figwasp

figwasp wrote

Reply to comment by wednesday in what is personal property? by wednesday

Yeah that’s a fair summary.

I think people and groups are too diverse to make blanket rules of anarchism (lol)… like, folks in regions with great public transit might not give two shits how many bikes you have (for ex.), but in a rural area where houses are 2 miles apart, that community may have different needs, wants, or ideals.

I don’t think it’s fair to assume for sure how it would work (for ex, by the time the world gets to a point where this is feasible, we may all be too disabled by war and pollution to bike at all and bikes will just be novelty collectors items), but I’m very willing and interested in talking about it and being open minded.

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figwasp wrote

I think acquisition and intention matters. Like, okay, if you love having 100 bikes, that’s cool, but do you have 100 bikes while everyone else in the community has no bikes, and 50 people are pissed because they need or want one bike but you’re hoarding them all? Or did you take everyone else’s bikes so you could have 100? Or does everyone have a bike or two of their own and doesn’t care if someone has 100 of them?

Personally, as long as my needs are being met and everyone else’s needs are being met, I couldn’t give a shit how many bikes someone has. I would fucking love to have a few different wheelchairs to pick from. Can I use more than once at once? No. But it’s like shoes— sometimes I want a dressy one, sometimes I just want the old busted up reliable one to fuck around outside in. But if me having 5 different chairs means someone who needs one has no chair, then I’m not gonna hoard the wealth of multiple wheelchairs and let someone else go without, I’m gonna make sure my neighbor is all set first.

Another option is sharing… maybe you have 100 bikes but one is your personal favorite and has sentimental value or something. Would you be willing to let other people use the other 99, if they agree to take care of them? Or does collecting them mean you don’t want anyone else to use them either?

I think there can be different levels of “personal” property. Like, I don’t want anyone using my toothbrush, but I’ll happily share my dishes with people. They wouldn’t come into my home and take my dishes to use in their own home, but obviously we’d share them if we were eating together. Or if I’ve got furniture outside in a pretty spot, I don’t care if you sit down and enjoy that pretty spot if I’m not sitting there already. (Campsite rule though: don’t fuck up other people’s shit and leave it nicer than you found it.)

I really think it depends on the dynamics of a community. Other communities may have different priorities. Maybe a community decides no one can have more than 5 bikes at a time, and anything more than 5 has to be put into a central spot to be enjoyed by the whole community. Maybe another community has a bike factory and creates so many bikes that everyone easily has 100.

I personally wouldn’t care if someone had 1000 bikes, as long as everyone who wanted or needed a bike already had one.

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figwasp wrote

Why did you comment at all if you don’t know what ableism is?

Anyway, intelligence-based insults are ableist af and shit on people with intellectual disabilities (such as Down syndrome).

Bonus oppression: the concept of intelligence is gross. The yardstick used to measure intelligence is racist and classist and not rooted in actual science.

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figwasp wrote

The name of this forum rubs me the wrong way. I’m disabled and disabled isn’t a bad word. Having a disability forum that doesn’t even use the word disability is erasing our history & culture and implies there’s something shameful about disability.

It’s a bummer.

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figwasp wrote

Totally understand and reasonable fear. Is your bathroom big enough to have a chair outside the shower? Where you can do a chair to chair transfer (with or without a transfer board) from inside the shower to outside the shower without standing? My current space is too small for that but I’ve done this when I’ve had bigger bathrooms. That way I wasn’t standing until I was pretty much done (and dry).

Now because my bathroom isn’t very accessible, I got a big pack of wash cloths and keep some kinda disposable wipe on hand, plus I have a little battery operated bidet. I’d rather shower but some days it’s just not safe.

Solidarity, friend.

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figwasp wrote

Theoretically, as long as the taxes keep getting paid and no one challenges ownership after you’re gone, the inhabitants could still live there.

That said, I don’t trust anyone and would probably set up a trust to own the land and name beneficiaries a couple generations down but put something in there to allow the future owners to keep passing it down the line (with a contingency for when there’s no more offspring).

Im in the US. Idk about anywhere else. I’m not a lawyer or anything but I’ve seen a lot of people fight over land and even if it’s amicable, when a property owner dies without a will or some kind of estate plan in place, shit gets dragged out in the courts.

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figwasp wrote

I broke some teeth and I can’t find a dentist (too poor for anything but extractions, anyway) but on top of medical shit I can’t get fixed, I’m just so over this fucking timeline.

Immolate rich people.

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figwasp wrote

The short answer is to distract us from what’s really going on.

