are more likely, statistically, to hold less wealth. Not always, obviously. There are no hard rules. But enough that it comes out in data.

And even in societal majorities, there is still the divide between those that hold great wealth, and those that do not.

My point being as follows: the members of the "upper class" tend to be oppressive because they have the financial means with which to exert control. Politically, economically, whatever. They are the ones oppressing, while the "lower class," the working class, tend to suffer under their wants and whims. It's an oversimplication, to be sure, but the general sense of it is all that matters for this discussion.

Essentially: the upper class oppresses the working class. The working class doesn't oppress the upper class.

So!

When we look at Hordak and the Etherian Horde, and when we look at the Alliance... who is working class, and who lives in absolute luxury?

Our protagonists are literal monarchs living in literal palaces with literal magic powers. They don't perform physical labor. They don't have "jobs" in the sense of earning money or earning their keep. And even during supposed wartime, they enjoy plentiful resources and delicious food and pointless luxuries.

The level of luxury is even played for laughs, sort of, when Adora first joins the Horde and has no idea how to live in a room that appears designed around impractical pampering.

But it also just kind of... borders on ridiculous? Like...they go to a magical floating island to relax at a spa. On a cloud beach. During a major war that we are supposed to believe they are suffering tremendously from. We're supposed to feel sad for them. While they're lounging on the cloud beach.

It's... hm.

Compare this to the Etherian Horde. And to Hordak himself.

There are no fancy rooms with decorative waterfalls in the Horde. Not for regular Horde members, not even for higher-ranking individuals.

The members of the Etherian Horde absolutely perform physical labor. They have few, if any, luxuries to speak of. Their entire lives appear to consist of working to earn and maintain their place in the Horde. And there are absolutely no spa days.

As for Hordak? Well, you might say: "CF, Hordak is in an upper class position; he calls himself Lord and sits on a throne and-"

And I'm gonna stop you right there, because Hordak is a purpose-bred slave play-acting a god-monarch to earn back his place as a purpose-bred slave. He and his clone brothers are actual servants of Prime: made to do everything from cleaning to serving meals to fighting on the front lines of Prime's wars. They are true, all-around workers.

Actually, the little details regarding Hordak and "work" are so interesting. Because he absolutely works, in a way that the protagonists really don't seem to: with little to no visible time for relaxation and absolute zero indulgence in luxury. We so often see him in his lab, working with tools, with his hands. And after Entrapta makes him his new armor, we see him using it to perform significant physical labor. Labor that, as "lord," he could likely have delegated to others. But he didn't. Because Hordak, at his core, is a worker.

Now, does he have a throne? Sure! But it's a throne designed to be a tool, a prop of sorts to help him mimic Prime. It's not an actual piece of comfortable furniture. And it's not somewhere where Hordak appears comfortable or leisurely. It's just... a tool of the job. I mean... just look at how he sits in it, compared to Prime. Prime, who is absolutely "upper class" and has all of the fanciness to show for it. Prime who just lounges on his throne, secure in the knowledge that he belongs there.

And beyond the throne, in his Sanctum? Not a drop of luxury to be found. Just machinery for Hordak's work. And tools for his work. And a bunch of junk, because he's pathologically unable to throw anything away for Personal Reasons. Totally unlike, say, Glimmer's room. Or Prime's trophy and dining rooms. We don't even see a place for him to rest from his work, though extrapolating from the pods we see other clones in, we can guess that it's likely not a soft, fluffy, copiously-pillowed bed.

Because that's the thing about Hordak: he's the leader of the Horde, but he's still a member of the working class. He's play-acting a lord, but he doesn't actually enjoy any of the leisure or luxury that comes with that. Rather, despite his position in the Etherian Horde hierarchy, he has far more in common with his own cadets than with his hierarchical equals in Bright Moon.

Which is why the patterning for oppression is so off, for me. People are trying to convince me that a bunch of working class people, including potential orphans and an actual cult-slave, are oppressing the wealthy royals? It just. Doesn't compute. Like... even when Mermista's capital city is destroyed, she still has the means to lounge about in a fancy bathtub, eating ice cream. It just doesn't carry the same weight as, say, Hordak sitting amongst the trash-wreckage of his Sanctum in season four. Mermista is upset, but she's still pampered. Hordak is upset, and he's just... upset. With nothing comforting to help him.

It's just such a disconnect. I can't view the protagonists as "oppressed" when they have the means and resources to essentially avoid any true fallout from the war. While Hordak and his subordinates, supposedly dominant and oppressive, live in spartan quarters devoid of even the slightest shred of opulence or comfort.

Perhaps the series could have circumvented this if it had made our protagonists members of Etheria's less-royal population? Or if it had portrayed them as true refugees, as they are under Prime's aggression in season five. But it doesn't. It has them hanging out in palaces, going to parties and spas, eating sleep-over cake while Hordak gets injured by his glitchy health-care machine because he doesn't have anything better.

Anyway. I don't know if all of this makes sense. It's just. Such a weird thing to me. And makes it hard to see the Etherian Horde as "the oppressors."