My dad’s a gynecologist. He looks at vaginas all day long.

ummmm…so what’s with the knife?

“Intimate” is a completely subjective term. Some people, like it or not, don’t consider nudity to be intimate and are therefore more than happy to use it to their advantage. Just because you wouldn’t, doesn’t make you the arbiter or what is or isn’t considered intimate.

So, as you say “Clearly being the more preferable job” is a meaningless statement. A vegan wouldn’t rent out their body to work in a slaughterhouse. A pacifist wouldn’t rent out their body to the military. Just because you wouldn’t rent out your body for people to enjoy on the internet doesn’t make it objectively worse than any other profession. It’s just your perspective.

I’m not saying that there aren’t issues in the porn industry. Of course there are, tonnes of them. But renting out your body to perform manual labour or renting out your body for people to look at on the internet are not as different as you think.

if someone has to grant access to their body, under threat of starvation or homelessness

But that’s employment in a nutshell, though. A welder rents out his body to a company to weld steel beams for 8 hours a day. An accountant rents out their body to sit behind a desk for 8 hours a day and crunch numbers. A salesperson rents out their body to cold-call for 8 hours a day.

No matter what, we’re coerced into giving or body to perform someone else’s labour. The fact that it doesn’t always involve nudity doesn’t change anything vis a vis your bodily autonomy.

Not going to lie, I got excited for the first half of that sentance.

Linux is the parent that let’s their child put a fork into the electrical socket and then says “Have you learned anything?”

To put it simply, there is a difference between “intelligent” and “smart”.

You see, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much…

Last Wednesday. We regularly go out to a local pub for trivia night and converse face to face there.

8 has always been my favourite. As long as I resist the urge to draw spam. It can get repetively easy if you just draw and cast magic from your enemy, never having to use your own resources.

For most games, it depends on who you’re asking. I, for example, hate multiplayer looter-shooters, so the most overrated game to ME would be Fortnite. It literally hold no attraction for me and the thought of even playing it makes me shudder.

However, the universal answer is really any EA sports title.

It’s literally the same game every…damn…year…

April 1, 1946. Push a very pregnant Mary Anne Trump down a very steep set of stairs.

Yep. And boot-lickers of that kind of business ethics will always say “Well that’s capitalism, baby!”

But it’s really not. Capitalism as an economic theory IS those small businesses that are being driven under. It’s human beings making a living from their own labour." Even if that human being is the person in charge and doesn’t set foot on the sales floor (for example), it’s still a human being at the helm.

My goto example for some reason is always furniture, I don’t know why. But someone making bespoke wooden furniture out of his garage because he enjoys it and other people want to purchase it. That’s capitalism.

If that same guy’s product gets so big that he starts a company, get’s a factory, and now has employees making the furniture for him, it’s still capitalism because he built that company with his own sweat and he deserves to reap the benefits of such.

What’s missing from what the bootlckers call capitalism is the human element.

When the human equation is taken away and everything is at the whim of a stock price, it’s not capitalism anymore, it’s called a Corporatocracy. Humans themselves become just another metric on a spreadsheet called “labour”. Something to be accounted for, controlled and minimized for the sake of the share price. Those shares aren’t owned by humans either (for the most part), they’re owned by other corporations and hedge-funds. Humans are so far removed from modern corporatocracy that there’s no room for (or even understanding of) empathy.

History podcasts are my catnip at the moment

Mine as well. Regular history for sure (I was an archaeology major after all), but also history mixed with category one, murders. I love a good historical unsolved mystery.

There’s a youtube channel called Criminal Core that posts about cases that are solved after ‘x’ number of years and it’s always because of DNA.

Sadly it’s AI narrated, which sucks. I’d much prefer a human. But the stories are interesting in an “Unsolved Mysteries” kind of way.

Watching Unsolved Mysteries on PlutoTV, I like that the producers of the show actually add updates to the end when things have been changed or solved. They could just replay the episode as is, but they make the effort to introduce new updates. I appreciate that from them.

To put it simply, cost isn’t the same for everybody.

Economies of Scale

/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.

I agree with you to a point. I would say however that it’s not the fact that government exists that’s the problem. It’s the fact that government is controlled by corporations and billionaires that is the problem.

Take all of that away and have a government is actually by the people and for the people…we’d be golden.

That would require that I use Gnome. Which would be worse than reinstalling everything.