Honestly for the best. Without my trifecta of amph+caffeine+nicotine (vape ofc smoking is eww and unhealthy) I don’t think I’d bother getting out of bed but that’s just an ADHD moment.

I was personally utterly bamboozled, near homeless, broke without a buck to my name but death had to take a raincheck cuz out steps a man, tall man, distinguished - very handsome - he steps outta his whip and he hands me an ice cream and says “That’s alright, Jack”, we grabbed some grub and I was hobnobbing with heem about what I was really jonesing for, I ain’t no whiz but Mr.Bidan really hooked me up with opportunity and it ain’t no lemon either 😂 Now I’m a slay yuppie, poppin lit crammin for my a-game! Thank you Mr.Bidan

Yeah scadoodle luddite

I think a subreddit is my girlfriend?

If you hear about a job being in demand, then it’s too late to get into it, those news will always only be good for those who are already in the field, by the time you make it through 5 years of uni, you will be competing against hordes of people who did the same in a demand bubble that’s bursting or deflating.

Right now cybersecurity seems to be having a soft boom, if you’re in it you’re good, take it easy and maybe do a cert and diversify skillset, if you’re not, don’t bother.

Same with data science/ML which I would assume is going to have a large boom soon (or already had? Last I remember anyone talking about it was Cloud™️ Big Data™️ days, far pre-LLM/GenAI craze ATM.)

I’ve seen GPT2s on subredditsimulator come up with more original insults than this.

Look I got nothing against y’all drawing shit or putting together low fi hiphop beats to shit and piss to or writing some waluigi yaoi or other content production, but it doesn’t exactly put men on the moon, kapische?

The only reason any of you earn money as is is because advertisements can be served embedded into content, while corpos earn money mostly from landlording over IPs. Like all of marketing, it’s a drain on society from an economic standpoint.

This. This was a fucking private hire at a small indie venue many London film buffs and casual enjoyers know and love. Artbros are fascists in very, very thin veils, they scream about being supposedly harassed by pro-AI folks but in reality like all conservatives it’s them who do the harassment.

Petty dictators who want to tell others what to think and what’s art and what is not, keeping down normal average people and actually interesting artists alike, while their actual industry is a factory of mass-produced general appeal garbage written and produced by focus groups and rooms of executives that contributes to the decay of culture and endless problematic myths that haunt society all because of some narcissist sex pest in Hollywood.

Preach. Art is a hobby, not a job, drawing shit does not produce any value for anyone. Lithium mines and McRib cook lines is where artists belong under any economic system.

Do you maybe mean snap?

Docks of New York and The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari are also really cool silent age movies

Is there fantasy that isn’t like this

And here’s some reality of over a decade of right-wing rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aJ-57_YsQ

I don’t feel confident that either of us have reliable information on where China is in terms of cultural progression to adopting LGBT rights.

Agreed. All my statements can be appended with an asterisk that all of these things would appear to be that way based on information available.

You might be standing on shaky ground regarding the US’s apparent progress and recent advancements, which appears at high risk of reactionary regression

100% agree. It is a very worrying and increasingly likely prospect.

On the other hand Cuba recently did a 2022 Cuban Family Code referendum (wikipedia).

Yes! Cuba’s reforms are very welcome and positive for LGBT folks, and I often use it as an example myself!

I have no idea what this is referring to

No problem, I’m happy to explain: In context of trans issues - DIY is referring to DIY Hormone Therapy (DIY HRT for short), where instead of whatever the medical process in a country is for transition (e.g. you go to a psychiatrist and they assess and diagnose you and then you go to an endocrinologist who issues a prescription for hormones) you go around all that by simply buying medication from usually a grey-market pharmacy that does not ask for prescriptions or even a homebrew unlicensed project that makes their own injectable hormones (it sounds dodgy, but the community is really good at self-policing the bad stuff from the good stuff, so it’s a viable option).

Since HRT is what the bulk of physical transition is and what causes the most physical changes, especially to secondary sex characteristics (external physical traits that are not genitalia), it is highly desirable to trans folks, and the ability to do so without wait times, costs or legal restrictions associated with their country’s medical system is extremely important, especially when such a system is or appears to be unfriendly and restrictive (UK, Russia, China).

The UK government was talking a big game about restricting DIY by blocking websites where one can buy hormones, but it culminated in one request to Google to take down a search result, so I feel fairly safe saying that the UK government simply doesn’t have the means to do this, but in China, the government is fairly good at internet censorship (though the actual extent of it is overblown by western media of course), hence my original point is that they have capability and appear to have demonstrated a political desire to restrict DIY, which will harm trans folks.

That’s the short version, hope it makes sense and thanks for reading.

Lol. You literally think that not starting any wars in general for more than 40 years is just as bad as constantly invading the rest of the world and killing and torturing non-white people - including LGBT people.

No? I just said that China’s trans policy is awful and backwards and my solidarity goes to those who suffer from it in China and that the US is better in that respect. US imperialism is awful and the past half-century of exploitation and subjugation by the US is also terrible. One does not exclude the other.

