Just started The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World.

Loving it so far.

Well fuck.

I've got one of those ~50 gallon compost tumblers. Thanks to Black Solider Fly larvae, the compost have been incredibly nutrient dense and ready ~2-3x faster than without them.

As you pointed out: a negative profit is a cost, so I wouldn't use profit in your argument.

Based on how you're using the word profit in your further explanations, I think your argument would be more clear if you change all the instances of the word 'profit' to 'benefit'.

In which case I would say, "well yeah there's a reason it's called 'Mutual Aid' and not 'One Way Aid'" lol

Aside from that, the only thing I would critique is the part about relationships being a benefit of mutual aid work, when its something that can happen in any social function where mutual interests align (concerts, workshops, conventions, schools, etc)

If I do some bartering i.e. fix someones door and they give me food I have profited from fixing their door.

That's not necessarily profiting, though. What if your labor is worth more than the food they give you?

Since profit specifically means getting more of something than you put in, how are you measuring when a social benefit becomes profitable if it's value is obscured? Do you take into account the opportunity cost of participating in mutual aid vs other social functions?

Ignore that last question, I realized it's really not relevant to the critique .

I don't get equating benefits to profits. Can you expand on that?

I know this is true for me, I am far more likely to be friends with or date someone who does mutual aid.

Now, is that not a clear profit? Often times in relationships people will help each other cleaning, moving, making food and other such things. I gain those benefits from that person largely in part from my mutual aid efforts.

Surely, like any participation in any social function, that's simply a benefit of circumstance? If I meet someone at a comic book convention and start a romantic relationship, I'm gaining the same perks of partnership as I would meeting someone at a Food Not Bombs event.

I'm one of them :D

Thank you so much for the input! I found your comment very helpful for figuring out what the hell I'm doing haha

Thanks for the info, I honestly didn't know that was a thing. I'll see if I can find some of those communities

Thanks for the insight!

One of the reasons I have been thinking about going to school again is because of getting past the thing I see in most job applications:

Required qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field

Now I'm starting to realize that it's silly to waste years working towards a formal degree just to get past the Hiring Manager. Maybe I'll refresh my C and Python knowledge so that I can start making some projects for a portfolio or something

I don't think I have those kinds of laws where I live. I'm in the U.S. in an 'employment at-will' state

I'm vastly underpaid in my current job based on where I live. My rent, insurance, bills, and groceries take about 90% of my monthly income, so it's difficult to save :(

Thanks for the suggestion with University of Helsinki. I'll check out their program.

I'm definitely considering going back to school. IT, unfortunately, has a tendency to be terrible for work-life balance, at least with Support and Sys Admin stuff.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of work or field are you in that allows you to work from home?

I wish. I work for a big corporation known for selling entire groceries . Head of the company is adamant that we return to working in the office full-time soon.

I need to find a new job if I want to work from home 100% of the time.

Reddit is getting ready for IPO. I'm hoping that they make many more aggressive anti-user changes so that the platform starts to fail.

I'd like to not need to go on that site anymore for online communities about niche hobbies or interests.

This would be ok news if meat products sold/consumed at these chains actually decreased, but it'll probably give them a larger vegan and vegetarian customer base that they haven't had previously.

Assuming that you don't need the local DNS server to access devices/services on the businesses internal network, just change your computers DNS server to something else. Chances are, they haven't blocked Cloudflare's IPv4 1.1.1.1 DNS server or Googles 8.8.8.8

thanks for this!

Thank you for the recommendations!

Thank you for your analysis!

I think you're dead-on with my trouble of reconciling anarchist analysis with my own conception of my position in the world.

Do you know of any media (books, blogs, podcasts, etc) that covers letting go of expectations or anxiety of the future, whether it's from an anarchist perspective or not?