Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers sacrificing their comfort for antagonizing and pervy customers who are “always right”.
Capitalist culture is giving students homework in order to prepare them for their future careers where they’ll inevitably need to “take work home with them” or work extra hours in order to put bread on the table.
Capitalist culture is helping physically/mentally ill people only to the extent that they’re able to generate profitable labor again.
Capitalist culture is destroying food that can’t be sold rather than distributing it to poor people according to need.
Capitalist culture is monetizing knowledge and making it artificially scarce so that owners can profit and laypeople are left in the dark.
something that i wished was focused on more in scifi is the side-effects of living and travelling in space so frequently
gravity generators can generate fields that are almost earth-normal,
but they’ll never quite be perfect - especially if they have to
compensate for the different species of alien on board, who may well be
used to completely different gravitational strengths on their homeworld.
it’s not uncommon for a crew, after a long voyage, to step back onto
their homeworld and experience temporary feelings of excessive heaviness
or lightness. “gravity hangovers” are common, especially among ensigns
and those from worlds where gravity is more extreme.
the air
onboard starships and stations is highly concentrated and purified,
recycled through a series of filters to make it suitable for the
inhabitants of the vessel. many dormant allergies develop post-voyage,
and crews of all ages and levels of experience dread the “station
sickness” that sometimes results from exposure to less sterilized air
after a long period stationed in space.
lighting and sound is also
different; many veterans report difficulty sleeping without the sound
of the ships’ engines to lull them to sleep; or the piercing, painful
brightness of the midday sun after so long stationed out in the
impenetrable void, with only the light of the stars as an external
source of illumination.
it’s no wonder that those who journey into space rarely want to leave, are so desperate to get back out there when they do.
This is beyond wrong. Such a beautiful girl… She deserved so much more than this. We need justice. People who are white are what we need. There are too many whites not giving a shit and we need white people who see that this is wrong. We need something to change. I’m ashamed to be white sometimes. This is not ok.
#JusticeForLuz Q.D.E.P she had so much life ahead of her and we cannot let her go unnoticed. This is utterly disgusting and vile, Luz deserved so much more… and her parents couldn’t even attend her own daughter’s funeral in fear of being deported…
No one cares, but during my most recent disappearance from Tumblr, I met a guy and am disgustingly happy. It’s a nice change. Met at a concert that I almost didn’t go to. He commented on my shirt that I almost didn’t wear that night.
I love him a crazy amount. It’s just nice to put that out there so that it gets lost in the ether. He’s a good guy with a kind heart and I’m completely in love with him.
