Gabriella

“Tell the truth and see what happens.”

[Gabriella @meraki_bee]

@gluuuz I had a friend in childhood who looked a lot like her. She is very much Italian but looks Asian with fair skin and red/light brown hair

[Gabriella @meraki_bee]

@duren_matto Dipende da come l’università imposta le regole. Nella mia erano molto severe, almeno all’epoca. Non so come sia adesso. Basterebbe mettere dei paletti rigidi uguali per tutti

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

So much of America makes sense when you realize our “how we got here” stories are all basically like this.

[Gabriella @meraki_bee]

@nerorimmel Ah buona fortuna. Sto cercando part-time dal 2024.

[Gabriella @meraki_bee]

@Gianpattention @LukeDuke1268 Già nel 2013 mi raccontava una persona che ci lavorava dentro che dovevano accendere l’ac già a maggio altrimenti non si stava. Costruito in anni in cui già faceva caldissimo in estate, l’architetto sarà stato il cugino di qualcuno altrimenti non si spiega

[N. 直美 🌙 @Nayrobica_]

non esistono più i "lavoretti stagionali", esistono solo full time 40h settimanali sottopagati, quando la smettiamo di dire cose che andavano bene negli anni 90 poi ne riparliamo

[Gabriella @meraki_bee]

@happytomlivson Ma vi pagano per scrivere ste scemenze tutti gli anni a giugno? Non me lo spiego altrimenti

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Boomers be like, “Just walk into the office and ask for a job.”

The office: locked
The recruiter: AI
The interview: automated
The job posting: fake
The rejection email: instant
Your data: sold

[Grim @gr_grim]

Schizoteoria (ma neanche tanto): scordatevi che il Governo si lascerà scappare l'eredità dei boomer. Troveranno il modo di rapinarne una buona fetta via revisione aggressiva delle tasse di successione (lasciando il cerino in mano alle generazioni successive, come al solito).

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Amazing how fast the climate scam disappeared as soon as these AI data centers started being built.

[Balordo Lacciuolista @signoredelno]

La scuola insegna a stare 10 ore al giorno a fare qualcosa che non ti interessa, senza lamentarti troppo, cercando di ottenere risultati accettabili, spesso nell'interesse di qualcun altro e portare a casa la giornata.

Perfetta per il mercato del lavoro italiano.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

part of the anthroposophical model of early childhood (what waldorf is based on), is that the child begins life in a kind of magic bubble, and that the time spent in this state is essential for their long term spiritual development.

you can accidentally rush them out of this stage.

the child goes through a process of recapitulating the stages of civilization itself: they eventually go through an egyptian stage, and become fascinated with writing, symbols, and what we think of as the hallmarks of that civilization. later, they go through an antiquity / roman stage, and become fascinated by building, laws (rules), and the things we think of humanity as generally acquiring during that time. later, the medieval, and so on.

but at the start, the child is in magic world. this is occasionally referred to as “the garden”, as in the garden of eden, but i just think of it as fairy world, where the boundary between myth, story, imagination, and reality is completely fluid.

taking this view puts you at odds with modern parenting in ways that you would not expect. a lot of parenting discussion online is about nutrition, discipline in general, appropriate punishments, homeschooling, giving them tablets - there’s a clear set of basic controversial topics.

taking a concern about rushing the child out of this initial state and into the next one too quickly puts you at odds with other less obvious aspects of parenting style. the one i find most interesting is the conception of early childhood and learning itself that i see as flowing downstream from the modern scientific worldview.

recently, i was at an aquarium. they have this large cylinder tank that you can walk around and look into. the walls are glass. in the center, there’s a (real) fish that’s huge - easily the biggest fish i’ve ever seen.

a girl runs up and says, “wow, that’s a huge fish”. the mom says: “yes, it is a large fish, but just keep in mind that the glass is convex. when glass is bent this way, it makes things inside look bigger. but it is a big fish”.

now, the kid asks, “so, it’s not a big fish?”, and the mom says, “well, yes, it is a big fish, but…” and reiterates the explanation about what convex glass is and what it does to your perception.

in the modern scientific worldview, part of “becoming wise” is accumulating facts and that are not intuitive, and that undercut empirical perception. becoming educated means knowing these facts and having them at hand to make sure you’re perceiving things accurately - unlike someone uneducated, who wouldn’t know about glass distorting perception, and the finer mechanics of how and why that happens.

this means that “passing on wisdom” and being “the wise elder” often amounts to passing on and dispensing these facts. here, the kid is looking at something - but has to be told: “don’t get the wrong idea. i, the wise elder, know something you don’t, and i’ll let you in on the secret.”

