We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Mishapocalypse made me kinda nostalgic and I made a little angel bee. Let´s bee hopeful for a better new year. (And maybe another Mishapocalypse, or two … ?)
I think I´m going to give the bee a little halo too this year. on redbubble & threadless
45 firefighters,304 police officers,19 K9 officers, and around 50 EMT’s and Paramedics have died in 2020. Rest easy brothers and sisters we have the watch from here
I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit. But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.
Much of the ocean is a desert
You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.
Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.
If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.
If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.
If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.
$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.
70% of $10 is $7.
So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.
Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.
But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.
Also, can we talk about how taxes are used to pay for things for the benefit of society - roads, schools, libraries etc. so to further the above example, the parents aren’t just pocketing that money themselves just to be mean and selfish, they might use it to pay for a Netflix subscription that the whole family can watch.
That’s the real horseshit of “oh, they want free education and free health care!” No, asshole, I want my taxes to pay for it, and I want rich fuckers to stop evading their taxes and help us all pay for it.
This used to be called “Auto Shop” and “Home Economics,” subjects which were included in nearly every high school curriculum up until the 1980s. Auto maintenance, budget management, sewing skills, cooking, and other basic Adulting skills were actually taught in classroom settings. But suddenly all that money got funneled away to sports and graduation requirements shifted toward standardized tests because those were somehow more? important? than life skills? and the home ec and shop classes were no longer taught, even as electives. We’ve been steadily losing arts classes for similar reasons.
And so students leave school with a thorough grounding in football and calculus, but having no idea how to sew on a button or change a tire.
Petition to bring back these classes in every single middle and high school in the country.
looking at a 20th dynasty tomb and either the artists drew bastet and sekhmet the wrong way around or the scribes wrote the captions the wrong way around either way it is very funny
but if it’s any consolation to the long dead artisans involved i’m probably the only person who noticed
Bobhotep: “Who’s got the round ears and who’s got the pointy ears? I forget.”
Marymeryt: “Well, shoot, I don’t remember either. But it’s 50/50 and probably no one will notice.”
<approximately 3150 years later>
somecunttookmyurl: <notices>
oh even better this is the point where they’re both still leonine so it’s
“wait who has the red dress and who has the white dress”
“does it matter?”
“s'pose not”
alright i finally got on the laptop so i can explain myself now
in the tomb of prince mentuherkhepshef (KV19) there is a corridor with 7 scenes on each wall of the prince making offerings to different deities
this is apparently Bastet. the little caption in front of her face says her name. it says Bastet.
whatever weirdass shit is going on with her face aside (if i had nightmares, that would haunt them) she’s… wearing a red dress. and the prince is… offering her red linen.
one of Sekhmet’s titles is “mistress of red linen”. Bastet doesn’t wear red. Sekhmet wears red. Bastet also doesn’t really have any use for a gift of red linen why would you give her that when the mistress of red linen is, like, over there? c’mon buddy.
(see: TT178 or this relief of Seti I where the paint is faded a bit but you can still see it was red. here she is in a red dress in papyrus harris. you get the point)
on the other wall, this is apparently Sekhmet. her name is written a little… weirdly (and may or may not be a pun) but it does say sxm.t.
‘cept, uh, she’s wearing white. now, the number of depictions of either goddess in which the paint still survives is comparatively pretty small (most were either never painted, or the paint has worn off) but i haven’t come across something which is definitely verifiably sekhmet in which she is wearing white. everything that still has colour is red.
i actually can’t find any other depictions of bastet in leonine form that still have paint (which is a shame) to be like AHA SEE SHE WEARS WHITE but like i’m just saying if you’re going to give one a red dress and one a white dress, it’s going to be the mistress of red linen wearing the red one isn’t it. come on now.
The prince is also offering libation (pouring one out) which would be a bit of a weird thing to do for the gal called mistress of fear all things considered, especially when Bastet (associated with life/rebirth and called the lady of the breath of life for duat’s sake) is right there on the other wall.
A Census Bureau survey released just before the holidays found that an incredible 35.3% of adults in the U.S. are “living in households not current on rent or mortgage where eviction or foreclosure in the next two months is either very likely or somewhat likely.”
Desperate workers and families, faced with being thrown into winter streets, could finally take a breath when the stimulus bill was signed — but only just. The CDC eviction ban was extended for just another month, during which time high unemployment and the ravages of disease are unlikely to improve.
Here are a few current hotspots in the housing struggle.
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