ToastedRavioli

@ ToastedRavioli @midwest.social

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Born to Squint, Forced to See ⚜️

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Aspen Anti-Billionaire Society midwest.social

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 4d ago

Were gonna need a bigger magnet

4d ago

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 4d ago

I get what youre saying but, just like with license plates, your drivers license is technically state property. They just allow you to temporarily possess it. Point being that they can and will toss someone in jail for refusing to hand it over, which is surely worse than just handing it over. Fucked as the reasons may be that they want it back

7d ago

This imperial decline, a broken toilet.

“Nothing in life is more important than the ability to defecate effectively” - Gerald R. Ford

7d ago

Russia calls on US to immediately release Venezuelan President Maduro — diplomat

we stand firm for… the peaceful settlement of all differences

Pay no mind to the 4 year war were involved in

7d ago

This imperial decline, a broken toilet.

The military toilet version of a 2000s BMW oil change

7d ago

How did it end up like this?

What was Joey Lawrence’s favorite food at the craft services table when he was that kid on Blossom?

1w ago

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 1w ago

Like for veggies, the egg is poached in the middle of an assemblage of multiple imbricated containers filled with specific amounts of water and pre-heated in a multi-step procedure. We are also told that the egg yolk must be punctured with a fork before cooking. (What happens if you don’t? The book doesn’t say, and I would rather not know.)

The recipe calls for 1 minute and 10 seconds of cooking at full power. Around the 1 minute and 5 seconds mark, my egg violently exploded, sending the various vessels to bounce around the walls of the oven. And listen, as I said, I came to this book with an open mind, but I expect a cookbook to give you at least enough information to avoid a literal explosion. So I wrote “LESS” in the “(____)” and never tried this recipe again.

1w ago

Like a longterm relationship finally meeting

ToastedRavioli @midwest.social 1w ago

Thats what good mac n cheese sounds like

2w ago

Is Grindr dead?

Not when the RNC is in town

2w ago

Pete Hegseth Emphasizes Western Christian Values in Military Speech

worship of climate change as a god has disappeared

Fuck these people are legitimately insane. What people were in the temple offering sacrifice on the altar of climate change? Wtf is he even talking about?

We welcome our new gods: coal, oil, and Trump. The unholy trinity of environmental destruction. May the lives of children everywhere be a worthy sacrifice as they grow up in a world where they are doomed to burn alive and drown in biblical-grade floods

2w ago

Donald Trump is now unpopular with the majority of white americans

They did like Ike, to be fair

2w ago

Donald Trump is now unpopular with the majority of white americans

The prophecy foretold of a time when they would finally be tired of all the winning

2w ago

but my narrative

It’s interesting that you quietly swap in “people” where history mostly shows industrial corporations dumping waste for profit.

I didnt realize corporations were sentient entities capable of acting on their own, rather than groups of people doing people things…

The 1899 act was legitimately created because everyday people were literally throwing their garbage into water as a form of waste management. So much so that it was difficult to navigate boats safely, ergo “Rivers and Harbors Act” as in the places that were affected by floating masses of garbage

2w ago

but my narrative

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy

Why do you think sewage treatment plants exist in the first place? I’ll give you a hint, its not because people came together altruistically to build them (or even regulate that they need to exist).

The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 was signed because people, left to their own devices, self-destructively pollute their water supplies. That law mandated people couldnt dump shit in the water. It also was passed because state laws weren’t effective at stopping people from polluting the water

It wasnt enough, so there was the Water Pollution Control Act of 1948. And then the Water Quality Act of 1965. And then the Clean Water Act of 1972, which provided funding to create sewage treatment plants, and mandated that all wastewater be treated to a certain standard. And even that wasnt enough, which is why we later invented the entire EPA, an entity dedicated largely to that one issue (among similar things).

None of that would have occurred without centralized authority, nor would have been necessary if a plurality of people were not inherently self destructive when left to their own devices. Anarchism is opposed to any central authority. Thereby, under the most basic logic, sewage treatment plants would be virtually guaranteed not to exist in an anarchical non-society society.

Giving people at large the benefit of the doubt about an issue they have repeatedly shown to fuck up for centuries is silly. And sewage treatment plants require centralization to be built and maintained.

2w ago

Fox Frequently Sneaks Into Woman’s Home And Sleeps In Her Bed: “It Fills My Heart With Joy”

I really detest these stories where people are like “oh how cute” without realizing how messed up it is. Its extremely likely that someone has been feeding that fox, even if this woman isnt the one doing it. Most likely she probably is feeding it

Foxes do not naturally behave this way. They should show an instinctive fear of people, not cuddle up with them. Foxes arent a domestic animal.

When people feed wild animals they do shit like this, and then 99% of the time its only a short while before they display aggressive behavior towards someone that doesnt feed them and end up getting killed for it.

The best thing you can do for an animal that displays this type of behavior is scare it away and try to nudge it back towards natural behavior. The more it views people as a friendly and a potential food source the more likely it is to get killed later.

2w ago

but my narrative

Theres a steep irony in someone doing government controlled work idealizing a system where the work they do would likely not exist. Who exactly would be mandating/funding the existence, operation, or regular testing of a sewage plant in an anarchist society?

Society is poorly designed in the general sense, sure. It could be vastly improved and people could have more liberty wrt a lot of things. But left to their own devices people on average would not choose to mandate water treatment. Even if they somehow did, providing no central system of oversight for making sure that it happens would all but guarantee it doesnt get accomplished.

Its ridiculous how many people take critical aspects of society for granted and assume they would continue to exist in a world where everyone does whatever the fuck they want without any central planning or control. In many places around the world people already dont have access to fresh/clean water for this exact reason…

Look at the libertarian experiments that have all failed spectacularly, like Grafton, NH. Mfs couldnt even agree to not feed the bears or dispose of their trash appropriately. And that doesnt require some massive infrastructure project to accomplish. The greater good often necessitates protecting people at large from their own stupidity, otherwise your liberties are quickly diminished by your neighbor’s negligence

2w ago

smoooooth, in their lane, flourishing

And thus began the epoch of the tardigrades

2w ago

This Is What Convinced Me OpenAI Will Run Out of Money