there’s nothing wrong with this in and of itself, but it’s completely at odds with the world the child is presently inhabiting (in my opinion). the child is just in awe of a large fish. this is a total, magical, all encompassing spiritual experience - but the adult has to step in and take them out of it, to ensure that they’re giving primacy to a scientific perception.

the adult, due to their model of what knowledge is, is constantly stepping in to jet pack the child out of their direct perception, into abstractions that have nothing to do with their inner world.

once you notice this, you really see it all the time. i’m at the park, and a kid is hitting a log with a stick. it’s making a cool sound. he says, “dad, look at this”, and the dad starts explaining that sound is really vibrations, what vibrations are - bam: smash the eject button. the kid can’t just hear the sound: an adult has to step in and make sure that the experience of hearing the sound is being filtered through this paradigm’s conception of what knowledge, and life, “really” is.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on a 24-hour day stopped working decades ago and most people just never run the numbers.

8 hours sleep. 8 hours work. That's 16, before anything else.

Add the modern requirements that nobody counts. 1 hour of real exercise. 30 minutes of getting ready and showering. 30 to 90 minutes of commute. Cooking and eating three meals, or shopping and prepping for them, is 90 minutes minimum if you're being honest. Dishes, laundry, basic household upkeep, hygiene, packing tomorrow's bag is another hour.

That's 5 to 6 hours of obligations the original framework never accounted for.

Running total: 21 to 22 hours. With a 45-minute one-way commute and a real kitchen, you have under 90 minutes left.

Inside that window you're supposed to read books, see friends, date, pursue hobbies, learn skills, watch the shows everyone references at work, and call your parents.

The "eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest" framework comes from Robert Owen in 1817, written for a factory worker who walked to the mill, ate whatever was in front of him, and didn't lift weights. We kept his arithmetic and added 5 hours of modern obligations on top.

The people who appear to "have it all" are doing one of five things: outsourcing domestic labor to a spouse or paid help, cutting sleep, cutting exercise, having no kids, or living in a 30-square-meter apartment with no maintenance burden. Usually multiple. The math is the same for everyone, the cuts are just hidden.

The honest answer is you choose. Most people cut sleep and pay for it in cognition. Some cut exercise and pay for it in long-term health. The cultured ones cut the culture and read 5 books a year instead of 30.

There is no version where you don't choose.

[orporick @orporick]

(Due parole sulla polemica del giorno che tratta temi troppo complessi per essere liquidati qui sopra. Molte persone sembrano parlare delle indicazioni nazionali come se fossero programmi scolastici. Non lo sono. I programmi scolastici non esistono (per fortuna) da anni. -->

[Dissident West @dissidentwest]

It’s actually fucking insane how a man made virus caused the entire world to shut down and now everyone who didn’t purchase a home before 2020 is in the permanent underclass.

[jus✞in @justin5star]

It’s interesting growing up and realizing that most adults are not very bright. I had my suspicions as a kid but I didn’t know that the situation was this serious.

[orph @orphcorp]

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

[Clara @stai_laggando]

@esseeffeacca Privilegiano l'online.
I grandi retailer stanno tutti seguendo il modello Shein.
Non è un segnale di riduzione della capacità di spesa dei clienti.

[Romy @Romy_Holland]

i’m not a clean person and i am still horrified by the daily ritual of shoveling purées into my sons mouth with the full knowledge he’s going to spit 97% of it onto his chin, where it will then drip onto his highchair tray so he can mash it with his fat little hands for 5 minutes before i call it and hose him off in the sink. all this to get 6 calories of almond butter into him.

like, i just don’t buy that this is what ppl were up to 400 years ago.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Everything we build for small children in the last two hundred years is garbage and i do not say this lightly. i have looked at it all, the plastic letters, the puzzles, the apps, the smart toys with sounds that say good job when a child presses a button. good job for what, for obeying a machine at three, for learning that the right answer makes the noise and the wrong answer makes silence. and we just taught a three year old that love is conditional, and we did it with a battery powered duck. nobody in any of those rooms asked what does a child at four actually need. a child at four needs mud on its face and a frightening beetle and a grandmother who smells like onions telling a story that makes no sense. nobody tested this, nobody got a funding round for it, but it worked for ten thousand years. and then it one day stopped because someone with a degree in something useless decided that children need curriculum at four. curriculum, the word itself is a violence against a child that still believes trees have faces. and we want to teacg it the alphabet. we are destroying prophets to make clerks.