Everytime Britney does something cool I want you to remember that she literally has like no power: that she’s a marginalized group herself (disabled) and was poor in her life, and exploited for wealth; her conservatorship is worth someone who abused her himself and she literally controls NOTHING. Not her money, not when she can see her kids, not her medical choices, not even marriage or like, visitors in her own home.
When Britney says stuff like this it’s a huge deal and extremely brave.
@dollarperfetus@transliquidsnake could you share your source for this? I’d like to read more, I’d never heard that she doesn’t control her wealth before
She’s been under a conservatorship since her 2007 breakdown. If you dont know what conservatorships are, it’s basically you are placed in custody of someone as though you were a child, you don’t control much of anything. Seriously, it’s major but seldom talked about disability civil rights issue, not just for Britney but she’s often used as a prime example of how a good intended system goes wrong.
Usually there’s two people involved, the one who has the conservatorship (Britney’s father currently) and a lawyer to act as like checks and balances, tries to make sure her human rights aren’t being glaringly violated, or she’s being exploited. Well… her Lawyer was kind of forced out so. Checks and balances are kind of diddly squat now, as they usually are. She’s at the mercy of her father and is desperately trying to get rid of it.
For those who don’t know, too, Britney’s parents were always horrendously abusive, but most officiated information on that is on her mother’s abuse, not her father. But it’s been obvious for a while that he absolutely took part in exploiting her as a child.
This is what the #freebritney was about earlier in 2019.
Brit’s conservatorship is kept very private which is a good and bad thing because it means people aren’t going to humiliate her in the media, but also means that she’s kind of on her own. Some fans go too far with the freebritney which from what I’m guessing from how her sister responds to those people, only causes more problems for her rather than helps.
Capitalism is getting very much more dystopian very quickly
It’s a matter of time before companies start their own Pod-communities and ‘strongly encourage’ workers to live there and set up rules like no alcohol and no defamation of the company in the Pods.
As nightmarish as this is (and it is), this is only new for documented white people. From seasonal archiculture workers to construction workers to sweatshops, ‘sleep where you work and live your whole life controlled by your boss and coworkers pressured to spy on you’, has been very much a thing for a looooooooong time.
This is one of many things capitalism has always done to workers and now they’re going “hhmmmm.. if I can do this to some workers, why not all of them? if I present it as a hip new way of urban living people for the ‘freelancers’ that I exploit, I might even be able to do it without the armed guards that run my sweatshops and plantations.”
I don’t really get the issue with the “sex is banned” part tho
I don’t want to hyperfocus on that part because ‘live without privacy, convert your bed into a desk by day and just work work work’ is distopian enough as it is and I don’t really want to distract from a conversation about the new fuedalism to just talk about sex.
But can you not understand how that monotomous soulless life defined by work becomes even more soulless when you are not permitted to engage in (what is for most allosexuals) one of the most intimate moments of recreational joy and interpersonal connection? & how much it says about our lack of power when we live in places that control our sexual and reproductive lives?
well yeah, but it’s communal living. I mean you’re spot on with the rest but idk, a ban on sex when you share your living quarters with like two dozen other people? it doesn’t seem that deep tbh.
You know, I’ve spend time in socialist and anarchist self-organized communal living spaces where lots of people shared bedrooms because they liked it and all these spaces had a place for sex. They all acknowledged that that was a thing many humans loved and valued and so they organized to make that good thing possible. Some had a spare room with a lock on the inside that couples could use, others had dorms where sex was okay and dorms where it was not so people could choose where to sleep. It is not difficult to have communal living for those that like sharing bedrooms and also organize a place for sex.
This, however, is not communal living. This is crammed, dehumanized corporate living. This is squeezing as many people as possible into a space defined by work. The inhabitants own nothing in this space and have no control over their environment, they can’t even paint the walls let along organize the space to meet their needs. In such a space, sex is made impossible on purpose:
“We built the pods facing each other so the community polices itself”
The people that made this could have organized privacy and opportunities for sex. They deliberately did not do this, they dilerabetely designed the space for minimum privacy. The purposeful banning of sex from this space is just one part, but one very obvious part, of the way these spaces are not build for humans, they are build for employees whose whole identity should be limited to their productivity.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, mining communities and factory towns encouraged workers to join their ranks by offering company housing and company stores, where workers and their families wouldn’t have to worry about money, because their rent and whatever they wanted from the store would simply be deducted from their paychecks.
