i want to start a post-rock band

one of my online spaces just fell apart. it was a discord server with only a few people. i can never find a place in larger discords so finding one with 3-4 regular/active people was nice. gone now. where next?

figuring this shit out is a slow path. you can’t just take one step and be at your destination. you have to wander around the forest of ideas. that time isn’t wasted: it’s just a nice walk.

i wouldn’t worry about life goals imo. at least in the sense of finding “your purpose”. your purpose is just being here. what you like doing and what you want to do will change. there isn’t just one thing that you are supposed to do. idk.

anyway i’m alright thanks. i just passed a pretty brutal deadline for a writing assignment and i’ve got one day off before the most brutal deadline i’ve had in my life (150 pages in three months). so i’m really enjoying one day of not worrying about that stuff before it starts again.

i think these threads have run their course

what’s your question?

i have no idea what you’re talking about

i don’t know. you tell me

do you think it’s worth it?

other people can help them? if i visit with a disabled person i can get their food for them and wash their dish. if they go alone, i’m sure the cook wouldn’t mind serving the occasional dish in that circumstance, or maybe some other customers could do it.

I don't know anyone who has talked about this other than ziq possibly mentioning it.

i’m pretty sure graeber talks about the unnecessary nature of a lot of it in bullshit jobs. not that places couldn’t exist that cook food for others, but the servers, the people who seat you, who take your order, etc. it’s so unnecessary. we can do all that shit ourselves. we can go to the kitchen and serve up our own food. we can go and wash our own individual plate after. you’re right. the jobs exist just to be there and in this case to wait on you the way a servant would for rich lords in the past.

yeah there’s always someone who thinks they are part of the club while the big kids just string them along because they do their homework for them.

yeah. the copy paste wording does make it seem like a big fuck you. like a shocked pikachu face meme. “how could you do this to me?” an assault on the concept of unemployment benefits.

it’s not our shitty wages and exploitation that are causing us to fail. it’s that unemployment benefit.

by their own “rules”, those businesses should be allowed to fail. instead they jump through hoops to keep the value of workers as low as possible.

you know they’d pay you nothing if they could.

do you have some links to those? that sounds like an interesting take

what’s really the difference between any discussion post here and a blog post?

don’t ghost them. just make a decision not to contact them. if they contact you, don’t make a deal about it. just let it fade out naturally. friendships end all the time. just embrace drifting apart.

sorry for self promotion i guess, but this is about as condensed as i could get my thoughts on it: https://zoomzip.github.io/throw_all_cops.html

i pretty much wrote this for the same reason. i was having these discussions but couldn’t find a really concise resource that explained the position.

do what you want. if it gets annoying, someone will say, and then it can find its own space. i wouldn’t mind seeing it in lobby or wherever you want to post it. i’d rather see contributions/thoughts/discussions from users than random links to guardian articles or whatever.

what do you want?

i actually do have a phd in anarchology and i can confirm democracy is shit

i wouldn’t mind escaping into the wilderness, but things tie me to where i am

thank you!