An important piece of how well-off you are, which measuring income isn’t really going to catch, is how much shock absorption your community has built in.
Some people don’t have an in-person community, of course, and so the shock-absorption available to them is just whatever is in their own savings account and how much credit they have access to and maybe the knowledge that in the worst case they could move across the country and sleep on a friends’ couch for a few weeks but not longer because the friends’ landlord is strict about subtenants.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, upper-class communities have tons of shock absorption - if your home burns down, you probably have a friend who has a vacation home or an in-laws suite or a guest room where you can stay, if you lose your job it was the kind of job for which you get unemployment and you know someone who can get you an interview for another one, if you have a medical crisis you have lots of friends who can bring food and help out, and they all work jobs that let them take off on short notice in the middle of the day.
I’ve been helping a friend recover from surgery this week, and I’ve been thinking about this a ton. I could work from home for three days to be with her; her girlfriend had a spare bed where she could sleep for two because she was supposed to be near the surgery center and her house was an hour away; her girlfriend’s boyfriend could come over to help when girlfriend had to go to work; when her doctor’s appointment was changed to a time when I couldn’t drive her, another friend could take three hours off to do it. That’s a community with shock absorption.
It’s a class thing, but it’s not just a class thing. Doing this sort of thing is one of the things religions do. When I describe what I value about my community, my religious friends tend to go “oh, so, like what my church does”. A poor community where a dozen people from church will bring meals and support after surgery or after a loss or during cancer treatment has vastly more shock absorption than a same-income community where people have no way to coordinate that (and I think the decline of religion has been particularly costly in poor communities for exactly this reason).
And lots of money can’t fully substitute for a community, because lots of disasters (like medical emergencies) are of the kind that make it hard to advocate for yourself and independently arrange all the things you’re going to need.
I don’t know how you increase shock absorption. Lowering the cost of housing does part of it; a spare bedroom is a particularly critical kind of shock absorption that protects lots of people from homelessness. More leisure time increases shock absorption, and cutting the expected work week has been at least partially successful some places. My impression is that Social Security dramatically increased shock absorption, by giving elderly people (who often end up needing community support to remain independent or survive) more financial resources; it’s much easier for poor families to take someone in if they will get regular money towards housing and expenses. UBI would do it too, of course.
Sorry y'all can't tell me anything in this fucking show is a continuity mistake... they made 3 backups just in case?..
don’t stop talking about what’s happening
this is so funny
"but uh when we advocated for indigenous sovereignty we thought you guys were just going to make a big park or something"
"fuck you. ultradense housing that bypasses your stupid zoning rules"
This is really cool.
Brb going to wotc to get this card printed and included in every pre-con
Let's just say I had a bad experience at mtg today.
Remember kids, the Official MTG Infraction Procedure Guide says in section 4.2 that if your opponent intentionally misgenders you, they automatically lose the match.
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(in case you need a knife in the next two days for reasons unrelated to political assassinations)
Do you live or have you lived in a house with more than four bedrooms (excluding university sorority houses etc)
Made a discord sticker for study dates with my friend! Feel free to use it (noncommercially of course)
@morticia-butler when we’re on a discord call and don’t say anything for ages because we’re doing other things 😂
hello!! i’m looking to get into f1 but it all seems really intimidating and i don’t know where to start. do you have any ideas/recommendations?
hi hi hi, I'm actually not sure I'm the right person to answer this, as everything I know about F1 I learned by osmosis, and my immediate reaction was "go to the newstand down the street and get the nearest magazine with a ferrari on the cover and a Gazzetta to go with it" but that doesn't really work outside of Italy. I agree it's quite an intimidating sport to get into, but here are some resources / ideas if you're interested:
- watch races! this is my go-to stream for race weeks. (the next one, Australia, will be on March 22-24). If you have the opportunity (F1 TV access, high seas etc) I suggest watching some older seasons (1994, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018)
- how the fuck does it work? check out Ruth Buscombe on Instagram; she's an engineer currently working for Sauber (prev. Haas and Ferrari) who has some cool 'racing 101' in her stories if you're interested in the technical side of it.
- F1 glossary.
- If you're on twitter, this is one of my favourite accounts that I rec as an entry point + she's been hosting 'twitter spaces' with followers and posting them afterwards — I've been listening to them at the gym, kind of like a podcast. (Related: if anyone has podcast recs, HMU)
- F1 Academy (the all-female spec series) is free to watch on youtube. We're only one race week into it, but I'm excited!
- Documentaries: check out Senna (2010). It's a documentary about Ayrton Senna and it's very, very cool. If you have Netflix: Drive To Survive isn't really worth it except maybe S1 (I say this as someone who has watched S1-4 of it, maybe the last two are better but I doubt it). HOWEVER, F2: Chasing the Dream, about the feeder F2 series, is more fun. To Me. You can get it on F1TV or the high seas.
- Reddit wikia! I don't recommend reddit as an entry point, but the F1 subreddit has some cool resources in their wiki: breakdown of a race weekend; video masterlist (this is a LONG list and quite overwhelming, but if you have a specific question — like: wtf is a G-force? there's absolutely a video on the list covering that)
uh, I hope this helps somehow? anyone who has better ideas please feel free to jump in (@screwdriver-and-souffle maybe you do? no pressure)
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polls are the most eye opening part of tumblr bc this whole time all the posts are like fuck yeah gay sex crime stealing steal from Walmart get high and eat pussy but every poll is like I will remain celibate as long as I live . Why are u all lying about eating pussy and smoking weed