Didn’t take long for workers to realize they were spending over 100% of their paychecks, and would have to work the rest of their lives in soul-crushing poverty to pay the company back.
“I sold my soul to the company store” isn’t just a line in a song, it’s about Miner’s Scrip. When coal mines forced their employees to live in company housing, paid them in company credit usable only in the literal company store, and they charged astronomical rates for rent and food.
Most miners ended up in multi-generational debt because their wages were so low they could not afford the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter and ended up owing so much to the company store their grandchildren would essentially be enslaved to the company to pay off the debt.
This becomes especially chilling when you realize Cheeto Supremo ran on a policy of “bring back coal jobs”.
This is just deadass feudalism 2 Electric Boogaloo
Waiting for Google and Facebook to implement this crap.
I am in the process of debulking an overgrown Dawn Viburnum: in my zone (8), this beautiful plant produces clusters of pink blossoms as early as December, and flowers right through to February: it provides good forage for non-honeybee pollinators that fly in colder weather. The plant itself is also a great habitat for birds.
Whenever I am doing maintenance on an older shrub like this, it produces a tonne of biomass, so today, I’m going to go over what I do with all of the wood.
Use #1: New Plant Propagation
If you saw my post about ground layering, you will remember that shrubs often grow adventitious roots when they come into contact with soil. This Viburnum shrub has been collecting leaf fall in its crown for over a decade, which has decomposed into soil, into which numerous limbs have rooted well-above the grade.
By pruning these limbs below root tissue, I can use them as cuttings to propagate new stands of this patch-forming plant. They are much larger than most cuttings I take: already almost the height of a grown plant.
Uses #2-7: Timber
Use #2: Kindling and Firewood
I try to avoid burning too much firewood for environmental reasons, but we do have a wood burning stove and a firepit, with which we heat and cook (respectively) on occasion.
In any case, it’s good to have a decent stack of firewood around. If you ever have to depend on firewood alone for heating or cooking, it is used up more quickly than you would believe. Firewood also has to dry out before it can be used, so keeping a supply of cured wood on hand is important.
Use #3: Hügelkultur
I used a significant portion of the prunings from today to continue one of my hügelkutur berms: this is the rounded berm (~10 metres long x ~0.5 metres high x ~0.75 metres wide) that is accompanied by a swale.
I have used wood from numerous trees, especially the pollarded apple, in order to add bulk to this structure, but the smaller sticks are especially useful, as they can fill gaps between logs.
Wattle is one of my favourite building techniques in the garden, because it is both free and easy. Raised beds, retaining walls, and fences, can easily be built using this simple technique of weaving long pliable limbs between, stout, sturdy stakes.
I grow plants like willow (Salix sp.) and dogwood (Cornus sp.) in order to coppice new shoots for this purpose, but several of the prunings from the Viburnum also turned out to be decent wattle material.
Use #5: Planting Stakes and Supports
As noted in my post on sculpting trees: any sturdy, straight, and sufficiently long limb is pruned and trimmed into a support for other plants. Above, I’ve used hazelnut (Corylus sp.) limbs to straighten out my young elderberry trees.
Come tomato and pepper season, I won’t be able to find enough of these supports, and I am loathe to pay for bamboo stakes and tomato cages when I have free timber in abundance.
Use #6: Art
Interesting timber features like knots, crazy shapes, or natural grafts can be used for all sorts of decorative woodworking projects. One of these prunings from today has the form of a decent hiking stick, so depending on how the wood holds up, I may sand and varnish it.
However, if you have access to a wood-chipper, they can also be made into a wood chip mulch, which has untold benefits for soil fertility, mycelial growth, water retention, and weed suppression.
I cover all my growing spaces with a mulch of some sort (aside from a desert, nature doesn’t have much bare soil). A wood chip mulch is good for high-traffic areas where long-term weed-suppression is ideal. I stack up a bunch of prunings, and rent a wood-chipper once a year in order to make my own chip mulch: it’s much cheaper than buying it, and I return all the resources I have grown to the soil.
There are innumerable uses for what is normally discarded as “waste” in the garden: these are just a few ways in which resources from pruning can be directed back into a productive and healthy growing space.
If you’re going to burn prunings you should do it in a rocket stove! It’s designed to burn much more efficiently than an open fire, meaning your kindling burns longer and hotter and with less smoke to boot. You can even make one out of cinder blocks, or a small one for camping with old cans!
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