Hell, you have come out and said that you are more aligned with the latter than with the former

I said that because trans rights are better in the US than China. On that front, I am indeed more aligned with the US than China, but it doesn’t mean I don’t also hate the US.

it’s safe to say that you are an imperialism supporter. Your ‘anarchist perspective’ is just ‘it’s good that my state kills millions abroad for my benefit’.

Because I support trans rights?

You have already said that you are more fine with a regime

I’m fundamentally, as an anarchist - not fine with the US or China. It’s in the name.

with a state that has provably made massive improvements in the lives of working-class people, has been at the forefront of switching the world’s energy to green, which hasn’t committed any genocides, and which hasn’t started any wars in more than 40 years.

And all of these things are good. China did good! And that’s not even all, their actual management of the day-to-day absolutely eviscerates the west in terms of sheer ability to get shit done, from building entire cities while the UK says it will take them 20 years to build a reservoir, building high speed rail while the UK can’t get a tunnel dig approved and building and maintaining roads that make US infrastructure look like dirt trails.

See? I’m not some imperialist stooge or a jingoistic patriot and I’m happy to praise China where it’s due. But that doesn’t contradict in any way anything I said earlier.

Supposedly, you know more about where you live than about countries where you never set foot

Yes

and which you are only informed about by memes and other forms of osmosis.

No. I’m by no means an expert, but there’s tons of resources online and offline that aren’t memes or the U.S. State Department. Even just reading the sources on Wikipedia isn’t usually a bad start.

Supposedly, also, you have a greater ability to influence the situation in the country where you live than elsewhere

Yes.

Westerners who consider themselves to be ‘anarchists’ sure do tend to ignore all that

No. If anything Anarchists are the leftists who actually do stuff like organize mutual aid networks or at the very least squat vacant properties of the rich.

and simp for their genocidal states

No. Where did I simp for any country here? I just stated facts - that US is better for trans people than China.

while regurgitating said states’ propaganda about how evil and barbarous all of those countries that are outside of the imperial core are.

No, again, where did I do that? I’m sure there’s misinformed comrades out there, but this is an absurd framing.

Your beliefs are neither anti-authoritarian

No. I decry authoritarian overreach wherever I see it, be it the US or China, in context of LGBT issues, things are worse in China than the US, but the last century of US’ imperialist foreign policy where it imposed it’s will on the globe are all horrifically awful things too.

It’s like some folks just cannot comprehend that you don’t have to simp for any empires at all, and you can critique them all at once, all while focusing on the place you live and what you can do to help and influence most.

nor are they rooted in international camaraderie and recognition of people from other countries as fellow human beings.

No. In fact it is the exact opposite, as I don’t see people from different cultures as some unknowable aliens but as just people who live somewhere else.

I know trans folks, I understand our struggles here in the west and I do not think of trans folks in China as being some ‘other’ who must enjoy being under the boot of oppressive, backwards laws, I have nothing but solidarity and support for them in achieving liberation just as we aim for here.

I do not want to be presumptive, but frankly if anything this view that you have seems to be of someone who hasn’t traveled much, which is totally fine, neither have I really, it is a purposeful injustice that few people have the means to do so, but from my experiences traveling, people are people, and they are mostly the same everywhere, most working people want the same things and there is nothing wrong with being critical of the forces of capital or religion or governments that transcend borders and require international solidarity from us.

Really? Where? When I visited the whole place was full of dead dogs, couldn’t even take two steps before hearing the squishing of a decaying carcass.

Recently I’ve stumbled upon a YT channel called “Good fight ministries” or something of that sort and it was all about how transgenders and celebrities are satan so pretty average stuff, using bible verses way out of context to twist them to be a condemnation of Hollywood directors (using clips of them talking about being inspired as proof of possession) and singers I’ve never heard of (Jesus famously said grammies are evil i guess), but this then led me down a rabbit hole of crazy “Christian spiritual warfare” videos where schizos and grifters bang on about defending yourself against demons that posses you at night, with one lady claiming some sort of ghoul was “strumming” her spine at night. Unironically all these people need Jesus.

you know theres plenty of situations in the us were families need to approve of you transitioning, or are you conveniently ignoring that?

No I don’t actually, I’d be interested to hear about this? As far as I’m aware, blue US states all have informed consent as the treatment model for adults, basically world standard in that regard.

Wow an imperialist

I think just because I critique an empire you like from an anarchist perspective doesn’t make me an imperialist, but we can agree to disagree I suppose.

Struggle where you are, fight in your workplace, support and raise awareness for international causes at home.

One doesn’t exclude the other. I’m not sitting about foaming at the mouth about China all day, we’re just having a discussion and I’m open to hearing your perspective.

On the grounds I get to benefit? So are you implying that the relative freedom for queer folk in the US is a direct product of imperialist foreign policy, and the absence of this in China is why queer rights struggle there?