Whether that’s the Cold War with China, the mass disabling event that is covid (and no one can access healthcare or disability benefits), the rise of fascism, the increase of poverty worse than the Great Depression, environmental collapse/climate change, or any number of other catastrophic issues happening right now… the State is hoping they can distract us with a shiny thing while they continue their shady dealings.

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figwasp wrote

I was on benefits for several years, and then I busted my ass to find accessible work because we couldn’t survive on benefits any longer, and I thought if I just had a more accessible job I’d be fine. Joke’s on me though… I deeply regret ever going back to work. Even before catching covid, my health was getting worse than ever. Post-covid… well, idk how long I’ll last. This life isn’t sustainable.

I wish I could do hobbies just so I could have an outlet… never had any before (other than like sewing, but that was just making or fixing shit we needed) but I picked up a few actual hobbies I really enjoy over the last few years, and I don’t have energy or time to devote to them. Sometimes I’ll crochet when I need to fidget but usually it just hurts too much to do it long.

This capitalist hell is not sustainable. No one should have to fight so hard for mere survival.

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figwasp wrote

Are our spouses siblings???? My FIL pulls that shit every time. I fucking hate it.

Like, my partner is busting his ass and built a biz from the ground up with nothing but a credit card with a $10k limit. Yeah, we’re still poor but we’re keeping the bills paid, and my partner is really proud of himself. People in the community recommend him highly and anytime he can, he helps people who fall in hard times with free or cheap work. (He’s an rv tech and RVs are the only affordable housing in this region.) but all my FIL hears is how we have no insurance and no savings and if my spouse just worked harder, we’d be as rich as him. Meanwhile, he talks about how “poor” he is because he’s on a “fixed income.” Nevermind that he has a juicy pension, Medicare, and long term care insurance that’s paying the whole bill for his $12k/mo assisted living.

I digress. But I hate rich people.

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figwasp wrote

Jesus Christ, when are medical companies gonna stop using these fucking trackers. Either do what you say (provide safe access to healthcare) or just admit you care more about the monetization of your data than about the actual service or product you’re providing.

These companies swoop in like vultures on roadkill to profit off the causalities of the capitalist healthcare system, and then act so fucking surprised when we learn they’re just greedy fucking predators.

Fuck the entire medical industrial complex.

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figwasp wrote

I always wonder about that too. Also I wonder how people manage to get shit done… I’m chronically ill and disabled and everything takes longer for me to do. I wake up, feed & medicate cats, have tacos for breakfast, scoop boxes, log into work, sell my soul doing 1 of 3 jobs, then attempt to make dinner, watch some kind of streaming while we eat, feed cats again, wash dishes, scoop boxes, brush teeth, and hope to get some sleep. On weekends, I do homework and go to the laundromat… hopefully I also have energy to clean the house, but that hasn’t happened in a few weeks.

I have post-covid fatigue that’s getting worse, and it’s all I can do to get through my routine. I don’t have time or energy to do anything that matters, other than the bare minimum to keep me and the cats alive. When the heart palpitations flare up, I have to log out of work and lay down, and try and force myself to sleep them off because it’s usually caused by fatigue.

I wish I could take time to do yoga like I used to, because it helped a ton with my balance and mental health, but I don’t have a space to do it and it just tires me out so much now (even if I have enough energy to clear a space), that I can’t work the next day. No work, no money, no food, so that’s not an option any more.

I have a partner who works all week and helps on weekends but I think he’s got executive dysfunction because he never does any of the cleaning even when he says he will, he just runs out of time doing less-essential projects that excite him, if he ever has non-work time to spare.

We’re just barely surviving here. It’s exhausting.

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figwasp wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted41381 in Friday FREETALK by kano

We got lucky… we got a loan using the address we needed to move out of within 2 mos. Interest rate is higher than our credit card though, so we’re getting screwed but at least we’ve got a roof over our heads.

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figwasp wrote

Why can’t we just eat the algae?

I mean, I don’t object to b12, and I take it everyday (idek why, my b12 tests are always off the charts high— I’ve got like a lifetime supply built up in my body rn)… but why not just make food from the algae?

I remember a deep space nine episode that involved algae paste food. I’d probably eat it.

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figwasp wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted41381 in Friday FREETALK by kano

Yeah covid brain is a thing. When I caught it in September, it really fucked with my head, and I don’t feel like I’ve totally recovered (physically OR mentally).

I have coworkers who’ve caught it 4 times or more, and they’re drastically different people than when I first met them. They also make so many more mistakes and it’s like they’ve forgotten how to do their jobs. Thankfully I work remote and don’t have to catch their germs.

That’s really cool you live on a horse ranch. I wish we could afford some land to get away from other humans for safety and sanity. Best we can manage right now is living in an RV in a campground.

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